Filen vs Tresorit Comparison

• 100 GiB, Starter for 1 year: €11.99 billed yearly
• 200 GiB, Pro I for 1 year: €19.99 billed yearly
• 500 GiB, Pro II for 1 year: €39.99 billed yearly
• 2 TiB, Pro III for 1 year: €89.99 billed yearly
• 10 TiB, Pro X for 1 year: €399.99 billed yearly

• 50 GB, Personal Lite monthly: $5.99 a month
• 50 GB, Personal Lite for 1 year: $57 billed yearly
• 1 TB, Personal Essential monthly: $13.99 a month
• 1 TB, Personal Essential for 1 year: $143.88 billed yearly
• 4 TB, Personal Pro monthly: $33.99 a month
• 4 TB, Personal Pro for 1 year: $329.88 billed yearly

Filen says files are encrypted on your device with AES-256-GCM, each file with its own key, and that file names, folder names and file metadata are encrypted with a key derived from your password. The web app at app.filen.io receives its encryption code from Filen each time it loads and keeps your keys in the browser's local storage. Filen still sees your email address, IP address, how much storage you use and payment references.

Tresorit says files, file names and subfolder names are encrypted on your device, each with its own key. The names of top-level folders, their size and member list, and file size, type and creation time are not end-to-end encrypted. Recipients' public keys are vouched for by Tresorit's own certificate authority. Web Access decrypts files in your browser with code that Tresorit serves on every visit.

Penetration tests, a source code review and a cryptographic review of the end-to-end encryption and the web, mobile and desktop apps, carried out in August and September 2019. Commissioned by Tresorit.

Filen Cloud Dienste UG (haftungsbeschränkt) is registered at the District Court of Recklinghausen, Germany, and its terms are governed by German law. Filen says all its servers are its own hardware in colocation data centers in Germany; payment data passes through PayPal, Stripe and Coinbase, which also process it in the US.

Tresorit AG is registered in Zurich, and its terms are governed by Swiss law. Files of personal accounts outside Switzerland are stored on Microsoft Azure in Ireland, and files of Swiss customers in Switzerland; account metadata is always stored in Ireland.

A small German company represented by Jan Lenczyk, officially founded in May 2021. Filen says it has no outside investors and grew on sales of its earlier lifetime plans; its roadmap lists a planned change of legal form from UG to GmbH.

Swiss Post acquired a majority stake in July 2021. Tresorit says it remains an independent company within the Swiss Post group, which runs it as part of its digital business services.

Up to 100 versions per file, kept for as long as the file itself exists; versions count toward your storage and can be turned off. Deleted files stay in the trash for up to 30 days.

Personal Lite keeps 5 previous versions of each file, Personal Essential 10 and Personal Pro 25. Earlier versions can be downloaded but not set back as the current file. Deleted files and subfolders can be restored from the trash; deleted top-level folders cannot.