Comparison
Confinity vs Permanent.
Permanent.org is a nonprofit digital-preservation platform run by the Permanent Legacy Foundation. You pay once, roughly $10 per gigabyte with no recurring fees, and that one-time fee funds an endowment meant to keep your files readable for decades. It's one of the most principled things on the internet.We'll tell you honestly when the other one is the better choice for you.
Of every tool we compare ourselves to, Permanent is the one closest to our heart. It's a mission-driven nonprofit; you genuinely own your data; and the one-time-fee-into-an-endowment model is a serious answer to the question every memory service should have to answer, which is what happens when the company is gone. We admire it without reservation, and if pure, durable, you-own-it preservation is what you want, it's excellent and you should use it. Where we differ is texture and shape. Permanent is an archive you deposit into. Upload your photos, documents and audio, and they're kept safely, shareable with family folders. Confinity is a place for everyday family writing, recordings and remembrance, with a planned printed Yearbook (ordering not available yet). Its continuity work is unfinished. Browser backups and account-export requests cover different records. Neither is a verified complete copy of all originals. Check the included and missing items before relying on a copy. A protective Trust CIC is proposed. Formation, funding, and independent access after closure are not verified. Legacy handover is not qualified.
- What it is
- A nonprofit preservation archive you deposit into
- Confinity: a living family-memory home you write inside.
- Shared values
- You own your data; built to outlast any one company
- Confinity: the same aim, with limited export paths and proposed continuity work.
- Capturing the present
- Upload finished files
- Confinity: voice-first entries written as life happens.
- Connections
- Folders you organise yourself
- Confinity: auto-connected from the people and places you name.
- Grief and remembrance
- Storage and legacy stewards
- Confinity: a warm, grief-aware remembrance layer.
- Printed keepsake
- None
- Confinity: printed Yearbook planned, not orderable yet.
- Continuity model
- Endowment-funded nonprofit, and admirable for it
- A protective Trust CIC is proposed. Formation, funding, and independent access after closure are not verified.
- Price
- One-time ~$10/GB; free 1GB to start; no recurring fees
- Confinity Family: £14.99/mo, up to 6 members.
'Permanent keeps the files safe. We keep the family warm. Both of us mean to outlive ourselves.'Confinity principle
Who should pick