FileStack

Developer-friendly file handling, edge transforms, and secure delivery in one toolkit

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Info updated on: Mar 27, 2026

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Skip the plumbing and wire file handling into your app in minutes. Drop the FileStack picker into a React, Vue, or plain JS front end, or call the REST API from your backend. Let users upload from local devices, cameras, or cloud drives, or pull assets by URL when you only have a link. Set simple policies for size, type, and virus scanning, then hand off a secure handle instead of raw binaries. On mobile, the native iOS and Android SDKs manage camera capture, background uploads, and retries so you don’t have to.

Build processing flows that run before content ever touches your servers. For images, chain resize, crop, smart compress, and watermark steps, then serve device-aware renditions automatically to cut page weight. For video, transcode to web-ready formats, generate posters and story thumbnails, and deliver adaptive streams for smooth playback on slow networks. Audio and document assets get the same treatment—convert, normalize, and package once, then deliver through the edge with instant cache hits.

Automate document intake without writing brittle image code. FileStack detects skewed, folded, or wrinkled pages and corrects perspective so receipts, IDs, and contracts are clean and readable for downstream review. Need website previews for links or moderation queues? Use the headless rendering tool to snapshot a page as an image after it finishes loading, then store, transform, and serve it through the same pipeline. Convert PDFs to images for quick previews, or repackage files for consistent internal formats. more

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Review Summary

Features

Upload widgets, REST API, and mobile SDKs
Pull-from-URL ingestion
Pre-upload image, video, audio, and document transforms
Website snapshot via headless rendering
Document detection and auto-straighten
Origin Shield (edge proxy for origin protection)
Static caching and dynamic routing
Cache purging
Shared SSL and Custom SSL
Reports and usage analytics
Signed URLs and policy-based access control
Edge delivery with device-aware renditions

How It’s Used

E-commerce: auto-generate responsive product images and watermarked previews
Social apps: transcode user videos, create story thumbnails, and deliver adaptive streams
Fintech/KYC: capture IDs on mobile, auto-correct perspective, and route for review
SaaS knowledge bases: convert PDFs to image previews for fast browsing
Marketing platforms: create link previews with webpage screenshots at publish time
News aggregators: ingest by URL, normalize media, and serve through edge caches
Education portals: compress lecture videos and deliver device-specific renditions
Support ops: scan receipts, straighten scans, and export clean copies for OCR
Developer portals: lock down transformations with signed URLs and policy keys
Media sites: purge caches on deploy to instantly roll out updated assets

Plans & Pricing

Free

Bandwidth: 1 GB
Uploads: 500
Transformations: 1,000
Filestack Storage: 1 GB
Max File Size: 20 MB
Essential Features
Image transformations and doc
Workflows

Start

$59.00 per month

Bandwidth: 50 GB
Uploads: 10,000
Transformations: 25,000
Filestack Storage: 20 GB
Max File Size: 250 MB
Overages: Standard Price
Includes features of Free plan, plus
Custom Picker Design
Upload to Azure
Upload to Dropbox
Upload to Google Cloud Storage
Upload to Rackspace
Upload to Amazon S3
Dropbox as Upload Source
Webhooks

Grow

$199.00 per month

Bandwidth: 200 GB
Uploads: 50,000
Transformations: 150,000
Filestack Storage: 150 GB
Max File Size: 2 GB
Overages: 15% - 25% discount
Includes features of Start plan, plus
Video Conversions
Document Viewer and Slider
Transformations UI + Drag & Drop

Scale

$359.00 per month

Bandwidth: 400 GB
Uploads: 125,000
Transformations: 300,000
Filestack Storage: 350 GB
Max File Size: 5 GB
Overages: 25% - 50% discount
Includes features of Grow plan, plus
Custom Auth
Parent
Storage Aliases
Virus Detection
Whitelabel Solutions

Pro

$499.00 per month

Monthly Uploads: Custom
Monthly Transformations: Custom
Bandwidth: Custom
Web SDK
Web based file picker
Mobile SDK
20+ Cloud integrations
Upload any file type
Image transformations
Document conversions
Responsive images
Integrated CDN
Webhooks
Dev to Dev Support
S3 storage integration (target)
3 API keys for Dev, Test and Production
Embedded Google image web-search
Multi-cloud storage integration (target)
Audio transcoding
Video transcoding
Resumable uploads (manual)
Workflows *
Transformation UI ***
Document viewer
White labeling
S3 storage integration (source)
Advanced security policies
Content search
Storage aliases
Optical character recognition *
Machine learning and SFW checks *
Content Ingestion Network/ Instant Access/ Intelligent Ingestion
CNAME
Advanced image transformations
Advanced document conversions *
Support: Dedicated account manager
Support: Management API
Support: Pooled resources
Flexible billing
Implementation assistance
Custom terms of services

Enterprise

Custom

$79.00 per month

Bandwidth: $8
<ul>
<li>50GB per Month
Overages usage fee: $0.2/GB
Uploads: $20
<ul>
<li>10,000 per Month
Overages usage fee: $0.006/unit
Transformations: $25
<ul>
<li>25,000 per Month
Overages usage fee: $0.0025/unit
Filestack Storage: $16
<ul>
<li>20 GB per Month
Overages usage fee: $0.5/GB
Web SDK
Web based file pickeri
iOS & Android mobile SDKs
15+ Cloud integrations
Upload any file type
Responsive images
Analytics
Resumable uploads (manual)
Integrated CDN
Image transformations and document conversions
Workflows

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