NinjaOne vs. Cohesity

Why your peers choose NinjaOne over Cohesity

NinjaOne

NinjaOne vs. Cohesity Reviews

		Cohesity
Overall	4.7 (4,313)	4.4 (53)
Meets Requirements	9.0 4,101 Responses	8.8 42 Responses
Ease of Use	9.1 4,143 Responses	9.0 42 Responses
Ease of Setup	9.1 3,892 Responses	8.8 39 Responses
Ease of Admin	9.1 3,086 Responses	8.9 37 Responses
Quality of Support	9.1 3,931 Responses	9.0 42 Responses
Ease of Doing Business With	9.4 3,019 Responses	9.1 36 Responses
Product Direction (% positive)	9.7 3,969 Responses	9.2 42 Responses

Based on G2 Summer 2026

Customers rate us #1 in Unified Endpoint Management, RMM, and Patch Management

Cohesity

Product Summary

Cohesity is an IT platform that focuses on data security. It provides resiliency solutions to different industries, from healthcare to financial services and logistics. Some of Cohesity’s key features are data backup, recovery, ransomware protection, and hybrid cloud management. It also offers functionalities that enhance data access and mobility, contributing to business continuity and productivity.

Use Cases

Data backup: Cohesity offers backup capabilities to help organizations protect critical data workloads, environments, and locations.
Disaster recovery: The platform also offers several recovery options, including disaster recovery in case of outages or attacks.
Ransomware protection: Cohesity provides anti-ransomware solutions that can help improve an organization’s defense against ransomware attacks.

Shortcomings

Complexity: Some users reported experiencing challenges navigating and setting up Cohesity, saying it takes time to utilize its features effectively.

Support: Others suggested improvements to Cohesity’s support and service, as well as its knowledge base documentation, to prevent prolonged issue resolution.
Issues with updates: Some users noted that software updates occasionally introduce bugs, including issues that can impact critical functionality.

Why your peers choose NinjaOne over Cohesity

While Cohesity is best known for its resiliency solutions and data protection, NinjaOne is preferred by many IT professionals. That’s because NinjaOne offers similar functionalities focused on backup and recovery that are well integrated with the platform’s robust endpoint management capabilities. NinjaOne offers backup management that supports multiple environments, such as cloud, image, remote server, and SaaS. These are tightly integrated with NinjaOne’s centralized monitoring, alerting, and automation tools, giving IT teams complete visibility and control from a single pane of glass. Additionally, NinjaOne provides reliable recovery options that can help minimize disruptive downtime and maintain efficient business continuity.

“One of the reasons we chose NinjaOne is because of its extreme ease of use. It’s very easy to get new employees up to speed quickly. At Aerorock, we have the utmost confidence that NinjaOne provides us with a secure environment to operate in.”

Jason Danner // President at Aerorock

This is why customers love us

100,000

Endpoints managed

“NinjaOne is a scalable solution. It’s built on a modern SaaS architecture and it’s future-proof.”

40%

More Cost Effective

“NinjaOne’s price point is 40% less than any other endpoint management tool on the market, while being more powerful and easy to use.”

10-15

Tools Replaced

“Before, I needed 10-15 different tools to execute what NinjaOne does in its centralized, single pane of glass.”

30%

Less time for patching

“We observed a 30% reduction in the time taken for patch deployments compared to our previous solution.”

2,000

Endpoints managed

“NinjaOne gives me much more flexibility and security in my work”

30%

Annual ROI

“[NinjaOne] has already shown its value in ROI…it’s at least a hundred thousand dollars annually.”

24x

Faster Endpoint Management

“Our processes have become 24x faster with NinjaOne.”

20-40

Hours Saved Each Week

“Leveraging the automations feature within NinjaOne has enabled me to save upwards of what would likely be 20 to 30 to even 40 hours per week.”

NinjaOne Integrations

Splashtop
Azure
SentinelOne
Slack
CrowdStrike
Okta
ConnectWise
N-Able
One Login
IT Glue

NinjaOne vs. Cohesity FAQs

How does Cohesity compare to NinjaOne for SaaS Backup?

Cohesity offers features that help strengthen resilience, which include backup for SaaS environments. However, NinjaOne provides a more comprehensive SaaS backup experience that is easy to deploy, manage, and monitor. Part of NinjaOne’s broader portfolio of IT management solutions, which are recognized for effective endpoint management, the SaaS backup functionality is also designed to streamline operations. This focus helps improve the user experience for SaaS backups, contributes to faster response times, and improves overall efficiency.

Does Cohesity or NinjaOne offer better ease of use for small to mid-sized businesses?

As outlined, users have reported challenges in navigating Cohesity. This is not the case with NinjaOne, which is designed for businesses of all sizes. NinjaOne’s intuitive interface eases the complexities of endpoint management, making it a preferred choice for most IT professionals, regardless of business size and your IT team’s level of expertise in endpoint management.

Which backup platform is more intuitive for IT generalists: Cohesity or NinjaOne?

While receiving fair feedback, Cohesity has also been described by some users as complex to navigate in some reviews. On the other hand, NinjaOne is purpose-built for simplicity and ease of use, making it ideal for IT generalists who manage a wide range of tasks. With an intuitive user interface and minimal learning curve, NinjaOne allows IT teams to perform backup, monitoring, and recovery operations without the need for difficult training.

Does NinjaOne or Cohesity offer better integration with endpoint management?

NinjaOne is a comprehensive endpoint management solution that fuses backup and recovery capabilities with all other essential IT functionalities in a singular console. Given this structure, NinjaOne ensures that deploying backups or initiating recovery operations is smoothly integrated with endpoint management functionalities.

How does customer support compare between Cohesity vs. NinjaOne?

While some Cohesity users suggest improvements for its support, NinjaOne continuously receives acclaim for its ongoing product support. As solid proof, the endpoint management platform is rated #1 for support and service based on a third-party survey of MSPs. Additionally, NinjaOne scores an annual average of 98.4 in CSAT score and 31 minutes in response time. Not to mention its free unlimited onboarding and reliable self-help resources, making NinjaOne a preferred choice for most IT professionals.

Sources and Disclaimers

Snapshot Report Citation: IDC Business Value Snapshot sponsored by NinjaOne, The Business Value of NinjaOne for IT Operations, Doc #US54520326-BVS, May 2026.

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This comparison represents our assessment of publicly available product capabilities as of January 2025. Our evaluation draws on vendor-provided materials, including product documentation and release notes, as well as publicly available pricing information, customer feedback, and analyst insights. Where applicable, details were reviewed against the vendor’s then-current generally available (GA) release as of the date indicated.

Enterprise IT leaders evaluating endpoint management platforms don’t just compare features: they also assess the time it takes to deliver value, the number of people needed to operate the system, and the actual cost after deployment, training, and ongoing operation.

NinjaOne delivers measurable results. On average, deployment is completed in less than 30 days; operators become proficient in less than 10 days. There is no infrastructure to provision, no phased rollout, and no deployment project scope to define: cloud-native SaaS means your team becomes productive in days, not months.

Your team configures, operates, and scales the system without dedicated administrators, proprietary query languages, or ongoing vendor support. And all of this on a unified platform, with no mandatory professional services, no premium support tiers, no hidden renewal costs, and rich features that don’t compromise the digital employee experience your organization is striving for.

NinjaOne vs. Cohesity

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NinjaOne vs. Cohesity Reviews

Cohesity

Customers rate us #1 in Unified Endpoint Management, RMM, and Patch Management