Comparison of file hosting services
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This is a comparison of notable file hosting services that are currently active. File hosting services are a particular kind of online file storage; however, various products that are designed for online file storage may not have features or characteristics that others designed for sharing files have.
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| Web host | Storage size | Max. file size | Traffic or bandwidth limit | Client-side encryption[1] |
Remote uploading? | Developer API? | FTP upload possible? | File versioning | Follows symlinks |
Free GB (number only) |
Append-only support?[2] |
Lifecycle Policy support? |
Misc. notes |
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| Amazon S3[3] | 5 GB 12-month free trial with credit-card (paid bandwidth), unlimited paid |
5 TB per file, unlimited files per bucket | Amazon S3 limits | ? | No | REST, SOAP | ? | Yes | ? | 0 | — | ||
| Backblaze B2 | 10 GB free, unlimited paid[4] | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | 10 | fileWrite allows existing files to become "hidden", which may get deleted with lifecycle rule daysFromHidingToDeleting | Yes | |
| Baidu Cloud | 2 TB (6 GB free)[5] |
4 GB free, 20 GB paid[6] |
Traffic limit is not stable, after going over the traffic limit, there is a bandwidth limited to 500 KB/s then 10 KB/s after another traffic limit. | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | 6 | Currently in China only | ||
| Box[7][8] | free trial, 100 GB paid (Starter), Unlimited Business, Unlimited Enterprise[9] |
250 MB free Personal, 5 GB paid Personal, 5 GB Business, 5 GB Enterprise[9] |
10 GB/month free, 2 TB/month paid[10] |
? | 30 MB per file via IFTTT[11] | Yes[12] | Business and Enterprise customers only[13] | Some (premium)[14] | No | 10 | Does not sync Mac files such as iWork (Keynote etc.). Does not support Linux OS. 50 GB free with Sony Xperia or HP Spectre 13 | ||
| CloudMe[15] | 3 GB free, +500 MB for referrals up to 16 GB, 500 GB paid[16] |
150 MB free, Unlimited premium |
None | ? | No[17] | REST, SOAP, WebDAV[18] | No[19] | Rarely (60 days)[20] | ? | 3 | Primarily focused on media files, synchronization and backup with web sharing. | ||
| Dropbox[21] | 2 GB free, +500 MB for referrals up to 18 GB; 1 TB, 2 TB, or unlimited paid[22] |
10 GB, Unlimited using client application |
20 GB/day free, 200 GB/day paid[23] |
No | No | Yes | No[24] | 30 days by default, 1 year w/ add-on[25] |
Yes | 2 | Synchronization, backup and websharing. Does support Linux OS 25 GB free with HTC Sense 4 & 5, 100 GB free with Samsung device | ||
| filen.io | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Google Drive[26][27] | 15 GB free,[28] Paid plans with varied storage per user or per Workspace account (pooled storage) |
5 TB[29] | 750GB/day upload 5TB/day download | No | No | OAuth2 | No | Yes[30] | No | 15 | Additional space for limited time period with some devices and services.[31][32][33][34] | ||
| HCL Connections Files Cloud | 1 TB paid (60-day free trial)[35] |
2 GB | None | ? | No | CMIS, REST, Atom (standard) and OAuth2 | No | Yes | ? | 5 | Subscription costs US$6/year[36] | ||
| Apple iCloud[37] | 5 GB free, 50 GB to 12 TB paid |
50 GB | 200/400/600 GB per month | ? | No | Yes | No | Partly | No | 5 | 25 GB for previous MobileMe account subscriptions[38] | ||
| Jumpshare | 2 GB free, 1 TB paid | 250 MB free, Unlimited paid | 5GB per month free, 200GB per month on paid plan | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | 2 | Real-time file sharing with built-in utilities for screenshots, screencasts, notes, and voice clips. | ||
| koofr.eu | 10 | ||||||||||||
| MediaFire[39] | 10 GB, +50 GB for referrals up to 1 TB Pro accounts; 100 TB Business accounts |
