Free vs Enterprise File Analysis: Which Do You Need?

Choosing a file analysis platform starts with a simple question: what problem are you solving? An individual checking a suspicious email attachment has very different needs from an IT team evaluating 500 software packages a month. Understanding where you fall on that spectrum helps you choose the right tier - and avoid paying for capabilities you don’t need.

Free Tier: The Essentials

The free tier is designed for individuals and small-scale use. It provides the same analysis depth as paid plans - the same engines, the same scoring model, the same vendor intelligence - with limits on volume and team features.

What You Get

• 50 analyses per month: Enough for personal use, occasional file checks, and evaluating the platform before committing to a paid plan.
• Full analysis depth: Threat detection, trust scoring, vendor intelligence, category classification, and behavioral indicators. Every analysis is the same comprehensive report, regardless of tier.
• No account required: Upload files and view results without creating an account. If you do create a free account, your analysis history is saved and searchable.
• 200+ file types: Executables, documents, scripts, archives, packages, media, fonts, configuration files, and more.

What You Don’t Get

• Team features: The free tier supports up to 3 users with no endpoint agents, no API keys, and no approval policies. It’s designed for individual use, not team workflows.
• Automation: Without API access or endpoint agents, every analysis is a manual upload. There’s no way to integrate file analysis into automated workflows or CI/CD pipelines.
• Governance: No approval rules, no sanctioned app lists, no policy enforcement. You see the analysis results, but you can’t codify organizational trust decisions into automated policies.

Who It’s For

The free tier is ideal for security-conscious individuals, freelancers who handle client files, researchers evaluating the platform, and anyone who occasionally needs to check whether a file is safe before opening it. If you’re analyzing fewer than 50 files a month and don’t need team features, the free tier covers your needs completely.

Enterprise Tiers: Scale and Control

The paid tiers - Pro, Business, and Enterprise - add the capabilities that organizations need to manage file analysis at scale. The core analysis is identical; the difference is in volume, automation, governance, and team management.

Team Management

Paid plans support multiple users with role-based access. Administrators can invite team members, assign roles, and manage permissions from the portal. Every action is logged in the audit trail, so you always know who did what and when.

The Pro tier supports up to 20 users, Business supports unlimited users, and Enterprise adds custom role definitions and organizational hierarchy support.

Endpoint Agents

Endpoint agents are lightweight programs that run on workstations and servers. They monitor file activity, automatically submit new files for analysis, and enforce approval policies in real time. Agents operate in monitor mode (log and alert) or enforce mode (quarantine and block).

For IT teams, agents transform file analysis from a reactive process (“someone uploaded a file for checking”) to a proactive one (“every new executable is automatically analyzed and evaluated against our policies”).

Pro supports 10 agents, Business supports 50, and Enterprise supports unlimited agent deployments.

API Access

The API lets you integrate file analysis into your existing workflows. Submit files programmatically, retrieve analysis results, manage your sanctioned app list, and query your analysis history. Common integrations include CI/CD pipeline checks (analyze build artifacts before release), help desk automation (analyze attachments from support tickets), and custom security tooling.

Pro provides 3 API keys, Business provides 10, and Enterprise provides unlimited keys with higher rate limits.

Approval Policies and Governance

Paid plans let you create approval rules that automatically evaluate files against your organizational criteria. Set trust score thresholds, vendor allowlists and blocklists, category restrictions, and signature requirements. Policies are evaluated during analysis and the result is recorded in the report.

Pro provides up to 5 policies, Business provides unlimited policies, and both support the full range of rule types. Enterprise adds custom rule logic and multi-level approval workflows.

Integrations

Business and Enterprise plans support integrations with external platforms. Send analysis results to your security information and event management system, enrich reports with third-party threat intelligence feeds, deliver notifications via webhooks, and export data for reporting and compliance.

These integrations let file analysis data flow into the tools your team already uses, rather than requiring everyone to check a separate portal.

SSO and Enterprise Security

Business plans include single sign-on federation, allowing your team to authenticate using your existing identity provider. Enterprise plans add advanced security features like custom session policies and dedicated support channels.

Making the Decision

The decision framework is straightforward:

If you need...	Choose...
Occasional file checks for personal use	Free
A small team with agents and basic policies	Pro
Organization-wide deployment with integrations	Business
Unlimited scale with custom requirements	Enterprise

Start Free, Scale When Ready

The free tier isn’t a trial - it’s a permanent plan. There’s no time limit, no credit card required, and no feature degradation. Use it for as long as it meets your needs. When your requirements grow - more volume, team features, automation, governance - upgrade to a paid plan. Your analysis history and settings carry over seamlessly.

The best way to evaluate any file analysis platform is to use it. Upload a file you’re curious about, review the analysis report, and see whether the depth of information meets your expectations. That first analysis takes less than a minute and costs nothing.