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7-Zip
7-Zip is listed for: zip extractor.
Where it stands
3.3 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 2 of 3 signals
- Website health3.5 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Community3.1 / 5 · weight 20%
What people said in public discussions
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on 7-Zip yet. Facts checked 2026-11-08. How tests work
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Should you use 7-Zip?
A quick read built only from what the tool's own pages state and from our tests, not from opinion. Facts checked 2026-11-08.
A good fit if…
- You want a free option. It states: “7-Zip is free software with open source. The page says: “7-Zip is free software with open source . The most of the code is under…”
Check first
- Its pages do not state: pricing, signup, watermark, where your files go. Check on the tool's site before you rely on it.
Does: ZIP extractor
Measured signals
3.5 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from 7-Zip's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 684 ms.
- Security2 / 50 of 5 protective headers set.
- Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
- Transparency1 / 5No privacy policy linked; no pricing page linked.
Community feedback
3.1 / 5 · 13 commenters54% of the 13 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about 7-Zip; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works
- Positive
“7-zip is the de-facto tool on Windows and has been for a long time. It's more than fast and compressed enough for 99% of peoples use cases. The more likely thing to eat into its relevance is now that Windows has built-in…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“I worry that 7-Zip is going to lose relevance because lack of zstd support. zlib's performance is intolerable for large files and zlib-ng's SIMD implementation only helps here a bit. Which is a shame, because 7-Zip is a…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“7-Zip is like VLC: maybe not the best, but it’s free (speech and beer) and handles almost anything you throw at it. For personal use, I don’t care much about efficient compression either computationally or in terms of…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“WinZip is a slow and bloated abomination, especially compared to 7-Zip. The right-click menu context entry for 7-Zip is very convenient and runs lightning fast. WinZip can't compete at all.”
Read in the thread
Threads: 7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression (2025, 212 comments) · Seven.zip (2023, 95 comments) · After 5 Years there's a new 7zip non-beta release (2015, 66 comments)
- Free tier
- 7-Zip is free software with open source. The page says: “7-Zip is free software with open source . The most of the code is under the GNU LGPL license. Some parts of the code are under the BSD 3-clause License.”
- Paid plan
- Not stated.
- Signup
- Not stated.
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- Not stated.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-08. Sources: Home. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
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