Atera vs. BeyondTrust Remote Support vs. Kaseya VSA

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Atera
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Atera is presented as an Agentic AI platform for IT management, that offers a digital workforce of AI agents that proactively and autonomously support entire IT operations. Atera’s all-in-one IT management platform consolidates RMM, helpdesk, ticketing, and automation, so IT teams and MSPs can manage and protect infrastructure, automate tasks, and boost service quality by reducing downtime and improving SLAs. Atera has shifted focus from automation to AI-powered autonomy in IT. With…
$139
per month per user
BeyondTrust Remote Support
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar) helps support teams of all sizes improve business performance by enabling secure, controlled remote support to nearly any device or system, anywhere in the world. BeyondTrust offers deployment options that can fit a company’s business needs. The vendor says their on-premises physical and virtual appliances have helped enterprises satisfy regulatory requirements for years. Additionally, the vendor says the unique segmentation capabilities of…N/A
Kaseya VSA
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Kaseya Virtual System Administrator (VSA) is a cloud-based Remote Monitoring and Management software. VSA unifies the monitoring of system infrastructure and endpoints and is designed for use by IT teams and MSP’s. It offers a robust crowd-source automation scripts library, as well as antivirus and malware capabilities with real-time threat alerts.N/A
Pricing
AteraBeyondTrust Remote SupportKaseya VSA
Editions & Modules
MSP - Pro
$129
per month (billed annually) per user
IT Department - Professional
$149
per month (billed annually) per user
MSP - Growth
$179
per month (billed annually) per user
IT Department - Expert
$189
per month (billed annually) per user
MSP - Power
$209
per month (billed annually) per user
IT Department - Master
$219
per month (billed annually) per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AteraBeyondTrust Remote SupportKaseya VSA
Free Trial
YesYesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsUnlimited devices.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
AteraBeyondTrust Remote SupportKaseya VSA
Considered Multiple Products
Atera
Chose Atera
Atera is very similar to Syncro in feature set and pricing, but we liked Atera just a bit better. (We switched from Atera to Syncro and then back to Atera, and have stuck with Atera for several years now.) Kaseya gave us bad vibes from their sales department and we ultimately …
Chose Atera
Atera pulls the best features from the above systems I have previous experience in and unites them in an All-in-one solution that simplifies and improves everyone's experience.
Chose Atera
Atera was the clear winner for us. The interface and tools were very easy to learn and setup. Atera's licensing incorporates good feature sets and value levels.

Some of the other products were difficult to setup and lacked good flow between tools. The value proposition was …
Chose Atera
Any RMM that supports licensing around agents / technicians rather than devices is always a win in my mind. Primarily Atera was chosen due to the specific features it provides (we didn't need a lot of bells and whistles) and did what it needed to do, well. Remote access, patch …
Chose Atera
I have a love hate relationship with Kaseya in two different companies. Kaseya is clunky, unreliable, and feels like trying to navigate my customers systems through an excel sheet, with most of its functionality not being reliable. Also, the way they managed the breach was …
Chose Atera
Atera has many of the same features as the other products we've tested. The selling point for us was the pricing model for Atera. Most other providers charged a fee per endpoint which could quickly add up. With Atera's pricing model, we have a fixed annual cost which is …
Chose Atera
The main major competitor I have experience with is Kaseya. Comparing my experience between the 2 the most important difference is the pricing. whilst Kaseya charges per device, Atera charges per technician, and a technician can handle as many devices as he wants. I also found …
BeyondTrust Remote Support

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Kaseya VSA
Chose Kaseya VSA
While Atera and NinjaRMM are both solid products, they seemed to be more oriented to MSPs which we aren't. There were more features associated with costs per user/system, etc. that we would never utilize.
