Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is MinIO?
A commercially licensed object storage system designed to unify data for analytics, AI applications, and intelligent agents across multiple deployment environments. AIStor scales from single-node development to unlimited enterprise deployments with built-in replication, encryption, lifecycle management, and support for Apache Iceberg data lakes.
MinIO pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier (single-node, ≤400 TiB). Enterprise Lite and Enterprise subscriptions priced on usable capacity with volume discounts.
Free
FreeSingle-node deployment for small teams with self-support
- nodes
- 1
- capacity
- 400 TiB
- Full AIStor feature set
- Community Slack support
- Documentation support
Enterprise Lite
Contact salesMulti-node scalable deployment with optional direct-to-engineer support
- Multi-node horizontally scalable
- Lite SUBNET subscription
- Health diagnostics and security reporting
- Optional add-on: direct-to-engineer support with <5 day SLA
Enterprise
Contact salesUnlimited scale with proactive 24/7/365 support and <4 hour SLA
- Unlimited scale
- Enterprise SUBNET subscription
- Health diagnostics, security reporting, team governance
- Proactive 24/7/365 direct-to-engineer support
- <4 hour SLA and Panic Button
- Annual architecture, performance, and security review
Add-ons
- Direct-to-Engineer Support
- MemKV (separate product)
What MinIO does
The capabilities that matter for file storage, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- S3 API compatible
- ✓
- Storage tiering
- -
- Multi region replication
- ✓
- Erasure coding
- ✓
- Object versioning
- -
- Object lock immutability
- ✓
- Encryption at rest
- ✓
- Customer managed keys
- ✓
- Free or discounted egress
- -
- Open source
- ✓
- CDN integration
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Linux
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (14)
Independently observed- Databricks⇄•
- Apache Hudi
- S3
- S3 Express
- SFTP
- Apache Iceberg
- Delta Lake
- Databricks OpenSharing
- Delta Sharing
- Unity Catalog
- Kubernetes
- Spark
- NVIDIA STX
- Ray
Security & compliance
Independently observed- SOC 2active
- ISO 27001active
MinIO FAQ
Common questions about MinIO, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is MinIO?
A self-hosted, scalable object storage platform built for enterprise AI applications, offering S3-compatible access with data governance, security, and deployment flexibility across edge, on-premises, and cloud environments. It is indexed under File Storage.
Source: https://www.min.io/pricing
How much does MinIO cost?
MinIO does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 3 plans (Free, Enterprise Lite and Enterprise), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.min.io/pricing
What platforms does MinIO support?
MinIO supports Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://www.min.io/pricing
Can MinIO be self-hosted?
Yes. MinIO can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://www.min.io/pricing
What does MinIO integrate with?
We have confirmed 12 integrations for MinIO, including S3, SFTP, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Databricks OpenSharing, Delta Sharing, Unity Catalog and Kubernetes, plus 4 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.min.io/pricing
What security certifications does MinIO have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for MinIO. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as MinIO not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Where is MinIO available?
MinIO is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.
Source: https://www.min.io/pricing
MinIO alternatives
Other file storage we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- StorjDistributed cloud storage with local-like performance and significantly lower costs than traditional providershigh · 75%
- Amazon S3A scalable, durable cloud object storage service for storing and managing massive amounts of datamedium · 73%
- Cloudflare R2Distributed object storage without data transfer feeslow · 21%
- SeaweedFSA distributed storage system with S3-compatible object storage and horizontal scalinglow · 28%
- DigitalOcean SpacesCloud storage service that works like Amazon S3, with scalable capacity and configurable performance tierslow · 21%
- JuiceFSCloud-native file system that abstracts object storage as a shared POSIX file systemlow · 6%
Compare MinIO
Side by side against other file storage, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for MinIO, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 95 | 0.12 | 10.9 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 100 | 0.05 | 5.1 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.06 | 1.6 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 20 | 0.05 | 1.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.16 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 7 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 64% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Open source, Erasure coding, Object lock worm, S3 api compatible, Encryption at rest, Lifecycle policies, Customer managed keys, Cross region replication, Multi region replication, Object lock immutability | mediumsource · 2026-09-28 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 4 | mediumsource · 2026-09-28 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-19 · 75% |
Pricing
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Iso27001 | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-28 · 75% |
| Soc2 | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-28 · 75% |
| Certifications | SOC 2, ISO 27001 | mediumsource · 2026-09-28 · 60% |
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-05 · 75% |
| Hipaa | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-05 · 75% |
| Pci | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-05 · 75% |
| Trust center | https://www.min.io/topics/security | mediumsource · 2026-09-28 · 60% |
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