Ok.... well I hope you wont be mad, coz apparently I found some ULPA U15 and H13 filters (several posts above). 50mm thickness.
50mm, can really hold quite a fair bit of particulate, that also means the velocity of the airflow past the filter drops by half (from the graphs, the relationship is straight line linear), the pressure shd drop by half and i'd expect airflow to be good even with a U15 ULPA. And cheap, about SGD15 per filter change incld 4PX shipping to SIN.
DIY cut + plug with foam and stick up sides to prevent bypass = quite a lot of work. I suppose about 45-60 mins of very light elbow grease per filter change. And another 60 mins to extract the filter element out from the big Au frame.
The good thing about the Fellowes HF-230 is that you just need 2 mins to cut the top and another 3 mins to scotch tape the sides (which has hard paper sides) and top. It's much much easier, comparatively speaking, compared to trying to fit and stick "naked" pleated HEPA/ULPA filter elements.
But one thing is for sure, you can change your HEPAs every 6 months without heart pain.