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PowerArchiver vs PeaZip: catalog facts
PowerArchiver	PeaZip
Paid Paid editions with a free download to try; Enterprise costs $59.95 per seat.	Free Free and open source under LGPLv3; a portable package that needs no installation is…
Windows, macOS, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux
Opens more than 60 archive formats AES-256 encryption, with FIPS 140-2 in Enterprise	Works with 200+ archive types and variants and handles spanned archives Native application on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD, with a portable package
Paid, with a confusing range of editions Many extras are only in higher tiers	The interface is busy compared with the plain 7-Zip window Creating RAR archives is not possible; RAR is read-only, as it is in other free tools
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: LGPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is 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 20, 2026

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