FileBackerz vs Egnyte
Looking for a Egnyte alternative for your business? Egnyte Business costs $220 a month for a 10-person team at annual rates. FileBackerz costs $49.99 a month for the whole workspace, with unlimited members. Here is every row of our comparison, including the ones Egnyte wins.
- FileBackerz · 10 users
$49.99
$499.90 / year, flat
- Egnyte Business · 10 users
$220
$2,640 / year, annual rate
- Price gap
4.4×
and it widens with every hire
Which one fits
Egnyte charges per user, so its price rises with every person you add. FileBackerz charges once for the workspace: staff, clients, contractors and auditors are all included. For the 10-person team in this comparison, Egnyte costs about 4.4 times as much.
FileBackerz has no desktop sync client, no mobile apps (it runs in the browser), no real-time co-editing, no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification, no published uptime SLA. Each file can be up to 100 MB. If your team depends on any of those, Egnyte may be the better fit - the table below shows exactly where.
FileBackerz and Egnyte, side by side
| Row | FileBackerz | EgnyteBusiness |
|---|---|---|
| Headline price | Not per-user - $49.99/mo flat for the whole workspace ($499.90/yr, 2 months free) | $22/user/mo, paid annually |
| Total, 10 users, per month | $49.99/mo flat, incl. 1 TB | $220/mo, paid annually |
| Total, 10 users, per year | $499.90/yr annual, or $599.88/yr monthly | $2,640/yr |
| Storage included | 1 TB pooled | Not shown on Egnyte's public pricing pageUNVERIFIED |
| Growing beyond the included storage | Connect your own S3, Azure, GCS or Google Drive bucket and pay your provider directly - no markup from us | Custom / contact salesUNVERIFIED |
| Minimum seat count | None - unlimited members, no per-user fee | Maximum 100 users on Business; minimum not publishedUNVERIFIED |
| Fees for external collaborators | None | External user accounts included; number not publishedUNVERIFIED |
| Granular folder permissions | 7 permissions per folder, for a member or a group: View, Download, Upload, Edit, Delete, Share, Manage; inherited by subfolders and files | Discretionary / granular folder permissioning |
| Inbound file requests, no account | Yes - file requests and folder shares | Yes - Upload Links for people outside the account (up to 25 GB per file); plan availability not stated |
| Bring your own storage bucket | Yes - S3, Azure, GCS, Google Drive at provider cost, no markup | Data residency / BYO cloud storage from Enterprise Lite up - not on Business |
| File version history | 50 versions, one-click restore | Versioning and global file locking; version count not publishedUNVERIFIED |
| Audit logging, exportable | Yes; exportable; 12-month retention | Audit reporting included; CSV export |
| Custom branding | Yes, plus custom subdomain | Custom subdomain at signupUNVERIFIED |
| Free trial | 60 days, no card required (cannot auto-convert) | 15-day trial; no credit card required |
| SOC 2 / ISO 27001 | Neither - stated publicly on our trust page | SOC 2 Type 2; ISO 27001:2022 |
| Desktop sync client | No | Yes - desktop app |
| Mobile apps | No - browser only | Yes (iOS / Android) |
| Real-time co-editing | No | Yes - M365 and Google Workspace co-editing |
| Max single file size | 100 MB per file, including uploads through a share link or file request | Uploads up to 100 GB on Business |
| Published SLA | None - provided as-is | Published SLA, service-credit based |
| Data export after cancellation | 30 days to export, then deletion | Per contractUNVERIFIED |
Egnyte figures are US list prices from Egnyte's own published pages, verified 12 November 2026. Cells marked UNVERIFIED could not be sourced to that page and are left visible rather than guessed at.
Questions, answered
Is FileBackerz cheaper than Egnyte?
For a 10-person team at annual rates, Egnyte Business is $220 a month ($2,640 a year) and FileBackerz is $49.99 a month ($499.90 a year), so Egnyte costs about 4.4 times as much. FileBackerz charges per workspace rather than per user, so the difference grows with the team. Prices as of 12 November 2026.
What does Egnyte have that FileBackerz does not?
FileBackerz has no desktop sync client, no mobile apps (it runs in the browser), no real-time co-editing, no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification, and no published uptime SLA. Each file can be up to 100 MB. If your team depends on any of those, check Egnyte's column in the table above.
Do clients and contractors need a paid seat in FileBackerz?
No. Every FileBackerz plan includes unlimited members, so clients, contractors and auditors cost nothing extra, and file requests let anyone upload files without creating an account.
Try it against your Egnyte bill.
60 days free, no credit card. The table above includes what we do not do.