# 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

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| 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 |
| Amazon S3 | 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 | ? | ? | ? | ? | 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) | 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. | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | 6 | | | Currently in China only |
| Box | free trial, 100 GB paid (Starter), 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 | Yes | Business and Enterprise customers only | Some (premium) | 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 | 3 GB free, +500 MB for referrals up to 16 GB, 500 GB paid | 150 MB free, Unlimited premium | None | ? | No | REST, SOAP, WebDAV | No | Rarely (60 days) | ? | 3 | | | 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 | No | No | Yes | No | 30 days by default, 1 year w/ add-on | 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 | 15 GB free, Paid plans with varied storage per user or per Workspace account (pooled storage) | 5 TB | 750GB/day upload 5TB/day download | No | No | OAuth2 | No | Yes | No | 15 | | | Additional space for limited time period with some devices and services. |
| HCL Connections Files Cloud | 1 TB paid (60-day free trial) | 2 GB | None | ? | No | CMIS, REST, Atom (standard) and OAuth2 | No | Yes | ? | 5 | | | Subscription costs US$6/year |
| Apple iCloud | 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | 10 | | | Resuming of interrupted downloads possible. |
| Mega | 20 GB free, additional 5 GB per achievements, up to 16 TB paid | Available cloud drive space | 10 GB free, Up to 96 TB per month paid. | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | 20 | | | Apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Chrome, Firefox, Safari Supports HTML5 browsers. |
| Microsoft OneDrive | 5 GB free (since 31 January 2016) +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 | None | ? | No | Yes | No | Yes (Office files only) | No | 5 | | | 25 GB free for grandfathered accounts before April 2012 |
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage | 10GB always free, unlimited paid | 10 TiB | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | 10 | ? | Yes | |
| SecureSafe | 100MB free, up to 100GB paid | ? 2GB limit for SecureSend | None | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | 0.1 | | | Offers Data Inheritance |
| SugarSync | 60 GB personal paid, Unlimited GB professional paid | None | 10 GB/file/day free, 250 GB file/day paid | No | No | REST | ? | Yes | ? | 0 | | | If you hit the limit your links will be disabled for 24 hours. The bandwidth limits only apply to public links. |
| Tarsnap | No free space, unlimited paid $0.25/GiB | 16 EiB - 1 | No free bandwidth tier, unlimited paid $0.25/GiB | Yes | No | libtarsnap.a | No | Client must manage archives | Optional with `-H` | 0 | Partial archives | No | Emphasis on carefully-constructed security model. File are encrypted client-side. |
| Tencent Weiyun | 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 | No | Yes | Yes For enterprise clients only | Yes | ? | 0 | | | 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 | None | Yes | No | No | No | For paid plans only | No | 3 | | | Files are client-side encrypted; zero-knowledge principles are used to prevent Tresorit itself from reading the files. |
| Wasabi | unlimited. paid only. | 5 TB | Should be equal to the storage amount | Yes | ? | 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 | No | 14 days with free accounts 90 days with paid ones | ? | 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
* Bitcasa
* Drop.io
* Fileserve
* Hotfile
* Humyo
* iDisk
* IFile.it
* Megaupload
* Pogoplug
* RapidShare
* SteekR
* Ubuntu One
* Wuala
* MobileMe
* Xdrive
* Yahoo! Briefcase
* ZumoDrive