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LZ4XZ Utils
Free

Free and open source.

 Free

The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…

Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
  • Very fast compression and decompression
  • Scales across CPU cores
  • LZMA2 compression gives some of the best ratios available for general-purpose data, and the tools ship on effectively…
  • Lower compression ratio than zstd or xz
  • Compresses single files or streams, not a full archiver
  • Compression is slow and memory-hungry at high levels, and the 2024 backdoor incident in the upstream release tarballs…
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: BSD-2-Clause (library), GPL-2.0 (command-line tool) License: 0BSD
No account needed Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 23, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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