Ottomatik is one of the better-known subscription tools in its space — and at $79/mo (Professional, most popular; Lite $14/mo), one of the recurring line items people most often look to replace. If you're searching for a Ottomatik alternative you pay for once and own forever, Vaultkeeper is the OneTimeSuite answer: $39, one time.
Why people go looking for an alternative
Ottomatik runs $79/mo (Professional, most popular; Lite $14/mo), and like most SaaS the bill never stops — cancel and you typically lose access to your own history. That's roughly $2,844 over three years. Vaultkeeper flips that model: Postgres, MySQL, SQLite & Mongo dumps on cron — encrypted, shipped to S3/FTP/disk, with failure alerts.
What Vaultkeeper covers
- Four engines — PostgreSQL (pg_dump), MySQL/MariaDB (mysqldump), MongoDB (mongodump) — and SQLite via the online backup API, safe on live WAL databases with nothing installed.
- Real scheduling — Cron expressions with presets, per-job timezone, next-3-runs preview, and a per-job lock so runs never overlap.
- Encryption you can restore without us — age if installed, or built-in AES-256-GCM with a documented open format and a dependency-free decrypt script — your backups are never hostage.
- Three destination types — Local disk, any S3-compatible bucket (AWS, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, MinIO — multipart uploads), and FTP/FTPS.
- GFS-lite retention — Keep last N, plus daily-for-X-days and weekly-for-Y-weeks — pruned automatically on the destination after every successful run.
The honest trade-off
Ottomatik will keep shipping features, integrations and managed infrastructure that a pay-once tool won't chase — if that ecosystem is genuinely load-bearing for your workflow, staying is a fair call. For the core job, the math favors owning the tool: $39 once against $79/mo (Professional, most popular; Lite $14/mo) forever. SimpleBackups is $348+ per year. Vaultkeeper pays for itself in 6 weeks — then your backups run free, forever.
Also worth reading
Vaultkeeper's main head-to-head is with SimpleBackups — see the detailed comparison or the product page for the full feature list, FAQ and demo video.
Try Vaultkeeper — $39, once
Postgres, MySQL, SQLite & Mongo dumps on cron — encrypted, shipped to S3/FTP/disk, with failure alerts.