Veeam data protection, backup, and recovery

Effective January 1, 2026, Veeam adjusted standard subscription and renewal pricing by 4 to 8 percent, and on July 1, 2026 legacy Perpetual Socket renewals rose an additional 6 to 9 percent. If you already hold an active multi-year subscription, your rate is locked until your next renewal date.

Yes. Legacy socket licenses continue to protect your on-premises VMware and Hyper-V hosts. Veeam stopped selling new socket licenses in 2022, and you can keep renewing support, though the July 2026 adjustment means annual maintenance (now roughly 22 to 27 percent of current MSRP) has gone up.

A Veeam Migration SKU is a specialized license package, available only through authorized partners, that trades your legacy socket contract for a fully portable Veeam Universal License (VUL) subscription. In almost every scenario it is significantly cheaper than letting the contract lapse and buying new VUL later.

Because VUL meters pricing per workload (1 license = 1 VM, physical server, or cloud instance), while legacy socket licensing let you run unlimited VMs on a single CPU socket for one flat price. Environments running 15 to 20 or more VMs per socket can see base software costs rise when migrating, which is why we right-size configurations first.

No. VUL licenses cover the Veeam data protection software only. Cloud object storage such as AWS S3, Azure Blob, Wasabi, or Backblaze B2 is billed separately by the storage provider, so we build a total-cost model that combines software licensing and storage destination costs.