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filen.io/pricingE2EE cloud drive, subscriptionstorage/filen-pro-xJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- Pro I 200 GiB / Pro II 500 GiB / Pro III 2 TiB / Pro X 10 TiB.
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- USD 4.49/TB-monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- 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 | Pro I 200 GiB / Pro II 500 GiB / Pro III 2 TiB / Pro X 10 TiB. 'Plans stack on a single account. Combine two Pro X plans for 20 TiB on one Filen account, with no upper limit.' unit TiB; metered on unstated |
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| Price | $4.49/TB at 10 TiB ($44.93); $4.49/TB at 20 TiB ($89.86) |
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| Identity | email email |
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| Egress | Verbatim on every tier: 'Unlimited bandwidth' and 'Unlimited uploads' |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rclone, cli rclone filen backend, desktop client, CLI |
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| Tooling | rclone native backend |
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| Composes with | rclone -> anywhere; E2EE means server-side transcode/range-serve story is awkward |
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| Reliability | Brief §1.5 warns Filen withholds quota behind VPN IPs. Client-driven E2EE means a lost password is unrecoverable. No mass data-loss event documented. |
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| Parsed numbers | - price-per-tb USD 4.49 TB / month
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | filen.io/pricing | 'Pro X 10 TiB 39.99 EUR monthly ... Unlimited bandwidth ... Plans stack on a single account. Combine two Pro X plans for 20 TiB' |
More fields 1
| price verbatim | $4.49/TB at 10 TiB ($44.93); $4.49/TB at 20 TiB ($89.86) |
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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
filen.ioCloud drivestorage/filenJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- 10 GiB free at signup; Pro I 200 GiB / €1.99 mo, Pro III 2 TiB / €8.99 mo
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- card?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 10 GiB free at signup; Pro I 200 GiB / €1.99 mo, Pro III 2 TiB / €8.99 mo unit GiB; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | card (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | 'Unlimited bandwidth' on every paid plan; free tier is not bandwidth-metered but is 10 GiB, so egress is not the binding constraint |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest, rclone rest |
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| Tooling | rclone backend 'filen' (official); zero-knowledge client-side encryption |
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| Composes with | The 10 GiB is per account. Separate accounts each held 10 GiB in the past, and Filen closed that: as of the Feb 2026 policy the free 10 GiB is only granted when signup looks like a consumer connection (one-time Ipregistry VPN/proxy classification) |
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| Reliability | active, well-maintained service but the several-accounts route is now explicitly detected at signup; a VPN/proxy signup yields an account with zero free storage |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | filen.io/pricing | 'Get started with 10 GiB of free space', Pro tiers 200 GiB-10 TiB with 'Unlimited bandwidth' |
| 2026-10-21 | filen.io/hub/an-update-on-free-account-creation/ | (published 2026-02-11) — free 10 GB granted only for non-anonymised signup IPs via Ipregistry; 'attempts to create large numbers of free accounts, often through VPNs or proxies, to collect huge amounts of free storage' |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "10 GiB free at signup; Pro I 200 GiB / €1.99 mo, Pro III 2 TiB / €8.99 mo","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