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Alternatives to Scality RING
20 file storage tools sit alongside Scality RING in this directory. Below is what separates each from Scality RING on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 20
- With a free tier
- 9
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Scality RING starts at
- On request
Why people look past Scality RING
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Scality RING entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Scality RING carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 9 of the 20 alternatives below can be used without paying.
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.
S3-compatible object storage server you run yourself, now under AGPL with a stripped community edition
- Can be used without paying; Scality RING cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
Open source distributed storage providing object, block and file from one cluster
- Can be used without paying; Scality RING cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
- 1 tier to Scality RING's 2.
Hot cloud storage without egress fees
- Publishes an entry price of $7.99/month, where Scality RING does not.
Google's consumer cloud storage app, sharing the same 15GB quota as Gmail and Google Photos
- Can be used without paying; Scality RING cannot.
- Sold on a Free tier plus paid storage add-on model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Scality RING's 2.
Low cost S3-compatible object storage with egress included up to a multiple of what you store
- Can be used without paying; Scality RING cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $4/month, where Scality RING does not.
- Sold on a Per terabyte per month model rather than quote.
S3-compatible object storage that charges nothing for egress to the internet
- Can be used without paying; Scality RING cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $0.015/month, where Scality RING does not.
- Sold on a Per gigabyte stored per month model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Scality RING's 2.
Every Scality RING 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scality RING (this page) | On request | Quote | 2 | |
| MinIOMinIO for S3-compatible object storage with an open source path and no licence fee | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Scality RING |
| CephCeph where you want unified block, file and object storage and have the engineering depth to run it | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Scality RING |
| WasabiWasabi if the requirement is cheap cloud object storage rather than on premises capacity | $7.99/month | - | - | vs Scality RING |
| Google Drive | Free | Free tier plus paid storage add-on | 3 | vs Scality RING |
| IDrive e2 | Free, then $4/month | Per terabyte per month | 2 | vs Scality RING |
| Cloudflare R2 | Free, then $0.015/month | Per gigabyte stored per month | 3 | vs Scality RING |
| Storj | Free, then $4/month | Per terabyte per month | 2 | vs Scality RING |
| Tigris | Free, then $0.004/GB/month | Usage-based tiered storage with per-request fees | 4 | vs Scality RING |
| Box | Free, then $5/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Scality RING |
| Nextcloud | Free | Freemium | 4 | vs Scality RING |
| LucidLink | $7/month | Per member per month plus storage | 3 | vs Scality RING |
| VAST Data | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Scality RING |
| Panzura | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Scality RING |
| Cloudian | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Scality RING |
| Nasuni | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Scality RING |
| Veritas NetBackup | $100/month | Subscription | 1 | vs Scality RING |
| Zerto | $5/month | Subscription | 1 | vs Scality RING |
| Microsoft OneDrive | $1.99/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Scality RING |
| Backblaze | $9/month | - | 2 | vs Scality RING |
| IDrive | $2.5/month | Subscription | 7 | vs Scality RING |
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 Scality RING 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.
- MinIO , Free
- Ceph , Free
- Google Drive , Free
- IDrive e2 , Free, then $4/month
- Cloudflare R2 , Free, then $0.015/month
- Storj , Free, then $4/month
- Tigris , Free, then $0.004/GB/month
- Box , Free, then $5/month
What you would be giving up
Scality RING is most often brought in for a broadcaster archiving decades of video where hyperscaler storage and egress costs would be prohibitive, a hospital group holding medical imaging on premises for data residency and retention reasons, an enterprise building an immutable on premises backup target for veeam or commvault with object lock, a service provider offering s3-compatible storage to its own customers on hardware it controls. 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 Scality RING is broadly right and the question is cost, the Scality RING 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.
Scality RING runs on linux. 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 Scality RING alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Scality RING?
- 20 other file storage tools are listed in this directory, led by MinIO, Ceph, Wasabi, 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 Scality RING?
- 9 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: MinIO, Ceph, Google Drive, IDrive e2, Cloudflare R2.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Scality RING?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: there is no free tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Scality RING?
- Scality RING is most often brought in for a broadcaster archiving decades of video where hyperscaler storage and egress costs would be prohibitive, a hospital group holding medical imaging on premises for data residency and retention reasons, an enterprise building an immutable on premises backup target for veeam or commvault with object lock, a service provider offering s3-compatible storage to its own customers on hardware it controls. 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 Scality RING?
- 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 Scality RING 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 Scality RING against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Scality RING 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, 20 tools beside Scality RING. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.