Chose Kaseya VSA
We looked at several options besides Kaseya in the beginning of our research process. We preferred the layout, support, and overall feature rich platform of Kaseya to some of their competitors. We also liked the ability to grow with Kaseya as needed and the ability to add …
Features
AteraBeyondTrust Remote SupportKaseya VSA
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Atera
9.5
7 Ratings
30% above category average
BeyondTrust Remote Support
-
Ratings
Kaseya VSA
7.5
1 Ratings
6% above category average
Virtualization monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery9.07 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Monitoring Tasks
Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Atera
9.2
123 Ratings
23% above category average
BeyondTrust Remote Support
-
Ratings
Kaseya VSA
6.7
13 Ratings
9% below category average
Remote monitoring9.1122 Ratings00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Network device monitoring8.2108 Ratings00 Ratings8.013 Ratings
Activity Monitoring9.07 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Management Tasks
Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Atera
9.1
122 Ratings
26% above category average
BeyondTrust Remote Support
-
Ratings
Kaseya VSA
7.5
12 Ratings
7% above category average
Patch Management8.4121 Ratings00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Policy-based automation8.3107 Ratings00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Remote Access
Comparison of Remote Access features of Product A and Product B
Atera
7.8
1 Ratings
16% above category average
BeyondTrust Remote Support
-
Ratings
Kaseya VSA
6.8
1 Ratings
2% above category average
Attended device access10.01 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Unattended device access10.01 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Mobile device access1.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtual device access10.01 Ratings00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Multiple-display support7.01 Ratings00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Multiple concurrent sessions9.01 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Remote Administration
Comparison of Remote Administration features of Product A and Product B
Atera
-
Ratings
BeyondTrust Remote Support
9.1
54 Ratings
8% above category average
Kaseya VSA
-
Ratings
File transfer00 Ratings9.251 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant message00 Ratings9.352 Ratings00 Ratings
Access to sleeping/powered-off computers00 Ratings5.733 Ratings00 Ratings
Session record00 Ratings9.143 Ratings00 Ratings
Annotations00 Ratings8.834 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AteraBeyondTrust Remote SupportKaseya VSA
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(119 ratings)
9.4
(113 ratings)
8.0
(30 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.3
(5 ratings)
10.0
(63 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(67 ratings)
9.6
(31 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(6 ratings)
9.7
(28 ratings)
5.5
(8 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.4
(1 ratings)
10.0
(13 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AteraBeyondTrust Remote SupportKaseya VSA
Likelihood to Recommend
Atera
Atera is doing well in the monitoring part as it is informing the real time ping of running devices and if any device goes down, it is informing us on the real time. It is helping us to monitor the last reboot status, current logged in users, time zone, IP addresses and other things so that we can track our end devices status. In the patching part Atera is pathing our all devices with the notification stating user to restart device at their convenient time. It is also patching our third party applications. It is good in installing and uninstalling of the third party application but limited to availability in the Atera inventory. Atera is not good in some parts such as in the patching part of applications, sometime it fails to update all 3rd party applications that were not installed via Atera. It is not good if you have to transfer a file to multiple systems at the same time.
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BeyondTrust
In our line of work, the ability to provide a seamless and fast forward approach to support is important. It reflects positively on our support staff and teams when we can resolve issues quickly and effectively whether that's on servers, workstations, mobile devices etc. We have found the software to not be as beneficial on Linux Servers.
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Kaseya
If the software functioned as it was intended, it would be probably a 7 out of 10. It lacks the majority of customization that SolarWinds N-central supplies, but also supports some customization that other solutions we have tried do not. Again, if the software didn't consistently break, the ability to implement automated scripting via PowerShell and the capacity to manage 10+ endpoints at once in different windows is great.
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Pros
Atera
  • Atera is very helpful in monitoring the servers and end-user devices for high CPU, memory, hard disk uses, and temperature monitoring.
  • Atera is good at installing third-party applications and also helps to remove it from the end systems.
  • Atera is perfect for patching as you can select the patches as per your need and reject those that are not required for you or going to disturb any of your internal applications.
  • Atera is good for managing software inventory as it provides you with the complete software list that is used in your infrastructure.
