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ExaVault (Files.com) — free self-hosted appliance
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- Free allowance
- ExaVault Cloud, the hosted product, was sunset.
- Verdict
- self-hosted, last resortverdict fails-quota: the free allowance is too small to matter. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- card?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported11 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-19checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-11-19
| Free tier | ExaVault Cloud, the hosted product, was sunset. The on-premise appliance is still maintained and is free for up to 50 users with no expiry and no throttling. Capacity is the disk the user attaches to a machine they run; there is no hosted storage. unit unlimited; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | card (placeholder) unverified: how the free image and its license key are obtained was not seen; a valid license key file is required for free and paid installations |
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| Egress | N/A — egress is your own VM's bandwidth. Note: 'Encryption at rest comes from your VM environment'. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest, webdav, sftp, ftp sftp / ftp / webdav / rest (web manager, share links) |
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| Tooling | the user installs and runs the appliance image (VMware OVA, AWS Marketplace or GCP Marketplace image) on a rented or free machine; 4 CPU / 12 GB RAM / 100 GB primary disk plus a sized data drive; every installation needs outbound HTTPS to a license service and one source IP address |
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| Composes with | Unlimited free 'accounts' (appliance deployments) x whatever disk you attach. This is not free storage — it is free software for storage you already pay for. Worth recording because the category's free tier has structurally migrated here: the vendor monetises seats and support, not bytes. |
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| Reliability | Free tier is 'never feature-degraded and never throttled' but ships no support channel and manual updates only. |
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| Notes | The hosted product is gone. What is free is the appliance: unlimited capacity on your own disk, licensed for up to 50 users, no expiry, no throttling. There is no free hosted storage at all. |
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| Evidence note | reported Re-read on 2026-11-04: https://www.exavault.com/ (hosted cloud sunset, appliance maintained), https://www.exavault.com/pricing (free up to 50 users, no expiry), https://docs.exavault.com/administration/license-keys.md (license key file required) and https://docs.exavault.com/ (the user operates the deployment). How the free image and its license key are obtained was not seen, so confidence stays at reported. |
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Evidence 11
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "dead-service","why": "The hosted product is gone. What is free is the appliance: unlimited capacity on your own disk, licensed for up to 50 users, no expiry, no throttling. There is no free hosted storage at all.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read