Tiers

FileForge has three tiers: Free, Forge Pro, and Max. See the pricing page for current pricing.

Free

• 5 conversions per day
• Files up to 10 MB
• 200 MB total stored at once (inputs + outputs)
• 24-hour output retention
• Standard queue priority
• Image conversions (PNG, JPG, WebP)
• Audio conversions (MP3, WAV, OGG)
• Video conversions (MP4, WebM)
• Document conversions (PDF, DOCX, ODT, TXT, HTML, MD)
• PDF → images (PNG/JPG, selected pages bundled as a ZIP)
• Same-format re-encode (e.g. PNG → PNG, MP3 → MP3, PDF → PDF) — apply the optional settings without changing format
• Archive conversions (ZIP, TAR, TAR.GZ)

Forge Pro

Everything in Free, plus:

• Unlimited daily conversions (configurable cap in admin settings)
• Files up to 500 MB
• 2 GB total stored at once (inputs + outputs)
• 7-day output retention
• Priority queue — Pro jobs jump ahead of the Free line
• All audio formats — FLAC, AAC, M4A
• All video formats — MOV, MKV, 1080p high-quality presets
• All document round-trips — DOC, RTF, XLSX, XLS, ODS, PPTX, PPT, ODP to PDF
• PDF → editable Word/ODT/RTF, and any document → images (ZIP)
• 7z archive output
• Bulk uploads — up to 20 files per submission
• Metadata preservation — opt in to keep EXIF, ID3, and document author fields
• API access — personal ff_live_… keys with per-key scopes

Max

Everything in Forge Pro, plus higher limits for heavy workloads:

• Files up to 2 GB
• 10 GB total stored at once (inputs + outputs)
• 30-day output retention
• Bulk uploads — up to 100 files per submission
• Priority queue and all Pro formats/features

Upgrading

Choose a plan and check out from the pricing page — billing is handled in your ObraHaus account (the console owns plans, payment, and entitlements; FileForge reads your tier from it). Your new limits apply as soon as the upgrade is recorded.

Downgrade

If your Pro subscription expires or is revoked:

• Your daily conversion cap drops back to 5.
• The file-size cap drops to 10 MB, and the total-storage cap drops to 200 MB. (You won't lose files already stored, but you can't upload or convert again until you're back under 200 MB.)
• Any existing API keys immediately stop working — the auth middleware re-checks subscription_tier on every request, so there is no grace period.
• Outputs already stored under the Pro retention window revert to the Free window after the next cleanup pass.
• Conversions already queued with Pro priority finish as Pro; new submissions go through the Free lane.

Tier enforcement

Tier checks happen at three points:

1. Presign upload — the signed URL is capped at tier.max_file_mb, and the upload is also rejected up front if it would push your total stored size over tier.max_storage_mb. Finalization re-checks both against the real object size.
2. Create conversion — the API validates format gating, preset allowlists, preserve_metadata, bulk count, daily_conversions < tier.daily_limit, and that you aren't already over your storage cap.
3. API key auth — every /v1/* request re-checks subscription_tier IN ('pro', 'max'). A mid-session downgrade revokes access immediately.