Editions compared: Free, Home, Pro and Server
Pay once, keep the licence for ever, with a year of updates included. What each edition adds, and what every edition has.
GBM AI is bought once, not rented. Home and Pro are one payment with a year of updates and support included, and the licence never expires. Free costs nothing and never runs out.
In every edition#
- Restore, always. No edition, lapsed licence or ended trial ever blocks a restore.
- Local drives and USB drives as destinations.
- Full and incremental backups, compression, open-file snapshots (VSS), filters, verification after each run.
- Every schedule rhythm: every few hours, daily, weekly, monthly, at sign-in, once.
- Find, the file index that searches every backup.
- Ask Genie, at the edition's monthly allowance.
The table#
| Feature | Free | Home | Pro | Server |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 | $39 once | $79 once | contact sales |
| PCs per licence | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 server |
| Backup jobs | 2 | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| New versions | every one | 1 year included | 1 year included | 1 year included |
| Email support | help centre | 1 year included | 1 year included | priority |
| This PC and USB drives | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Network shares and NAS | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| S3-compatible cloud | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full and incremental | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Differential and mirror | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AES-256 encryption | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Every schedule rhythm | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full and incremental on their own rhythms | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Keep sets by age, new full every N runs | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Runs with nobody signed in | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Commands before and after a backup | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| CPU, disk and bandwidth limits | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email alerts | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Webhooks | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Genie prompts a month | 10 | 40 | 100 | 300 |
| Databases, system state, bare metal | — | — | — | ✓ |
On Free, retention keeps the last N sets; deleting sets by age and starting a new full every N runs are part of Home and Pro.
Which one#
- Free: one PC, two jobs, to a USB drive or a second disk. Enough for Documents and Photos.
- Home: a household. Three PCs, a NAS, encryption, and an email when a backup fails.
- Pro: a PC that backs up overnight with nobody signed in, a bucket at a cloud provider, a command before or after the backup, and limits so a backup never slows you down. Five PCs.
- Server: Windows Server with databases and a bare-metal image. It is not sold in the app. Talk to Genie9: contact sales.
Try before you buy#
The default setup starts a 15-day trial of Pro: every Pro feature, no account and no card. See The 15-day trial.
Updates and support#
Every purchase includes a year of updates and support; the checkout also offers two. When that year ends, nothing stops: you keep the licence and every version released during your year, for ever. Newer versions and email support need another year, and Ask Genie drops to the Free allowance. Another year of updates is optional; the app tells you the price before you renew. See Updates and the support window.