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BeyondTrust
  • Remote access for macOS computers. We support primarily businesses that use Macs and good macOS support is very important.
  • Maintains logs and screen sharing videos of all sessions. It's peace of mind for us and also helps meet compliance standards that we can tell exactly what happened, every time we access a machine remotely.
  • Allows for easy management of hundreds of computers in a single app. We support hundreds of computers for dozens of companies. Finding the right computer to access is very easy and able to be done with just a few clicks.
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Kaseya
  • Being able to see systems that are not within the local network allows us to be able to troubleshoot and work with the end users no matter where they are or where we are as it is cloud based.
  • Several functions can be "automated" so staff do not have to keep going back and scanning for updates, push Windows updates and or push sensor updates.
  • VSA offers a variety of system information about all of the assets that have the endpoints installed on them so we can easily see the system specs without having to actually connect to them and pull up the SysInfo on each unit.
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Cons
Atera
  • Atera does not yet have a MDM system, but I have been told that it is in the works!
  • Sometimes getting around the admin section of the IT side of Atera can be tricky, but the webinars and chat support help.
  • Many of the demo and onboarding agents are based in Israel, so it can be a challenge to find available times during the day while living in the United States.
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BeyondTrust
  • Only issue I really have is the jump client goes to queu when our remote vendors shut down their machine. Works in our favor if we lose our connection but that never happens. And this is such a small issue but had to put something in here.
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Kaseya
  • Support - Like all other competitors support is OK but the product is robust enough to reduce support requirements.
  • Customer Service - another team that is a bit poor especially when the issue involves multiple departments. Otherwise, the direct rep is very friendly and professional.
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Likelihood to Renew
Atera
As of right now, we have found nothing that can offer as many features as Atera does along with the affordability. They are doing monthly releases each month and not just making small changes (shared scripting library, chocolatey support, Install packages, Splashtop SOS support, Scheduled tickets to name a few). The uptimes are great and accessibility to the dashboard has yet to be limited. We are a happy customer and bordering on fanboy status now
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BeyondTrust
Bomgar has improved the support we have given as an ICT department and improved the ICT department reputation within the organisation. We have had no issues with Bomgar as a product and it works well. The team at Bomgar are also a pleasure to work with, they follow up with us to see how they can help us use more of the features of the system and really take time to get to know their users and how they use the product.
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Kaseya
Excellent product with easy learning curve
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Usability
Atera
Atera's remote monitoring feature is one of it's best features. The laptops and servers we used it on responded quickly to our administrative task requests and made our work light. We were able to increase the resources, manage patches, windows updates and quite a few other tasks remotely and that too 24×7.
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BeyondTrust
RemoteSupport has the most modern-looking interface I have seen. Its number of features, both nice to have and necessary, is better than any other competing solution on the market. They also prioritize security, so you can be confident that only the people you want accessing a given endpoint have access because their security can be configured to be role-based or as granular as you want.
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Kaseya
I think this is a solid tool for enterprise IT, however it would be higher if Kaseya VSA addresses the areas raised around recent stability, their support team, multiple session & screen support etc. It does do it's main job and allows an easy way for IT to operate and is mostly fine.
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Reliability and Availability
Atera
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BeyondTrust
As far as uptime is concerned, Since Bomgar creates the Hardware and Software, they can make it the most reliable box in our datacenter, and they also have options for availability and redundancy that we didn't need to utilize, we have a manual fail-over process that we can invoke, but there are configurations that would allow for an automated failover as well.
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Kaseya
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Performance
Atera
No answers on this topic
BeyondTrust
There is no lag-time at all, no matter how many users we have on the box, it is always entirely dependant on the customers internet speed (as we have a very fast connection), that is the only issue I've EVER seen with Bomgar, no matter how many sessions we run the box is always up, always fast, always working.
