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Lightbits SDS vs MinIO AIStor

Lightbits SDS

lightbitslabs.com

MinIO AIStor

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FigureLightbits SDSMinIO AIStor
Price from$17.25/moFree
Free plan—Yes
Free trialYesYes
Open source——
WebYesYes
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
Linux—Yes
API—Yes
Self-hostedYesYes
Plans published25
Spec score · Software-Defined Storage Software7.9 (#11)8.7 (#4)
Founded20162014
SupportThe private-cloud offering includes premium technical support and a dedicated customer success manager; the public-cloud offering includes Lightbits technical support.Enterprise includes SUBNET direct-to-engineer support 24/7/365 with a less-than-four-hour SLA and Panic Button; Enterprise Lite offers optional direct-to-engineer support with a less-than-five-day SLA.

Plans

Lightbits SDS

  • Private Cloud & Service Providers$17.25 a month
  • Public cloud$17.25 a month

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MinIO AIStor

  • AIStor FreeFree
  • AIStor EnterprisePriced on request
  • AIStor Enterprise LitePriced on request
  • EnterprisePriced on request
  • Enterprise LitePriced on request

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Lightbits SDS

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MinIO AIStor

MinIO AIStor combines persistent memory, tables, objects, and files in an enterprise AI data store. AIStor Memory holds agent context, workspaces, secrets, artifacts, and telemetry. AIStor Tables provides native Apache Iceberg storage for analytics, feature stores, lakehouse architectures, and structured AI datasets. S3-compatible object storage covers models, checkpoints, training datasets, embeddings, documents, media, and logs. Access and integration options include S3, S3 Express, MCP, SFTP and Files, Iceberg Catalog, and OpenSharing. Management features include an admin console, QoS, lifecycle management, encryption, key management, a data firewall, and immutability. The product lists several replication modes, along with audit trails, Prometheus metrics, and error logs. Installation options include Linux, Windows, macOS, Kubernetes Helm, OpenShift, and Podman. AIStor Free costs nothing and includes the full feature set, but is intended for single-node, self-supported use without resilience beyond one node; redistribution is prohibited. Enterprise and Enterprise Lite pricing is available on request. Lite is for capacity requirements below 400 TiB; deployments exceeding that are upgraded to Enterprise. A 60-day trial is listed.

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