1 user. 1 device.
Free — forever.
Block-level disaster recovery, ransomware canary detection, USB recovery, and file browse for one machine — at $0. No credit card. No trial expiry. No upgrade nag.
Need more than one seat? Basic adds 2 more users for $39.99/year.
Everything you need for one device. Free.
Free tier. Not free engineering.
Same engine as our paid platform — the limits are seats and schedules, never the core.
Encrypted before it touches disk
Every chunk is AES-256-GCM encrypted with a per-device key before it's written. A stolen NAS or USB drive yields ciphertext, not your files.
Survives the unplugged USB
Drive disconnects mid-backup? The agent pauses, probes every 30 seconds for up to 2 hours, and resumes the same backup from checkpoint when it's back. No corrupt images, no starting over.
Deduplicated + compressed
Content-aware dedup and zstd compression mean incrementals store only what actually changed — a week of recovery points fits in a fraction of the raw disk size.
Free is real. So are the limits.
Sign up. Download. Done.
Minutes from signup to your first backup running.
Sign up
Email only. No credit card. Your account is created on the spot.
Download
Grab the Windows or Linux installer (~30MB).
Install & connect
Run the installer, sign in with that email, then pick destination (local disk / NAS / USB) and what to back up.
First backup runs
Block-level image + canary deployed. Watch in Recovery Shield.
Who the free seat is for.
One machine, fully protected. When it's a team, Basic and Plus pick up from here.
Solo developer
One main workstation — your code, tools and environment. Free images the whole machine at $0, with bare-metal restore to new hardware if it dies.
Freelancer / consultant
Your work laptop is the business. Block-level backup + ransomware canary + USB recovery, free — so a lost or encrypted laptop is a bad afternoon, not a lost month.
Home lab / IT enthusiast
One main rig. Free + USB recovery + canary is genuinely better than the free alternatives — and the cloud dashboard is included.
One critical PC
The reception PC, the QuickBooks machine, the CAD workstation. Protect the one that matters at $0 — add teammates on Basic ($39.99/yr) when you need them.
Free isn't unusual. Useful free is.
| BigMind DR Free | Macrium Free | Veeam Free | Windows Backup | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block-level imaging | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | partial |
| Ransomware canary | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cross-hardware USB | ✓ | basic | basic | ✗ |
| Boot verification (Beta) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cloud dashboard | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Web file browse | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Trust before disaster.
We sell BigMind Resilience to growing businesses. The hardest part of selling DR isn't pricing — it's earning trust before disaster strikes. Free puts our agent on your machine so when you grow, when the canary saves your weekend, when partners come asking, you already know we work.
About the Free tier
How many users does Free include?+
One user and one device — everything you need to fully protect a single machine. Need more seats? Basic is $39.99/year for 3 users; Plus is 10.
Does Free expire?+
No. No 30-day trial, no feature lockouts — free forever as long as you're within limits. Full block-level DR, not a crippled demo.
What if I need more than one user or device?+
Step up to Basic ($39.99/year — 3 users, 12-hour backups, 30-day retention) or Plus ($59/year — 10 users, 2 devices each, servers, and shorter schedules).
Can I run it on a server?+
Plus (1 server) and Pro (3 servers) support Windows Server. Free and Basic are desktops/laptops only.
Is there a catch?+
No. Same recovery engine as the paid tiers — the limits are seats, schedule cadence and retention, never the core backup or restore.