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Rclone vs Mountpoint for Amazon S3: catalog facts
Rclone	Mountpoint for Amazon S3
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence. You still pay whatever your storage provider…	Free Free and open source; normal Amazon S3 storage and request charges apply.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Linux, 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	Exposes S3 buckets as a local directory Lets existing file-based tools work with S3 data
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	Tied to Amazon S3 Requires an AWS account and incurs S3 charges
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	Account needed
Needs internet	Needs internet
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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