Available worldwide
What is SeaweedFS?
SeaweedFS is an open-source distributed storage system supporting S3-compatible object access, file systems, and analytics table formats. It combines tiered storage across local clusters and cloud providers, designed to efficiently handle billions of files with consistent O(1) access performance.
SeaweedFS pricing
We don't have SeaweedFS'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 (Apache license)
What SeaweedFS 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 (5)
Independently observed- DuckDB
- Apache Spark
- Trino
- Dremio
- RisingWave
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 3 (2 in the last 12 months), max severity CRITICAL sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
SeaweedFS alternatives
Other file storage we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Cloudflare R2Cloud storage service with no data transfer charges using industry-standard APIslow · 26%
- DigitalOcean SpacesCloud object storage with S3 compatibility and integrated content deliverylow · 26%
- Amazon S3A cloud-based object storage service for managing data at any scale with high durability and availabilitymedium · 62%
- MinIOlow · 43%
- JuiceFSDistributed file system optimized for cloud environments with elastic scaling and multi-protocol supportlow · 26%
- StorjDistributed cloud storage platform offering lower costs and faster performance than traditional cloud providersmedium · 62%
Compare SeaweedFS
Side by side against other file storage, 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 SeaweedFS, 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 | 98 | 0.05 | 5.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 24 | 0.09 | 2.3 | ✓ |
| Stars | 86 | 0.03 | 2.2 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 5 | 0.06 | 0.3 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 5 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Security score | 0 | 0.04 | 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 | Open source, Erasure coding, Storage tiering, S3 api compatible, Multi region replication, Object lock immutability | mediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 6 | mediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 95% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-21 · 75% |