Alternatives to RustFS

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Blacksmith

89/100freemiumexplicit relation

Blacksmith is a drop-in replacement for GitHub-hosted runners that executes Actions on bare-metal gaming CPUs and source-shaped cache infrastructure. Migration requires a one-line YAML change. Features include colocated warm caches, persistent Docker layer caching on NVMe, CI observability with log search, and Firecracker microVM isolation. SOC 2 Type 2 certified, with Ubuntu x64 pricing at $0.004/min and 3,000 free minutes/month.

High-performance drop-in replacement runner fleet for GitHub Actions offering 2x faster execution and 50% to 75% cost reduction. Free tier provides 3,000 runner minutes/month (2vCPU basis). Pay-as-you-go usage bills per minute at $0.004/min for Ubuntu x64 (vs $0.008 GitHub), $0.0025/min for Ubuntu ARM, and $0.008/min for Windows x64 (vs $0.016 GitHub) with no seat fees or minimums. Enterprise tier offers custom volume pricing, dedicated runner pools, private VPC peering, SOC 2 compliance, and custom uptime SLAs.Review →

Teleport Beams

open sourcefreemiumexplicit relation

Teleport Beams provides cryptographically verified, policy-gated access for AI agents to interact with production infrastructure including servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases. Launched at KubeCon EU 2026, Beams extends Teleport's zero-trust access platform with agent-specific runtime controls, audit trails, and policy enforcement to ensure AI agents operate within defined boundaries when deployed in production environments.

Zero Trust ephemeral microVM runtime and agentic identity platform for AI agents (Apache-2.0 core). Free open-source community edition for self-hosting ($0 software cost); Teleport Enterprise provides managed SaaS, advanced policy engines, and compliance SLAs via custom quote.

Pangolin

90/100freemiumexplicit relation

Identity-based remote access platform built on WireGuard that combines reverse proxy and VPN capabilities. Pangolin supports clientless browser access for web apps and client-based private-resource access across macOS, iOS, Windows, Linux, and Android, with zero-trust rules, peer-to-peer tunnels, automatic SSL, SSO/OIDC options, and cloud or self-hosted deployment.

Free Community Edition under AGPL-3.0; Enterprise Edition (FCL) is free for homelabbers/individuals and orgs with <$100K gross annual revenue, paid license required for >=$100K revenue.Review →

Lightpanda

88/100open sourcefreemiumexplicit relation

Open-source headless browser written in Zig for AI agents, crawling, and automation. Lightpanda omits graphical rendering, keeps DOM and JavaScript execution, exposes CDP for Puppeteer/Playwright/chromedp, and adds Agent, PandaScript, and MCP workflows. Current public benchmarks claim about 9x faster execution and 16x less memory than Chrome.

Lightweight, machine-first headless browser built from scratch (AGPL-3.0) for AI agents and high-throughput web scraping. Cloud Explorer tier provides 10 free browser hours/month with 5 concurrent sessions. Cloud Builder plan costs $19/month for 300 included browser hours ($0.08/additional hour) with 30 concurrent sessions and Slack/email support. Enterprise tier offers custom volume pricing, dedicated clusters, custom SLAs, and on-premise or private cloud deployments. Open-source core is freely self-hostable.Review →

Open-source RustFS alternatives

Teleport Beams, Lightpanda — see all open-source developer tools.

Free RustFS alternatives

Blacksmith, Teleport Beams, Pangolin, Lightpanda offer a free plan or free tier.

More DevOps & Deployment tools

same category, not editor-selected alternatives — see how RustFS compares →

CiliumCilium is a CNCF Graduated, Apache-2.0 project for Kubernetes networking, security, and observability using eBPF. It can replace kube-proxy, enforce identity-aware L3-L7 network policies, and add Hubble flow observability plus Tetragon runtime-security signals. Current source checks support GKE Dataplane V2 using Cilium/eBPF and Azure CNI Powered by Cilium for AKS.UpstashUpstash provides serverless Redis, Kafka, and vector database services with per-request pricing and zero operational overhead. Redis supports global replication for edge computing. Kafka offers pay-per-message event streaming. QStash provides HTTP-based message queues for serverless. Features REST APIs alongside native protocols, ideal for edge and serverless deployments. Integrates with Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, and AWS Lambda natively.OrbStackOrbStack is a macOS application that replaces Docker Desktop with lightweight container and Linux VM management. Its docs emphasize fast starts, lower CPU and memory overhead, and native macOS integration with menu bar controls, file sharing, and network access to containers by name, with exact gains depending on workload. Supports Docker, Kubernetes, and full Linux VMs.RayRay is an open-source distributed computing framework built for scaling AI and Python applications from a laptop to thousands of GPUs. It provides libraries for distributed training, hyperparameter tuning, model serving, reinforcement learning, and data processing under a single unified API. Ray's public site highlights OpenAI and other enterprise users. Maintained by Anyscale with Apache-2.0 open-source licensing.ActAct is an open-source tool that runs GitHub Actions workflows locally using Docker containers that match GitHub's execution environment. It provides instant feedback on workflow changes without pushing to a repository, supports matrix builds, secret management, and artifact handling. Act can also replace Makefiles by using workflow files as task definitions, making it useful for both CI/CD development and local task automation across development teams.ClerkClerk is a complete authentication and user management platform for React, Next.js, and modern JavaScript frameworks. It provides pre-built UI for sign-in, sign-up, user profiles, organizations, MFA, passkeys, JWT sessions, webhooks, and billing. The Hobby plan supports up to 50,000 monthly retained users per app, with Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers for growing teams.DockerIndustry-standard container platform for building, shipping, and running applications in isolated, reproducible environments. Package apps with all dependencies into portable containers using Dockerfiles and images. Docker Compose orchestrates multi-container applications. Docker Hub hosts millions of pre-built images. Docker Desktop provides GUI management on Mac/Windows. Essential for local development, CI/CD, and production deployments. The foundation of modern containerized infrastructure.ModalModal is a serverless compute platform that lets developers run AI workloads on GPUs with a Python-first SDK. Functions deploy with decorators, auto-scale from zero to thousands of containers, and bill per second. It supports LLM inference, fine-tuning, batch jobs, and sandboxes, with current GPU options including B200, H200, H100, A100, L40S, A10, L4, and T4. Modal’s 2026 Series C valued the company at $4.65B.NeonServerless Postgres platform separating storage and compute for branching, autoscaling, read replicas, instant restore, and scale-to-zero workloads. Neon works with standard PostgreSQL clients and ORMs, supports extensions such as pgvector, and sits inside a broader Neon backend platform with Auth, Data API, Functions, Object Storage, and AI Gateway features.

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FAQ

Which RustFS alternative is listed first?

Blacksmith is first in the editor-selected list of 4 RustFS alternatives and carries an editorial review score of 89/100. The stored order is editorial; review scores do not determine membership or position.

Are there open-source RustFS alternatives?

Yes — Teleport Beams, Lightpanda are open source.

Are there free RustFS alternatives?

Yes — Blacksmith, Teleport Beams, Pangolin, and more offer a free plan or free tier.