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Slink vs Piwigo: catalog facts
Slink	Piwigo
Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.	Freemium Self-hosted Piwigo is free; Piwigo Cloud is a paid service with a free trial.
Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Private-by-default shares with optional password and expiry Local, SMB or S3 storage backends	Same open-source core for self-hosted and cloud versions Plugin system and API
Requires running your own server with Docker Focused on images rather than general files	Self-hosting requires your own web server Paid support is separate from the free version
Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Hosted service
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is 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 23, 2026

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