Filestack is a paid product with a free trial. The free plan includes access to the Start plan at $69/month, billed monthly, 75 GB bandwidth per month, and 20,000 uploads per month. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $12/mo, and no credit card is required to sign up.
About
Filestack is a developer-focused file handling platform that provides APIs and UI components for uploading, transforming, converting, and delivering files within applications. It is designed to simplify content workflows by combining upload tooling, media processing, secure delivery, and integrations with popular cloud storage providers and third-party sources.
The platform supports web and mobile SDKs, a web-based file picker, and a broad set of integrations for common content sources and storage destinations. It also includes capabilities for image and document transformations, audio and video conversion, content intelligence, OCR, workflows, and security features such as virus detection.
- File upload APIs and embeddable picker UI
- Image, document, audio, and video transformations
- Secure file delivery through a CDN
- Cloud storage and source integrations
- Workflows, OCR, and content intelligence tools
- Security and validation features for uploaded files
Free Tier Value
This free tier is perpetual and does not require a credit card, but it is clearly capped at 1GB bandwidth, 500 uploads, 1,000 transformations, 1GB storage, and one team member. Compared with the $69 Start plan, it looks like a solid but limited starter offering worth about $12/month - roughly 15-20% of the cheapest paid tier’s value, with premium add-ons like OCR and webhooks reserved for paid plans.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Access to the Start plan at $69/month, billed monthly.
- Includes 75 GB bandwidth per month.
- Includes 20,000 uploads per month.
- Includes 50,000 transformations per month.
- Includes 50 GB Filestack storage.
- Supports up to 5 team members.
- Includes standard support.
- Provides a 1 GB maximum file size.
- Includes essential features.
- Includes integrated CDN.
- Supports uploads to Amazon S3.
- Supports uploads to Google Cloud Storage.
- Supports uploads to Azure.
- Supports uploads to Dropbox.
- Supports uploads to Rackspace.
- Allows Dropbox as an upload source.
- Includes image transformations and document conversions.
- Includes workflows with 1 workflow.
- Includes unlimited tasks.
- Includes unlimited executions.
- Includes transformations UI with drag-and-drop pane.
- Includes custom picker design via CSS.
- Includes webhooks.
- Includes standard support features like knowledge base access and email support.
See Filestack pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Start
- bandwidth
- 75GB
- uploads
- 20,000
- transformations
- 50,000
- filestack storage
- 50GB
- team members
- Up to 5
- max file size
- 1 GB
- Standard support included
- Essential features included
- Integrated CDN included
- Upload to Amazon S3 included
- Upload to Google Cloud Storage included
- Upload to Azure included
- Upload to Dropbox included
- Upload to Rackspace included
Grow
- bandwidth
- 200GB
- uploads
- 50,000
- transformations
- 150,000
- filestack storage
- 150GB
- team members
- Up to 10
- max file size
- 2 GB
- Standard support included
- Essential features included
- Integrated CDN included
- Upload to Amazon S3 included
- Upload to Google Cloud Storage included
- Upload to Azure included
- Upload to Dropbox included
- Upload to Rackspace included
Scale
- bandwidth
- 400GB
- uploads
- 125,000
- transformations
- 300,000
- filestack storage
- 350GB
- team members
- 10+
- max file size
- 5 GB
- Standard support included
- Essential features included
- Integrated CDN included
- Upload to Amazon S3 included
- Upload to Google Cloud Storage included
- Upload to Azure included
- Upload to Dropbox included
- Upload to Rackspace included
Enterprise
- bandwidth
- Custom
- uploads
- Custom
- transformations
- Custom
- filestack storage
- Custom
- team members
- Custom
- max file size
- Custom
- Custom solutions for large-scale operations
- Critical workload support
- Custom bandwidth/uploads/transformations/storage/team limits
- Platinum support optional
- Dedicated account manager available
Pricing extracted from Filestack's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Filestack free forever?
No. Filestack offers a time-limited trial, after which you subscribe to a paid plan or lose access.
Does Filestack require a credit card?
No. You can start on Filestack's free tier without entering card details.
What happens when you exceed Filestack's free tier?
When the trial ends you keep access only by moving to a paid plan. The cheapest is Start at $69 / month.
What is Filestack's free tier worth?
Filestack's free tier is worth about $12 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 61/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
