Active@ Disk Image vs EaseUS Todo Backup
Active@ Disk Image
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| Figure | Active@ Disk Image | EaseUS Todo Backup |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $3.33/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 8 | 15 |
| Spec score · Disk Imaging Software | 8.5 (#9) | 9.0 (#4) |
| Recovery media | The product includes a WinPE-based Active@ Boot Disk Lite component for restoring a PC system disk from bootable media. | Business editions support WinPE bootable media, PXE network booting and physical-to-virtual conversion. |
| Windows support | The requirements page lists Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11, and Windows Server 2003 through 2022. | Download pages list Windows 11, 10, 8 and 7 for the home product, with older Windows and Windows Server editions listed for business products. |
Plans
Active@ Disk Image
- FreewareFree
- Professional TrialFree
- Personal Standard$49, paid once
- Business Standard$59, paid once
- Personal Professional$79, paid once
- Business Professional$109, paid once
- Enterprise Standard$2,795, paid once
- Enterprise Professional$5,499, paid once
EaseUS Todo Backup
- FreeFree
- Home Yearly$39.95 a year
- Home Perpetual$59.95 a month
- Home Perpetual$59.95, paid once
- Home Lifetime Upgrades$79.95 a month
- Home Lifetime Upgrades$79.95, paid once
- Todo Backup FreeFree
- Todo Backup for Mac$29.95, paid once
- Todo Backup Home yearly$39.95 a year
- Todo Backup Workstation$49 a year
In their own words
Active@ Disk Image
Active@ Disk Image creates disk images for PC backup, upgrades, duplication, and recovery. It can image occupied clusters or capture raw sectors, then restore those images. Its tools include compression, image verification, splitting files into chunks, and mounting an image as a virtual drive. Standard and Professional feature listings include incremental and differential images; scheduled backups and scripting are also listed. A WinPE-based Active@ Boot Disk Lite component provides bootable media for restoring a PC system disk. Destinations include hard drives, SSDs, removable USB media, optical disks, network shares, NAS, and AWS S3. Encryption options are AES-128, AES-192, and AES-256. Listed Windows support spans Windows 7 through 11 and Windows Server 2003 through 2022. Older Windows versions, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris for PC can be handled in Raw Disk Image mode after booting the recovery media. Freeware and a fully functional 21-day trial are listed. Personal Standard is $49, paid once; business and professional licenses have other listed prices.
EaseUS Todo Backup
EaseUS Todo Backup is backup and recovery software for Windows and macOS, with listed coverage for computers and servers and ransomware protection. The Free plan covers file, system, disk, and partition backup and recovery. The paid Home Yearly plan costs $39.95 per year, billed yearly, for one computer and 1 TB of cloud storage. Home Perpetual is $59.95 per once, billed Perpetual, and covers one computer. Home Lifetime Upgrades is $79.95 per month, billed Lifetime Upgrades, also for one computer. The product is described as freemium, with paid plans from $39.95/yr. Its backup scope and restore modes are both listed as mixed, so those labels do not specify one uniform scope or restoration mode. EaseUS, the maker, was founded in 2004. The listed operating systems are Windows and macOS. The plan details distinguish the Free plan’s backup and recovery coverage from the computer allowance and cloud storage specified for paid home options.