---
title: MinIO
slug: minio
url: "https://toolweight.com/tools/minio"
homepage: "https://min.io/"
categories: s3-compatible-storage
last_verified: 2026-11-07
dataset_version: 0738be72
license: CC-BY-4.0
---

# MinIO

> The self-hosted S3 reference implementation, your hardware, your bandwidth, your SLA.

- The closest thing to a drop-in S3 replacement you can run yourself
- Erasure coding, versioning, object lock, lifecycle rules, notifications to a dozen sinks
- Full IAM policy engine with OIDC and LDAP; the baseline here because it has no price
- The AGPL community build lost its browser admin console in 2025, pushing admin to mc CLI or the commercial edition

## Identity

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Name | MinIO |
| Company | MinIO |
| One-liner | The self-hosted S3 reference implementation, your hardware, your bandwidth, your SLA. |
| Site | https://min.io/ |
| Docs | https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/index.html |
| Repo | https://github.com/minio/minio |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Open source | Yes |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Compared in | 1 |

## Where it is compared

### [S3-compatible storage](https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage)
Ranked **#1 of 12** on default weights.
| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified | Source | Note | Permalink |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| True cost /mo (USD) | N/A | Inferred | 2026-11-07 | https://min.io/pricing | No comparable vendor monthly total; compute from the selected infrastructure. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--true_cost_usd |
| True cost /mo (AUD) | N/A | Inferred | 2026-11-07 | https://min.io/pricing | No comparable vendor monthly total; compute from the selected infrastructure. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--true_cost_aud |
| True cost from Sydney (AUD) | N/A | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-07 | https://min.io/pricing | Local hardware and transit determine Sydney deployment costs. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--sydney_cost_aud |
| Storage $/TB/mo | N/A | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-07 | https://min.io/pricing | Hardware and storage capacity cost depend on the deployment. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--storage_price |
| Egress $/TB | N/A | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-07 | https://min.io/pricing | Transit is priced by the network provider. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--egress_price |
| Egress cap (x stored) | N/A | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-07 | https://min.io/pricing | Not a MinIO service allowance; network capacity depends on the deployment. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--egress_cap_multiple |
| Class A $/M ops | $0/M ops | Inferred | - | - | Nobody is metering you. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--class_a_price |
| Class B $/M ops | $0/M ops | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--class_b_price |
| Min retention | 0ms | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--min_retention |
| Min billed object | 0 B | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--min_billed_object |
| S3 API coverage | 98% | Inferred | - | - | The most faithful reimplementation of the S3 API that exists, and the thing other providers test against. The gaps are AWS-specific services rather than storage semantics. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--s3_api_coverage |
| Presigned URLs | ● | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--presigned_urls |
| Multipart upload | ● | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--multipart_upload |
| Versioning | ● | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--versioning |
| Lifecycle rules | ● | Inferred | - | - | Including tiering to a remote S3-compatible target, which is a neat way to run hot-local and cold-cloud. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--lifecycle_rules |
| Event notifications | ● | Inferred | - | - | To Kafka, NATS, AMQP, Redis, Postgres, webhooks and more, a wider set of sinks than any managed provider here offers. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--event_notifications |
| CDN integration | diy | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--cdn_integration |
| Max object size | 5 TB | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--max_object_size |
| IAM granularity | 5 | Inferred | - | - | Full AWS-style policy documents with conditions, plus STS, service accounts, OIDC and LDAP federation. Nothing else here matches it except AWS itself. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--iam_granularity |
| Sydney region | ● | Inferred | - | - | Any location you can rent a machine in, which for Australia means anywhere with a Sydney or Melbourne facility. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--sydney_region |
| TTFB from Sydney | - | Unknown | - | - | Entirely a function of where you put it and how you network it. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--ttfb_sydney |
| Durability (nines) | - | Unknown | - | - | Depends on your erasure set size, drive count and failure-domain layout. MinIO gives you the tools; the number is yours to earn. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--durability_nines |
| Uptime SLA | - | Unknown | - | - | You are the SLA. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--uptime_sla |
| Object lock / WORM | ● | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--object_lock |
| Replication model | erasure-coded | Inferred | - | - | Reed-Solomon erasure coding across drives and nodes, plus optional active-active site replication. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--replication_model |
| Official MCP server | ● | Inferred | - | - | MinIO ships an MCP server for bucket and object administration. | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--mcp_server |
| GA year | 2,015 | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--ga_year |
| Positioning | The self-hosted S3 baseline, full API fidelity in exchange for operating it. | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/s3-compatible-storage#minio--positioning |

**Verdict.** The reference point, not a competitor; run it only if you already operate storage hardware.

## Alternatives

- [AWS S3](https://toolweight.com/tools/aws-s3), The API everything else copies, and by far the most expensive egress in this roster.
- [Backblaze B2](https://toolweight.com/tools/backblaze-b2), Cheap US and EU object storage with free egress up to three times stored volume.
- [Bunny Storage](https://toolweight.com/tools/bunny-storage), Edge storage built as a CDN origin, with its own API rather than a faithful S3 one.
- [Cloudflare R2](https://toolweight.com/tools/cloudflare-r2), S3-compatible object storage with zero egress fees, on Cloudflare's network.
- [DigitalOcean Spaces](https://toolweight.com/tools/digitalocean-spaces), Bundled object storage plus free CDN, priced as a flat base fee with overages.
- [Hetzner Object Storage](https://toolweight.com/tools/hetzner-object-storage), The cheapest credible S3 endpoint in Europe, with a deliberately thin feature set.
- [iDrive e2](https://toolweight.com/tools/idrive-e2), USD 4/TB S3-compatible storage with zero-egress marketing and a fair-use cap.
- [Scaleway Object Storage](https://toolweight.com/tools/scaleway-object-storage), European-sovereign S3 storage with multi-AZ classes and a real IAM system.
- [Storj](https://toolweight.com/tools/storj), Decentralised erasure-coded storage: USD 4/TB stored, USD 7/TB egress, no regions.
- [Tigris](https://toolweight.com/tools/tigris), Globally distributed S3-compatible storage that caches objects near readers.
- [Wasabi](https://toolweight.com/tools/wasabi), Flat-rate hot storage with no egress or API fees, bounded by a fair-use cap.

## Logo & brand colours

SVG files: https://toolweight.com/teams/minio/logo.svg and https://toolweight.com/teams/minio/mono.svg. JSON: https://toolweight.com/api/v1/brands/minio.

| Hex | oklch |
| --- | --- |
| #c72e49 | oklch(55.0% 0.188 16.6) |

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