Barracuda Backup hides its price behind a sales call and touts "no gotcha fees" — gtools.pro publishes the real number (EUR14/user/year) and adds true zero-knowledge encryption Barracuda doesn't offer.
Capabilities
Public pricing
"No gotcha fees" wedge vs the actual number
Zero-knowledge / who can read your backups
Beyond backup: tenant-to-tenant migration
AI-crawler / GEO discoverability
Pricing range
From 0 EUR up to 2490 EUR across 6 plans.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup actually cost?
Barracuda does not publish pricing for Cloud-to-Cloud Backup anywhere on its product or comparison pages — you have to request a quote (confirmed on a live fetch of barracuda.com, 2026-07-24). Third-party marketplaces (Vendr, ITQlick) estimate street pricing around $3.40/user/month (~$40.80/year), roughly triple gtools.pro's published EUR14/user/year, but that figure comes from third parties, not from Barracuda itself.
Is Barracuda's "no gotcha fees" claim against Veeam true, and does it mean their pricing is transparent?
Barracuda's own vs-Veeam comparison page states its backup pricing is "all-inclusive" with "no additional 'gotcha' fees for inactive users or application use" — that specific claim checks out on the page (verified 2026-07-24). But "all-inclusive" is not the same as public: the actual price is still hidden behind a sales quote. gtools.pro publishes the flat number itself (EUR14/user/year) rather than just promising no hidden add-ons.
Does Barracuda offer zero-knowledge or end-to-end encrypted backup?
No zero-knowledge, end-to-end-encryption, or "we cannot read your data" claim appears anywhere on Barracuda's Cloud-to-Cloud Backup product page or its vs-Veeam comparison page (verified 2026-07-24). It's a conventional SaaS backup platform Barracuda operates and can access. gtools.pro is architected so the server only ever handles ciphertext (Argon2id, XChaCha20-Poly1305, X25519, Ed25519).
Is gtools.pro's Backup a one-time purchase like some competitors advertise?
No — gtools.pro Backup is EUR14/user/year, an annual subscription, not a one-time purchase. (The "pay once" model on gtools.pro applies only to the separate Move/migration product, priced at EUR9/migrated seat one-time with a EUR450 project floor, and that Move checkout isn't live yet — it's coming soon, join the waitlist.)
Can I buy Barracuda or gtools.pro Backup without talking to sales?
With Barracuda, no — every path on the Cloud-to-Cloud Backup pages leads to "Contact Sales," with no self-serve checkout or published price (verified 2026-07-24). gtools.pro publishes its Backup price (EUR14/user/year) openly and is built for buying without a sales call; payment today runs through PayPal, with card payments planned but not yet live.
Wedge claim
Barracuda promises "no gotcha fees" but still gates the number itself behind a sales quote and offers no zero-knowledge guarantee; gtools.pro publishes the real annual price (EUR14/user/year) and encrypts client-side so the server never sees plaintext.
Comparison rows
Public pricing. Barracuda: Fully quote-gated: the product page and the vs-Veeam comparison page both push "Contact Sales" with no dollar or euro figure anywhere on-page (verified as of 2026-07-24, live fetch of both pages). Third-party marketplace estimates (Vendr, ITQlick) put street price near $3.40/user/month (~$40.80/yr) — not a Barracuda-published number. GTools.pro: EUR14/user/year published on gtools.pro — see the price before you ever talk to sales. Backup is an annual subscription, not a one-time purchase.
"No gotcha fees" wedge vs the actual number. Barracuda: Barracuda's own vs-Veeam page claims: "Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup offers comprehensive, all-inclusive pricing... there are no additional 'gotcha' fees for inactive users or application use" (direct quote, verified as of 2026-07-24) — but the all-inclusive number itself is never disclosed on that page or the product page. GTools.pro: gtools goes one step further than "no gotcha fees": the all-inclusive number is public — EUR14/user/year, flat, visible on the pricing page with no quote request required.
Zero-knowledge / who can read your backups. Barracuda: No zero-knowledge, E2EE, or "vendor cannot read your data" claim found anywhere on the backup product page or the vs-Veeam comparison page (verified as of 2026-07-24) — Barracuda operates the backup platform server-side in the conventional SaaS model. GTools.pro: True zero-knowledge architecture: the server only ever sees ciphertext. Client-side encryption via Argon2id, XChaCha20-Poly1305, X25519 and Ed25519 — gtools cannot read your backup data even if compelled to.
Beyond backup: tenant-to-tenant migration. Barracuda: Barracuda's cloud-to-cloud backup product line has no comparable one-time migration/seat-transfer SKU — backup is the only offering in scope (verified as of 2026-07-24, no migration pricing found on either fetched page). GTools.pro: Move (migration): EUR9/migrated seat, one-time, EUR450 project floor. Checkout is not yet enabled for Move — it's coming soon; join the waitlist to be notified at launch.
AI-crawler / GEO discoverability. Barracuda: robots.txt (live, verified as of 2026-07-24) explicitly blocks CCBot and legacy SEO bots but is silent on GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended (implicit allow only); llms.txt returns 404 (confirmed absent, verified as of 2026-07-24). A FAQPage JSON-LD block IS present on the product page (confirmed live — corrects an earlier assumption that it was unconfirmed). GTools.pro: llms.txt published and live at gtools.pro/llms.txt, giving AI assistants a curated, structured summary of the product instead of leaving them to guess.
GTools.pro limitations vs Barracuda — where Barracuda wins and what GTools.pro is not for
Barracuda 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, Barracuda is the safer pick. GTools.pro keeps keys on the operator device and exchanges that operational simplicity for cryptographic isolation.