Dropbox or Drive?
Built for documents, not 4 TB projects. Premiere has to download the whole thing before it’ll even play a frame.
The shared drive for very large files.
Stop waiting. Start working.
Swarmfile is one shared drive for projects too big to sync. Open a 4 TB file in seconds - from any office in the world.
No full-file downloadsNo syncingNo drives in the mail
Free for 7 days · cancel anytime · nothing charged until day 7.
Every change versionedOne-click rollbackEncryptedFull audit trailNative on Windows, macOS & Linux
Running in production from 22-seat studios to 2,000-seat firms - post, architecture, and construction.
Why teams can’t work without it
Your project files are the business. Don’t gamble the business.
Fast is the easy part. The reason you can’t run without Swarmfile is that your work can’t be lost, corrupted, held hostage, stolen, or stuck.
Never lose the work.
A laptop dies or a drive fails - and your project doesn’t even notice. Every file lives in the cloud and on every machine that’s touched it. Lose one; lose nothing.
Cloud + LAN + optional NAS, erasure-coded
Ransomware can’t hold you hostage.
The moment something starts overwriting your files, Swarmfile quarantines it. Roll the project back to this morning - and lock the attacker out.
Inline detection + one-click rollback
Know who changed what. And undo it.
Every change is versioned and attributed. See who touched a file and when, roll a bad change back in one click, and branch to try a variant without touching the master. No more “final_v3_REAL”.
Version control + full audit trail
Your footage stays yours.
Every file is encrypted at rest, on every tier. Turn on end-to-end and not even we can see it. Pre-release IP passes the security review.
AES-256 + opt-in end-to-end
What you saved is what you get.
Every block is checked byte-for-byte, so a bad drive or a flaky network can never sneak corruption into your project. No glitched frames, no “the file won’t open”.
BLAKE3 verified on every block
Nobody waits. Ever.
Open a 4 TB project in seconds, from anywhere. The whole office shares one cloud fetch, not one per editor. No downloads, no syncs, no drives in the mail.
Stream on demand, LAN-first
How it works
How a 4 TB file opens in seconds.
1
Mount
Your whole project shows up as a normal drive. Browse 10,000 files - nothing lands on your disk.
2
Open
Open a file and only the bytes your app actually reads stream in - never the whole thing. Seconds, not hours.
3
Cache
The first person to open a file warms it for everyone. The next gets it from them - not the cloud.
One fetch per office - not per editor. The cloud lights up once; the LAN serves everyone else.
Who it’s for
One engine, for teams that live in big files.
Media & EntertainmentReady today
Mount the project. Start cutting.
VFX, post, color and audio. A 4 TB Resolve or Premiere project opens instantly - in the studio, at home, or across two continents. The colorist in Berlin scrubs the cut the editor in LA just saved.
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Geospatial & Survey
Open a 200 GB point cloud in seconds.
Civil, survey and drone-mapping. Stream only the tile you’re looking at - the rest never touches your disk.
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Architecture, Engineering & ConstructionWorksharing coming soon
Version and lock your building models.
Architecture, MEP and structural. File locking, full history, audit trail. Revit worksharing is on the roadmap.
Explore for AEC →Working solo?
One person, one drive, every version.
You don’t need a team to need Swarmfile. Mount a bottomless drive for projects bigger than your disk, open a 200 GB file without downloading it, and roll back to any past save. Starter starts at a single seat - $5 / month.
Not on this list? If your team works with very large files in desktop apps - game builds, 3D and CAD, photography - Swarmfile still fits. Talk to us →
But isn’t this just…
Why not just…
The four things teams try first - and where each one breaks on a 4 TB project.
A NAS over VPN?
Great in the office, painful from home, dead when the connection drops. And you paid for all the hardware.
Shuttle drives?
Cheap - until you count the courier, the two-day wait, and the editor working from last week’s copy.
LucidLink?
The closest thing to us - but it fetches everything from the cloud. Every editor in the room pays the same round-trip. We serve the office once, then share it over the LAN.
See the full comparison →What it removes
What Swarmfile takes off your plate.
0 B
on disk until you open it
Browse 10,000 files in a 4 TB project without downloading a single one.
Zero
wait to open
A multi-terabyte project mounts instantly. Directory listings are sub-millisecond.
No
shuttle drives in the mail
LA opens what Berlin just saved. No courier, no two-day wait, no stale copies.
Binary-asset version control
Version control your binaries. Without the version control.
