Filemail is the category specialist for very large, very fast transfers — its Pro plan sends up to 250 GB per transfer and Business lists transfer size as "Any Size". If raw size and speed are your problem, it is genuinely good at that and most alternatives are a step down. People usually look elsewhere for a different reason: what the client sees, how work is kept, or where the data lives.
Every figure below is from each company's own documentation, on the date stated. No competitor prices appear anywhere on this site.
What Filemail states
From Filemail's own plan pages:
- Basic (free): up to 5 GB per transfer, and it needs a free account (checked 21 September 2026).
- Personal: still 5 GB per transfer, with 250 GB of storage and files available for 30 days (checked 1 August 2026).
- Pro: up to 250 GB per transfer, 1 TB of storage, availability listed as permanent (checked 1 August 2026).
- Business and Enterprise: transfer size listed as "Any Size" (checked 1 August 2026).
Password links, file requests, branding with a custom subdomain, and the API start on paid plans (checked 21 September 2026).
Note the shape of that ladder: free and Personal share a 5 GB ceiling, and the jump in transfer size only arrives at Pro. If you bought Personal for storage, you did not buy a bigger pipe.
250 GB
Why people move
- The delivery experience is thin. Filemail is built around moving bytes, and does it well. It is less concerned with what the recipient sees, whether folders survive, or whether a client can browse and choose from what you sent.
- Availability is not organisation. "Permanent" on Pro means the file stays. It does not mean last year's work is findable without you.
- Jurisdiction. If you have a hard EU-residency requirement, put that question to any vendor directly rather than inferring it.
The alternatives
SwissTransfer, if 50 GB free covers it
From Infomaniak's own guide, checked 1 August 2026: 50 GB per transfer, free, no account, deleted after 15 days unless extended to 30.
Ten times Filemail's free ceiling, with no sign-up. The catch for big work: archives over 10 GB download one file at a time, so a 60 GB shoot arrives as a long list. Swiss, so outside the EU.
Smash, for large-and-patient
From Smash's own pricing page, checked 21 September 2026: 2 GB free with priority, then a queue rather than a refusal; paid plans list transfer size as unlimited, kept up to 30 days. Good if you are not in a hurry, or if you want unlimited transfers with a different delivery page.
Yungle, if the problem is delivery rather than size
Mine, so discount accordingly. Free is 10 GB a transfer, as many as you like, no account, no ads.
The difference from Filemail is what happens after the upload. On a subscription, collections keep your folders exactly as you organised them, clients browse a gallery and pick favourites rather than facing a download button, request links let clients send files to you, and delivery can happen on your own domain. Nothing expires unless you set a date. Files are always encrypted with their own keys, on servers in Germany.
Where Filemail is simply better: the single-transfer ceiling. Filemail Pro sends 250 GB at once and Business advertises no limit; Yungle's free transfers stop at 10 GB and paid plans are bounded by your storage. If one 300 GB handover is your routine job, stop here and buy Filemail. The rest of this page is for people whose problem starts after the upload. Yungle vs Filemail has the side-by-side.
Dropbox Transfer and WeTransfer
Dropbox Transfer (checked 21 September 2026): 2 GB free, 7 days, no ads, a Dropbox account to send. WeTransfer (checked 31 July 2026): 3 GB or 10 transfers across a rolling 30 days, ad-supported.
Both are a big step down from Filemail on size — here for completeness, not as recommendations for anyone on Filemail today.
The decision
If your work is occasional enormous handovers — a finished feature, a full archive, a dataset — Filemail Pro or Business is the right tool, and the alternatives are compromises.
If your work is regular client delivery of large files, size is not your constraint. What costs you time is folders arriving flattened, clients who cannot find things, and uploading again because something expired. That is a different product category, and the video editors' comparison is the closer fit.
If speed to a distant recipient is the complaint, that is more a network problem than a service one. Read how to send 4K and RAW footage before switching: resuming uploads and not re-encoding the master usually save more time than a faster pipe.