Honest comparisons

FilePost vs the rest

Real prices, real limits, real free tiers. We'll even tell you when a competitor is the better fit.

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What we benchmark

Every comparison hits the same five questions: monthly price, free-tier shape, max file size, free-tier credit-card requirement, and what you actually get for the money. Numbers come from the vendor's pricing page on the day we published — we re-check quarterly.

Comparison pages launching soon at /alternatives/<vendor>. In the meantime, the existing comparisons live under our blog: Filestack, Bytescale, uploadthing, file.io, transfer.sh, imgbb, Cloudinary.

The framing

Most file-upload APIs are priced for sales decks, not for usage. FilePost is the opposite — flat $9/mo for 5,000 uploads, $29/mo for 25,000. No annual contracts. No "contact us" tier. The competitors we benchmark below all do something well; we tell you what.

When a competitor wins

If you need image transformations server-side, Uploadcare and Cloudinary do it better. If you need OCR/AI features baked in, Filestack. If you need a temporary one-off file share, transfer.sh. If you're already in the Vercel ecosystem, uploadthing. We say so on the page.

Background reading

Picking a file-upload API is half "is it cheaper?" and half "does it fit my stack?". These guides cover the second half:

Questions we actually get

Are these comparisons biased?

Of course they're biased — we run FilePost. We try to compensate with: real numbers from the competitor's published pricing page, the competitor's strengths called out explicitly, and a "when not to use FilePost" paragraph on every page. If we get a number wrong, email us.

How often are prices re-checked?

Quarterly, plus any time a vendor announces a price change publicly. The footer of every comparison page shows the date the prices were last verified.

Why isn't [vendor X] in the list?

Either we haven't gotten to them yet, or they're sufficiently different from FilePost that a comparison would be misleading. Send us the vendor and we'll see if a comparison makes sense.

Switching from another vendor?

Migrations are usually one search-and-replace. The endpoint is https://filepost.dev/v1/upload, the auth is X-API-Key, the response gives you a permanent URL. That's the entire integration.

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