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 on some types of accounts   Limit across all accounts   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
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] 1 TB with paid Office 365 account by default, can register 5 accounts for up to 5TB combined.	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

Former services

Amazon Drive Copy.com[86] Bitcasa Drop.io Fileserve Hotfile Humyo iDisk IFile.it Megaupload Pogoplug[87] 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^[51] and 25 GB since 2008.^[52]