Filebase
Filebase is object storage with an S3-compatible interface whose buckets are backed by decentralized networks, IPFS among them. The consequence is unusual in this market: no client library is required, because every tool that already speaks bucket semantics — the AWS command line, backup software, Terraform, anything with an S3 driver — works against it unmodified.
The bucket is the pinset#
Files written to an IPFS bucket are pinned automatically, and Filebase has long described the pinning as geo-redundant across separate locations. The current pinning documentation does not state a replication factor, which puts it in the same position as most of this market — the quiet variable is how many copies “pinned” means, and the answer is usually not written down.
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Each object’s content identifier (CID) is exposed as object metadata, so an upload through ordinary S3 tooling still produces a content address that anything else on the network can fetch.
The standard API, scoped per bucket#
Filebase also serves the
Pinning Service API, with the
client appending /pins to the service root itself:
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Scoping the token to one bucket rather than to the whole account is the detail that distinguishes it operationally: separate projects get separate pinsets, separate credentials, and separate blast radius, without separate accounts.
Migration is the pitch#
Filebase shipped an import tool for Infura’s pinset when that service wound down, moving pinned CIDs into a bucket without a manual export and re-pin of each one. That is the concrete form of the portability argument the rest of this section makes in the abstract: the destination provider builds the on-ramp, because the standard API makes it cheap to build.
What to check#
There is a free allowance and paid plans start around a flat monthly minimum, with per-gigabyte pricing on some backends covering storage and bandwidth together. The bucket abstraction hides which backend an object landed on, so the network a bucket is configured for is worth confirming rather than assuming.