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Freelens vs Rancher: catalog facts
Freelens	Rancher
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free The open-source platform is available without a license fee. Commercial support is sold…
Windows, macOS, Linux	Linux, Web, Self-hosted
Graphical view of Kubernetes cluster resources Native packages for three desktop platforms on x86_64 and arm64	One console and one identity model across clusters from different providers Built-in catalogue deploys common workloads without writing manifests
Clusters older than Kubernetes 1.22 may not work correctly Linux builds need glibc 2.34 or later	Substantially heavier than running a single cluster directly Enterprise support and some SUSE add-ons are paid
Downloadable app	Self-hosted, Web application
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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