One filespace for everything you and your team create. It mounts on your desktop and feels like a local hard drive — and instantly streams changes to your teammates in real time.
A global Dropbox-class service and a premium, customizable business file server — the same mount, seamlessly usable from the office, home and on the road.
Open a 100 GB master and scrub it immediately. Stone streams the bytes you touch — nothing downloads up front.
Identical chunks are stored once across your whole team. Your bill tracks unique data — costs fall as more people join a project.
Rename a folder in Oslo; it renames in the same breath in LA. Every connected client sees every change, live.
Subscribe to a file or a folder and get notified the instant it changes — perfect for hand-offs, ingest and render pipelines.
Hot, standard, archive and long-term tiers live in the same filespace. Last year's delivery cools off automatically — same folder, smaller bill.
Point Stone at your S3-compatible storage — any region, any provider, or on-prem. Your bytes, your account, our brains.
Native macOS drive, first-class Linux client and container mounts for pipelines. Windows is on the bench, warming up.
Every mutation is kept, down to nanosecond granularity. Rewind any folder to any moment — no snapshots needed.
Editors, photographers, musicians, film producers, animators, architects — anyone moving serious amounts of media across many hands. Sharing is instant; containers and the open API turn the filespace into a pipeline.
Ingest on set, edit in town. Spin up a container to encode proxies next to the footage — your NLE sees them appear in place.
AUDIOMultitrack direct to your filespace. Bounce the session — the producer gets the notification before you've left the live room.
RENDERSpin up render nodes in the cloud that mount the same filespace. No staging, no sync-in, no copy-out. Frames land in place.
AIConnect AI workloads that read and write directly to the filespace — transcription, tagging, upscaling — with full permission control.
PHOTOEvery shoot, every select, every retouch version — one browsable archive that costs what its unique pixels cost.
APIAn open REST API over everything: automate ingest, wire up review tools, build the workflow nobody sells.
Finder, your DAW, your NLE — they all see an ordinary disk. Behind it, every file is split into chunks — small, immutable pieces, each with a unique fingerprint. Like pebbles on a shore, no two are alike, and together they make up every file in the filespace.
Drag an 86 GB clip onto your Stone drive. The client splits it into chunks and fingerprints each one on your machine — before a single byte moves.
Chunks the bedrock has already seen — from anyone on the project — never upload again. A colleague with 90% of your footage sends only the new 10%.
The file appears on every connected mount the moment it lands. Bytes stream direct between you and storage — the brain hands out the map, never the data.
Solid as rock. Fluid as water. Read how deduplication works →
We respect the competition — and we built Stone because none of them go far enough. Here's the honest picture.
| Stone | LucidLink | Shade | JuiceFS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mounts to your desktop as a real external drive (no NAS) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Instant open of huge files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
| Global dedup across users/projects/tenants | ✓ | — | — | — |
| You pay for unique data only | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Instant metadata mutations (below 20 ms) | ✓ | ~ | ~ | — |
| Infinite snapshots with nanosecond granularity | ✓ | ~ | ~ | — |
| Hot → long-term tiering in one namespace | ✓ | — | ~ | ~ |
| Bring your own bucket | ✓ | ~ | — | ✓ |
| Cross-tenant directory sharing with global permissions | ✓ | ~ | ~ | — |
| Container / render-node mounts | ✓ | ~ | — | ✓ |
| Open REST API | ✓ | — | ~ | ~ |
| Fully managed service | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
| Windows client | soon | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
✓ built in · ~ partial or add-on · — not offered. Based on each vendor's public documentation, mid-2026. Spotted an error? Tell us.
Stone is young. We're in invite-only preview, our SLA starts at the Business tier, and our ecosystem is smaller than a decade-old incumbent's. We'd rather you know.
The Windows client is in development — “coming” means coming, not shipped. Windows-heavy shops can reach Stone through containers and the API today.
Stone streams. Folders you pin stay usable offline, but the rest of your filespace waits until you're back online. If your work is mostly off-grid, we're not your first pick — yet.
Every plan includes global deduplication — you pay for unique data, not copies. As your team grows, your cost per person falls. That's a model the others can't match.
Freelancers and independents with serious archives.
1 TB unique data included · +$10 per extra TB
Small teams that live in the same projects.
3+ seats · 5 TB pooled · +$8 per extra TB
Growing organizations with structure and standards.
10+ seats · 25 TB pooled · +$6 per extra TB
Studios and broadcasters with their own rules.
Dedicated cells or self-hosted
Suggested launch pricing, billed annually in USD — monthly billing +20%. Every plan starts as a free 200 GB preview filespace, no card required.
Encrypted in transit and at rest, immutable by design, audited by people whose job is to distrust us.
Audit reports available under NDA. Read about our security model →
Start a free 200 GB filespace and drag something heavy into it.
You'll know within minutes.
