Lite
$9.99 / month
Billed monthly
- • Includes 250 GiB relay bandwidth / month
- • Up to 250 GiB per file
- • Overage billed at $0.03/GiB
Good for freelancers and small teams sending frequent transfers.
PhotonFile - Pricing
Transparent pricing for Ephemeral File Transfers, a live, in-memory relay with no persistent storage for relay transfers.
PhotonFile is built to forget, not to remember. Your privacy isn't a feature, it's the foundation.
Not sure? Start with a subscription if you send large files weekly. Use a File Pass for one-off sends.
Plans for regular use
A monthly pool of relay bandwidth. Same encrypted, in-memory relay, just a simpler way to pay.
Pro
$24.99 / month
Billed monthly
- • Includes 1 TiB relay bandwidth / month
- • Up to 400 GiB per file
- • Overage billed at $0.03/GiB
Ideal for agencies, studios, and teams sending large assets every week.
Studio
$59.99 / month
Billed monthly
- • Includes 3 TiB relay bandwidth / month
- • Up to 400 GiB per file
- • Overage billed at $0.03/GiB
Built for high-throughput creators, studios, and teams that rely on PhotonFile.
Annual plans are discounted versus monthly billing. Subscription quotas reset monthly. Overage is calculated on total relay bandwidth used beyond your plan's included amount and billed at $0.03/GiB. File Passes can be used alongside any subscription to send files that exceed your plan's per-file size limit. Extremely large, single-file transfers over 400 GiB may still use Tier 4 file-based pricing.
Not sure which plan fits?
If you send large files weekly, start with Pro. If it's occasional, scroll down for File Passes.
File Pass price estimator
Use this when you only need a one-off transfer. File Passes are per-file and only consumed after a successful relay.
GiB
File Passes for one-off sends
Pay once per file. Great for occasional large transfers, testing PhotonFile, or sending something huge without a subscription.
Free
Tier 0
$0 / forever
- • Any number of files
- • Up to 10 GiB each
- • Uses Standard relay pool
Per file
Tier 1
$1.99 / file
- • Files over 10 GiB
- • Up to 30 GiB per file
Most common
Tier 2
$4.99 / file
- • Files over 30 GiB
- • Up to 100 GiB per file
Tier 3
$9.99 / file
- • Files over 100 GiB
- • Up to 250 GiB per file
Tier 4
$14.99 / file + $0.03/GiB beyond 400
- • Files over 250 GiB
- • Flat $14.99 up to 400 GiB per file
- • $14.99 base + $0.03/GiB beyond 400 GiB
- • Unlimited size transfers over an in-memory relay
Example
1 TiB file
$14.99 + (1024 − 400) × $0.03 = $33.71
Subscription or File Pass?
Both use the same encrypted, in-memory relay. The only difference is how you pay.
Subscriptions
Best when you use PhotonFile regularly.
- • Monthly pool of relay bandwidth
- • Better value if you send large files every week
- • Same $0.03/GiB overage as Tier 4
- • Designed for teams, studios, and power users
File Passes
Best when you only need PhotonFile occasionally.
- • Pay once per file
- • Ideal for one-off large sends
- • No ongoing commitment
- • Great if you send big files a few times per year
Rule of thumb: if PhotonFile becomes part of your weekly workflow, subscriptions are usually the better deal. For occasional large sends, File Passes are perfect.
Only consumed on success
Your File Pass is only marked as consumed when both peers finish sending all required bytes through the relay and nothing remains in flight.
Unlimited retries
Retry as many times as needed if something interrupts the transfer. Retry counts exist to improve reliability, not to throttle you.
Ephemeral by design
No accounts required for the free tier. No analytics beacons. No storage layer on relay nodes. The file data lives in memory only for the moments it is in transit.
During a transfer that uses a File Pass, the pass will be marked as in-use in your dashboard while it's in a pending-use state. If the transfer fails, it's state is changed back to available and becomes usable again.