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FileMaker Technical Specifications

You will find below all the technical specifications and requirements for the latest Claris FileMaker products.

Claris FileMaker Pro

If you purchased FileMaker software directly from Claris, you received an email with a link to your Electronic Software Download page. Your license certificate file is available from that page. FileMaker Pro displays and supports the language used by the desktop operating system.

Claris FileMaker Go

FileMaker Go is a single, universal app that is designed for both iPad and iPhone and is available on the App Store.

Claris FileMaker WebDirect

FileMaker WebDirect runs custom apps in a web browser on a computer, tablet, and mobile phone. It is available in FileMaker Cloud and FileMaker Server.

Claris FileMaker Cloud

FileMaker Cloud is a service available from Claris International Inc. through a request to our Sales Team. It includes access to the following clients: FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Go, and FileMaker WebDirect.

Claris FileMaker Server

FileMaker Server is available only as an electronic download. It includes product software and a link to an electronic license certificate for installation and provides access to the following clients: FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Go, and FileMaker WebDirect. 

Claris Studio

Claris Studio is accessible at https://platform.claris.com

Claris Connect

Claris Connect is accessible at https://connect.claris.com

Product documentation is available online.

Important:

  • While the publicly communicated version number is indicated by year (Claris FileMaker 2025) we are retaining the numeric version in technical specifications to facilitate clarity and customer support. The numeric version (22.x) is shown in the About FileMaker Pro dialog box, and Admin Console for FileMaker Server and FileMaker Cloud. 
  • FileMaker Cloud 2.22.x is coming soon. FileMaker Cloud 2.21.x is currently available and meets the same requirements and compatibility where FileMaker Cloud version 2.22.x is listed below.

Languages supported

Product Language
FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Go, FileMaker WebDirect Central Europe: Czech, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Turkish
Middle Eastern
Indian-Thai
North African
FileMaker Server Central Europe: Czech, Polish, Russian, Turkish
Middle Eastern
Indian-Thai
North African
FileMaker Cloud Admin Console Worldwide English
Claris Customer Console Central Europe: Czech, Polish, Russian, Turkish
Middle Eastern
Indian-Thai
North African
Claris ID Central Europe: Czech, Polish, Russian, Turkish
Middle Eastern
Indian-Thai
North African

Compatibility (Interoperability)

Host Supported clients
FileMaker Server 22.x
  • FileMaker Pro 22.x, 21.x
  • FileMaker Go 22.x, 21.x
  • Apps created using iOS App SDK 22.x, 21.x
  • FileMaker WebDirect
FileMaker Cloud 2.22.x 
  • FileMaker Pro 22.x, 21.x
  • FileMaker Go 22.x, 21.x
  • Apps created using iOS App SDK 22.x, 21.x
  • FileMaker WebDirect

Client Supported clients Notes
FileMaker Pro 22.x
  • FileMaker Server 22.x, 21.x
  • FileMaker Pro 22.x, 21.x
  • FileMaker Cloud 2.22.x, 2.21.x
 Custom apps created using FileMaker Pro 12 and FileMaker Pro 12 Advanced (minimum) and later can be opened and used with FileMaker Pro 22.x.
Learn more about converting your pre-12 FileMaker apps.
FileMaker Go 22.x
  • FileMaker Server 22.x, 21.x
  • FileMaker Pro 22.x, 21.x
  • FileMaker Cloud 2.22.x, 2.21.x
 FileMaker Pro is required to create or to modify custom apps. Custom apps cannot be created or modified with FileMaker Go.

NOTE: HTTPS tunneling support must be enabled in both FileMaker Pro/Go and FileMaker Server and is not supported in peer-to-peer sharing.

Supported operating systems and devices

Product Platform Supported operating systems
FileMaker Pro macOS
  • macOS Sequoia 15
  • macOS Sonoma 14.0
Windows
  • Windows 11 Enterprise and Pro Editions (24H2, 64-bit only)
  • Windows 10 Enterprise and Pro Editions (22H2, 64-bit only)
FileMaker Go iPad/iPhone
  • iOS & iPadOS 18
  • iOS & iPadOS 17

When run on these devices
iOS App SDK Xcode 16
FileMaker Server macOS
  • macOS Sequoia 15
  • macOS Sonoma 14.0
Windows
  • Windows Server 2022 Standard Edition (with Desktop Experience)
  • Windows Server 2022 Datacenter (with Desktop Experience)*
  • Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition (with Desktop Experience)
  • Windows Server 2019 Datacenter (with Desktop Experience)*

*Windows Server Datacenter is compatible with FileMaker Server 22.x, but has not been fully tested.
Ubuntu Linux
  • Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Long Term Support) Server AMD64 and ARM64
  • Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Long Term Support) Desktop* AMD64 and ARM64
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Long Term Support) Server AMD64 and ARM64
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Long Term Support) Desktop* AMD64 and ARM64

*Ubuntu Desktop is compatible with FileMaker Server 22.x, but has not been fully tested.

