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Comparison of file hosting services

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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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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  No restriction
  Limit is significantly above the average, mostly ignorable
  Limit on some types of accounts, conditionally impacts the user experience
  Limit across all accounts, significantly impacts the user experience
  Total restriction across all accounts
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
Free Paid Free Paid Free Paid
Amazon S3
3 		5 GB 12-month free trial with credit-card
(paid bandwidth) 		Unlimited 5 TB Amazon S3 limits Yes No REST, SOAP ? Yes ? 0 No Yes N/a
Apple iCloud
4 		5 GB 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
5
Backblaze B2 10 GB
6 		Unlimited
6 		? ? ? ? Yes ? Yes ? 10 fileWrite allows existing files to become "hidden", which may get deleted with lifecycle rule daysFromHidingToDeleting Yes
Baidu Cloud 6 GB
7 		2 TB
7 		4 GB
8 		20 GB
8 		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 Yes Currently in China only
Box
9
10 		10 GB 100 GB paid (Starter),
Unlimited Business,
Unlimited Enterprise
11 		250 MB Personal
11 		5 GB paid Personal,
5 GB Business,
5 GB Enterprise
11 		10 GB/month
12 		2 TB/month paid
12 		? 30 MB per file via IFTTT
13 		Yes
14 		Business and Enterprise customers only
15 		Some (premium)
16 		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
Cloudflare R2 10 GB Unlimited
17 		4.995 TiB
17 		Unlimited if egressing directly from R2
18 		No Yes
19 		Yes
20 		No No Yes 10 No Yes
21 		Limits can be adjusted for Enterprise customers
17
CloudMe
22 		3 GB,
+500 MB for referrals up to 16 GB,

23 		500 GB
23 		150 MB Unlimited None ? No
24 		REST, SOAP, WebDAV
25 		No
26 		Rarely (60 days)
27 		? 3 Primarily focused on media files, synchronization and backup with web sharing.
Dropbox
28 		2 GB free,
+500 MB for referrals up to 18 GB
29 		1 TB, 2 TB, or unlimited
29 		10 GB;
Unlimited using
client application 		20 GB/day
30 		200 GB/day
30 		No No Yes No
31 		30 days by default,
1 year w/ add-on
32 		Yes 2 Synchronization, backup and websharing. Does support Linux OS
25 GB free with HTC Sense 4 & 5,
100 GB free with Samsung device
Fast.io
33 		50 GB Unlimited (Credit-based)
33 		1 GB (Free) / 25 GB (Pro) / 50 GB (Bus) Unlimited (Credit-based)
33 		Unlimited (Credit-based)
33 		No Yes Yes No Yes ? 50 Workspace-centric storage with HLS video streaming, real-time presence, and AI-powered semantic search. Supports AI agent accounts directly.
filen.io 10
Google Drive
34
35 		15 GB free
36 		Paid plans with varied storage per user or per Workspace account (pooled storage)
36 		5 TB
37 		750GB/day upload;
5TB/day download 		No No OAuth2 No Yes
38 		No 15 Additional space for limited time period with some devices and services.
39
40
41
42
HCL Connections Files Cloud (60-day free trial)
43 		1 TB
43 		2 GB None ? No CMIS, REST, Atom (standard) and OAuth2 No Yes ? 5 Subscription costs US$6/year
44
Jumpshare 2 GB 1 TB 250 MB Unlimited 5 GB/month 200 GB/month No Yes ? ? ? ? 2 Real-time file sharing with built-in utilities for screenshots, screencasts, notes, and voice clips.
koofr.eu 10
MediaFire
45 		10 GB 1 TB Pro accounts;
100 TB Business accounts 		20 GB
46 		10 TB pro plan,
Business plans receive an amount of bandwidth per month equal to ten times the account’s storage space.
47 		Yes Yes Yes No
48 		Yes ? 10 Resuming of interrupted downloads possible.
Mega
49 		20 GB,
additional 5 GB per achievements
50 		Up to 16 TB paid Available cloud drive space
51 		10 GB
52 		Up to 96 TB per month
52 		Yes No Yes No Yes
53 		? 20 Apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Chrome, Firefox, Safari
54 Supports HTML5 browsers.
55
Microsoft OneDrive
56 		5 GB (since 31 January 2016)Note 1
+500 MB for referrals up to 5 GB 		200 GB paid
59
1 TB with paid Office (Paid) 365 account by default, can register 5 accounts for up to 5TB combined. 		100 GB
60 		Unlimited ? No Yes
61 		No
62 		Yes (Office files only) No
63 		5 25 GB free for grandfathered accounts before April 2012
64
Nutstore
65 		1 GB Unlimited 5 GB 1 GB Upload
3 GB Download 		Unlimited No No Yes No Yes No 1 ? ? Mostly operating in China
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
66 		10 GB Unlimited 10 TiB ? ? ? Yes ? Yes ? 10 ? Yes
Proton Drive 5 GB
67(subject to annual bonus
68) 		3 TB via Proton Family
69 		? ? End-to-end encryption No No No Yes
70 		No 5
SecureSafe
71 		100 MB
72 		100 GB
72 		?
2GB limit for SecureSend 		None Yes No No No No
71 		? 0.1 Offers Data Inheritance
73
SugarSync
74 		5 GB 60 GB personal paid,
Unlimited GB professional paid 		16 GB 10 GB/file/day 250 GB file/day No No REST
75 		? Yes ? 0 If you hit the limit your links will be disabled for 24 hours. The bandwidth limits only apply to public links.
76
Synology C2 (30-day free trial)
77 		Up to 200 TB without customized solution
77 		Equal or less than the storage size 15 GB Free download when not exceeding the storage size, additional fees will apply for downloads above the limit ? No REST No Yes ? 15 Yes Free upload but with limited data center selection.
Tarsnap
78 		0 Unlimited; $0.25/GiB 16 EiB - 1 0 Unlimited Yes No libtarsnap.a
79 		No Client must manage archives
80 		Optional with -H

81 		0 Partial archives
82 		No Emphasis on carefully-constructed security model. File are encrypted client-side.
Tencent Weiyun
83 		10 GB 2 TB 1 GB regular upload,
32 GB Power Upload plug-in 		Unlimited No No No No No ? 10 In English and Chinese (free version in Chinese only)
TitanFile 0 Unlimited 100 MB 10 GB paid,
50 GB professional 		Unlimited Yes for paid plans
84 		No Yes
85 		Yes
For enterprise clients only 		Yes
86 		? 0 Yes HIPAA-compliant, group messaging, audit logs, granular security control, embedable on website.
Tresorit
87 		3 GB (free trial)
88 		100-1000 GB paid plans
88 		500 MB
89 		5 GB premium,
10 GB rest of paid plans
89 		None Yes
90 		No No No For paid plans only
91 		No 3 Files are client-side encrypted; zero-knowledge principles are used to prevent Tresorit itself from reading the files.
Wasabi 0
92 		Unlimited
92 		5 TB
93 		Should be equal to the storage amount
94 		Yes
95 		? 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
96 		No 14 days with free accounts 90 days with paid ones
97 		? 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.

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Footnotes

Footnotes

  1. Previously 15 GB57 and 25 GB since 2008.58
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