Never Pay for IPFS Bandwidth Again

For teams building serious infrastructure on IPFS, bandwidth—not storage—has become the real constraint.

Indexers retrieving large datasets.
NFT marketplaces serving metadata at scale.
Pinned subgraphs queried continuously.
RPC infrastructure publishing and retrieving content around the clock.

In these environments, bandwidth variability introduces cost uncertainty, operational friction, and scaling risk.

Today, Filebase is removing that problem entirely.

Introducing Unlimited IPFS Bandwidth

We’re launching a new Unlimited plan designed specifically for high-throughput, production-grade IPFS workloads—so teams can scale traffic without worrying about bandwidth ceilings or overage bills.

Never pay for IPFS bandwidth again.

♾️ The Unlimited Plan

The new Unlimited plan is built for organizations where IPFS traffic is not occasional—it’s foundational.

Unlimited — $500 / month

• 25 TB of storage
• Unlimited IPFS bandwidth
• Unlimited buckets
• 10 Dedicated IPFS gateways + CDN
• Extra storage: $0.03 / GB

This plan is designed for sustained, high-volume retrieval and predictable monthly costs, even as traffic grows.

No meters.
No usage-based surprises.
No bandwidth anxiety.

Why Bandwidth Becomes the Bottleneck

Most IPFS providers rely on cloud infrastructure or third-party CDNs. In those environments, bandwidth scales unpredictably as traffic grows, which forces providers to pass that variability on to customers through usage-based fees.

These providers charge for bandwidth because they have to.

They typically run on:

• AWS or other metered cloud infrastructure
• Cloudflare-based gateways
• Filecoin-backed storage optimized for cold or archival data

Every GB retrieved carries a real marginal cost—so those costs get passed directly to customers as bandwidth or egress fees.

For customers, these models can work for light or occasional usage. But they break down quickly when applications depend on sustained, high-volume retrieval.

At Filebase, we took a different approach.

Purpose-Built IPFS Infrastructure

Filebase operates IPFS infrastructure designed from the ground up for predictable, sustained throughput.

By running on bare metal and controlling our gateway and retrieval stack end-to-end, we’re able to plan capacity around real-world IPFS usage patterns—rather than reacting to short-term traffic spikes.

This allows us to offer:

• Generous included bandwidth on standard plans
• Flat, predictable pricing for teams with heavy retrieval requirements
• A true Unlimited plan for workloads that need guaranteed headroom

Bandwidth tiers help keep lower-cost plans accessible and fair for most projects, while the Unlimited plan exists for teams that want to remove bandwidth as an operational variable entirely.

What Counts as IPFS Bandwidth at Filebase

When we talk about IPFS bandwidth, we mean all content retrieval across the Filebase IPFS network, including:

• Retrieval via the Filebase public gateway
• Requests served through dedicated and trustless gateways
• Peer-to-peer retrieval over Bitswap
• Content accessed as part of pinning, replication, or indexing workflows
• End-user application traffic fetching IPFS content

There are no hidden exclusions.

If your content is being retrieved from the Filebase IPFS network, it’s included.

Built for High-Bandwidth IPFS Use Cases

The new Unlimited plan is designed for teams where IPFS traffic is not incidental—it’s core to the product.

🔗 Pinning Network Subgraphs

Indexers and analytics platforms routinely pin and serve:

• Large subgraph snapshots
• Frequently updated datasets
• Read-heavy content consumed by downstream services

Subgraph workloads generate constant retrieval traffic. Unlimited bandwidth removes the need to model, cap, or throttle usage.

🖼️ NFT Marketplaces & Metadata Platforms

NFT platforms often serve:

• Images
• Metadata
• Traits and previews
• Marketplace and secondary market traffic

Traffic spikes during launches or viral moments shouldn’t translate into unexpected infrastructure costs. Filebase enables NFT teams to scale distribution without scaling bandwidth anxiety.

📊 Indexers & Data Distribution Pipelines

Blockchain indexers and analytics tools rely on IPFS to:

• Distribute snapshots
• Share datasets internally and externally
• Serve large volumes of read traffic

These workloads benefit from flat, predictable pricing that doesn’t penalize success.

⚙️ RPC Nodes & Protocol Infrastructure

Infrastructure providers use IPFS for:

• Publishing chain data
• Sharing artifacts and checkpoints
• Synchronizing data across environments

Sustained retrieval is the norm—not the exception. Unlimited bandwidth removes a major source of operational friction.

💸 Professional DeFi Applications

DeFi platforms depend on fast, reliable content access during periods of high on-chain activity. Removing bandwidth variability simplifies planning and reduces risk during peak demand.

Other Filebase Plans

While the Unlimited plan is built for heavy IPFS workloads, Filebase continues to offer generous plans for projects at every stage.

🆓 Free Plan

• 1 GB storage
• 10 GB bandwidth
• 1 bucket
• 500 files
• 1 dedicated gateway + CDN

🚀 Starter — $20 / month

• 1 TB storage
• 1 TB bandwidth
• 100 buckets
• 1 dedicated gateway + CDN
• Extra storage: $0.05 / GB

🔥 Pro — $100 / month

• 5 TB storage
• 5 TB bandwidth
• 500 buckets
• 5 dedicated gateways + CDN
• Extra storage: $0.03 / GB

These plans are ideal for developers, startups, and growing teams with predictable traffic profiles.

Predictable IPFS at Scale

Most projects benefit from generous bandwidth tiers that keep pricing accessible and simple. For teams running sustained, high-volume IPFS workloads, the Unlimited plan removes bandwidth from the equation entirely.

If your application:

• Serves large volumes of IPFS content
• Pins and retrieves subgraphs or datasets continuously
• Operates infrastructure where traffic is a constant, not a variable

The Filebase Unlimited plan is built for you.

👉 Never pay for IPFS bandwidth again.
👉 Explore plans at filebase.com/pricing