Filestage vs Wasabi Comparison 2026
Both cover media storage & review. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Review and approval in one thread per file
Object storage at one rate, with no egress fee
At a glance
- Wasabi starts cheaper, at $7.99.
- Only Filestage has a free tier.
Side by side
Filestage | Wasabi | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $199 | From $7.99 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Paid subscription |
| Free tier (they differ) | Yes | No |
| Billing | Not stated | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | 14 days | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Data export | Not stated | Everything, in an open format |
| Their cut | None |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Filestage
Review and approval in one thread per file
Filestage collects feedback on a video, PDF or design in one place, with comments pinned to a timecode or a spot on the page, and an approval step that records who signed off. Reviewers do not need an account, which is what stops a client asking to be sent it in email instead. The free plan carries five new files a month, so it works as a trial that never expires on small jobs.
Our note
The gap between free and $199 is the whole decision, and there is nothing in between. Count your files per month honestly: at six or seven you are better off tightening the process than paying two thousand a year for the difference.
Only on this side
- Covers project management
Wasabi
Object storage at one rate, with no egress fee
Wasabi sells cloud storage as a flat rate per terabyte and charges nothing to get the data back out, which is the line item that makes a bill from the big clouds unpredictable. For an archive of finished footage that gets pulled occasionally, that is the whole calculation. It speaks the same API as S3, so most backup software already knows how to talk to it. There is a minimum retention period, and it is worth reading before moving anything.
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