FileRun is a self-hosted file sharing application for your team. You install it on your server, so the files stay with you and no one else can reach them.
It uses the folders you already have. No import, no migration.
€9.9 per user per year. The storage is your own disk, so it is never billed.
The three things you cannot get from Dropbox, Box or Google Workspace at any price.
Your files and their metadata stay on your own server.
No outside company holds your data, and there is no monthly bill that grows
with your storage.
FileRun manages the files already on your server's filesystem, exactly where
they sit.
Point it at a directory and you are done.
FileRun never stores your files inside its database. They stay normal files in
normal folders.
You can still read them with rsync, Samba or any backup tool, even without
FileRun.
Share them, work on them together, reach them from anywhere, and find the one
you need.
Without sending anything to somebody else's cloud.
Stop e-mailing attachments and stop uploading company files to somebody else's cloud.
Share a folder or a file with one person, with a whole group, or with somebody outside
your organization — you choose what each of them is allowed to do.
Inside your organization
With people outside
Your files sit in a normal folder on your computer. Work in the programs you always
use, save as usual, and the changes go to the server on their own.
The same files are accessible from your mobile device, and from any program that speaks WebDAV.
On the computer
On a phone, or as a network drive
Read and edit documents without leaving FileRun, with the office suite your
organization already uses.
Several people can work on the same document at the same time, and
everybody sees the changes as they happen.
On your own server
Or an online service
Other web applications cut each file into chunks before sending it. That is why they
ask you to raise limits in the server configuration, and why they slow down or fail on
a folder with thousands of files.
FileRun streams the file instead. There is nothing to configure, and no
size to stay under.
Moving your files to your own server only helps if the software on it is secure.
Here is how we protect your files.
FileRun is put through third-party security audits on a regular basis, and
tested extensively before every release.
Findings are fixed and shipped, not filed away.
Every action is recorded with the IP address and the program that made it, and
the record keeps the user's name even after that account is renamed or
deleted.
Actions that fail are recorded too, and the record says why.
New accounts start with link sharing, guest sharing and file history turned
off.
Passwords use Argon2id, two-factor can be made compulsory, and changing a
password signs out every other session.
FileRun uses the systems your organization already has, carries your name instead of ours, and opens everything it does to your own software through a complete API.
Your users keep the accounts they already have. LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, Microsoft Azure, OAuth2, Authentik and more.
Your logo, your colors and your own wording throughout the interface. Start from a ready-made theme, or create your own.
Give your users desktop and mobile apps that carry your branding, not ours.
Self-hosting has a reputation for being hard work.
FileRun needs very little to run.
Linux or Windows servers.
Shared, dedicated or VPS hosting.
Unraid, TrueNAS or any other NAS.
Docker, a VM, or bare metal.
It only needs PHP and MySQL.
Thousands of users and millions of files on a single machine — no
high-availability cluster, no load balancers, no per-node licensing.
Fast enough on old hardware.
Update, and keep working. In continuous development since 2003.
You do not need to plan downtime, or prepare a way back to the old version.
The products FileRun is usually compared against charge four to eight times more for each user,
and then charge again for support that answers within a promised time.
Storage is your own disk, so it never reaches the bill at all.
| Self-hosted file sharing | Per user, per year | 100 users, per year | Support with an SLA |
|---|---|---|---|
| FileRun | €9.9 | €990 | Included |
| Seafile | $48 | $4,800 | + $5,000 a year |
| Pydio | €60 | €5,980 | Costs extra |
| Nextcloud | €71 | €7,129 | Included |
| FileCloud | $84 | $8,400 | Costs extra |
Prices taken from each company's own pricing page and checked in August 2026.
Every figure is an annual subscription, in the currency that company publishes. One hundred users is the smallest size all five of them will sell: Nextcloud does not sell below that number.
The rows are Seafile Professional, Pydio Cells Enterprise (they publish no Connect price at this size), Nextcloud Files Standard and FileCloud Server.
All five include some level of support. The last column is what it costs to add a promised response time and a person to talk to — which is what FileRun gives you at €9.9. Seafile publishes that price; Pydio and FileCloud ask you to request it.
30-day money-back guarantee on business plans.
Non-profit and public-benefit organizations pay a reduced price, or nothing.
A trial license for your own installation,
so you can point FileRun at your real folders and see what happens.
Or a live installation of ours, signed in as the administrator, with no sign-up.
€9.9 per user per year, every feature included. See the plans.
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