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Thinking of leaving BlogVault?
BlogVault and Backvera are the same shape: managed backups that run on the vendor’s servers with storage included, not a plugin packing archives on your host. That makes this the most direct comparison on this site, and it comes down to two things. BlogVault has fifteen years and 400,000 sites behind it. Backvera is $36 a year against $299 for the same 90-day retention, $60 against $499 for realtime, and lets you keep an automatic copy in your own storage, which BlogVault does not offer at all.
The short version
Only the rows where the two products actually differ. Everything else is covered further down.
| BlogVault | Backvera | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $99 a year, 1 site. No free plan. | $15 a year per site. Free plan at $0 forever. |
| 90-day retention | $299 a year (Business) | $36 a year (Business) |
| Realtime backups | $499 a year, the WooCommerce plan only | $60 a year (Scale) |
| A copy in your own storage | Not offered. Dropbox export is a manual action per backup; Google Drive means downloading and uploading by hand. | Ten destinations on Business and Scale, mirrored automatically after each backup |
| Data residency | EU data centres | EU, US or Oceania, chosen at setup, on every plan |
| Restore granularity | Files, folders, plugins, themes and whole database tables | The same, plus a single row such as one order or one post |
| Staging on the entry plan | 1 day, and without Fast Staging | Not on Free or Starter. Included on Business, at $36 a year. |
| Recovering a site you cannot log into | Emergency Connector, on every plan | Not offered. Restore needs the site reachable. |
| Free plan | None. A 7-day trial. | Free forever, plus a 14-day trial of any paid plan |
BlogVault figures taken from blogvault.net pricing, feature and support pages, checked 12 August 2026. Prices change, so confirm on their site before you decide.
Where the two are the same
These are architecturally the same product, and it is worth saying so before any of the price comparisons. Both run the backup on the vendor’s infrastructure rather than inside your WordPress install, so neither consumes your host’s PHP workers or trips over its execution limits. Both do incremental. Both include storage. Both provision staging with push to live, a choice of PHP version and password protection on the copy. Both migrate between hosts and both handle multisite. Where a plugin comparison is about architecture, this one is about price, storage policy, and how much history you are buying.
Price for the same job
The plans do not line up by name, so compare them by what they actually deliver.
| BlogVault | Backvera | |
|---|---|---|
| Daily backups with a month of history | $99 a year (Personal), 20 GB site size, 30-day retention. | $15 a year (Starter), 2 GB, 60-day retention. |
| Twice daily or better, 90 days of history | $299 a year (Business), every 12 hours, 50 GB. | $36 a year (Business), hourly, 10 GB. |
| Realtime with a year of history | $499 a year (WooCommerce plan), 100 GB. | $60 a year (Scale), 50 GB. |
| A free tier | None. | Free forever: weekly backups, 1 GB, 30-day retention, full restore and download. |
| Trial | 7 days, no card. | 14 days, no card, on any plan. |
| Five sites | $299 a year (Personal bundle), about $59.80 a site. | $75 a year on Starter, $180 on Business. |
One row in this section goes to them, and it is the storage ceiling. BlogVault holds 20, 50 and 100 GB per site against our 2, 10 and 50.
Storage, and whether you can hold your own copy
Both include storage. Only one lets you also keep an automatic copy somewhere you control.
| BlogVault | Backvera | |
|---|---|---|
| Included storage | 20 GB (Personal), 50 GB (Business), 100 GB (WooCommerce plan), as a site size ceiling. | 1 GB Free, 2 GB Starter, 10 GB Business, 50 GB Scale. |
| Where it is held | Encrypted, across data centres in Europe, with copies on more than one cloud provider. | EU, US or Oceania, chosen at setup, on every plan including Free. |
| A copy in your own storage | Not supported. Their own support documentation says backups are not automatically synced to Dropbox, and that Google Drive means downloading the backup and uploading it yourself. | Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, SFTP or a signed webhook, mirrored automatically after each backup, on Business and Scale. |
| If you decide to leave | Download a zip per backup, by hand. | Download a zip, or simply keep the mirror already sitting in your own bucket. |
| Retention | 30 days (Personal), 90 (Business), 365 (WooCommerce plan). No documented setting to change it. | 30, 60, 90 or 365 days by plan, and you can set it lower per site under Settings and Schedule. |
This is the difference that is hardest to put a price on and easiest to feel. With BlogVault your backups exist in one company’s storage, and getting them out is a manual download, one backup at a time. With Backvera on Business or Scale you connect your own S3 or Backblaze bucket once and every backup is mirrored there automatically. If vendor lock-in is something you think about, that row is the answer to it.
