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Filestash vs Spinifex
Filestash has 14,690 GitHub stars, 1,004 forks, 126 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Spinifex has 179 stars, 10 forks, 4 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Filestash leads on adoption by 8,107% (14,690 vs 179 stars). Filestash is written in Go under AGPL-3.0; Spinifex is written in Go under AGPL-3.0. Filestash has attracted 7% as many forks as stars, Spinifex 6%. Filestash was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| Filestash | Spinifex | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 15K | ★ 179 |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| Written in | Go | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 1.0K | ⑂ 10 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Filestash if
- You weight community size — 15K stars and counting
- You want the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick Spinifex if
- You want the Spinifex feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and Spinifex fits your workflow better
About Filestash
Filestash is a Go, AGPL 3.0 licensed universal file storage client for enterprise storage. It lives in Infrastructure & Operations / Storage Solutions. It began as a storage agnostic Dropbox like file manager that speaks FTP, SFTP, S3, SMB, WebDAV, IPFS, and about 20 more protocols. It has three products: a browser based web client, native clients for macOS, Windows, Linux, Android, and iPhone, and gateways for exposing storage over protocols.
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About Spinifex
Spinifex is an open source, AGPL 3.0 infrastructure platform built by Mulga that recreates the AWS service surface — EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, EKS, ECR, ECS, and RDS — on bare metal, on premises hardware, and edge sites, for teams that need AWS APIs and tooling but cannot or will not run in a hyperscaler cloud.
read the full Spinifex overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is Filestash or Spinifex more popular?
Filestash has 14,690 GitHub stars and Spinifex has 179. Filestash has the larger community by that measure.
Are Filestash and Spinifex free?
Both are open source. Filestash is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and Spinifex under AGPL-3.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Filestash and Spinifex?
Filestash is written in Go and Spinifex in Go. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Filestash or Spinifex?
Choose Filestash if you want the larger community (14,690 stars) or its AGPL-3.0 licence terms. Choose Spinifex if its feature set, stack or AGPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.