The power teams switch to Perforce for - branch, commit, merge - built into a drive you just mount. No repo to clone, no checkout dance, nothing new for your editors to learn. It’s there when you need it, invisible when you don’t.
Branch a project
Fork a whole project to try a look-dev variant or a design option - instantly, without copying a terabyte. Each workstation works its own branch over the same shared blocks.
Commit a changeset
Group a multi-file change into one named, atomic commit. See the full history, and revert an entire changeset in one move - not file by file.
Merge it back
Land your branch onto main with a whole-file merge and conflict detection. Binaries are winner-take-all - you pick which wins, never a silent clobber.
Perforce-grade control for the files git was never built for - and your editors never have to think about it. See how it works →
See it in action
Real recordings, not a mock-up.
Watch the actual engine open a 200 GB file instantly, stream only the bytes you read, and keep working when a peer dies or the hub goes offline. Unedited terminal captures - scrub them, replay them, copy the commands.
Review on the drive
Feedback where the work already lives.
Comment on any file and @-mention a teammate - internal or a guest reviewer - right where it lives. Resolve threads, reply inline, and pin a note to a spot on the file. No round-trip to email, Slack, or a separate review tool, and nothing to export before a client can weigh in.
What’s actually on this machine
See what’s downloaded, and what isn’t.
Every row shows exactly how much of a file lives on this machine right now - synced, partly cached, or still cloud-only. A 40 GB point cloud can sit at zero bytes on disk until someone actually opens it - no sync client to configure, no folder to babysit.
Real-time activity
Know what happened, the moment it happens.
A live, cross-machine feed of every commit, branch switch, comment, and CI run on the project - who did what, and when. No polling a shared drive to guess what changed since lunch.
Included with every plan
Everything else you get out of the box.
Work offline
Close the laptop on the train and keep working. Reconnect and your changes merge back - or you pick a winner. Never a silent lost edit.
Roll back anything
Every change is versioned. Someone overwrites a file, or ransomware strikes? Roll the whole project back to any moment - and lock the bad actor out.
See who’s in a file
Real-time presence shows exactly who has a file open right now - not just who’s online. No more overwriting someone mid-edit.
Ask for it back
Need a file someone else has locked? Request it in a click. They get a prompt; it hands over the moment they’re done. No Slack message, no waiting around.
Review on the drive
Comment on any file and @-mention a teammate - internal or a guest reviewer - right where the work lives. No round-trip to email or a separate review tool.
Find anything instantly
Full-text search across every file, project, and person in your org - one search box, deep-linked results, no digging through folders.
Encrypted by default
Every file is encrypted with your project’s own key before it leaves your machine. Your footage and models stay yours. Need us locked out entirely? An opt-in end-to-end tier keeps your keys off our servers - see how.
Guest reviewers, no seat
Give a client or consultant read-or-comment access to one folder. Audit-trailed, revoked in a click - and it never costs a paid seat.
Move in without the pain
Migrate from S3, a NAS, or a local drive with one command - verified, resumable, with a full report. We’ll help you do it.
Works with DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Nuke, Houdini, After Effects, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Maya, Cinema 4D, ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, AutoCAD Civil 3D, MicroStation, Trimble Business Center, Cloud Compare, Agisoft Metashape, Bentley OpenRoads, Global Mapper, Pix4Dmapper, AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks, Rhino, SketchUp, ArchiCAD, Vectorworks, Bluebeam Revu, Tekla Structures.
In production today
22 to 2,000 seatsIn production across a VFX studio (LA + Berlin), a UK architecture firm, and a US construction firm.
Direct line to the engineersYou work with the team building Swarmfile - not a ticket queue.
Founding rate, locked to 2027Lock today’s pricing through 2027 - it holds as we grow.
In their words
Teams already running Swarmfile in production.
Studios and firms already running Swarmfile in production. Their feedback shapes every release.
“The first time our colorist opened the cut from her apartment in Berlin, the proxy range she scrubbed landed in under a second. We retired the LA ↔ Berlin shuttle drive the next week.”
“We're piloting on a 12-tower Revit central model across two offices. The byte-range lock is the part everyone said couldn't work.”
“Multi-GB CAD and Revit worksets between field laptops and the home office used to mean a courier. Now it's just there.”
Quotes shared with our partners’ permission. Names and logos will follow once they’re ready to go public.
Stop waiting. Start working.
Two ways in. Start a 7-day Pro trial - card on file, nothing charged until day 7. Or start on Starter, $5 a seat a month. Bring your own NAS; we’ll help you migrate.
Cancel anytime before day 7. No hard drives were harmed in the making of this drive.