Tiers

FileForge has two tiers: Free and Forge Pro ($8/month).

Free

• 5 conversions per day
• Files up to 10 MB
• 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)
• 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
• 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
• 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

Upgrading during the v1.0.0 beta

Self-serve Stripe checkout arrives in V2. For now, email hi@aldrickb.com with the email you signed up with and we'll upgrade your account.

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.
• 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. Oversized uploads are rejected by MinIO's Content-Length policy before they reach the API.
2. Create conversion — the API validates format gating, preset allowlists, preserve_metadata, bulk count, and daily_conversions < tier.daily_limit.
3. API key auth — every /v1/* request re-checks subscription_tier IN ('pro', 'enterprise'). A mid-session downgrade revokes access immediately.