Codekeeper vs. Continew: Escrow features, coverage, and recovery compared

When critical software fails, the deposit sitting in escrow is only useful if what comes out of it actually runs. Continew, a French provider, centers its service on the escrow agreement, the legal contract that guarantees a beneficiary can claim deposited source code if the software fails. 

That secures your right to the code. It doesn't prove the code still builds, or reach the SaaS and AI systems your operations now run on.

Codekeeper is built to cover all software failure eventualities, extending escrow services across SaaS, AI, and hosting to keep you online no matter what.

This comparison works through pricing, coverage, verification, and support, so you can make an informed decision when protecting the software your business runs on.

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Codekeeper vs. Continew at a glance

Here's how the two providers line up across pricing, features, verification, and scale:

Codekeeper vs. Continew: Costs

Codekeeper publishes a monthly starting price for every product, and each plan includes unlimited deposits and beneficiaries:

• Software Backup: From €99/month

• Software Escrow: From €139/month

• SaaS Escrow: From €199/month

• AI Escrow: From €549/month

• Continuity Escrow: From €459/month

Choosing an annual subscription takes up to 12% off across all plans.

» Build your pricing plan according to your software resilience needs.

Continew publishes pricing across its range too:

• Start Up escrow: from €40/month, for one deposit and two beneficiaries

• Editor escrow: €165/month, for five deposits and fifteen beneficiaries

• Continew for Cloud: €29.90/month (Initial) or €39.90/month (Premium), for SaaS data reversibility

• Setup: €349 per pack, with extra deposits and beneficiaries billed per unit

Both providers publish entry and product pricing, so cost isn't hidden behind a sales call on either side. The difference is how cost scales. Codekeeper's per-product price holds as you add deposits and beneficiaries, while Continew meters both by pack and unit, so the more you deposit and the more beneficiaries you name, the more each escrow costs.

Codekeeper vs. Continew: Solutions

Modern software risk lies across a vast range of systems. Codekeeper built five software resilience products to cover all of it:

1. Software Backup syncs your source code, application data, and deployment assets into a versioned, immutable vault, so you can roll back fast when something breaks on your side.
2. Software Escrow wraps third-party software in a formal agreement with clear release triggers, backed by automated deposits and verification, so you get current, usable assets if the software fails or loses support.
3. SaaS Escrow captures the whole cloud environment, including code, databases, configurations, dependencies, and credentials, so you can stand a service back up if it fails.
4. AI Escrow protects the AI stack you've built, covering models, prompts, agents, and workflows, so you can migrate rather than rebuild if that stack fails or is discontinued.
5. Continuity Escrow keeps hosting and third-party services running when a payment lapses. You flag the lapse, and Codekeeper steps in to cover it for up to 12 months while you sort a permanent fix.

Each solution syncs daily across 50+ platforms, tests recoverability on an ongoing basis, and issues auditor-ready certificates.

Learn more about Codekeeper's software resilience solutions in this video:

Continew organizes its protection around the escrow agreement, across four services:

• Software escrow for developers and editors: a two-party agreement for depositing source code.

• Software escrow for users: a three-party agreement that gives software users access to that code.

• Escrow agreement for system users: a three-party agreement covering equipment, electronic systems, and IoT.

• Continew for Cloud: a service that backs up the data your SaaS applications generate, so you can retrieve it independently of the vendor.

Continew and Codekeeper's SaaS solutions aim at different things. Continew for Cloud recovers the data a SaaS application produces, so you can retrieve or move it. Codekeeper's SaaS Escrow captures the whole environment, including code, databases, configurations, and credentials, so you can stand the application itself back up.

Continew's complete model secures what you deposit: source code, systems, and SaaS data. It doesn't extend to the AI stack you've built, to the service payments that keep a product online, or to a versioned software backup you can roll back through.

Codekeeper vs. Continew: Core features

Both platforms cover the escrow basics. What separates them is their scope: whether your deposit stays current, whether recovery is proven rather than assumed, and whether the vault resists tampering.

Integrations

A deposit is only as current as its last sync, and stale code is a quiet reason recovery fails. Both providers automate this, and both connect to GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket for continuous deposits with no coding required.

Continew lists just over 30 connectors, and while its Cloud service backs up SaaS data nightly, the source-code connectors are described only as continuous without a stated cadence.

Codekeeper lists more than 50 integrations through OAuth, spanning GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, and AWS CodeCommit, alongside AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and many more. You connect and authenticate once, and the deposits will update every 24 hours without anyone touching them. 

Verification options

Escrow only pays off if the deposit rebuilds into working software, verification is how you ensure that it will. Codekeeper offers three verfication tiers you can choose from:

Every tier issues a Software Resilience Certificate, containing compliance evidence that you can hand an auditor for DORA, NIS2, ISO 27001, and CPS 230.

» Select the verification approach that matches your compliance obligations.

Continew offers a verified escrow agreement that checks a deposit for technical completeness and for the licenses and intellectual property needed to rebuild the software. That check runs once, before the deposit is sealed, and the site doesn't publish a free entry point, named tiers, or a price for it.

