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JuiceFS vs Rclone: catalog facts
JuiceFS	Rclone
Freemium Community Edition is free and open source; the Cloud Service and Enterprise Edition are…	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence. You still pay whatever your storage provider…
Windows, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Presents object storage as a normal POSIX file system Keeps metadata separate from data for faster metadata operations	Over seventy cloud storage products behind one command syntax, including S3, Drive, Dropbox, B2 and Azure Preserves timestamps and verifies checksums at all times, and resumes interrupted transfers
Needs both an object store and a metadata database to run Aimed at infrastructure teams rather than desktop users	Command line only; the web GUI is experimental and third party front ends vary in quality Mounting a remote as a drive needs WinFsp on Windows or FUSE on Linux and macOS
Downloadable app, Self-hosted, Hosted service	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Needs internet
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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