File tools that finish first.
Limintel makes Brutal Copy and Brutal Zip for Windows 10 and 11. Each one finished first in every benchmark we publish, and you can rerun those benchmarks yourself.
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- Brutal Copy 20:18
- Ultra Fast Copy3:14
- RoboCopy3:17
- FastCopy3:42
- Windows Explorer6:30
- TeraCopy6:49
- Brutal Zip0:06
- 7-Zip1:17
- WinRAR2:06
- Windows3:28
- BandiZip9:45
- PeaZip10:40
Watch 81,741 files copy in 18 seconds
This replay lasts exactly as long as the real job did: the Linux 6.6 source tree, copied between two NVMe drives by Brutal Copy 2. The next fastest tool took 3 minutes 14 seconds.
The graph is the one in the app. Its width is the job, not the clock, so fast stretches fill quickly and slow ones crawl. Each shaded band is a run of steady speed, brighter when faster. Point at a band to see what the app tells you about it.
Drawn in your browser. The totals and the 18 seconds come from the benchmark; the speed profile is illustrative.
Zip the same 81,741 files in 5 seconds
The Linux 6.6 source tree again, this time compressed into a ZIP by Brutal Zip: 1.26 GB in 5.1 seconds. In our published benchmark, 7-Zip took 1 minute 17 on the same files.
Under the graph, the bar breaks the job down by file type, so you can see what is being compressed. The graph works the same way as in Brutal Copy, popup included.
Drawn in your browser. The totals, timing and file-type breakdown are from a real run; the speed curve is approximated from it.
Watch the full comparisons
Screen recordings of every tool running the same job, side by side.
Play video
Brutal Copy 2 vs Windows 11, RoboCopy, TeraCopy, FastCopy and Ultra Fast Copy
Copy speed benchmark. Same files, same drives.
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Brutal Zip vs 7-Zip, WinRAR, BandiZip, PeaZip and Windows 11
Compression speed benchmark. Compress and decompress, same files, same drive.
Two products, one obsession
Copy files or zip them. Either way, the work is done sooner.
Brutal Copy 2
The fastest file copy engine on Windows.
- First in all six published copy benchmarks, from NVMe to network drives.
- Verify as you copy with BLAKE3, SHA-256 and other hashes.
- Reprioritize file types mid-copy, and script the jobs you repeat.
Brutal Zip
ZIP compression that uses every core.
- Zipped the Linux 6.6 tree in 6 seconds. 7-Zip took 1:17.
- Deflate and Zstandard, AES-256 encryption, and a viewer that previews without extracting.
- Pro adds scripting, repair and salvage, and uncapped threads.
Check our numbers
Every benchmark on this site uses files anyone can download, so you can run the same test on your own hardware.
Public test files
The Linux 6.6 and LLVM 18.1.8 source trees for many small files, and a Gemma model file for one large one.
Cold cache, every run
We clear the Windows file cache between runs, so no tool gets a head start from the one before it.
Same files, same drives
Each tool copies the same data between the same drives: NVMe, a docked hard disk, and a network share.
“I've spent almost eight years on Brutal Copy chasing a single question: how fast can copying files actually be?”
James Grice, founder of Limintel. Read the story