Head to head
Firefly vs Gambit Security: which gets cloud infrastructure back faster?
Short answer
On our published weights Firefly scores 7.3 against 2.2 for Gambit Security. Firefly scores higher on rebuild scope, recovery orchestration, region and account loss, bad-change rollback, published recovery targets, recovery testing, data inside the rebuild and pricing transparency. Firefly documents 3 of 3 incidents and Gambit Security documents 0 of 3.
Gambit Security validates recoverability; it does not describe rebuilding infrastructure itself.
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 | Firefly | Gambit Security | Higher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebuild scope 20% | 8.6 | 2.5 | Firefly |
| Recovery orchestration 15% | 8.4 | 1.0 | Firefly |
| Region and account loss 15% | 8.2 | 1.0 | Firefly |
| Bad-change rollback 15% | 9.2 | 4.5 | Firefly |
| Published recovery targets 10% | 7.0 | 0.0 | Firefly |
| Recovery testing 10% | 4.0 | 3.0 | Firefly |
| Data inside the rebuild 10% | 3.0 | 2.5 | Firefly |
| Pricing transparency 5% | 5.5 | 4.0 | Firefly |
| Total | 7.3 | 2.2 | Firefly |
Which incidents does each document?
| Incident | Firefly | Gambit Security |
|---|---|---|
| Outage | Documented. Automated cross-region failover with an RTO under 1 hour, as Firefly states. Source: Firefly home page · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Not documented. Validates recoverability; recovery itself is left to other tools. Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Bad change | 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 | Partial. Drift detection and healthy restore point discovery, without a restore of its own. Source: Gambit Security home page · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Region loss | Documented. Cross-region and cross-account rebuild, including into a clean, isolated target. Source: Firefly: cloud disaster recovery use case · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Not documented. Rebuilding in another region or account is not described. Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
What recovery targets does each publish?
Firefly
RTO
RPO
Not published
Firefly states an RTO under 1 hour. It does not publish an RPO figure on the pages reviewed.
Gambit Security
RTO
Not published
RPO
Not published
No RTO or RPO figure is published.
Which clouds does each cover?
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
Gambit Security
- AWS: Not documented
- Azure: Not documented
- Google Cloud: Not documented
Named clouds are not published on Gambit's site. Its AWS Marketplace listing is a SaaS product deployed on AWS.
Source: AWS Marketplace: Balens by Gambit · Read 11 Oct 2026
What does each cost?
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
Gambit Security
- Pricing
- AWS Marketplace: 12-month contract, $1,000,000 per unit for the Gambit Platform, with 24- and 36-month options; the unit is not defined. Full refund within 30 days, per the listing. No price on the vendor site.
Source: AWS Marketplace: Balens by Gambit · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Delivery
- SaaS, agentless; REST API and MCP
Which should you choose?
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.
Choose Gambit Security if
Misconfigurations and bad changes are your most likely incident and you need to price it before talking to sales.
Best for: Teams that need to map and prove recoverability across backups, IaC and cloud, and produce DORA, NIS2 or SOX evidence.
Frequently asked questions
Which scores higher overall, Firefly or Gambit Security?
Firefly scores 7.3 against 2.2 on our default weights. The recovery time estimator lets you change the weights.
Do Firefly and Gambit Security publish recovery targets?
Firefly publishes no RPO. Its published RTO is under 1 hour. Gambit Security publishes no RTO or RPO. Published figures are vendor claims.
Which is easier to price?
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. Gambit Security: AWS Marketplace: 12-month contract, $1,000,000 per unit for the Gambit Platform, with 24- and 36-month options; the unit is not defined. Full refund within 30 days, per the listing. No price on the vendor site. Neither figure includes the cloud resources a recovery uses.