MinIO AlternativesCloud Storage Services and other similar apps like MinIO

MinIO is described as 'High performance object storage released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. It is API compatible with Amazon S3 cloud storage service. Use MinIO to build high performance infrastructure for machine learning, analytics and application data workloads' and is a Cloud Storage service in the backup & sync category. There are more than 25 alternatives to MinIO for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Linux, Web-based, Mac and Windows apps. The best MinIO alternative is OxiCloud, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MinIO are Ceph, copyparty, Amazon Simple Storage Service and Internxt Drive.

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  1. OxiCloud icon

    OxiCloud

     11 likes

    Lightweight file storage with a Rust backend and optimized binary for efficiency, offering responsive UI on desktop and mobile, simple setup, multilingual English and Spanish support, no PHP dependency, and designed for minimal resource use on home servers.

    59 OxiCloud alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Rust
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    Comments about OxiCloud as an Alternative to MinIO
    Jon Skinner
    Negative
    0

    Does not provide an S3-like API

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
    0

    MINIO its object store, oxicloud is cloud file storage

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • This alternative is disputed. OxiCloud is a legitimate MinIO alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • OxiCloud is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to MinIO.

    • OxiCloud is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to MinIO.

    • OxiCloud is Free and Open SourceMinIO is Freemium and Open Source
    • OxiCloud is Privacy focused and LightweightMinIO is not according to our users
  2. Ceph icon

    Ceph

     11 likes

    Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability.

    28 Ceph alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    Comments about Ceph as an Alternative to MinIO
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    This actually has overlapping usecases and is usually named in a comparison

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Ceph has many more features for the S3 compatible storage it provides, and many other features such as replicated file systems, snapshots, and online growing.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks Ceph is a great MinIO alternative.

    • Ceph is the most popular Linux alternative to MinIO.

    • Ceph is Free and Open SourceMinIO is Freemium and Open Source
  4. copyparty icon

    copyparty

     11 likes

    Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps.

    72 copyparty alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • FreeBSD
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Docker
    • Termux
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    • copyparty is the most popular Windows, Android & Mac alternative to MinIO.

    • copyparty is Free and Open SourceMinIO is Freemium and Open Source
    • copyparty is Privacy focusedMinIO is not according to our users
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    Internxt Drive

    Open-source, privacy-focused cloud storage using zero-knowledge encryption and blockchain technology, provides secure file transfer, end-to-end encryption, free 10 GB plan, desktop and mobile support, full user control, and no da...

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  6. Amazon Simple Storage Service icon

    Amazon Simple Storage Service

     17 likes

    Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service offering industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Customers of all sizes and industries can store and protect any amount of data for virtually any use case, such as data...

    41 Amazon Simple Storage Service alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
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    • Amazon Simple Storage Service is the most popular SaaS alternative to MinIO.

    • Amazon Simple Storage Service is Freemium and ProprietaryMinIO is Freemium and Open Source
  7. Azure Blob Storage icon

    Azure Blob Storage

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    Massively scalable and secure object storage for cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing, and machine learning.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Microsoft Azure
     

    • Azure Blob Storage is the most popular Web-based alternative to MinIO.

    • Azure Blob Storage is the most popular commercial alternative to MinIO.

    • Azure Blob Storage is Paid and ProprietaryMinIO is Freemium and Open Source
  8. Internxt Drive icon

    Internxt Drive

     68 likes

    Open-source, privacy-focused cloud storage using zero-knowledge encryption and blockchain technology, provides secure file transfer, end-to-end encryption, free 10 GB plan, desktop and mobile support, full user control, and no data tracking or ads.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    • Internxt Drive is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to MinIO.

    • Internxt Drive is Freemium and Open SourceMinIO is also Freemium and Open Source
    • Internxt Drive is Privacy focused and Security-focusedMinIO is not according to our users
  10. Garage icon

    Garage

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    Garage is a lightweight geo-distributed data store that implements the Amazon S3 object storage protocol. It enables applications to store large blobs such as pictures, video, images, documents, etc., in a redundant multi-node setting.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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    Comments about Garage as an Alternative to MinIO
    MayeulC
    Positive
    0

    Seemingly simpler than MinIO, but very similar use-cases.

    D1re_W0lf
    Positive
    0

    A Simple and practical alternative.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Garage is Free and Open SourceMinIO is Freemium and Open Source
    • Garage is LightweightMinIO is not according to our users
  11. Seaweed FS icon

    Seaweed FS

     3 likes

    SeaweedFS is a simple and highly scalable distributed file system to store and serve billions of files fast! SeaweedFS object store has O(1) disk seek and SeaweedFS Filer supports cross-cluster replication, POSIX, S3 API, ,….

    18 Seaweed FS alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. e2ee cloud icon

    e2ee cloud

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    e2ee-cloud is a open source, self-hosted, end-to-end encryption software. You can upload and download files in your browser. All files and folders will be encrypted before upload and decrypted after download.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  13. StorPool icon

    StorPool

     11 likes

    StorPool is an intelligent software-defined storage solution that allows service providers, enterprises and other Cloud builders to run data storage on standard x86 servers, instead of on expensive and inefficient storage arrays (SANs).

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise
    • CentOS
    • Fedora
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Ubuntu Server
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Red Hat
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  14. ScaleIO icon

    ScaleIO

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    Turbocharge your datacenter with EMC ScaleIO. EMC’s newest consumption models for ScaleIO means customers can experience the benefits of software-defined, scale-out, block storage with more options!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  15. Elliptics

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    Elliptics network is a fault tolerant key/value storage. It was designed to handle all error cases starting from simple disk problems upto datacenter failures. With default key generation policy it implements distributed hash table object storage.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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