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Alternatives to Nasuni
21 file storage tools sit alongside Nasuni in this directory. Below is what separates each from Nasuni on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 21
- With a free tier
- 9
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Nasuni starts at
- On request
Why people look past Nasuni
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Nasuni entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Nasuni carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 9 of the 21 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
Nasuni publishes a single plan, Nasuni File Data Platform at On request. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Cloud-based file management and collaboration platform
- Publishes an entry price of $60/month, where Nasuni does not.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
- 2 tiers to Nasuni's 1.
Self-hosted file sync, sharing and collaboration platform
- Can be used without paying; Nasuni cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of Free, where Nasuni does not.
- Sold on a freemium model rather than quote.
- 4 tiers to Nasuni's 1.
Secure file sharing and collaboration platform
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Nasuni's 1.
Google's consumer cloud storage app, sharing the same 15GB quota as Gmail and Google Photos
- Can be used without paying; Nasuni cannot.
- Sold on a Free tier plus paid storage add-on model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Nasuni's 1.
Low cost S3-compatible object storage with egress included up to a multiple of what you store
- Can be used without paying; Nasuni cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $4/month, where Nasuni does not.
- Sold on a Per terabyte per month model rather than quote.
- 2 tiers to Nasuni's 1.
S3-compatible object storage that charges nothing for egress to the internet
- Can be used without paying; Nasuni cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $0.015/month, where Nasuni does not.
- Sold on a Per gigabyte stored per month model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Nasuni's 1.
Every Nasuni alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasuni (this page) | On request | Quote | 1 | |
| EgnyteCloser to a content collaboration product with a stronger user facing layer and less of a NAS replacement story | $60/month | Subscription | 2 | vs Nasuni |
| NextcloudSelf hosted and far cheaper if the requirement is file sync and share rather than replacing site file servers | Free | Freemium | 4 | vs Nasuni |
| Citrix ShareFileIf the driver is external file sharing and workflow rather than consolidating branch office file servers | On request | Subscription | 3 | vs Nasuni |
| Google Drive | Free | Free tier plus paid storage add-on | 3 | vs Nasuni |
| IDrive e2 | Free, then $4/month | Per terabyte per month | 2 | vs Nasuni |
| Cloudflare R2 | Free, then $0.015/month | Per gigabyte stored per month | 3 | vs Nasuni |
| Ceph | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Nasuni |
| MinIO | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Nasuni |
| Storj | Free, then $4/month | Per terabyte per month | 2 | vs Nasuni |
| Tigris | Free, then $0.004/GB/month | Usage-based tiered storage with per-request fees | 4 | vs Nasuni |
| Box | Free, then $5/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Nasuni |
| LucidLink | $7/month | Per member per month plus storage | 3 | vs Nasuni |
| VAST Data | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Nasuni |
| Panzura | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Nasuni |
| Scality RING | On request | Quote | 2 | vs Nasuni |
| Cloudian | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Nasuni |
| Veritas NetBackup | $100/month | Subscription | 1 | vs Nasuni |
| Zerto | $5/month | Subscription | 1 | vs Nasuni |
| Microsoft OneDrive | $1.99/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Nasuni |
| Backblaze | $9/month | - | 2 | vs Nasuni |
| IDrive | $2.5/month | Subscription | 7 | vs Nasuni |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Nasuni badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (9)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- Nextcloud , Free
- Google Drive , Free
- IDrive e2 , Free, then $4/month
- Cloudflare R2 , Free, then $0.015/month
- Ceph , Free
- MinIO , Free
- Storj , Free, then $4/month
- Tigris , Free, then $0.004/GB/month
What you would be giving up
Nasuni is most often brought in for consolidating file servers across many branch offices onto one namespace without shipping data between sites, replacing a nas plus backup plus offsite replication stack with a single recovery model, engineering or media teams in different regions who need to work on the same large project files, an organisation that has been hit by ransomware on file shares and needs version level rollback rather than tape restores. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Nasuni is broadly right and the question is cost, the Nasuni pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the File Storage category lists everything the directory holds, and best file storage tools ranks them.
Nasuni runs on web, windows, vmware, hyper-v, aws, azure. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Nasuni alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Nasuni?
- 21 other file storage tools are listed in this directory, led by Egnyte, Nextcloud, Citrix ShareFile, Google Drive. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Nasuni?
- 9 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Nextcloud, Google Drive, IDrive e2, Cloudflare R2, Ceph.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Nasuni?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: there is no free tier; there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Nasuni?
- Nasuni is most often brought in for consolidating file servers across many branch offices onto one namespace without shipping data between sites, replacing a nas plus backup plus offsite replication stack with a single recovery model, engineering or media teams in different regions who need to work on the same large project files, an organisation that has been hit by ransomware on file shares and needs version level rollback rather than tape restores. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Nasuni?
- None of the file storage tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Nasuni alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, File Storage, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Nasuni against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Nasuni covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every file storage tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the File Storage category, 21 tools beside Nasuni. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.