Because Codekeeper's higher tiers monitor deposits continuously over time rather than once at setup, a deposit that passed on day one doesn't gradually drift out of step with the software it's meant to restore. 

Add-on services

Requirements rarely arrive in neat bundles, so the way a provider lets you add one capability matters when a single team needs data residency and another needs faster recovery. Codekeeper offers seven discrete add-ons, each priced on its own:

1. Advanced Deposits (€59/month) adds storage-region selection, IP whitelisting, and access to your full deposit history.

2. Advanced Integrations (€59/month) builds automated syncing for custom or proprietary platforms the standard connectors don't cover.

3. Advanced Continuity Integrations (€89/month) connects hosting and third-party services so continuity coverage reaches your supporting infrastructure.

4. Compliance Support SLA (€99/month) takes on recurring due-diligence and audit documentation, and handles data to GDPR and HIPAA standards.

5. Coverage Length SLA (€99/month) extends how long your continuity coverage runs for up to 12 months.

6. Assured Recovery (€199/month) puts a technical team on standby with a response under four hours and a prepared recovery profile.

7. Liability SLA (priced per agreement) raises liability limits to meet enterprise procurement and contractual requirements.

Continew scales differently. Its Cloud service offers a paid anteriority option for legal proof of your data, but beyond that it grows mainly by moving you to a larger pack or adding beneficiaries at a unit rate, rather than a menu of capabilities you bolt on as you need them.

Storage and security

Every Codekeeper plan includes 1TB of storage, scaling to 5TB and beyond (custom), with unlimited deposits and no per-deposit fees. Data is encrypted with AES-256/512 in an ISO 27001-certified environment, and every version lands in an immutable vault that can't be altered or deleted — by ransomware or by mistake. You're also able to adjust your data residency for compliance alignment. 

» Review Codekeeper's security certifications to understand its posture towards data security. 

Continew encrypts deposits with AES-256 and stores them offline in two ISO 27001-certified data centers in France. For teams with French or EU data-residency requirements, that national hosting is an advantage, though it could limit other users. Continew doesn't publish an overall storage capacity, and its packs cap deposits at between one and five.

Agreements

The escrow agreement is the legal core of the arrangement, and it has to fit the deal it protects. Codekeeper gives you two routes to that fit, both delivered by dedicated escrow specialists in under 24 hours.

The first is a set of ready-to-use templates, each mapped to a specific scenario: software licensing, development outsourcing, compliance and regulations, security and operational resilience, and transactions or M&A. The second is a custom draft, where the legal team prepares a tailored arrangement for complex, multi-party, or regulated needs.

Either way, arrangements cover bipartite, tripartite, and multi-party setups, and you don't need outside counsel or need to pay external fees. You can also transfer an existing escrow agreement in, and Codekeeper reviews and updates it during the move.

» Browse Codekeeper's software escrow agreement templates.

Continew handles the drafting for you as well, working from a single standardized agreement that covers all your deposits. It comes in two-party form for a developer's deposit and three-party form for software and system users. On a release, deposits open within forty-eight business hours. The site doesn't state a drafting turnaround, name multi-party structures, or offer a choice of jurisdiction.

Codekeeper vs. Continew: Customer support

Codekeeper support assigns every account a dedicated technical specialist who handles onboarding, integration setup, and team training, plus an account manager who checks in as your needs change. Support runs around the clock over phone, live chat, and email.

Release processing itself is staffed 24/7/365, so recovery never waits for office hours. Implementation is fast too, often live within 24 hours, and if you're moving from another provider, Codekeeper handles the technical and legal transition end to end.

Continew keeps escrow in-house as well, so one team owns your agreement, platform, and questions. Its platform runs 24/7, and its team is reachable by phone and email to help you set up the right agreement, though the site doesn't publish live chat, human-support hours, or response-time targets.

Continew opens source-code deposits within forty-eight business hours of a valid release. Codekeeper offers an Assured Recovery service, with a technical team on standby, to help you rebuild your systems and get back online as quickly as possible.

Codekeeper vs. Continew: Which is right for you?

The real question is how much of your software risk you need one provider to carry.

Continew fits a defined case. If what you need is a legal deposit of source code or industrial systems on French infrastructure, or your SaaS data backed up independently of your provider, it should do the job.

Codekeeper is built for the organization whose risk doesn't stop at code. It carries the full range in one place: on-premises software, full SaaS environments, AI stacks, and the hosting and service payments that keep them online. Every deposit is tested for recovery, certified for auditors, and kept current as your software changes.

» See how Codekeeper compares to the broader market.

Put proven recovery behind every system you run

Your business depends on more moving parts than it used to: on-premises tools, SaaS platforms, AI stacks, and the hosting and services that hold them together. Any one of them can fail, and a deposit only helps if you can actually recover from it.

Codekeeper covers that whole set from a single place, with recovery that's tested and certified. Whether you're setting up your first escrow or replacing another provider, you get protection you can act on the moment something goes wrong.

» Need software recovery you can rely on? Book a call with a Codekeeper specialist, or explore the Codekeeper. website.