Filen review

Filen bills €0.01 per GB per month for object storage. The rate applies to the volume held rather than to a plan tier, so a growing library scales with usage. Egress adds nothing to that figure because transfers are free, which is why storage usually makes up the larger part of what a Filen customer pays.

Egress costs €0 per GB, and free egress is Unlimited. Backups, sync clients and exports therefore add no transfer charge to the invoice, however much data leaves the platform. Storage at €0.01 per GB per month stays the only usage line that grows as your library does.

Filen charges by usage rather than by subscription tier, so a renewal period reflects the volume stored at €0.01 per GB per month. The only commitment in the terms is a minimum storage period of 30 days. Egress stays free, so data leaving the platform during a month costs nothing to transfer.

Filen is S3 compatible, so existing S3 clients and backup tools connect without a rewrite. The service covers object storage, and €0.01 per GB per month is the rate whichever client you point at it. Bucket structure and lifecycle habits carry over from an S3 setup unchanged.

Filen is operated by Filen Cloud Dienste UG (haftungsbeschränkt), a company registered in Germany. Buyers who need a named counterparty on the contract, a data processing agreement or a domestic VAT invoice can deal with that entity rather than a reseller. Tax treatment still follows where the account is billed.

Support runs on email, help centre and community. The help centre handles self service questions and the community channel carries peer advice, while email is the route for account matters. No live chat or phone line is listed, so urgent incidents depend on how quickly email is answered.

Filen charges €0.01 per GB per month. Aruba sits at €0.011, UCloud runs $0.063 to $0.24 and SberCloud quotes RUB 814.68 in roubles. On the storage line Filen is the lowest of the brands here, though the currencies differ.

On egress price per GB Filen sits at 1 of 72 compared brands, which the free transfer policy explains. On price per GB per month it ranks 35 of 103, so storage cost is competitive rather than the cheapest in the wider field.