What free video hosting means here

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.

Who it suits

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.

Everything a free account includes

No trial period. These are available on the free tier today.

Стриминг HLS

Videos are processed into adaptive HLS so playback starts quickly and seeks without downloading the whole file first.

Embed in one line

Copy an iframe from your dashboard and drop it into a blog post, a course page or a web store.

Субтитры

Upload SRT subtitles in any of 45 languages and let viewers switch them on from the player.

Poster and previews

A poster frame and hover thumbnails are generated automatically, and you can swap in your own splash image.

Folders and search

Organise uploads into folders, move and rename them from the dashboard or the API, and find anything with the built-in search.

Earnings on views

Every counted view earns money, paid out from a 10 dollar minimum to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and other methods.

Host your first video in five steps

  1. 1Press Start uploading free. You can create a full account, or take the one-click guest option and save the account later.
  2. 2Drop one or more video files onto the uploader. Accepted formats include MP4, MKV, MOV, AVI, WebM, WMV, FLV and 3GP, and each file may be up to 5 GB.
  3. 3Wait for processing. The server converts the file for streaming and builds a poster and preview strip while you keep working.
  4. 4Copy the watch link or the embed code from your video list and paste it wherever you need it.
  5. 5Open the earnings page to see what each thousand views pays in your audience countries, then decide whether to add your own ads.

Free and premium limits side by side

These figures come straight from the upload code and the plans page.

Бесплатный аккаунтPremium
Largest single file5 GB20 GB
Inactive filesRemoved after 60 days without activityNever removed
Ads on your own dashboardShownAd-free experience
Encoding and upload queueStandardPriority
Player colourDefaultCustom colour
Price0$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.

How free video hosting makes money for you

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.

What happens to your videos over time

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.

Things worth knowing before you upload

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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Инструменты и руководства

Хотите попробовать?

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.

Частые вопросы

Yes. A free account can upload, stream and embed videos and earn from views. Premium adds bigger files, priority processing and a custom player colour, but it is optional.

Up to 5 GB per file on a free account and 20 GB per file on premium. The size of your whole library is not capped on the plans page.

Common ones such as MP4, MKV, MOV, AVI, WebM, WMV, FLV, 3GP, MPEG and M4V. The server converts them for streaming after upload.

Free accounts can lose files that go 60 days without any activity, and guest uploads last 7 days. Premium files are never removed for inactivity.

Yes. Every video has an iframe embed code, and the player works inside blog posts, forums and shops without extra plugins.