DocEvent vs SFTPCloud
Both products put a managed SFTP endpoint in front of cloud storage without a server to run. The differences are the pricing model — per-instance tiers against per-user — where the free tier sits, and how far each goes beyond the endpoint itself.
Side by side
SFTPCloud figures from its published pricing page, retrieved 16 August 2026. DocEvent figures from our pricing. Tell us if either has moved and we will correct it.
Where DocEvent differs
Per-user beats per-instance at small scale
Five partners cost €39 a month on SFTPCloud's entry tier and nothing on DocEvent. Fifteen cost €49 there and $30 here. There is no instance count to plan around either — every DocEvent user is just a user, whichever backend it lands on.
The endpoint is not the ceiling
DocEvent's channels take a file that arrives over SFTP and deliver it onward — to a partner's FTP server, an HTTP endpoint, or email — with each party maintaining its own credentials. SFTPCloud's automation surface is webhooks and notifications; the delivery leg stays yours to build.
Leave the cloud when you need to
The same product runs as a self-hosted binary in your own VPC or from an AWS Marketplace AMI, with the same configuration model. SFTPCloud is a cloud service only — if a workload later needs to live inside your network, there is no equivalent to move to.
Where SFTPCloud may fit better
SFTPCloud bundles hosted storage into every tier, so if you have no bucket of your own and want storage and endpoint from one vendor, its Lite tier is a genuinely simple package. Its bring-your-own list also reaches further into consumer stores — Dropbox among them — which DocEvent does not connect to.