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JuiceFS vs SeaweedFS: catalog facts
JuiceFS	SeaweedFS
Freemium Community Edition is free and open source; the Cloud Service and Enterprise Edition are…	Free Free to self-host; source code is published on GitHub.
Windows, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line	Linux, Self-hosted, Command line
Presents object storage as a normal POSIX file system Keeps metadata separate from data for faster metadata operations	S3-compatible API for existing tools Scales horizontally across many servers
Needs both an object store and a metadata database to run Aimed at infrastructure teams rather than desktop users	Infrastructure software that needs server administration skills More than most single users need for simple file sync
Downloadable app, Self-hosted, Hosted service	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026

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