I’m not aware of any direct compare between the 2 tools as I personally never heard of the one before reading this as I don’t use Google Cloud Storage but Google Drive.
It really depends on what you are trying to do:
- rclone does moving of files and the number of the files really doesn’t matter
- rclone does checksums
- rclone is multi threaded
-rclone has a ‘backup’ folder for sync
I run my rclone scripts via cron and I’m sure other folks trigger things and work things like that. Hopefully someone more familiar with gsutil can weigh in, but I’d suggest just trying and seeing if it meets your needs.
Without getting into very specific use case, it’s hard to figure out what’s better.