Open-source alternatives to Google Drive
6 open-source projects are offered as replacements for Google Drive. NextCloud is the most starred. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.
Side by side
| Project | Stars | Activity | Licence | Self-host | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 NextCloud | 37,178 | Active | Network copyleft | ○ | PHP |
 Seafile | 15,348 | Active | Not identified | ○ | C |
 Filestash | 14,808 | Active | Network copyleft | ○ | Go |
 OwnCloud | 8,837 | Active | Network copyleft | ○ | PHP |
 Sandstorm | 7,082 | Active | Not identified | ○ | JavaScript |
 Samba | 1,144 | Active | Copyleft | ○ | C |
Each one, briefly
- Seafile15,348 stars · not identified · active
Beyond file syncing and sharing, a new way to organize your files with extensible file properties and flexible views
- Filestash14,808 stars · network copyleft · active
Universal File Management Clients (for humans and agents)
Also replaces Dropbox
- Sandstorm7,082 stars · not identified · active
Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It's implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager.
- Samba1,144 stars · copyleft · active
https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba is the Official GitLab mirror of https://git.samba.org/samba.git -- Merge requests should be made on GitLab (not on GitHub)
Where this comes from
Which projects are offered against Google Drive comes from opensourcealternative.to, re-read weekly. Every figure in the table is read from the project’s own repository. We have not run these projects, and we hold no price for Google Drive. Browse every open-source alternative.