SeaweedFS
Hacker ApprovedRanked 4 of 8 object storage servers by recommenders
Open-source S3-compatible object store recommended for local development, CI and self-hosting, with strong performance. Critics call it immature on reliability.
Open-source S3-compatible object store recommended for local development, CI and self-hosting, with strong performance. Critics call it immature on reliability.
56 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 46
- criticize it
- 10
- approval share
- 82%
Recommended in 9 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Owned for 2 years
Median of the 3 owners who said how long they have had it.
Each square is one year.
Why it carries the badge
- 46 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 4.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 9 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Easy to run locally
“SeaweedFS, especially with their new `weed mini` command that runs all the services together in one process is a great replacement for local development and CI purposes.”
Comment from 13 Feb 2026 in “MinIO repository is no longer maintained” “Just download the single binary, for most platforms, and run "weed mini -dir=your_data_directory"”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “MinIO repository is no longer maintained” “run SeaweedFS without issue locally and with acceptable transfer speeds”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “I Just Want Simple S3” - Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters”
Strong performance benchmarks
“SeaweedFS performance is the best in almost all categories in a user's test”
Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “MinIO is now in maintenance-mode” “RustFS and SeaweedFS are the fastest in the object storage field.”
Comment from 13 Feb 2026 in “MinIO repository is no longer maintained” “SeaweedFS has at least 3–5× better performance than MinIO.”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “MinIO repository is no longer maintained” - Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters”
Broad S3 API support
“Settled with SeaweedFS for replacing minio and getting a good chunk of S3 feature parity.”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “I Just Want Simple S3” “which supports S3 table buckets and Iceberg catalog and maintenance”
Comment from 1 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire” “SeaweedFS now should have the most complete S3 API support now.”
Comment from 15 Sep 2026 in “Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3” - Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “MinIO repository is no longer maintained”
Handles small files well
“SeaweedFS handles lots of small files gracefully because it doesn't just naively store one object per file on the filesystem”
Comment from 17 Apr 2026 in “Healthchecks.io Now Uses Self-Hosted Object Storage” “With its distributed append-only storage, it naturally fits object store.”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “MinIO repository is no longer maintained”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Immature reliability, frequent feature churn
“Too many features are added in each new release, no stabilization time at all.”
Comment from 15 Sep 2026 in “Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3” “the project is still immature from a reliability perspective in my opinion”
Comment from 3 Dec 2025 in “MinIO is now in maintenance-mode” Fails under concurrent writes
“SeaweedFS failing under concurrent writes when backing Sentry”
Comment from 17 Aug 2026 in “Amodei Re. Regulation” “the former kept failing under concurrent writes”
Comment from 15 Sep 2026 in “Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3”
Other object storage servers people recommend
The four most recommended other object storage servers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garage S3 object store | 83 | 18 | 82% | 9 | — | Approved |
| MinIO | 54 | 149 | 27% | 9 | 5 yrs3 owners | — |
| RustFS | 48 | 26 | 65% | 9 | — | — |
| SeaweedFSThis page | 46 | 10 | 82% | 9 | 2 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| VersityGW | 16 | 2 | 89% | 7 | — | Approved |
What people said
40 of the 75 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It also starts an Iceberg REST catalog and S3 Table Buckets for Iceberg and Lance tables, with table maintenance jobs.”
“SeaweedFS now should have the most complete S3 API support now.”
“Too many features are added in each new release, no stabilization time at all.”
“the former kept failing under concurrent writes”
“I had issues with setting up users through terraform module”
“It's the most promising imo but I had problems using it last time”
“SeaweedFS failing under concurrent writes when backing Sentry”
“SeaweedFS is also great and would try it if I had a greenfield project.”
“I used SeaweedFS in the meantime; it worked great too”
“which supports S3 table buckets and Iceberg catalog and maintenance”
“favoring stability and reliability, looks like I'm leaning more towards SeaweedFS”
“keeps the object mapping in memory (so more RAM usage and startup cost compared to alternatives)”
“SeaweedFS handles lots of small files gracefully because it doesn't just naively store one object per file on the filesystem”
“run SeaweedFS without issue locally and with acceptable transfer speeds”
“have had pretty reasonable results using SeaweedFS for GitHub Actions caching”
“Settled with SeaweedFS for replacing minio and getting a good chunk of S3 feature parity.”
“There are a lot of other options when it comes to locally hosted S3”
“SeaweedFS has at least 3–5× better performance than MinIO.”
“Just download the single binary, for most platforms, and run "weed mini -dir=your_data_directory"”
“I am trying to support AWS S3 APIs as complete as possible.”
“With its distributed append-only storage, it naturally fits object store.”
“the smart money and talent have already moved on to systems like SeaweedFS”
“RustFS and SeaweedFS are the fastest in the object storage field.”
“Both rustfs and seaweedfs are pretty pretty good based on my light testing.”
“SeaweedFS, especially with their new `weed mini` command that runs all the services together in one process is a great replacement for local development and CI purposes.”
“can vouch for SeaweedFS, been using it since the time it was called weedfs”
“I used it in production for a long time before partnering with Wasabi.”
“Just use SeaweedFS, Garage or so if you really want S3.”
“am skeptical but hopeful that seaweedfs is not going to do something similar”
“garage (written in rust) / seaweedfs (written in golang) are something which I have heard is mostly recommended by the community”
“SeaweedFS is very nice and takes quite an effort to lose data.”
“I used SeaweedFS to serve 1M users daily with 56 million images / ~100TB with 2 servers + HDD only”
“It rank #1 on all benchmarks, and has a lot of features.”
“Just run "weed sever -s3 -dir=..." to have an object store.”
“It has support for these if conditions, and a lot more.”
“nothing in the license of seaweedFS that would stop the maintainer from pulling a minio”
“the lack of an includes dashboard or UI accessibility was a huge factor for me back then”
“SeaweedFS performance is the best in almost all categories in a user's test”
“the project is still immature from a reliability perspective in my opinion”
“will be likely a good minio alternative for people who want to run a server”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.