BackupKit vs MSP360 (CloudBerry)

MSP360 (formerly CloudBerry Backup, before the 2020 rebrand) has been the power-user choice for cloud backup on Windows for over a decade. It supports every cloud you can think of, has granular control over everything, and is widely used by IT consultants and managed service providers.

It's also famously dated. The UI hasn't really changed since the CloudBerry days, the configuration flow has dozens of options on every screen, and the documentation reads like enterprise software because that's effectively what it is.

BackupKit covers the same territory — any cloud, encrypted, scheduled — but is built for users who'd rather not feel like they're configuring SAP for the rest of their afternoon.

Cloud backend coverage

MSP360 wins this one outright. It supports S3, GCS, Azure, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, Storj, IBM, Oracle, Alibaba Cloud, Yandex, plus every S3-compatible storage you can think of, plus FTP/SFTP, plus local. If your storage is an obscure regional cloud, MSP360 probably has a native connector.

BackupKit supports S3/GCS/Azure, the main consumer clouds (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, pCloud, Box, MEGA), FTP/FTPS/SFTP/WebDAV, and local/network drives. Solid coverage for most users but not the buffet that MSP360 offers.

Configuration complexity

An MSP360 backup plan has 6+ screens of options: source, destination, advanced options, retention, schedule, notifications, encryption, compression, block-level options, archive flag handling, network throttling, pre/post-action scripts, and more. Every option is useful to someone. Few users need most of them.

BackupKit has three setup screens: pick source & destination, configure (schedule, compression, encryption, retention), then save. The advanced options exist but they're behind a single “Advanced” toggle, not spread across the main configuration flow.

UI

MSP360's interface is a multi-pane Windows Forms app that looks like it was designed when Windows 7 was new. It works, but every menu has 12 items and every dialog has 8 tabs. Power users learn to love it; new users open it once and close it.

BackupKit uses a modern WinUI/WPF-style interface: a single window, three primary panels (backups, integrations, history), and a deliberately limited set of controls per screen.

Audience and licensing

MSP360 has a tiered structure: Personal ($30 one-time, limited features), Pro ($50/yr per device), and Managed Backup (per-device MSP licensing). The Pro tier and above is where most of the power lives.

BackupKit is single-tier: $6/mo or $49/yr or $89 lifetime, all features included. No “you'd need Pro for that” conversations.

When MSP360 is still the right call

If you're an IT consultant managing backups for 20 clients, MSP360 has multi-tenant tooling, white-labeling, and central dashboards that BackupKit doesn't. If you're an individual backing up your own files, those features are wasted weight.

Bottom line

Pick MSP360 if you're an IT pro managing backups for many machines or many clients, you need the broadest possible cloud-backend coverage, or you want every knob exposed.

Pick BackupKit if you're backing up your own machines, you'd trade some flexibility for a calmer UI, or you'd rather not learn enterprise software for a personal use case.