SeaweedFS
SeaweedFS is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Object Storage category, licensed Apache-2.0 and written mainly in Go. It has 35,733 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 35,733
- Forks
- 3,092
- Open issues
- 638
- Commits, last 12 months
- 3,797
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- 4.51Oct 25, 2026
- Created
- Jul 14, 2014
- License
- Apache-2.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 3,797 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 3,797 |
| Latest release | 4.51 (Oct 25, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 325 |
| Open issues | 638 |
| Open pull requests | 71 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Jul 14, 2014 |
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About SeaweedFS
SeaweedFS is an open source distributed file system supporting WebDAV, S3 API, FUSE mount, HDFS, etc, optimized for lots of small files, and easy to add capacity.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs.
Topics
- distributed-storage
- distributed-systems
- s3
- hdfs
- fuse
- distributed-file-system
- hadoop-hdfs
- posix
- tiered-file-system
- kubernetes
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Is SeaweedFS free and open source?
Yes. SeaweedFS is open-source software released under the Apache-2.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run SeaweedFS with Docker?
SeaweedFS does not list an official Docker image. It installs natively (Go), so follow the install steps in its README or look for a community-maintained container.
What are the best alternatives to SeaweedFS?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to SeaweedFS include Harbor, sftpgo Community Edition and ZOT OCI Registry.
Is SeaweedFS actively maintained?
The most recent commit to SeaweedFS was on Oct 26, 2026 with 3,797 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 4.51, published Oct 25, 2026. It had 638 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.