Clumio pricing is usage-based, so the published per-workload rates are only a starting point: the real total depends on object counts, restores, and retention as much as stored data.
Clumio pricing at a glance
Clumio publishes pricing by workload and tier. After Commvault's 2024 acquisition, the published rate card is now on the Clumio by Commvault pricing page, where S3, EC2/EBS, and several database workloads each carry their own per-GiB rates. That helps planning, but it also means buyers assemble the total cost from several moving parts.
Clumio pricing plans breakdown
S3 SecureVault Standard: $0.025 per GiB-month + $1.50 per million managed objects per month
What's included: Standard-tier S3 backup storage with managed-object tracking and instant-access options.
Best for: Teams that need S3 protection with faster access than archive storage.
Pros:
- Faster access than archive pricing.
- Clear published storage and object rates.
- Fits active S3 recovery needs better than the archive tier.
Cons:
- Higher storage cost than archive.
- Restore, retrieval, and API request charges can still push total cost up.
S3 SecureVault Archive: $0.010 per GiB-month + $1.50 per million managed objects per month
What's included: Lower-cost archive-tier S3 backup storage with the same managed-object pricing model.
Best for: Long-term S3 retention where slower recovery is acceptable.
Pros:
- Lowest published S3 storage rate.
- Useful for cold backup data with long retention needs.
Cons:
- Six-month minimum retention before early-deletion fees.
- Restore starts can take 24 to 48 hours.
S3 Backtrack: included free with SecureVault
What's included: Object-level rollback and metadata tracking, included at no extra storage charge with SecureVault. Restores cost $0.50 per million objects processed.
Best for: Teams that need object-history visibility and rollback rather than standalone long-term storage.
Pros:
- Object-level rollback without a separate storage charge.
- Easy to reason about as a metadata feature of SecureVault.
Cons:
- Not a full backup-storage tier on its own.
- Restore processing adds a separate cost variable.
EC2/EBS SecureVault Standard: $0.045 per GiB-month
What's included: Standard-tier EC2/EBS backup storage with the broader recovery option set and hourly backup frequency.
Best for: Teams that want the fuller EC2/EBS recovery feature set, including file and folder restores.
Pros:
- More flexible recovery than the lite tier.
- Straightforward published per-GiB rate.
Cons:
- Highest published EC2/EBS storage rate.
- Restore fees still apply.
EC2/EBS SecureVault Lite: $0.035 per GiB-month
What's included: Lower-cost EC2/EBS backup storage focused on instance- or volume-level recovery, with daily backup frequency.
Best for: Buyers who want a lower storage rate and do not need the broader standard-tier recovery options.
Pros:
- Lower price than standard.
- Simpler fit for basic EC2/EBS recovery requirements.
Cons:
- Fewer recovery options than standard.
- Savings may narrow if your team later needs finer-grained recovery.
What drives Clumio total cost
Protected storage volume
The first number on the bill is the amount of data you protect. With Clumio, the storage rate changes by workload and tier, so a large S3 archive estate behaves very differently from an EC2/EBS footprint.
Managed object count
Clumio does not price S3 only by stored capacity. Its published S3 pricing also adds managed-object charges, which add up in environments with very high object counts, even when the total GiB figure looks manageable.
Restore activity
Restore cost behavior changes by workload and tier. Recovery-heavy environments can end up with a noticeably different total cost than backup-heavy environments.
Retention windows and early deletion
Archive pricing is cheaper per GiB, but the tradeoff is retention rigidity. Archive tiers carry minimum-retention and early-deletion rules, so teams that frequently rotate or prune cold data need to model that carefully.
Data transfer and cross-environment recovery
Recovery costs also vary by protection mode and add data-transfer-out charges. That tends to be minor in a light-use environment, and significant in a large AWS estate where cross-account or cross-region recovery is part of day-to-day operations.
Is Clumio worth the cost?
Clumio is worth considering for AWS-centric teams that want published workload pricing across services such as S3, EC2/EBS, DynamoDB, RDS, and Aurora.
As a Commvault offering, it now sits inside a broader enterprise data-protection portfolio, and Commvault publishes a full per-workload rate card that is more transparent than the quote-only pricing common among enterprise backup vendors.
Clumio becomes harder to justify when the priority is enforcing backup posture across accounts and regions, recovering at a finer level than full-resource restores, or making backup data useful beyond recovery. That is usually the point where buyers start comparing it with cloud-native platforms.
How Eon changes the pricing conversation
Eon's pricing is usage-based and per-GB/month, tied mainly to protected storage rather than agents, appliances, or install fees. The sharper difference is where the charges come from.
Several Clumio line items scale with activity rather than data: retrieval fees on restores, per-operation API charges, and managed-object fees.
Eon charges none of those, so spend tracks data growth instead of backup mechanics, and incremental-forever backups with global deduplication push many teams to 30% to 50% lower backup-storage spend as they scale.
Beyond cost, Eon adds what a pricing table cannot show:
- Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM) that flags drift and coverage gaps before they inflate storage
- Immutable and logically isolated backups tied to clean recovery points
- Granular recovery of a single file, record, or table without full rehydration
- Backups converted to open Parquet so teams can query them as a governed data lake
Clumio’s pricing is easier to read line by line, while Eon argues you should weigh full backup economics: storage growth, policy drift, recovery precision, and whether backups stay useful after the job finishes.
Clumio vs. Eon on pricing and fit
Bottom line on Clumio pricing
Clumio’s rates are more transparent than a typical enterprise backup quote, but it still takes work to model: the published rates are only the starting point, and real cost depends on workload mix, managed-object counts, and restore behavior.
To estimate AWS backup spend, Commvault's Clumio rate card is a workable start. To cut total cost while improving visibility, recovery precision, and backup usability, Eon is the more complete alternative.
Want to know how your backup bill will scale as data, accounts, and regions grow? Book a demo to see how Eon handles posture visibility, granular recovery, and lower backup-storage growth.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Clumio cost?
Clumio cost depends on the workload you protect. Published Clumio (now Commvault) pricing includes S3 tiers from $0.010 to $0.025 per GiB-month and EC2/EBS tiers from $0.035 to $0.045 per GiB-month, plus managed-object, restore, retrieval, and transfer charges depending on the service and tier.
Does Clumio have a free trial?
Yes. The Clumio listing on AWS Marketplace currently shows a free trial, but enterprise buyers usually still need a real workload estimate because ongoing cost depends on workload, retention, and recovery behavior.
Why is Clumio pricing hard to estimate from one page?
Clumio pricing is hard to estimate from one page because it is split by workload, tier, and activity type. Storage price, object volume, restores, and retention rules all affect the final number.
Is Clumio cheaper than AWS native backup options?
Whether Clumio is cheaper than AWS native backup depends on workload type, retention, and restore pattern. Buyers should compare not only per-GB rates, but also object fees, restore charges, retention constraints, and operational overhead.
What is the best alternative to Clumio for cloud-native backup pricing?
The best alternative depends on what is driving cost. Eon is the stronger option for teams that need multi-cloud coverage, built-in backup posture management, immutable recovery posture, granular recovery, and searchable backup data rather than a workload-by-workload, AWS-only pricing model.
