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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.

## File hosting services

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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

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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

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* 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

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* 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

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1. ^ Previously 15 GB[51] and 25 GB since 2008.[52]

## References

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2. ^ Append-only is a property of computer data storage such that new data can be appended to the storage, but where existing data is Immutable. This feature is especially important to mitigate the risk of data loss for backup policies in the event that the computer being backed-up becomes infected with ransomware capable of deleting or encrypting the computer's backups.
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