Backup model
Both run off your server, so this section is about what frequency costs.
| BlogVault | Backvera | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it executes | On BlogVault’s servers. | On Backvera’s servers. |
| Incremental | Yes, every plan. Changes tracked and backed up every 24 hours. | Yes, every plan including Free. |
| Entry-plan frequency | Every 24 hours, at $99 a year. | Weekly on Free, daily on Starter at $15 a year. |
| Best scheduled frequency | Hourly, customisable, on the $499 plan. | Hourly on Business, at $36 a year. |
| Realtime | The $499 WooCommerce plan only. Event-driven, polling at intervals they do not publish. | Scale, at $60 a year. A periodic baseline plus a stream of deltas, protected within minutes. |
| Manual backups | Rate limited: 3 a day on Personal, 10 on Business, 25 on the WooCommerce plan. | No cap |
Restore
Both stop at roughly the same place. Three rows differ, and two of them go to BlogVault.
| BlogVault | Backvera | |
|---|---|---|
| Selective restore | Files, folders, specific plugins or themes, and whole database tables. | The same, plus a single row such as one order or one post. |
| Checking a backup before you trust it | Restore it onto their servers first and inspect it, then run the real restore. | Dry run previews exactly which files and tables a restore would touch, without writing anything. |
| Safety copy | Not documented for restores. | Optional safety backup of the live site before an in-place restore, and on by default when pushing staging to live. |
| Large-site speed | Differential restores copy only the changes. | Prepared on an off-host worker while the site keeps serving visitors. |
| Site completely down | Emergency Connector recovers a site you cannot log into, on every plan. | Restore is driven from the Backvera dashboard and can work over SSH/SFTP/FTP. |
| Plugin rollback | Roll back a single updated plugin without touching the rest. | Restore that plugin’s folder from a snapshot, or test the update on a stage first. |
Their test restore, which stands the backup up on their own infrastructure so you can look at it before committing, answers a better question than our dry run does: not what would change, but is this backup any good. We offer stagefor that purpose.
Staging
Both provision it for you. The terms diverge sharply at the bottom of the range.
| BlogVault | Backvera | |
|---|---|---|
| On the entry plan | 1 day, and Fast Staging is not included at that tier. | Not included on Free or Starter. Business, at $36 a year, includes it. |
| How long a stage lives | 1 day (Personal). For Business their plan card says 30 days and their comparison table says 3 months. 6 months on the WooCommerce plan. | 7 days on Business, extendable once. 30 days on Scale, extendable without limit. |
| PHP version | Selectable. | 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 or 8.4, chosen at creation or switched on a running stage, which rebuilds it and keeps your files and database. |
| Push to live | Merge changes from staging to live, with a view of the differences. | Push to live, with a safety backup of the live site taken first by default. |
| Privacy | Password protected, search engines blocked, and outbound email blocked. | Password protected by default, with credentials you can rotate or replace. Default outbound email blocked. |
| Extras | SFTP credentials and phpMyAdmin on every stage. | A custom admin username and password if you want them. |
WooCommerce
The only comparison on this site where the rival has real ecommerce engineering behind it.
| BlogVault | Backvera | |
|---|---|---|
| Realtime order capture | Yes, on the $499 WooCommerce plan. Every order captured as it is placed. | Yes, on the $60 Scale plan. WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads and SureCart recognised. |
| Rolling the site back without losing orders | Yes. Restore the site while retaining orders placed since the backup. | Restore a single row, or restore files and tables while leaving the order tables alone. |
| High-Performance Order Storage | Not documented anywhere on their site. | Captured, because every full backup includes the entire database. |
| Retention on the store plan | 365 days. | 365 days on Scale. |
| Price for realtime | $499 a year. | $60 a year. |
Their order-preserving rollback is the single best feature in this comparison and it belongs to them. If your requirement is precisely undo yesterday’s redesign but keep every order taken since, that is what it does in one action, and our answer is more manual.
