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.

File hosting services

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	—
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
filen.io										10
Google Drive[33][34]	15 GB free[35]	Paid plans with varied storage per user or per Workspace account (pooled storage)[35]	5 TB[36]		750GB/day upload; 5TB/day download		No	No	OAuth2	No	Yes[37]	No	15			Additional space for limited time period with some devices and services.[38][39][40][41]
HCL Connections Files Cloud	(60-day free trial)[42]	1 TB[42]	2 GB		None		?	No	CMIS, REST, Atom (standard) and OAuth2	No	Yes	?	5			Subscription costs US$6/year[43]
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[44]	10 GB	1 TB Pro accounts; 100 TB Business accounts	20 GB[45]		10 TB pro plan, Business plans receive an amount of bandwidth per month equal to ten times the account’s storage space.[46]		Yes	Yes	Yes	No[47]	Yes	?	10			Resuming of interrupted downloads possible.
Mega[48]	20 GB, additional 5 GB per achievements,[49]	Up to 16 TB paid	Available cloud drive space[50]		10 GB[51]	Up to 96 TB per month[51]	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes[52]	?	20			Apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Chrome, Firefox, Safari[53] Supports HTML5 browsers.[54]
Microsoft OneDrive[55]	5 GB (since 31 January 2016)[Note 1] +500 MB for referrals up to 5 GB	200 GB paid[58] 1 TB with paid Office (Paid) 365 account by default, can register 5 accounts for up to 5TB combined.	100 GB[59]		Unlimited		?	No	Yes[60]	No[61]	Yes (Office files only)	No[62]	5			25 GB free for grandfathered accounts before April 2012[63]
Nutstore [zh][64]	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[65]	10 GB	Unlimited	10 TiB		?		?	?	Yes	?	Yes	?	10	?	Yes
Proton Drive	5 GB [66](subject to annual bonus[67])	3 TB via Proton Family[68]	?		?		End-to-end encryption	No	No	No	Yes[69]	No	5
SecureSafe[70]	100 MB[71]	100 GB[71]	? 2GB limit for SecureSend		None		Yes	No	No	No	No[70]	?	0.1			Offers Data Inheritance[72]
SugarSync[73]	5 GB	60 GB personal paid, Unlimited GB professional paid	16 GB		10 GB/file/day	250 GB file/day	No	No	REST[74]	?	Yes	?	0			If you hit the limit your links will be disabled for 24 hours. The bandwidth limits only apply to public links.[75]
Tarsnap[76]	0	Unlimited; $0.25/GiB	16 EiB - 1		0	Unlimited	Yes	No	libtarsnap.a[77]	No	Client must manage archives[78]	Optional with -H [79]	0	Partial archives[80]	No	Emphasis on carefully-constructed security model. File are encrypted client-side.
Tencent Weiyun[81]	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	1 GB paid, 4 GB professional	Unlimited		Yes for paid plans[82]	No	Yes[83]	Yes For enterprise clients only	Yes[84]	?	0			HIPAA-compliant, group messaging, audit logs, granular security control, embedable on website.
Tresorit[85]	3 GB (free trial)[86]	100-1000 GB paid plans[86]	500 MB[87]	5 GB premium, 10 GB rest of paid plans[87]	None		Yes[88]	No	No	No	For paid plans only[89]	No	3			Files are client-side encrypted; zero-knowledge principles are used to prevent Tresorit itself from reading the files.
Wasabi	0[90]	Unlimited[90]	5 TB [91]		Should be equal to the storage amount [92]		Yes [93]	?	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[94]	No	14 days with free accounts 90 days with paid ones[95]	?	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.

Former services

Amazon Drive Copy.com[96] Bitcasa Drop.io Fileserve Hotfile Humyo iDisk IFile.it Megaupload Pogoplug[97] RapidShare SteekR Ubuntu One Wuala MobileMe Xdrive Yahoo! Briefcase ZumoDrive

See also

• Cloud storage
• Comparison of file synchronization software
• Comparison of online backup services
• Comparison of online music lockers
• List of backup software
• Remote backup service
• Shared resource

Footnotes

1. Previously 15 GB^[56] and 25 GB since 2008.^[57]