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Filestack vs Pantry

Filestack

Filestack is a file-upload and processing API that handles ingestion from local disk, cloud drives, and URLs, plus on-the-fly transformations like image resizing and document conversion. A live POST against the real gateway, www.filestackapi.com/api/store/S3, returned a 400 without a valid key, reconfirming API-key auth and HTTPS, and a follow-up OPTIONS preflight echoed the request Origin in Access-Control-Allow-Origin, resolving cors from unknown to yes. Filestack starts with a free plan for low-volume use and scales into paid Growth, Pro, and Enterprise tiers as upload and processing volume grows.

Pantry

Pantry is a free JSON storage service for small projects and prototypes: each Pantry is a namespaced bucket identified by an ID in the URL path, holding arbitrary JSON "baskets" read and written over a plain REST API. A live GET and OPTIONS preflight with an Origin header against the real host, getpantry.cloud/apiv1/pantry/, both returned Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, reconfirming cors as yes; no API key is required (the Pantry ID itself is the access credential), and HTTPS was reconfirmed. The service is entirely free with no paid tier.

FilestackPantry
AuthenticationAPI KeyNone
Pricingfreemiumfree
FormatsJSONJSON
CORSyesyes
HTTPSYesYes

Pantry needs no API key, while Filestack requires API Key — pick Pantry to start without signup.

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