What it costs at your site count
Plan names are not the useful comparison. This is the yearly total for the same job.
| Sites | BlogVault | Backvera |
|---|---|---|
| 1 site, daily backups | $99 a year | $15 a year (Starter) |
| 1 site, 90 days of history | $299 a year | $36 a year (Business) |
| 1 site, realtime | $499 a year | $60 a year (Scale) |
| 5 sites, a month of history | $299 a year, about $59.80 each | $75 a year on Starter |
| 5 sites, realtime | $1,499 a year, about $299.80 each | $300 a year on Scale |
| More than 10 sites | Sales-gated agency pricing, not published | $36 or $60 a year each, published |
One more thing you should know before using these numbers, because you will find it yourself and it will look like we hid it. BlogVault’s parent company also sells WP Remote, which bundles backups, staging, malware scanning, uptime monitoring, white label and client reports at $49.99 per site a year with 90-day retention. If you were about to pay $299 for BlogVault Business, WP Remote is the comparison you should actually be running, and on feature breadth at that price we do not beat it. What it does not include is realtime store capture or an automatic mirror into storage you own.
Moving across, in practice
One thing worth doing differently here from the other comparisons: connect an export destination on day one, so you never end up again in a position where your only copies live with a single vendor.
Take your BlogVault archives with you
Download the zips you want to keep from their dashboard before you cancel. Backvera cannot read them, so keep them as an archive.
Set up your own bucket immediately
On Business or Scale, connect Amazon S3, Backblaze B2 or your own SFTP as an export destination. From then on every backup exists in two places, one of which is yours.
Then move the schedule across
One full backup, then incrementals. Once you have a restore point you trust, cancel the BlogVault subscription.
When BlogVault is the better choice
Two of them we would want to know about if we were the buyer.
You want a vendor that has been doing this since 2010.
BlogVault reports 400,000 sites, more than two million backed up across fifteen years, and over 100,000 restores performed. If backups are the one thing in your stack where you want the boring incumbent, that is a completely defensible reason to pay several times more, and no feature table overturns it.
You need to roll a store back without losing the orders.
Their WooCommerce plan restores the site while retaining orders placed since the backup, in one action. That is a hard thing to build and an obviously useful one. We can restore a single row, or restore around the order tables, but not in one step.
You want to validate a backup before you trust it.
Their test restore stands the backup up on their own servers so you can inspect it. Our dry run tells you which files and tables would be touched, which answers a different question. Theirs is the better tool for auditing a backup.
Questions people ask before switching
Can Backvera restore a BlogVault backup?
No. Download any BlogVault archives you want to keep before cancelling. Backvera restores from its own snapshots.
Can I keep a copy of my backups in my own storage?
Yes, on Business and Scale. Connect Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, SFTP or a signed webhook, and every backup is mirrored there after it completes. BlogVault does not offer this. Their Dropbox export is a manual action per backup and Google Drive means downloading and uploading by hand.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. Weekly backups, 1 GB, 30-day retention, full restore and download, at $0 forever. BlogVault has no free plan, only a 7-day trial.
How much cheaper is realtime here?
Realtime is on Backvera Scale at $60 a year per site. On BlogVault it is the WooCommerce plan at $499 a year. Both capture store changes as they happen.
Where is my data stored?
EU, US or Oceania, chosen at setup, on every plan including Free. BlogVault stores in EU data centres.
Do you have anything like Emergency Connector?
Yes. If you cannot reach your site, our dashboard can offer SSH/SFTP/FTP restores.
What about WP Remote, from the same company?
At $49.99 per site a year it bundles backups, staging, malware scanning, uptime monitoring and client reports, and on feature breadth at that price we do not beat it. It does not include realtime store capture or mirroring into storage you own.
How many sites does one plan cover?
One. Their 5-site bundle works out at about $59.80 a site on the entry tier, which is cheaper per site than our Business plan and dearer than our Starter.
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