Filemail
filemail.com · 3 records in Storage · JSON
Records 3
- fails: quotaFilemail
Storagefree tieridentity institution?card?limit per-object-capevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotaFilemail Basic
Storagefree tieridentity anonymous?card?limit per-object-capevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotafilemail 'store files forever'
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
Filemail
Storage- Free allowance
- 5 GB per transfer with no registration; 2 transfers per 24 hours; 7-day retention.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-capper-object-cap: 5 GB
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 5 GB per transfer with no registration; 2 transfers per 24 hours; 7-day retention. Paid: Pro 250 GB/transfer, Business/Enterprise 'unlimited file size' — and only Business/Enterprise can pick 'Forever' retention. unit GB; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
per-object-cap: 5 GB free / 250 GB Pro / unlimited Business. Retention: 7 days free; 'Forever' requires Business or Enterprise. request-rate: API is 20 requests per 10 seconds plus a per-plan daily leaky-bucket quota (429 on exceed). pull-count: not capped on free. |
| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | not metered on free; desktop apps recommended for speed. |
| Per-object cap | per-object-cap: 5 GB (5000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | 5 GB per transfer with no registration; 2 transfers per 24 hours; 7-day retention (1 days) |
| Interface | rest rest |
| Tooling | Mature REST API 2.0 at api-public.filemail.com with x-api-key + x-api-version headers; real docs at docs.filemail.com. But 'only Personal, Pro, Business and Enterprise accounts have access to our API' — the free/no-account tier has NO API. |
| Composes with | 5 GB x 2 transfers/day x unlimited identities — but no programmatic path on the free tier, so every unit needs a human and an account. The one genuinely interesting hook is 'Store Files Forever', which is Business/Enterprise only and consumes the account's paid storage. |
| Reliability | Two independent caps stack on the free tier — 5 GB AND 2 transfers/24h — and the service is geo-restricted ('the free service is not available in certain regions'). The free tier is not a storage candidate at all. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | support.filemail.com/en/articles/4103694-free-file-sharing-s | '5 GB ... 2 transfers within a 24-hour period ... stored for a maximum 7 days' |
| 2026-10-21 | docs.filemail.com/filemail-api-2.0/getting-started | 'only Personal, Pro, Business and Enterprise accounts have access to our API'; '20 requests every 10 seconds' |
| 2026-10-21 | support.filemail.com/en/articles/1668572-store-files-forever | 'When you have a Filemail Business or Enterprise account you can keep your files available forever' |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "retention","why": "5 GB per transfer with no registration; 2 transfers per 24 hours; 7-day retention. Paid: Pro 250 GB/transfer, Business/Enterprise 'unlimited file size' — and only Business/Enterprise can pick 'Forever' retention.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 2
- 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
Filemail Basic
Storage- Free allowance
- 5 GB of storage space and 5 GB max per transfer, on a free 1-user account.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymous?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-capper-object-cap 5 GB
- Evidence
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 5 GB of storage space and 5 GB max per transfer, on a free 1-user account. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits | per-object-cap 5 GB; retention 7 days file availability; pull-count 10 downloads per transfer; 3 recipients per transfer; 5 GB total storage per account. |
| Identity | anonymous (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | Free within the plan; download count is the real meter (10 downloads per transfer). |
| Per-object cap | per-object-cap 5 GB (5000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | per-object-cap 5 GB; retention 7 days file availability; pull-count 10 downloads per transfer; 3 recipients per transfer; 5 GB total storage per account. (7 days) |
| Interface | s3, webdav, sftp, rclone web + desktop app; no S3/WebDAV/SFTP on the free tier |
| Tooling | Filemail desktop app; no rclone backend |
| Composes with | 5 GB storage x unlimited free 1-user accounts = trivially repeatable but each account is a 5 GB silo with 7-day file availability, so aggregate retention is worthless for archive. Would need 100+ accounts to reach 500 GB of expiring data. |
| Reliability | Files disappear after 7 days regardless of account; download cap of 10 makes it unusable for serving. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.filemail.com/plans/basic | 'We provide 5 GB of storage space and the ability to send and receive any file type, up to 5 GB in size', '7-Day File Availability', '10 Downloads Per Transfer', '3 Recipients Per Transfer' |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "5 GB of storage space and 5 GB max per transfer, on a free 1-user account.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 2
- 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
- Free allowance
- The only genuine forever-retention product in this niche, but it is Business/Enterprise only and consumes paid account storage.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | The only genuine forever-retention product in this niche, but it is Business/Enterprise only and consumes paid account storage. Not reachable from the free tier. unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | support.filemail.com/en/articles/1668572-store-files-forever | the text of Free tier, above |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "retention","why": "The only genuine forever-retention product in this niche, but it is Business/Enterprise only and consumes paid account storage. Not reachable from the free tier.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field