What is Rclone?
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.
Rclone pricing
We don't have Rclone's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
Free and open source (MIT license)
What Rclone does
The capabilities that matter for file sync, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment model
- 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
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- macOS
- Linux
- Android
- Windows
- Self-hosted
Integrations (38)
Independently observed- Amazon S3
- Google Drive
- Microsoft OneDrive
- Dropbox
- Backblaze B2
- Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
- Azure Files Storage
- Google Cloud Storage
- Oracle Cloud Storage
- Cloudflare R2
- iCloud Drive
- Nextcloud
- ownCloud
- pCloud
- Alibaba Cloud OSS
- Huawei Cloud OBS
- Tencent Cloud COS
- OpenStack Swift
- Rackspace Cloud Files
- OVHcloud
- rsync.net
- Seagate Lyve Cloud
- IONOS Cloud
- Mail.ru Cloud
- Yandex Disk
- ArvanCloud AOS
- Bizfly Cloud
- China Mobile Ecloud
- Dreamhost
- OpenDrive
- SugarSync
- Synology C2
- Qiniu Cloud
- Rabata Cloud Storage
- Servercore Object Storage
- Wasabi
- Hubic
- Impossible Cloud
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 20 (18 in the last 12 months), max severity CRITICAL sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Rclone alternatives
Other file sync we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Syncthinglow · 31%
- SeafileA collaborative workspace for storing, organizing, and working on files with advanced metadata management and intelligent automationlow · 26%
- Unisonlow · 26%
- rsynclow · 16%
- Pydio Cellslow · 18%
- Resilio SyncA distributed platform for high-speed file access and collaboration across hybrid storage environmentslow · 30%
Compare Rclone
Side by side against other file sync, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale 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 Rclone, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.08 | 6.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 80 | 0.08 | 6.7 | ✓ |
| Development activity | 63 | 0.09 | 5.9 | ✓ |
| Price level | 100 | 0.05 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 91 | 0.05 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 46 | 0.09 | 4.3 | ✓ |
| Stars | 90 | 0.03 | 2.3 | ✓ |
| Security score | 50 | 0.04 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 27 | 0.06 | 1.7 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 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.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-26 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Pricing model: free_open_source · Deployment model: self_hosted · Aws s3 azure blob external mounts: Yes · Self hosted linux docker deployment: Yes · Block level delta sync transfer speed: Yes · Client server architecture cloud host: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 40 | mediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | MIT | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 95% |