Best alternatives to Pluton in 2026

Backup services that lock you into a single cloud provider are a bad bet: if that provider raises prices, has an outage, or shuts down a product line, your backups go with it. Pluton is built around the opposite idea — back up to whatever mix of providers you choose, encrypted so only you can read it. Pluton is a self-hosted, open-source backup solution built on the Restic backup engine, adding end-to-end encryption and compression on top. It supports over 70 cloud storage providers (S3, Backblaze B2, Google Drive, and more), making it straightforward to implement a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy across multiple providers rather than trusting one. It sends notifications through Slack, Discord, Email, or NTFY, runs with a minimal 50MB memory footprint suitable for resource-constrained devices like a Raspberry Pi, supports incremental backups to minimize storage costs, and can be deployed via Docker or as a standalone executable, with custom scripting for automation.