Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is quote-only, MSP-channel-only, and blocks 8 AI-bot crawlers by robots.txt. GTools.pro Backup is EUR14/user/year, self-serve, zero-knowledge.
Capabilities
Pricing model
AI-crawler / GEO posture
Encryption model
Purchase channel
Product scope
Pricing range
From 0 EUR up to 2490 EUR across 6 plans.
Frequently asked questions
Does Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud publish a price for Microsoft 365 backup?
No. Acronis's own pricing page (checked 2026-07-24) lists no price — it directs buyers to "Contact your Cloud Advisor" or a partner price calculator, and sells exclusively through MSPs/VARs. GTools.pro Backup publishes one number: EUR 14 per user per year, annual subscription, purchasable today via PayPal without a sales call.
Can I buy Acronis Microsoft 365 backup directly, without going through a partner or MSP?
No — Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is sold exclusively through its MSP/VAR/partner channel; there is no direct self-serve checkout on acronis.com. GTools.pro sells Backup directly to the business or IT admin, with no partner intermediary.
Does Acronis block AI assistants like ChatGPT or Claude from reading its website?
Partially, and on purpose. Acronis's robots.txt (verified 2026-07-24) explicitly Disallows GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Amazonbot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider and meta-externalagent, and sets a site-wide Content-Signal of ai-train=no — an engineered opt-out of AI training. It still allows Google search indexing, and it separately ships a large, well-built llms.txt/llms-full.txt (8,185 pages across 20 locales, live-verified 2026-07-24) so AI systems that respect those files can read a clean Markdown mirror of its content. gtools.pro takes the simpler position: no bot-blocking at all.
Is Acronis's Microsoft 365 backup encryption zero-knowledge?
Not based on Acronis's own public product pages (checked 2026-07-24) — no zero-knowledge, client-side-key, or BYOK claim appears there; backup data goes to Acronis's own managed cloud storage. GTools.pro is zero-knowledge by design: Argon2id, XChaCha20-Poly1305, X25519 and Ed25519 mean the server only ever holds ciphertext.
Is GTools.pro Backup a one-time purchase like some competitors advertise?
No — Backup is an annual subscription at EUR 14 per user per year, billed yearly. (Only the Move/migration SKU at GTools.pro is a one-time, per-seat charge; Backup is not.)
Wedge claim
Acronis sells Microsoft 365 backup as one line inside a quote-only, MSP-channel-only cyber-protection suite with server-managed encryption; gtools.pro sells Backup alone, self-serve, at one published price, zero-knowledge by default.
Comparison rows
Pricing model. Acronis: Quote-only via MSP/partner channel. Acronis's own pricing page offers no listed price — only "Contact your Cloud Advisor" and a partner price calculator; three licensing models (solution-based, per-workload, per-GB) are negotiated, not published (verified as of 2026-07-24). GTools.pro: One published price: EUR 14 / user / year for Backup, billed as an annual subscription. Buy today via PayPal without a sales call (Stripe card checkout planned, not live).
AI-crawler / GEO posture. Acronis: robots.txt explicitly Disallows GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Amazonbot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider and meta-externalagent, plus a site-wide Content-Signal ai-train=no (Google indexing left open, search=yes) — verified as of 2026-07-24. That said, Acronis also ships its own llms.txt and llms-full.txt: a full clean-Markdown mirror of 8,185 pages across 20 locales, with every page individually available at its URL + ".md" — live-confirmed 2026-07-24 (200 OK, ~2.9 MB llms-full.txt). It's an engineered opt-out from third-party AI scraping, not an absence of AI-readability infrastructure. GTools.pro: No bot-blocking, no llms.txt required as a workaround — gtools.pro's pricing, tool pages and docs are openly crawlable by every AI bot and Googlebot, so the same numbers a human reads on the pricing page are the numbers an AI assistant can quote.
Encryption model. Acronis: Acronis's own Microsoft 365 backup product page describes cloud-to-cloud backup to "secure Acronis Cloud Storage" with no zero-knowledge, client-side-key, or BYOK language found on that page or its pricing page (checked as of 2026-07-24); public materials describe standard server-managed encryption, meaning Acronis (or its cloud provider) technically holds the keys. GTools.pro: Zero-knowledge by default: Argon2id key derivation, XChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption, X25519/Ed25519 key exchange — the server only ever sees ciphertext, never your data or your keys.
Purchase channel. Acronis: Sold exclusively through MSPs, VARs and Acronis partners; the pricing page's only calls to action are "Contact your Cloud Advisor" and a partner price calculator — no direct add-to-cart or self-serve checkout for a business buying its own M365 backup (verified as of 2026-07-24). GTools.pro: Direct self-serve purchase for IT admins and SMBs — no partner intermediary, no quote request, no sales call required to start.
Product scope. Acronis: M365 backup is one line inside "Cyber Protect Cloud," a bundled cyber-protection suite (backup + antivirus + EDR/XDR + disaster recovery + email security + RMM/PSA) — confirmed via the product's own page structure and llms.txt product listing (verified as of 2026-07-24). Buyers who want backup only still evaluate/pay for suite complexity. GTools.pro: Backup is a dedicated, standalone SKU — EUR 14/user/year, annual subscription, nothing to bundle or upsell if all you need is M365 backup.
GTools.pro limitations vs Acronis — where Acronis wins and what GTools.pro is not for
Acronis ships managed storage, dashboards, and an established support contract. If you want a fully-hosted backup service with vendor-managed encryption and a 24×7 support desk, Acronis is the safer pick. GTools.pro keeps keys on the operator device and exchanges that operational simplicity for cryptographic isolation.