Scality RING vs SeaweedFS
Scality RING
scality.com
SeaweedFS
seaweedfs.comSide by side
| Figure | Scality RING | SeaweedFS |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | $1.67/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 10 |
| Spec score · Software-Defined Storage Software | 7.1 (#20) | 8.0 (#9) |
| Deployment | The product page lists on-premise, air-gapped, and sovereign-cloud deployment options. | The deployment guide offers an official repository binary and the container image chrislusf/seaweedfs-enterprise. |
| Integrations | Scality says RING is integrated with more than 150 application providers and shows Veeam, Commvault, Cohesity, Rubrik, HPE, Supermicro, Lenovo, and Bull as examples. | The built-in Iceberg catalog supports querying with Spark, Trino, Dremio, and DuckDB. |
| Protocols | RING supports S3, NFS, and SMB access over one cluster. | The cluster supports S3, POSIX mounts, HDFS-compatible access, an Iceberg REST catalog, and WebDAV. |
| Scale | RING supports multi-petabyte to exabyte capacity in one logical namespace, with capacity, performance, tenants, sites, and protocols scaling independently. | The product page says it scales linearly from gigabytes to petabytes and supports billions of files. |
| Support | Scality offers RING installation and deployment services, training, capacity expansion assistance, and phone and ticket support during business hours; its page lists response targets of 15 minutes for Priority 1, 4 hours for Priority 2, and 3 days for Priority 3. | Enterprise support is optional and purchased separately from the capacity license; published support channels and response targets vary by plan. |
Plans
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
Scality RING
Scality RING 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.