The furigana option for fields and the Furigana function require the use of third-party tools such as Kakasi.
FileMaker Cloud Ubuntu Linux
  • Ubuntu 22.04

Versions stated above are the minimum requirement. Products may work with later operating systems certified by Claris International Inc. Operating systems not listed in the table above may also work but have not been tested and are not supported.

Hardware requirements

A dedicated computer is recommended for FileMaker Server that is reserved for use as a database server. Don't use an email, print, or network file server.

Hardware requirements for FileMaker Pro 22.x:

  Minimum Recommended
Windows CPU: Intel or AMD
RAM: 2 GB		 CPU: Intel or AMD
RAM: 4 GB or more
macOS CPU: Intel/Apple Silicon  
RAM: 4 GB		 CPU: Intel/Apple Silicon
RAM: 8 GB or more

Hardware requirements for FileMaker Server 21.x:

FileMaker Server for macOS – Primary Machine

Minimum – Mac mini

 Better – Mac Studio Best – Mac Pro
CPU: Apple M1 Chip with 8-Core CPU or Intel Core i5
RAM: 8 GB or more
Hard Drive: 512 GB Solid State Drive (SSD) Storage or more, with a minimum of 20% of free drive space.
Network:  Gigabit Ethernet		 CPU: Apple M2 Max Chip with 12-Core CPU
RAM: 32 GB or more
Hard Drive: 512 GB Solid State Drive (SSD) Storage or more, with a minimum of 20% of free drive space.
Network:  10 Gigabit Ethernet		 CPU: Apple M2 Ultra Chip with 24-Core CPU RAM: 64 GB or more
Hard Drive: 1 TB Solid State Drive (SSD) Storage or more, with a minimum of 20% of free drive space.
Network:  10 Gigabit Ethernet

 

FileMaker Server for Windows and Linux – Primary Machine
Minimum Better Best
CPU: 4 Core
RAM: 8 GB or more
Hard Drive: 512 GB Solid State Drive (SSD) Storage or more, with a minimum of 20% of free drive space.
Network:  Gigabit Ethernet		 CPU: 8 Core
RAM: 16 GB or more
Hard Drive: 512 GB Solid State Drive (SSD) Storage or more, with a minimum of 20% of free drive space.
Network:  Gigabit Ethernet		 CPU: 16 Core
RAM: 32 GB or more
Hard Drive: 1 TB Solid State Drive (SSD) Storage or more, with a minimum of 20% of free drive space.
Network:  Gigabit Ethernet

 

FileMaker Server for Linux Ubuntu 22.04 using Nginx – Secondary Machine
Minimum* Better Best
CPU: 2 Core
RAM: 8 GB or more
Hard Drive:  256 GB Solid State Drives (SSD) Storage or more
Network: Gigabit Ethernet
Number of WebDirect connections: 50		 CPU: 4 Core
RAM: 8 GB or more
Hard Drive: 256 GB Solid State Drives (SSD) Storage or more
Network: Gigabit Ethernet
Number of WebDirect connections:120		 CPU: 8 Core
RAM: 16 GB or more
Hard Drive: 512 GB Solid State Drives (SSD) Storage or more
Network: Gigabit Ethernet
Number of WebDirect connections: 150

 

FileMaker Server for Windows or macOS using IIS or Apache – Secondary Machine
Minimum* Better Best
CPU: 2 Core
RAM: 8 GB or more
Hard Drive:  256 GB Solid State Drives (SSD) Storage or more
Network: Gigabit Ethernet
Number of WebDirect connections: 50		 CPU: 4 Core
RAM: 8 GB or more
Hard Drive: 256 GB Solid State Drives (SSD) Storage or more
Network: Gigabit Ethernet
Number of WebDirect connections: 100		 CPU: 8 Core
RAM: 16 GB or more
Hard Drive: 512 GB Solid State Drives (SSD) Storage or more
Network: Gigabit Ethernet
Number of WebDirect connections: 100

 

*Requirements are per installation environment of FileMaker Server.

