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GNU Gzip vs LZ4: catalog facts
GNU Gzip	LZ4
Free Free software from the GNU Project.	Free Free and open source.
Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Available on nearly every Unix-like system The .gz format is read almost everywhere	Very fast compression and decompression Scales across CPU cores
Compresses single files or streams, not multi-file archives Lower compression ratio than xz, zstd or lzip	Lower compression ratio than zstd or xz Compresses single files or streams, not a full archiver
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0-or-later	License: BSD-2-Clause (library), GPL-2.0 (command-line tool)
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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