Comparison of file hosting services
This is a comparison of file hosting services which 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.
File hosting services
| Web host | Storage size | Max. file size | Traffic or bandwidth limit | Remote uploading? | Developer API? | FTP upload possible? | File versioning | Follows symlinks | Client-side encryption | Free GB | Append-only support? | Lifecycle Policy support? | Misc. notes |
| Amazon Drive | 5 GB 3 mo. free trial, up to 30 TB paid | Amazon S3 limits | ? | ? | Free 5GB for everybody, except Mexico and China. | ||||||||
| Amazon S3 | 5 GB 12-month free trial with credit-card, , unlimited paid | 5 GB per file, unlimited files per bucket | Amazon S3 limits | REST, SOAP | ? | ? | ? | ||||||
| Baidu Cloud | 2 TB | 4 GB free, 20 GB paid | 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. | ? | Currently in China only | ||||||||
| Backblaze B2 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||||||
| BorgBase | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||||
| Box | free trial, 100 GB paid, Unlimited Business, Unlimited Enterprise | 250 MB free Personal, 5 GB paid Personal, 5 GB Business, 5 GB Enterprise | 10 GB/month free, 2 TB/month paid | 30 MB per file via IFTTT | Business and Enterprise customers only | ? | Does not sync Mac files such as iWork. Does not support Linux OS. 50 GB free with Sony Xperia or HP Spectre 13 | ||||||
| CloudMe | 3 GB free, +500 MB for referrals up to 16 GB, 500 GB paid | 150 MB free, Unlimited premium | REST, SOAP, WebDAV | ? | ? | Primarily focused on media files, synchronization and backup with web sharing. | |||||||
| Dropbox | 2 GB free, +500 MB for referrals up to 18 GB; 1 TB, 2 TB, or unlimited paid | 10 GB, Unlimited using client application | 20 GB/day free, 200 GB/day paid | 30 days by default, 1 year w/ add-on | Synchronization, backup and websharing. Does support Linux OS 25 GB free with HTC Sense 4 & 5, 100 GB free with Samsung device | ||||||||
| Google Drive | 15 GB free, 100 GB to 30 TB paid; Unlimited Storage for G Suite Business | 5 TB | ? | OAuth2 | Additional space for limited time period with some devices and services. | ||||||||
| IBM Connections Files Cloud | 1 TB paid | 2 GB | CMIS, REST, Atom and OAuth2 | ? | ? | Subscription costs US$6/year | |||||||
| Apple iCloud | 5 GB free, 50 GB to 2 TB paid | 50 GB | 200/400/600 GB per month | No | ? | 25 GB for previous MobileMe account subscriptions | |||||||
| Jumpshare | 2 GB free, 1 TB paid | 250 MB free, Unlimited paid | 5GB per month free, 200GB per month on paid plan | Real-time file sharing with built-in utilities for screenshots, screencasts, notes, and voice clips. | |||||||||
| MediaFire | 10 GB, +50 GB for referrals up to 1 TB Pro accounts; 100 TB Business accounts | 20 GB | 10 TB pro plan, Business plans receive an amount of bandwidth per month equal to ten times the account’s storage space. | ? | Resuming of interrupted downloads possible. | ||||||||
| Mega | 15 GB free, up to 50 GB free trial, up to 16 TB paid | Available cloud drive space | 10 GB free, Up to 96 TB per month paid. | ? | Apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Chrome, Firefox, Safari Supports HTML5 browsers. | ||||||||
| OneDrive | 5 GB free +500 MB free for referrals up to 5 GB; 200 GB paid 1 TB with paid Office 365 account by default, can register 5 accounts for up to 5TB combined. | 100 GB | ? | Fetch files allows remote access of files on Windows with OneDrive installed 25 GB free for grandfathered accounts before April 2012 | |||||||||
| SecureSafe | 100MB free, up to 100GB paid | ? 2GB limit for SecureSend | ? | Offers Data Inheritance | |||||||||
| SugarSync | 60 GB personal paid, Unlimited GB professional paid | 10 GB/file/day free, 250 GB file/day paid | REST | ? | ? | If you hit the limit your links will be disabled for 24 hours. The bandwidth limits only apply to public links. | |||||||
| Tencent Weiyun | 2 TB | 1 GB regular upload, 32 GB Power Upload plug-in | ? | In English and Chinese | |||||||||
| TitanFile | No free space, unlimited paid | 100 MB free, 1 GB paid, 4 GB professional | No | For enterprise clients only | ? | for paid plans | HIPAA-compliant, group messaging, audit logs, granular security control, embedable on website. | ||||||
| Tresorit | 3 GB free trial, 100-1000 GB paid plans | 500 MB free, 5 GB premium, 10 GB rest of paid plans | Files are client-side encrypted; zero-knowledge principles are used to prevent Tresorit itself from reading the files. | ||||||||||
| Wasabi | unlimited. paid only. | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||||
| Yandex Disk | up to 20 GB free, up to 1024 GB paid | 2 GB upload via Web or WebDAV, 50 GB upload via application | 200% of storage size per day | : REST, WebDAV, SDK | ? | 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 | Remote uploading? | Developer API? | FTP upload possible? | File versioning | Follows symlinks | Client-side encryption | Free GB | Append-only support? | Lifecycle Policy support? | Misc. notes |