Google Cloud Filestore vs SeaweedFS
Google Cloud Filestore
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SeaweedFS
seaweedfs.comSide by side
| Figure | Google Cloud Filestore | SeaweedFS |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.01/mo | $1.67/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 8 | 10 |
| Spec score · Distributed File System Software | 8.2 (#8) | 7.9 (#12) |
| Data protection | Filestore supports snapshots, backups, and replication of data to an instance in another region. | Enterprise automatically repairs missing or corrupted erasure-coding shards and periodically checks shards against checksums for silent corruption. |
| Protocols | Filestore supports NFSv3 across all service tiers and NFSv4.1 on zonal, regional, and enterprise tiers. | The cluster supports S3, POSIX mounts, HDFS-compatible access, an Iceberg REST catalog, and WebDAV. |
| Scale | The product page lists capacity up to 100 TiB, throughput up to 26 GiB/s, and up to 920K IOPS. | The product page says it scales linearly from gigabytes to petabytes and supports billions of files. |
Plans
Google Cloud Filestore
- Filestore Zonal - custom performance on (per IOPS)$0.01 a month
- Filestore Regional - custom performance on (per IOPS)$0.03 a month
- Filestore Zonal - custom performance on (instance capacity)$0.12 a month
- Filestore Regional - custom performance on (instance capacity)$0.21 a month
- Filestore Zonal - custom performance off$0.25 a month
- Filestore Regional - custom performance off$0.45 a month
- Filestore Zonal - custom performance on (per instance)$20 a month
- Filestore Regional - custom performance on (per instance)$40 a month
SeaweedFS
- Community supportFree
- Development & testingFree
- Capacity license — Monthly$2 a month
- Capacity license — Yearly$20 a year
- Essential support$2,000 a year
- Small Production support$5,000 a year
- Growth support$15,000 a year
- Standard support$40,000 a year
- Critical support$85,000 a year
- Enterprise 5 PB+Priced on request
In their own words
Google Cloud Filestore
Google Cloud Filestore has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
SeaweedFS
SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system that serves S3 objects, Iceberg tables, and POSIX files from one cluster. It supports S3, POSIX mounts, HDFS-compatible access, an Iceberg REST catalog, and WebDAV. Its built-in Iceberg catalog supports queries with Spark, Trino, Dremio, and DuckDB. The product describes scaling from gigabytes to petabytes and supporting billions of files. Development and testing under 25 TB are free, but production deployments require a paid license regardless of size. Monthly capacity licensing is $2 a month, based on used storage including replication or erasure-coding overhead; yearly licensing is $20 a year. Enterprise features include deleted-file recovery within a configurable retention window, point-in-time restoration, repair of missing or corrupted erasure-coding shards, and OIDC sign-in with role mapping. The free 25 TB trial limits deleted-file recovery retention to one hour. Enterprise support is optional and priced separately from capacity licensing. Community support is free and has no guaranteed response time. SeaweedFS is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows, with API access and self-hosted deployment.