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Foldr Cloud or self-hosted. One product.

Foldr runs on our infrastructure or yours. It’s the same Foldr Next in both. A few things follow the deployment (Active Directory and Kerberos sign-in and the built-in OCR engine live on the appliance; custom domains and Foldr-hosted storage live on Foldr Cloud), and we’ll tell you which before you choose.

Foldr Cloud

Hosted by us, with UK and EU data residency.

The fastest way to start. Sign up, connect your existing storage, hand it to staff. We run the infrastructure, the upgrades, the monitoring.

  • 30-day free trial, no credit card
  • UK / EU residency for compute and customer data
  • Frequent rolling deploys, no scheduled downtime windows
  • SSO, audit log, activity export
  • Custom domains
  • Per-tier feature gates and limits
  • Connected Apps for AI assistants from Business, once an administrator switches it on
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Self-hosted

Your infrastructure, your rules.

For estates that can’t send data to a third-party cloud, prefer to run a VM in their own datacentre or cloud, or want a fixed annual licence over per-seat billing.

  • Virtual appliance for VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox, KVM or your cloud account
  • Air-gapped installs supported
  • Bring your own AD, LDAP, Kerberos, ADFS, SAML or Entra ID
  • Same Foldr Next UI as Foldr Cloud
  • No data leaves your infrastructure when cloud OCR and AI features are disabled
  • Document conversion, OCR and search included
  • Connected Apps for AI assistants with no licence key, once an administrator switches it on
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Which one

Pick by what fits your estate, not by feature list.

Most teams decide on infrastructure constraints rather than features. A few prompts that usually settle it:

You want it running tomorrow with no infrastructure work
Foldr Cloud. Sign up, connect your storage, hand it to staff.
Foldr Cloud
You have data that legally cannot leave your infrastructure
Foldr Appliance. Air-gapped, on infrastructure you control, no outbound traffic required.
Self-hosted
You’d rather run a VM in your own datacentre or cloud account
Foldr Virtual Appliance. A VM image you import into your hypervisor or your cloud; boot it, configure it once, point staff at it.
Self-hosted
You’re a school or trust with a small IT team
Foldr Cloud. We keep it current; you don’t carry the upgrade burden.
Foldr Cloud
You’re an MSP standardising on one tool across many clients
Either. Most MSPs use Foldr Cloud for clients without infrastructure and the Appliance for those with strict data residency.
Foldr Cloud
You need a fixed annual licence rather than per-seat Foldr Cloud billing
Foldr Appliance. Annual subscription, sized to user count, no surprises.
Self-hosted
Switching later

Foldr Cloud now, appliance later (or the reverse)

Foldr’s configuration travels via Foldr Flow: shares, custom fields, forms, Sign templates, Captur templates, mashlets and saved searches export to one file and import into the other deployment. Users, groups and branding are set up again on the other side. If your files are on your own storage, they never lived in Foldr, so there’s no data migration to wait on. (Files kept in Foldr Storage are the exception, and you can copy them out first.)

Hybrid

Some teams run both

Larger groups sometimes run a self-hosted appliance for staff and a separate Foldr Cloud instance for partners or clients. The same Foldr Next, two deployments, governed independently.

Curious whether Foldr would fit?

Try it free for 30 days, no credit card. Or get in touch about self-hosting.

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