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Kaseya
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Support Rating
Atera
Atera support provides answers to my questions lightning fast. They have never left me feeling like I'm out there on my own. I can ask questions by email, or by chat, or by opening a ticket with them and they are always on it quickly. They also have a forum where other Atera users can help you if you need it, and you can also add feature requests via the forum.
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BeyondTrust
The support team at Bomgar always goes beyond the call of duty. No question seems to little or big for them to handle. They are there with you from the time you initiate a session or call with them until there is a resolution. You get awesome service. Their reps are always friendly and knowledgeable
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Kaseya
It was lots of back and forth email communication whenever I tried to solve my connection issues. I would send them detailed logs of the date, time, computer, and more of when I was experiencing connection issues. All I would get is an email back a few days later saying that they didn't find an issue in the service
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In-Person Training
Atera
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BeyondTrust
we didn't have in-person training because their online training was so overwhelmingly well done. Start by looking at the docs: http://www.bomgar.com/docs/content/index.htm if that alone doesn't answer all your questions, there will be a window that pops up asking if you would like to chat with a sales representative, or a support engineer. Either of them can answer all of your questions as easily as if they were standing there with you, or talking to you on the phone, it is truly the power of Bomgar!
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Kaseya
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Online Training
Atera
No answers on this topic
BeyondTrust
Since we have installed and been running Bomgar software for quite some time now, we have taken the opportunity to attend various web trainings, and they are always very prompt, informative and open to questions/discussions. We appreciate the work that Bomgar does to keep their customer community informed of new features and discussions of further product developments.
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Kaseya
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Implementation Rating
Atera
The implementation was performed by the system administrator so I don't have much insight into this
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BeyondTrust
It was easy to get going. You have to pick your features to enable disable and then configure any customizations for the enabled features. It could not be easier to get started. The number of options can be a bit overwhelming at first
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Kaseya
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Alternatives Considered
Atera
Because Atera is a much more effective and efficient solution to manage all our IT operations, it automates each of our business processes. It offers us the best support to respond to any problem that may arise. I think Atera is much more cost-effective and reliable; its value is justified with each function and satisfies all our business needs and requirements.
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BeyondTrust
When we used Webex our customers often had issues because staff in medical offices don't always have easy access to browse the internet. We could send them an invitation but we would often go round and round with them. With BeyondTrust Remote [Support (Legacy)] we don't have that problem as it allows easy access for these customers.
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Kaseya
There are other products that do some of what Kaseya does, but I've not personally worked with another product that does everything Kaseya does. Sure there are plenty of remote control products, but products that do as much as Kaseya are few and far between. Hard to go wrong with the sheer scope of functionality!
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Scalability
Atera
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BeyondTrust
Since the Bomgar Box is BOTH hardware and software, it can be purchased in any capacity deemed necessary, so scalability isn't an issue, Bomgar has the experience necessary to create a design that can support as many customer and agent sessions as you can throw at it. We have never had any issues with the Bomgar box and licenses that we have installed.
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Kaseya
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Return on Investment
Atera
  • The intuitive user interface has enabled both users and support technicians to familiarize themselves quickly with the functionality, and the learning curve is less.
  • Some features need to be accessed through documentation; they're not available directly on the dashboard.
  • Sometimes, internet access plays a significant role, whereas low connectivity is a hindrance.
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BeyondTrust
  • Bomgar will easily turn a 45 minute phone call into a 5 minute support session. You can't get back that extra 40 minutes any faster.
  • Customers who complete the post session survey have all rated the service either high or very high. We love having happy customers.
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Kaseya
  • It has increased the efficiency of operational tasks for our technicians
  • It has change the speed at which we are able to deploy updates and software patches
  • It caused us to spend additional money on more security tools due to concern from breaches
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ScreenShots

Atera Screenshots

Screenshot of Atera’s AI-powered solution.Screenshot of Atera's process automation.Screenshot of Atera's real-time monitoring, which gives visibility and control of the IT environment.Screenshot of Atera's ticketing, where users can deliver end-user support and issue resolution at scale.