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MinIO

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4.7
Market Presence: File and Object Storage Platforms, Enterprise Storage Platforms

Overview

Product Information on MinIO

Updated 3rd December 2023

What is MinIO?

MinIO is a high-performance, Kubernetes-native object store. MinIO delivers S3-like infrastructure on public clouds, private clouds, on-prem and the edge. MinIO's <100mb binary is simple to install and manage and the product supports a suite of enterprise features targeting security, resiliency, data protection and scalability. MinIO will run on any hardware making it suitable for deployments at the edge while simultaneously being powerful enough to run the datacenter. It is used as the foundation for modern data lakes for AI/ML, customer analytics, telemetry, video streaming, log analytics and repatriation of cloud workloads. With more than 1.4B Docker pulls (averaging 1M per day), MinIO is deployed on every continent.

MinIO Pricing

MinIO is priced like the cloud - on usable capacity. There are no egress or data access charges. Pricing is transparent and can be found under the pricing tab at min.io. Commercial licenses get access to the SUBNET portal, direct access to engineers (not L1 or L2) and a suite of operational features not available in the upstream.

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Overall experience with MinIO

Engineer
10B - 30B USD, Insurance (except health)
FAVORABLE

“Approachable Interface and Flexible Deployment, Yet Feature Integration Could Improve”

4.0
Apr 3, 2026
It is a useful tool that can be either deployed in a company environment, or be used by developers easily in a testing context.
Platform Engineer
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Government
CRITICAL

“Lacking Comprehensive Data Validation: A User Perspective”

3.0
Aug 12, 2024
Basic functionality is fine but I miss the means to do proper validation on the data. Doing this ourselves requires too much time and is expected to be included.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 7th December 2023

MinIO is a company that specializes in developing an object storage system, compatible with Amazon S3 and tailored for private cloud use. This open-source software-defined service is widely adopted with significant usage on platforms like Docker and GitHub. Enterprises employ it for various tasks including machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics, application and archiving. A key characteristic of MinIO’s system is its speed, providing quick read/write speeds on standard hardware. The company aligns with important cloud technologies like containerization, Kubernetes-based orchestration, microservices, and multi-tenancy. Additional features it provides include inline erasure coding, bit-rot detection, encryption, active-active replication, object locking, and identity and access management. For optimal MinIO deployments, the company offers commercial licenses and support through a subscription model.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2014
Head office location
Redwood City, United States
Number of employees
51 - 200
Website
https://min.io

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MinIO Reviews and Ratings

4.7

(244 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
73%
4 Star
25%
3 Star
2%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Integration & Deployment

4.7

Service & Support

4.7

Product Capabilities

4.7

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  • Engineer
    10B+ USD
    Insurance (except health)
    Review Source

    Approachable Interface and Flexible Deployment, Yet Feature Integration Could Improve

    4.0
    Apr 3, 2026
    It is a useful tool that can be either deployed in a company environment, or be used by developers easily in a testing context.
  • It Associate
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Minio's Lightweight Storage Offers Speed and Data Protection but Basic Interface

    4.0
    May 13, 2026
    My overall experience with Minio has been very positive. It is a reliable, high performance object storage solution that is easy to deploy and works well. It is simple, lightweight, and provides excellent performance.
  • DATA ENGINEER
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Service Manual Offers Clear Information but Management Poses Challenges in Brazil

    5.0
    Nov 21, 2025
    We consume the service manual and the manual is good and easy to looking information
  • MANAGER OF CLOUD OPERATION
    10B+ USD
    Transportation
    Review Source

    Exploring Minio: Strengths in Performance, Scalability, and Simplicity

    5.0
    Nov 4, 2025
    My overall experience has been highly positive I would rate Minio 4.5 out of 5. Key strengths: Performance , Scaliaability and Simplicity
  • SR SRE
    10B+ USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Best on-premise enterprise object storage

    5.0
    May 16, 2025
    I like MinIO very much. The solution they provide is very reliable, secure and scalable. This product supports cloud and on-prime(Containerization and Standalone).
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MinIO Likes & Dislikes

Like

Its versatility, being used in both a production environment, or as a developer tool for testing quickly. The UI is very approachable. The learning curved is eased thanks to the UI.

Like

Simplicity. Speed. AWS S3 compatibility

Like

High performance Lightweight and easy deployment Quick to set up and requires minimal resources data protection features

Dislike

While it can be used as a developer tool for tests, it can be rather cumbersome at first as not all the tools are bundled together.

Dislike

Data validation is not transparent. Scanner process is slow and needs a place to store to the current state so that it does not restart every time. Changes in licensing.

Dislike

UI is basic and not advanced