Operating system drive requirements for FileMaker Server

FileMaker Server uses the operating system drive to provide temporary storage for progressive downloading, uploading and downloading apps, log files, and cache storage used by components such as the web server.

To maintain an optimal operating environment, FileMaker Server requires 100 GB or more of available storage on the operating system drive even if apps are hosted on or backed up to another drive. The server administrator must monitor the operating system drive to make sure that enough storage is available.

Text generation models support requirements

Text Generation Models with Tool Calling: Text Generation Models:
OpenAI

  • gpt-4o

 

Cohere

  • command-r-plus

 

Anthropic

  • claude-3-7-sonnet-latest
  • claude-3-5-haiku-latest

 

Open Source

  • google/gemma-3-12b-it
 OpenAI

  • gpt-4o

 

Cohere

  • command-r-plus

 

Anthropic

  • claude-3-7-sonnet-latest
  • claude-3-5-haiku-latest

 

Open Source

  • google/codegemma-7b-it
  • google/gemma-3-12b-it

Vector embeddings and semantic search support requirements

Text Generation Models with Tool Calling: Text Generation Models:
OpenAI

  • text-embedding-3-small
  • text-embedding-3-large

 

Open Source

  • all-MiniLM-L12-v2
  • multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-cos-v1

 

Cohere

  • embed-english-v3.0
  • embed-multilingual-v3.0
 Open Source

  • clip-ViT-L-14
  • clip-ViT-B-32
  • clip-ViT-B-32-multilingual-v1

Note: Normalized vector embeddings are required. All embeddings must be generated from the same model to ensure compatibility and performance; mixing embeddings from different models is not supported.

AI Model server minimum hardware:

 

Windows & Ubuntu macOS
Text/Image Embedding CPU: Intel Xeon or AMD Zen 4, 5 series, with AVX2, or AVX512
RAM: 16 GB		 CPU: Apple Silicon
RAM: 16 GB
Text Generation/Fine-tuning* CUDA GPU required
CPU: Intel Xeon or AMD Zen 4, 5 series, with AVX2, or AVX512
GPU: Nvidia RTX 4090 or Nvidia A10, with combined VRAM of 32 GB or more
RAM: 32 GB		 CPU: Apple Silicon Ultra
RAM: 64 GB

NOTE: Fine-tuning only available on Apple Silicon. Running more than one fine-tuning job may affect system performance.

See Running Your Own AI Services Server white paper.

Supported web browsers

FileMaker 22.x:

The following requirements apply starting with version 22.x

Claris Studio Claris Connect FileMaker Server Admin Console
  • FileMaker Cloud Admin Console
  • Claris Customer Console
 FileMaker WebDirect Desktop FileMaker WebDirect Mobile *Claris Customer Console Mobile
  • Latest version of Safari
  • Latest version of Safari
  • Safari 18 minimum
  • Safari 18 minimum
  • Safari 18 minimum
  • Mobile Safari on iOS 18 minimum
  • Mobile Safari on iOS 18 minimum
  • Latest version of Chrome
  • Latest version of Chrome
  • Chrome 135 minimum
  • Chrome 135 minimum
  • Chrome 135 minimum
  • Chrome 135 minimum on Android
  • Chrome 126 minimum
  • Microsoft Edge 135 minimum
  • Microsoft Edge 135 minimum
  • Microsoft Edge 135 minimum

 

*Users are able to perform the following tasks in Claris Customer Console on a mobile browser:

  • Access the Home page
  • Access the Subscription page
  • Create a Claris ID
  • Sign in with Claris ID

FileMaker WebDirect recommended hardware configurations

Number of FileMaker WebDirect clients Recommended FileMaker Server configuration
1-100* Single-machine deployment for Windows and macOS
1-120* Single-machine deployment for Linux
101-1000* Multiple-machine deployment, each secondary machine serves a maximum of 150 FileMaker WebDirect clients for Linux.

*Connections may be limited by hardware, custom app design, license/subscription, and other variables.

FileMaker WebDirect Mobile hardware requirements

Platform Supported device
iPad
 		 Memory: 2 GB RAM or greater
CPU: 2.39 GHz hexa-core 64-bit
iPhone
 		 Memory: 2 GB RAM or greater
CPU: 2.39 GHz hexa-core 64-bit
Android Memory: 3 GB RAM or greater
CPU: 2.1GHz Quad-Core processor or greater

FileMaker WebDirect may work on other devices not listed in the table above, but these devices have not been tested and are not supported.

