Plakar
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Plakar, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Plakar's own pricing page, checked 21 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | up to 500GB managed data · Control Plane deployed on your infrastructure |
| Community | Priced on request | for qualifying nonprofits · startups under 3 years and pre-Series A · war-zone organizations · eligible contributors or community members |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | consumption-based · premium support · contact sales |
The facts
Each one read from Plakar's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API and automation
- The product exposes actions through a CLI, SDK and API, and its documentation includes API automation accounts, webhooks and infrastructure-as-code references.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Backup scope
- mixedchecked 19 Sep 2026
- Compliance
- Control Plane provides SLA retention policies, country-based data residency enforcement and legal holds for restore points or resources.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Computer backup
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Crunchbase investors
- Crunchbase lists Plakar as founded in 2024 in Paris and backed by Seedcamp, HelloWorld, Kima Ventures, Motier Ventures and other investors.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Deduplication
- The software content-addresses data, deduplicates chunks, compresses them and stores them in immutable packfiles.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- Community documentation covers installation, quickstarts, scheduling, stores, integrations, command syntax, Go SDK references and operational explanations; separate Control Plane docs cover administration and deployment.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Encryption
- Backups are encrypted on the source before reaching storage, including snapshot metadata and indexes.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Funding
- A 2025 legal-firm announcement says Plakar raised a $3 million seed round led by Seedcamp with other venture and angel investors.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Go SDK
- The Go Kloset SDK lets developers implement importer, exporter and custom storage plugins communicating with Plakar over gRPC on stdin and stdout.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Independent review coverage
- AlternativeTo reports no comments or user reviews for Plakar and lists it as free, open source and ISC-licensed.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Independent snapshots
- Each snapshot is self-contained, so deleting one snapshot does not break restoration of another.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Install methods
- Installation is documented through APT, DNF, Homebrew, Windows archives, Go install, Arch AUR and source builds.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Documented connectors include S3, SFTP/SSH, HTTP, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Proton Drive, Proxmox, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB, Azure Blob, WebDAV, FTP, IMAP, SMB/CIFS and NFS.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Latest version
- The official download page identifies v1.1.7 as the current stable Plakar release.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The Plakar repository and Kloset engine are released under the permissive ISC licence.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: cache exhaustion bug
- A public GitHub issue describes backups failing when Plakar's cache drive is full and reports that automatic cleanup did not occur before successful completion.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: slow-disk performance
- An independent 2023 benchmark reported heavy memory use, swapping and intensive disk I/O on inexpensive mechanical disks, while SSD performance was much better.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Notable news: v1.1.3
- The June 16, 2026 release article describes a new terminal UI, multi-directory backups, rewritten FUSE and HTTP mounts, package management, lower memory use and roughly 95% faster restores in company tests.checked 21 Oct 2026
The company
- Company facts
- LinkedIn lists Plakar as a privately held Paris technology company founded in 2024 with 2–10 employees.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2024checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Paris, Francechecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Control Plane
- Control Plane is a self-hosted virtual appliance with a web interface for centralized inventory, scheduling, backup and restore management.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
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