ExaVault

exavault.com · Storage · 1 record · JSON

ExaVault (Files.com) — free self-hosted appliance Storage

fails: quotacardcardR

www.exavault.com/pricing · iaas · storage/exavault-free-self-hosted-appliance · JSON · compare

Free tier	The hosted product is gone. What is free is the appliance: unlimited capacity on your own disk, licensed for up to 50 users, no expiry, no throttling. There is no free hosted storage at all. unit unlimited; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	N/A — egress is your own VM's bandwidth. Note: 'Encryption at rest comes from your VM environment'.
Identity	card derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: k and network. Paid tier adds SSO/2FA/syslog and >50 users ($99/mo per 50-user pack). iaas
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	rest, webdav, sftp, ftp sftp / ftp / webdav / rest (web manager, share links)
Tooling	VMware OVA, AWS Marketplace and GCP Marketplace images; 4 CPU / 12 GB RAM / 100 GB primary disk + sized data drive
Composes with	Unlimited free 'accounts' (appliance deployments) x whatever disk you attach. This is not free storage — it is free software for storage you already pay for. Worth recording because the category's free tier has structurally migrated here: the vendor monetises seats and support, not bytes.
Reliability	Free tier is 'never feature-degraded and never throttled' but ships no support channel and manual updates only.
Notes	The hosted product is gone. What is free is the appliance: unlimited capacity on your own disk, licensed for up to 50 users, no expiry, no throttling. There is no free hosted storage at all.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.exavault.com/pricing	'The ExaVault on-prem appliance is free for deployments up to 50 users', 'The Free tier never expires, is never feature-degraded, and is never throttled', 'Because the appliance runs in your environment, the compliance posture ... is your scope'
2026-10-21	www.exavault.com/	'Free SFTP & FTP Server · ExaVault by Files.com'

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (6)

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$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted