FileLu
- Free allowance
- 1 GB free. Free accounts can upload 10 GB per file but only hold 1 GB total.
- Verdict
- fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap10 GB per file; 10 GB/file
- Evidence
- reported8 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 1 GB free. Free accounts can upload 10 GB per file but only hold 1 GB total. Paid: S3-compatible 'FileLu S5', 1 PB scale. Lifetime promo: 1 TB $149, 2 TB $249, 4 TB $449, 8 TB $649. 1 TB monthly transfer per 1 TB of purchased storage. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | $81/TB one-time at the 8 TB lifetime tier ($649) — amortised over 5 years that is $1.35/TB/mo; $56/TB one-time at 4 TB ($449) |
| Limits | per-object: 10 GB/file on free, no limit on premium. Transfer is 1:1 with storage purchased, which is the binding constraint at archive-restore time. |
| Identity | email email |
| Egress | No request or retrieval fees — '$0 request or retrieval fees' is stated on the homepage and repeated as 'No request fees' / 'Always free' for S5. Transfer quota is tied 1:1 to storage purchased (buy 1 TB, get 1 TB/month). free allowance: 1 TB per month |
| Per-object cap | 10 GB per file (10000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | s3, rest, webdav, ftps, ftp, rsync, rclone, cli part of the text of Free tier, above |
| Tooling | Very wide: S3 (S5), WebDAV, FTP/FTPS, Rsync, rclone, REST API. rclone has a native Tier-1 backend (read-only in the table, ModTime R). Explicitly named as compatible with AWS CLI, rclone, Restic, Kopia, Proxmox, Duplicacy, Duplicati, S3 Browser, FileBrowserGO, Synology Hyper Backup, s3cmd, Cyberduck, Mountain Duck. |
| Composes with | A single purchased 8 TB lifetime plan at $649 plus Rsync/S3 gives a restic target that satisfies Duplicati and Kopia simultaneously — the broadest tool compatibility of any paid option. The 1:1 transfer-to-storage ratio means a 20 TB archive needs 20 TB bought to restore it in a month. |
| Reliability | 146,000 users; lifetime promos move between $149 and $350 list, so the lifetime price is a channel promotion rather than a stable list price. Read-only rclone classification means rclone cannot write; S3/Rsync/WebDAV must carry writes. |
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Evidence 8
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | filelu.com/pricing/ | '1 GB free to get started', '1 PB scalable storage', '$0 request or retrieval fees', 'FileLu WebDAV cloud drive access', 'FileLu S3 compatible object storage', 'FileLu Rsync server backup storage' |
| 2026-10-21 | filelu.com/pages/faq/ | 'Free users: 10GB per file. Premium users: no limit'; 'Your transfer quota is based on the storage you purchase. For example, if you purchase 1 TB of storage, you receive a 1 TB monthly transfer quota' |
| 2026-10-21 | filelu.com/pages/s5-object-storage/ | S3-compatible; 'works with AWS CLI, Rclone, Restic, Kopia, Proxmox, Duplicacy, Duplicati, S3 Browser, FileBrowserGO, Synology Hyper Backup' |
| 2026-10-21 | filelu.com/pages/earn-free-storage/ | '+20GB' earn-free-storage tasks (the only free path above 1 GB, still far short of 500 GB) |
| 2026-10-21 | grabltd.com/products/filelu | lifetime: 1 TB $149, 2 TB $249, 4 TB $449, 8 TB $649 |
| 2026-10-21 | rclone.org/filelu/ | native backend, Tier 1, ModTime R (read-oriented) |
| 2026-10-21 | webdav.filelu.com/ | PROBE PROPFIND — HTTP/1.1 401, 13 bytes, WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="FileLu", X-FileLu-Origin: US-WebDAV-Proxy, Server-Timing cfCacheStatus DYNAMIC (live, CF-fronted) |
| 2026-10-21 | s5.filelu.com/ | PROBE — DNS NXDOMAIN; the S5 endpoint hostname is not published on the pages read, so the S3 endpoint could not be confirmed |
More fields 2
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "1 GB free. Free accounts can upload 10 GB per file but only hold 1 GB total. Paid: S3-compatible 'FileLu S5', 1 PB scale. Lifetime promo: 1 TB $149, 2 TB $249, 4 TB $449, 8 TB $649. 1 TB monthly transfer per 1 TB of purchased storage.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
|---|---|
| price verbatim | $81/TB one-time at the 8 TB lifetime tier ($649) — amortised over 5 years that is $1.35/TB/mo; $56/TB one-time at 4 TB ($449) |
Unknown values 3
- per object cap notes: 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