MinIO Shifts to Paid Model in 2025, Pushing Teams Toward Open-Source Alternatives

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Between May and December 2025, MinIO Inc. made a series of changes that effectively ended its frictionless community offering: it removed the open-source web console, stopped distributing pre-built binaries, and placed the community edition into maintenance mode with security patches only. By early 2026, the GitHub repository was archived as read-only, though the source code remains forkable under AGPLv3. The changes mirror split-licensing moves made by MongoDB and Redis, separating a feature-frozen community edition from a commercial enterprise tier. Search interest in MinIO alternatives rose three to five times on Google Trends between December 2025 and March 2026, reflecting growing concern among self-hosters and DevOps teams. Leading alternatives now under evaluation include RustFS, Ceph, SeaweedFS, and Garage for self-hosted deployments, alongside cloud options such as Wasabi and Backblaze B2.

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