Editorial take
Why it stands out
If regulated, read DPA and data region statements—UploadThing is middleware, not your compliance program.
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Tool profile
File upload service for Next.js and React with storage, CDN delivery, and type-safe APIs.
SaaS onboarding collecting documents or images
UploadThing wraps presigned uploads, progress UI, and server callbacks for React-oriented frameworks so teams avoid bespoke S3 glue.
Public marketing emphasizes authentication on your server and uploads on their infrastructure. Pricing is tiered with a free path for development and paid plans scaling with stored or delivered bytes and concurrent upload needs—numbers rotate quickly, so uploadthing.com/pricing and the billing screen after login are authoritative.
Pair with virus scanning or DLP in your onUploadComplete hook if files are user-generated and sensitive.
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Editorial take
If regulated, read DPA and data region statements—UploadThing is middleware, not your compliance program.
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Pricing snapshot
UploadThing's public pricing now shows a 2 GB free App plan at $0 per month, a 100 GB App plan at $10 per month, and a usage-based plan at $25 per month with 250 GB included and $0.08 per extra GB. The paid plans also add longer audit-log retention, private files, and region controls.
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