SeaweedFS

Who it is for

For developers and small teams. It runs on Linux and a computer you control. License: Apache-2.0. It is in the Object storage group.

What you pay

Free plan: The software is free. You pay for disk and the computer. There is no hosted price on file. Run it yourself: Setup: medium. One process can serve S3 for a dev stack. Add volume servers when the disk or the traffic grows.

How to switch

• Compared with MinIO. Its price on file: The community repo is no longer maintained. New community builds are source only. AIStor is the product MinIO points to.

  You only get part of: object lock and lifecycle rules.

  Free alternatives to MinIO·Move from MinIO to SeaweedFS

How close is it?

A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.

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  Instead of MinIO7 of 7 checked features. A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.You only get part of: object lock and lifecycle rules.The project includes an S3 gateway.A single node is a normal way to replace a MinIO container in dev.S3 versioning is part of the gateway. Test the calls your app uses.Presigned URLs work through the S3 API.Object lock exists in the project. Confirm the mode you need before you depend on it.Some lifecycle behavior exists. Do not assume every MinIO rule copies unchanged.Volume servers are how it grows past one disk.

Related alternatives

Object storage alternatives

• Free alternatives to MinIO
• Garage: A small S3-compatible store for files you host yourself.
• Ceph: A large-cluster store with an S3 gateway.

Free apps in this group

• Ceph: A large-cluster store with an S3 gateway.
• Garage: A small S3-compatible store for files you host yourself.

Switch guides

• Move from MinIO to SeaweedFS

Where we looked

• https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs