LZ4 VS zstd

Compare LZ4 vs zstd and see what are their differences.

LZ4

Extremely Fast Compression algorithm (by lz4)

zstd

Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm (by facebook)
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LZ4 zstd
24 120
10,989 25,071
1.2% 1.1%
9.0 9.8
5 days ago 4 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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LZ4

Posts with mentions or reviews of LZ4. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-21.

zstd

Posts with mentions or reviews of zstd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing LZ4 and zstd you can also consider the following projects:

brotli - Brotli compression format

haproxy - HAProxy Load Balancer's development branch (mirror of git.haproxy.org)

ZLib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.

Snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor

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