Compare/FileFeed vs Osmos
The Osmos alternative that is still running
Microsoft acquired Osmos in January 2026 and its standalone products are being shut down. FileFeed has the same two products, an embeddable importer and automated pipelines, with a published price and all of our work going into them.
Hellora onboards clients from 30+ HR systems on FileFeed, with no engineer per client. Read how
The whole path of a client file
Every step your Osmos pipeline covered needs a new home
Osmos Pipelines handled the whole path of a client file. FileFeed handles the same path, and you can move one client at a time before your pipelines stop.
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Intake
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Mapping
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Validation
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Transforms
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Delivery
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Monitoring
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SFTP and email
Once per client
Every row
Built in
JSON pushed to your API
Run history, reprocess
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SFTP and email
02Mapping
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Once per client
03Validation
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Every row
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05Delivery
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JSON pushed to your API
06Monitoring
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Run history, reprocess
The architecture is the one you already know: clients send files, a saved mapping runs, clean data reaches your API. Only the vendor changes.
Why teams pick FileFeed
Three things you get that Osmos leaves to you
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The same two products, in active development
FileFeed has an embeddable importer for uploads inside your app and automated feeds for files that arrive over SFTP and email. Both are live and supported, and recurring client files are all we work on.
Connections
Reusing this connection. No new one will be created.
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Your mappings come over client by client
Drop a recent file from each client. FileFeed suggests the mapping to your schema, you confirm it, and it is saved for that client. Approved mappings replay on every later file.
Pipeline & Mappings
Map source columns to schema fields.
Map every required schema field: start_date.
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The webhook pattern you already have
Point FileFeed at the endpoint your Osmos pipelines used. Clean JSON arrives with an HMAC signature and automatic retries, so the code on your side barely changes.
Webhook
POST https://api.yourapp.com/webhooks/filefeed
HMAC signed · automatic retries
Notify an external system about pipeline events. You can always add webhooks later.
Side by side
FileFeed vs Osmos
Embeddable importer
Automated recurring pipelines
Files sent by email
Mapping with human review
Clean data delivered to your API
Run history and reprocess
Pricing
Where the product is going
Osmos details from its public documentation and pricing.
What it costs
A published price, on the website
FileFeed Feeds
$90per client connection / month
after a $3,000 pilot with a 30 day money back guarantee
- YesMinimum 5 connections, up to 50
- YesEvery new client feed set up by us
- YesIntake, mapping, validation and delivery included
- YesNo per row pricing, billed annually
- YesEmbeddable importer free forever
Osmos
No longer sold
- Acquired by Microsoft in January 2026
- Standalone products are being shut down
- Charged $0.0001 per record while it ran
Switching
Migration in 5 steps
Each step mirrors a screen in the FileFeed setup wizard. Most teams move their first 5 to 10 clients within a week.
- 1
Send us one real file
The free file check returns it mapped with an error report within 48 hours. The Feed Pilot then puts the first migrated feed live within 30 days, or you get the money back.
- 2
Recreate your schemas
Upload a sample target file or define each field by hand. One schema serves many clients.
- 3
Create connections
A hosted SFTP folder or an inbox per client. Map their columns once and save the pipeline.
- 4
Point the webhook at your API
Register the endpoint you already have. Clean JSON arrives signed.
- 5
Move clients over
Send new credentials or an inbox address, then watch the first runs come in.
Send us one real client file and we set the first feed up with you. Send a file
In production
Hellora runs every client onboarding on FileFeed
Rosters arrive from dozens of HR systems, each in its own layout. Every format is mapped once and then runs on its own.
Read the Hellora story30+
HR systems connected
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mapping per client format
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engineers per new client
FAQ
Osmos and FileFeed, in plain answers
What happened to Osmos?
Microsoft acquired Osmos in January 2026. The standalone Osmos products, Uploaders, Pipelines, Datasets and AI Data Wrangler, are being sunset. The Osmos team has joined Microsoft's Fabric engineering organization.
Is FileFeed a replacement for Osmos?
Yes. FileFeed has the same two product architecture: an embeddable importer in place of Osmos Uploaders and automated SFTP and email feeds in place of Osmos Pipelines. It adds email intake with sender allow lists, a suggested mapping your team approves, HMAC signed webhook delivery with retries, and file push to client hosted SFTP.
How do I migrate from Osmos to FileFeed?
Send us one real client file for the free check, then in the Feed Pilot we recreate your schemas from sample files, create a connection per client, confirm the mapping for each, set up the webhook and point your clients to the new SFTP folder or inbox. Most teams complete the migration for their first 5 to 10 clients within a week.
Does FileFeed have a free tier?
Yes. FileFeed's embeddable importer is free forever with no record limits, and the free file check returns one real client file mapped to your schema, with an error report, within 48 hours. Osmos charged $0.0001 per record even on its free tier.
Why not just use Microsoft Fabric instead?
Microsoft Fabric is an enterprise data analytics platform. It is not a tool for onboarding client files into your product. It has no embeddable importer, no SFTP folder per client and no way to manage many client pipelines that normalise files into your schema. It solves a different problem.
Can FileFeed take files by email as well as SFTP?
Yes. Each connection gets its own inbox address with a sender allow list. Clients send the file as an attachment, FileFeed picks it up and runs the same mapping, validation and delivery as a file dropped on SFTP.
What happens when a client file has a bad row?
The row is flagged with the reason it failed. Clean rows go through to your API, and the run shows every error so you or the client can fix the file and reprocess it.
How is FileFeed priced?
A $3,000 Feed Pilot puts your first client feed live within 30 days, or your money back. After that it is $90 per client connection per month, billed annually, minimum 5 connections, with every new client feed set up by us and no per row pricing. The embeddable importer is free forever, and Enterprise covers more than 50 connections, priced on request.
See it on one real client file
Drop a file a client sends you today. You see the mapping, the rows that fail and the clean JSON in about a minute. Nothing is uploaded and you need no account.
Comparing more tools? See all comparisons or read the complete guide to recurring client file feeds.