# lsyncd vs Rclone

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Rclone

| Attribute | lsyncd | Rclone |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 29.5 (32% (low)) | 61.3 (78% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 0 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 3 | 43 |
| adoption.github_stars | 6,067 | 60,306 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Lsyncd actively watches local file systems for modifications using filesystem event interfaces, then automatically copies those changes to remote systems. It supports rsync and rsync+ssh as synchronization protocols and offers customization through configuration files and Lua scripting. It is indexed under File Sync.","source":"https://lsyncd.github.io/lsyncd","question":"What is lsyncd?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"lsyncd is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the GPL-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://lsyncd.github.io/lsyncd","question":"Is lsyncd free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. lsyncd can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://lsyncd.github.io/lsyncd","question":"Can lsyncd be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. lsyncd is published under the GPL-2.0 licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/lsyncd/lsyncd","question":"Is lsyncd open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"answer":"A client-side command-line program that synchronizes files between your local machine and multiple cloud storage services. It supports a wide range of cloud providers and offers features like encryption, checksums, server-side transfers, and bidirectional synchronization. It is indexed under File Sync.","source":"https://rclone.org","question":"What is Rclone?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Rclone is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the MIT licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://rclone.org","question":"Is Rclone free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Rclone supports Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://rclone.org","question":"What platforms does Rclone support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Rclone can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://rclone.org","question":"Can Rclone be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 38 integrations for Rclone, including Amazon S3, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, Azure Files Storage and Google Cloud Storage, plus 30 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://rclone.org","question":"What does Rclone integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Rclone is published under the MIT licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone","question":"Is Rclone open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Watches a local directory tree for changes using filesystem event notifications (inotify or fsevents) and efficiently synchronizes them to a remote target using rsync or SSH, without requiring block-level mirroring or filesystem modifications. | A command-line utility that synchronizes files and directories between multiple cloud storage providers and local storage. |
| features.capabilities | `{"pricing_model":"free_open_source","deployment_model":"self_hosted","peer_to_peer_p2p_network_routing":false,"block_level_delta_sync_transfer_speed":false}` | `{"pricing_model":"free_open_source","deployment_model":"self_hosted","aws_s3_azure_blob_external_mounts":true,"self_hosted_linux_docker_deployment":true,"block_level_delta_sync_transfer_speed":true,"client_server_architecture_cloud_host":true,"end_to_end_encryption_keys_in_transit":true,"version_history_and_conflict_resolution":true}` |
| integrations.count | - | 43 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Google Drive"},{"name":"Microsoft OneDrive"},{"name":"Dropbox"},{"name":"Backblaze B2"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure Blob Storage"},{"name":"Azure Files Storage"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Oracle Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Cloudflare R2"},{"name":"iCloud Drive"},{"name":"Nextcloud"},{"name":"ownCloud"},{"name":"pCloud"},{"name":"Alibaba Cloud OSS"},{"name":"Huawei Cloud OBS"},{"name":"Tencent Cloud COS"},{"name":"OpenStack Swift"},{"name":"Rackspace Cloud Files"},{"name":"OVHcloud"},{"name":"rsync.net"},{"name":"Seagate Lyve Cloud"},{"name":"IONOS Cloud"},{"name":"Mail.ru Cloud"},{"name":"Yandex Disk"},{"name":"ArvanCloud AOS"},{"name":"Bizfly Cloud"},{"name":"China Mobile Ecloud"},{"name":"Dreamhost"},{"name":"OpenDrive"},{"name":"SugarSync"},{"name":"Synology C2"},{"name":"Qiniu Cloud"},{"name":"Rabata Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Servercore Object Storage"},{"name":"Wasabi"},{"name":"Hubic"},{"name":"Impossible Cloud"},{"name":"AWS S3","native":true},{"name":"Microsoft Azure Files Storage","native":true},{"name":"OneDrive","native":true},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage","native":true,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure Files","native":true,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"OVHcloud Object Storage","native":true,"direction":"bidirectional"}]` |
| language.primary | Lua | Go |
| license.spdx | GPL-2.0 | MIT |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true,"android":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://lsyncd.github.io/lsyncd","retrievedAt":"2026-08-20T16:37:11.845Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Free and open source (MIT license)","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://rclone.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T12:45:40.197Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 162 | 18 |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/lsyncd/lsyncd/releases/tag/v2.3.1","date":"2022-11-17T02:10:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.3.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/lsyncd/lsyncd/releases/tag/v2.3.0","date":"2022-06-07T21:49:00Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.3.0"}]` | `[{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.75.2","date":"2026-10-09T11:03:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.75.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.75.1","date":"2026-09-04T17:11:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.75.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.75.0","date":"2026-07-31T17:10:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.75.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.74.4","date":"2026-07-08T18:48:10Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.74.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.74.3","date":"2026-06-05T16:29:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.74.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.74.2","date":"2026-05-23T10:12:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.74.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.74.1","date":"2026-05-08T16:11:14Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.74.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.74.0","date":"2026-05-01T16:10:00Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.74.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.73.5","date":"2026-04-19T12:15:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.73.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.73.4","date":"2026-04-08T13:42:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.73.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.73.3","date":"2026-03-23T23:00:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.73.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.73.2","date":"2026-03-06T20:42:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.73.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.73.1","date":"2026-02-17T18:27:21Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.73.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.73.0","date":"2026-01-30T22:12:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.73.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.72.1","date":"2025-12-10T14:55:44Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.72.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.72.0","date":"2025-11-21T18:20:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.72.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.71.2","date":"2025-10-20T15:25:52Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.71.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.71.1","date":"2025-09-24T16:32:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.71.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.71.0","date":"2025-08-22T16:41:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.71.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.70.3","date":"2025-07-09T15:06:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.70.3"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | - | 4.8 |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=homebrew&package_name=lsyncd&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":29,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Frclone%2Frclone&per_page=100","last_12m":27,"max_severity":"CRITICAL"}` |

## Capabilities (File Sync)

| Capability | lsyncd | Rclone |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Deployment model | Self hosted | Self hosted |
| Peer to peer p2p network routing | ✗ | - |
| Client server architecture cloud host | - | ✓ |
| Block level delta sync transfer speed | ✗ | ✓ |
| Self hosted linux docker deployment | - | ✓ |
| Synology qnap nas hardware integration | - | - |
| Aws s3 azure blob external mounts | - | ✓ |
| Active directory ldap identity sync | - | - |
| Version history and conflict resolution | - | ✓ |
| End to end encryption keys in transit | - | ✓ |
| SOC2 type ii | - | - |
| ISO 27001 | - | - |
| Pricing model | Free open source | Free open source |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:15:45.265Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*