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Rclone vs JuiceFS: catalog facts
Rclone	JuiceFS
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence. You still pay whatever your storage provider…	Freemium Community Edition is free and open source; the Cloud Service and Enterprise Edition are…
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line
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	Presents object storage as a normal POSIX file system Keeps metadata separate from data for faster metadata operations
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	Needs both an object store and a metadata database to run Aimed at infrastructure teams rather than desktop users
Downloadable app	Downloadable app, Self-hosted, Hosted service
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Needs internet	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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