FileMaker WebDirect Mobile supported keyboard input

  • Built-in iOS keyboard for other languages
  • Built-in Android keyboard for other languages

Capacities

The table below lists the tested and theoretical maximum simultaneous connection limits for FileMaker Server 2025. Tested maximums reflect the test configuration and do not represent a guarantee of performance. 

FileMaker Server 22.x can host up to 256 FileMaker Pro files.

 

Client Tested** Maximum Allowed**
FileMaker Pro 500 2000
FileMaker Go 500 500
FileMaker WebDirect See below table 1000
Custom Web Publishing (CWP)* 500 2000
FileMaker Data API 500 1000
OData 500 1000
ODBC/JDBC 50 Unrestricted

*Multiple users can share a single CWP connection. CWP connections are based on simultaneous request events, rather than persistent connections.

**Connections are limited by hardware, custom app design, active users, operating system, or license agreement/subscription.

Supported WebDirect connections by Web Server

Web Server Tested Maximum Allowed
MacOS (Apache) 500 500
Windows (IIS) 500 500
Ubuntu (NginX with Load Balancer) 1000 1000

The table below lists the tested and maximum allowed simultaneous connection limits for FileMaker Cloud 2.21.x. Tested maximums reflect the test configuration and do not represent a guarantee of performance.

FileMaker Cloud 2.22.x can host up to 256 FileMaker Pro files.

Client Tested*
FileMaker Pro 250
FileMaker Go 100
FileMaker WebDirect 100
FileMaker Data API/OData 100

* Connections may be limited by instance type, app design, active users, or license agreement/subscription.

Instance types

Instance types vary depending on the amount of processing power, memory, and networking capacity needed to run your custom apps. Here are the available options:

FileMaker Cloud Starter pricing plan (5-10 users)*

Number of users Type CPU Memory Storage Hosting limit Claris Connect Integration Claris Studio web views
5 to 10 users large

*No upgrades available.

 2 8 GB 2 GB of FileMaker Data Storage per user/year. No upgrades available. 3 apps 5 active flows. A flow is active when interacting with a third-party connector. 10 native web views published for consumption.

FileMaker Cloud Max plan (5-99 users)

Number of users Type CPU Memory Storage Hosting limit Claris Connect Integration Claris Studio web views
5 to 9 users large 2 8 GB 6 GB of FileMaker Data Storage per user/year. Upgrades available for purchase. Contact sales > 256 apps 50 active flows. A flow is active when interacting with a third-party connector.
For 50+ flows, contact sales >		 Unlimited native web views published for consumption
10 to 39 users xlarge 4 16 GB
40 to 99 users 2xlarge 8 32 GB
100+ users 2xlarge 8 32 GB

Additional requirements

Technology Requirement
Java Java JDK 17
Miniforge 24.11.3-2
Security FileMaker Cloud: 

  • Custom apps are automatically encrypted when uploaded to FileMaker Cloud.
  • Claris ID supports two-factor authentication.
  • FileMaker Cloud includes a built-in SSL certificate.

FileMaker Server:

  • Supports AES-256 encryption of data at rest when the database files are encrypted by the encryption functionality in Claris FileMaker.
  • Sharing, reading from, and writing to AES-256 encrypted files is supported by all products
  • Supports SSL with AES-256 encryption of data in transit when the database files are hosted with FileMaker Server 19.6.4 or later.

Supports SSL cipher suites
TLS v1.2:

  • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256(secp521r1)
  • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384(seco521P1)
  • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384(secp521r1)
  • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (rsa 2048)
  • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (rsa 2048)

Supports third party Certificate Authority (CA) SSL certificate vendors.
Networking TCP/IP

Each FileMaker Pro client requires a licensed copy of the software.

Mobile clients support WiFi, LTE, 4G, and 5G
Supported ESS Data Sources and drivers Click here for a list of third party ODBC data sources and ODBC drivers supported when working with External SQL Data Sources.
Microsoft .NET For Windows, FileMaker Pro requires Microsoft .NET framework version 4.8 or later.
Support Customizable OAuth Identity Providers FileMaker Server allows you to add a customizable identity provider. The supported providers are:

  • Amazon (Predefined)
  • Google  (Predefined)
  • Microsoft Azure AD  (Predefined)
  • Apple ID (Predefined)
  • OpenID connect (OIDC) or OAuth 2.0 providers are supported

Deprecated and removed technologies

Claris International Inc. continually invests in the latest technology in order to keep improving the Claris platform. As a result, some features and operating systems are deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Claris software. See a list of deprecated technologies.