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There are clearly similarities between the two, given that Kiwix put resources into making WARC content available in ZIM archives (i.e. Zimit-style ZIMs, created with the Zimit scraper and warc2zim backend). But as u/IMayBeABitShy said, the ZIM specification focuses on providing a highly compressed container that is readable on-the-fly (i.e. by decompressing only the needed content to show an article), whereas WARC, or rather the compressed version WACZ, is merely a zipped version of the WARC data (request headers and responses). It is also readable on-the-fly, but compression will not be as optimal as the zstandard compression used by modern ZIM archives.
There are clearly similarities between the two, given that Kiwix put resources into making WARC content available in ZIM archives (i.e. Zimit-style ZIMs, created with the Zimit scraper and warc2zim backend). But as u/IMayBeABitShy said, the ZIM specification focuses on providing a highly compressed container that is readable on-the-fly (i.e. by decompressing only the needed content to show an article), whereas WARC, or rather the compressed version WACZ, is merely a zipped version of the WARC data (request headers and responses). It is also readable on-the-fly, but compression will not be as optimal as the zstandard compression used by modern ZIM archives.