20 GB[40] | 10 TB pro plan, Business plans receive an amount of bandwidth per month equal to ten times the account’s storage space.[41] |
Yes | Yes | Yes | No[42] | Yes | ? | 10 | Resuming of interrupted downloads possible. | ||
| Mega[43] | 20 GB free, additional 5 GB per achievements,[44] up to 16 TB paid |
Available cloud drive space[45] | 10 GB free, Up to 96 TB per month paid.[46] |
Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes[47] | ? | 20 | Apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Chrome, Firefox, Safari[48] Supports HTML5 browsers.[49] | ||
| Microsoft OneDrive[50] | 5 GB free (since 31 January 2016)[Note 1] +500 MB free for referrals up to 5 GB; 200 GB paid[53]
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100 GB[54] | None | ? | No | Yes[55] | No[56] | Yes (Office files only) | No[57] | 5 | 25 GB free for grandfathered accounts before April 2012[58] | ||
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage[59] | 10GB always free, unlimited paid | 10 TiB | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | 10 | ? | Yes | |
| SecureSafe[60] | 100MB free, up to 100GB paid[61] |
? 2GB limit for SecureSend |
None | Yes | No | No | No | No[60] | ? | 0.1 | Offers Data Inheritance[62] | ||
| SugarSync[63] | 60 GB personal paid, Unlimited GB professional paid |
None | 10 GB/file/day free, 250 GB file/day paid |
No | No | REST[64] | ? | Yes | ? | 0 | If you hit the limit your links will be disabled for 24 hours. The bandwidth limits only apply to public links.[65] | ||
| Tarsnap[66] | No free space, unlimited paid $0.25/GiB | 16 EiB - 1 | No free bandwidth tier, unlimited paid $0.25/GiB | Yes | No | libtarsnap.a[67] | No | Client must manage archives[68] | Optional with -H[69] |
0 | Partial archives[70] | No | Emphasis on carefully-constructed security model. File are encrypted client-side. |
| Tencent Weiyun[71] | 2 TB (10 GB free) |
1 GB regular upload, 32 GB Power Upload plug-in |
None | No | No | No | No | No | ? | 10 | In English and Chinese (free version in Chinese only) | ||
| TitanFile | No free space, unlimited paid | 100 MB free, 1 GB paid, 4 GB professional |
None | Yes for paid plans[72] | No | Yes[73] | Yes For enterprise clients only |
Yes[74] | ? | 0 | HIPAA-compliant, group messaging, audit logs, granular security control, embedable on website. | ||
| Tresorit[75] | 3 GB free trial, 100-1000 GB paid plans[76] |
500 MB free, 5 GB premium, 10 GB rest of paid plans[77] |
None | Yes[78] | No | No | No | For paid plans only[79] | No | 3 | Files are client-side encrypted; zero-knowledge principles are used to prevent Tresorit itself from reading the files. | ||
| Wasabi | unlimited. paid only.[80] | 5 TB [81] | Should be equal to the storage amount [82] | Yes [83] | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | 0 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yandex Disk | up to 20 GB free (10 GB when registering), up to 1024 GB paid |
2 GB upload via Web or WebDAV, 50 GB upload via application |
200% of storage size per day | No | No | Yes: REST, WebDAV, SDK[84] | No | 14 days with free accounts 90 days with paid ones[85] | ? | 10 | English, Russian, Ukrainian and Turkish interfaces. Service is tightly integrated with other Yandex services. Native apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android. Client-side encryption is available with 3rd party open source clients. | ||
| Web host | Storage size | Max. file size | Traffic or bandwidth limit | Client-side encryption |
Remote uploading? | Developer API? | FTP upload possible? | File versioning | Follows symlinks |
Free GB (number only) |
Append-only support? |
Lifecycle Policy support? |
Misc. notes |
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