Head to head
ControlMonkey vs Firefly: which gets cloud infrastructure back faster?
Short answer
On our published weights Firefly scores 7.3 against 6.2 for ControlMonkey. Firefly scores higher on recovery orchestration, region and account loss, bad-change rollback, published recovery targets, recovery testing, data inside the rebuild and pricing transparency. They tie on rebuild scope. ControlMonkey documents 2 of 3 incidents and Firefly documents 3 of 3.
ControlMonkey protects cloud and SaaS configuration, not data or workloads, by its own pricing FAQ.
Vendor facts read September and October 2026, updated 2026-10-13. Editorial assessment; we did not run the products.
How do the scores compare?
| Criterion | ControlMonkey | Firefly | Higher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebuild scope 20% | 8.6 | 8.6 | Tie |
| Recovery orchestration 15% | 7.6 | 8.4 | Firefly |
| Region and account loss 15% | 7.0 | 8.2 | Firefly |
| Bad-change rollback 15% | 8.8 | 9.2 | Firefly |
| Published recovery targets 10% | 2.0 | 7.0 | Firefly |
| Recovery testing 10% | 3.0 | 4.0 | Firefly |
| Data inside the rebuild 10% | 2.0 | 3.0 | Firefly |
| Pricing transparency 5% | 4.5 | 5.5 | Firefly |
| Total | 6.2 | 7.3 | Firefly |
Which incidents does each document?
| Incident | ControlMonkey | Firefly |
|---|---|---|
| Outage | Documented. One-click recovery to a previous known-good state from daily snapshots with dependencies. Source: ControlMonkey: cloud disaster recovery solution · Read 11 Oct 2026 | Documented. Automated cross-region failover with an RTO under 1 hour, as Firefly states. Source: Firefly home page · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| Bad change | Documented. Time-machine restore to a known-good state, with drift detection and remediation. Source: ControlMonkey home page · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Documented. Point-in-time rollback from versioned IaC snapshots, with drift detection and change tracking. Source: Firefly: cyber resilience use case · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| Region loss | Partial. Replication to a secondary region or account is listed in the pricing table; a rebuild procedure is not published. Source: ControlMonkey pricing · Read 11 Oct 2026 | Documented. Cross-region and cross-account rebuild, including into a clean, isolated target. Source: Firefly: cloud disaster recovery use case · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
What recovery targets does each publish?
ControlMonkey
RTO
Not published
RPO
Not published
ControlMonkey claims predictable RTO and RPO outcomes across accounts, regions and clouds but publishes no figure.
Firefly
RTO
RPO
Not published
Firefly states an RTO under 1 hour. It does not publish an RPO figure on the pages reviewed.
Which clouds does each cover?
ControlMonkey
- AWS: Documented
- Azure: Documented
- Google Cloud: Documented
ControlMonkey's disaster recovery page names AWS, Azure and Google Cloud and more than 30 SaaS and third-party providers such as Cloudflare and Okta.
Source: ControlMonkey: cloud disaster recovery solution · Read 11 Oct 2026
Firefly
- AWS: Documented
- Azure: Documented
- Google Cloud: Partly documented
Firefly's Backup and DR docs list AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI as data source options, but the service coverage page has AWS and Azure tabs only (190 AWS resource types across 48 services). Its pricing FAQ names AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI and Nebius integrations.
Source: Firefly docs: Applications Backup and DR · Read 11 Oct 2026
What does each cost?
ControlMonkey
- Pricing
- Free Resilience Assessment for up to 50,000 cloud assets, with detection-only drift. Pro and Enterprise: contact sales; the FAQ says pricing is based on the scope of cloud and SaaS configuration and also names Cloud DR Essentials and Cloud DR Enterprise plans.
Source: ControlMonkey pricing · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Delivery
- SaaS, with a self-hosted agent option
Firefly
- Pricing
- 14-day free trial with all features, no credit card. Essential: $2,499 a month billed annually, up to 20,000 assets; it does not include Backup and DR. Enterprise, which adds Infrastructure Backup and DR, configuration history, automated backup policies and Instant Recovery with an RTO under 1 hour: custom pricing. Listed on the AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Datadog marketplaces.
Source: Firefly pricing · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Delivery
- SaaS
Which should you choose?
Choose ControlMonkey if
Misconfigurations and bad changes are your most likely incident and you need the most complete rebuild of the environment, not only the data.
Best for: Teams that want daily snapshots of cloud and SaaS configuration and a one-click return to a known-good state, including identity and network SaaS settings.
Choose Firefly if
Misconfigurations and bad changes are your most likely incident and you need the most complete rebuild of the environment, not only the data.
Best for: Teams that want configuration, networking, identity and DNS rebuilt as Terraform they keep, and a change history to undo bad changes.
Frequently asked questions
Which scores higher overall, ControlMonkey or Firefly?
Firefly scores 7.3 against 6.2 on our default weights. The recovery time estimator lets you change the weights.
Do ControlMonkey and Firefly publish recovery targets?
ControlMonkey publishes no RTO or RPO. Firefly publishes no RPO. Its published RTO is under 1 hour. Published figures are vendor claims.
Which is easier to price?
ControlMonkey: Free Resilience Assessment for up to 50,000 cloud assets, with detection-only drift. Pro and Enterprise: contact sales; the FAQ says pricing is based on the scope of cloud and SaaS configuration and also names Cloud DR Essentials and Cloud DR Enterprise plans. Firefly: 14-day free trial with all features, no credit card. Essential: $2,499 a month billed annually, up to 20,000 assets; it does not include Backup and DR. Enterprise, which adds Infrastructure Backup and DR, configuration history, automated backup policies and Instant Recovery with an RTO under 1 hour: custom pricing. Listed on the AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Datadog marketplaces. Neither figure includes the cloud resources a recovery uses.