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Most free video hosts are a trial in disguise: a tiny quota, a watermark, or a clock that deletes your files after a week. FileHost.net is built the other way round. The free account is the product. You upload videos in a browser, over FTP, from a remote URL or through the API, and each one becomes a page you can share and a player you can embed on any site.
There is no bandwidth bill and no storage cap shown on the plans, so a growing library does not push you towards an upgrade. The one real limit on a free account is the size of a single file, which is 5 GB. Premium raises that to 20 GB per file. Everything else described below works the same on both.
Creators who want to publish tutorials, trailers or clips without paying a streaming service, webmasters who need an embeddable player for a blog or forum, and anyone who has a video too large for email and wants a link that simply plays. If you would rather just hand someone a file, the file hosting page covers that side of the service.
No trial period. These are available on the free tier today.
Videos are processed into adaptive HLS so playback starts quickly and seeks without downloading the whole file first.
Copy an iframe from your dashboard and drop it into a blog post, a course page or a web store.
Upload SRT subtitles in any of 45 languages and let viewers switch them on from the player.
A poster frame and hover thumbnails are generated automatically, and you can swap in your own splash image.
Organise uploads into folders, move and rename them from the dashboard or the API, and find anything with the built-in search.
Every counted view earns money, paid out from a 10 dollar minimum to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and other methods.
These figures come straight from the upload code and the plans page.
| Free account | Premium | |
|---|---|---|
| Largest single file | 5 GB | 20 GB |
| Inactive files | Removed after 60 days without activity | Never removed |
| Ads on your own dashboard | Shown | Ad-free experience |
| Encoding and upload queue | Standard | Priority |
| Player colour | Default | Custom colour |
| Price | 0 | $7.99 monthly, $37.99 for 6 months, $77.99 yearly |
Guest accounts created without sign-up keep videos for 7 days. Save the account to keep them longer. See the premium page for payment options.
Views on both the watch page and the embedded player are counted, and you keep the full rate for each. The headline rate is up to 33 dollars per 10,000 views for the highest-paying country group, with lower tiers for other regions. A view must come from a video longer than one minute, and each viewer is counted up to three times in 24 hours, which keeps the numbers honest.
You can also earn 10 percent of what the people you refer earn, for life. The earnings calculator lets you plug in your own traffic mix before you upload a single file.
Free accounts can lose files that are never opened for a long stretch; the published rule is 60 days of inactivity. Any view resets that clock, so a video people actually watch stays online. You can also set an automatic deletion period in your own settings if you prefer a tidy library. Premium accounts are exempt from inactivity deletion.
Upload only material you own or have permission to share. The service has a copyright policy and a DMCA manager, and accounts that abuse them are suspended. Legal adult content is permitted by the terms, but your player and your ads are still your responsibility.
If a file is too large for your connection, try the remote URL upload or the FTP option, both of which keep working if your browser tab closes. To shrink a clip first, the free video compressor runs entirely in your browser.
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Your first upload takes about a minute, and nothing needs installing. Start with one video and see the link, the player and the stats for yourself.
