Garage vs SeaweedFS

Comparing two open source alternatives to MinIO and RustFS. Use the comparison below to decide which one fits your needs.

Garage

AGPL-3.0

S3-compatible distributed object storage designed for small self-hosted geo-distributed deployments, built in Rust.

Apache-2.0

Distributed storage system with S3-compatible object storage, POSIX file system, and Iceberg table support for billions of files.

	Garage	SeaweedFS
License	AGPL-3.0	Apache-2.0
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	4,635	35,234
Forks	178	3,034
Open Issues	2	770
Last Commit	Oct 2, 2026	Oct 4, 2026
First Released	Nov 17, 2021	Jul 14, 2014
Categories	Object Storage	Object Storage
Tags	#self hosted #cloud storage #s3 #object-storage	#self hosted #cloud storage #s3 #object-storage

Garage4,635

SeaweedFS

High-performance Rust-based S3-compatible object storage with deduplication, SQL queries, and federation.

S3 gateway that translates S3 API requests to filesystem, Azure Blob, ScoutFS, or other S3 backends.

High-performance S3-compatible object storage built in Rust, 2.3x faster than MinIO with Apache 2.0 licensing.

High-performance S3-compatible object storage written in Swift, designed as a modern open alternative to MinIO.

High-performance single-node S3-compatible object storage focused on scale-up performance, built in C++.