Filemail alternatives
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. The reason people look elsewhere is usually retention, delivery experience or where the data lives, not size.
All figures below are 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 comparison and Basic plan page, checked 1 August 2026:
- Basic (free): up to 5 GB per transfer, 5 GB of storage, files available to download for up to 7 days.
- Personal: up to 5 GB per transfer, 250 GB of storage, files available for 30 days.
- Pro: up to 250 GB per transfer, 1 TB of storage, file availability listed as permanent.
- Business: transfer size "Any Size", 1 TB per user, availability permanent.
- Enterprise: "Any Size", custom storage, availability configurable.
Note the shape of that ladder. The free and Personal tiers share a 5 GB transfer ceiling — the jump in transfer size only arrives at Pro. If you are on Personal because you needed storage, you did not buy a bigger pipe.
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Reasons people move
The delivery experience is thin. Filemail is built around moving bytes, and it does that well. It is less interested in what the recipient sees, whether folders survive, or whether a client can browse and choose from what you sent.
Retention is availability, not organisation. "Permanent" availability on Pro means the file stays. It does not mean you have a place where last year's work is findable without you.
Jurisdiction. If you have a hard EU-residency requirement, that is a question to put to any vendor directly rather than to infer.
The alternatives
SwissTransfer, if 50 GB free covers it
From Infomaniak's own documentation, checked 1 August 2026: 50 GB per transfer, free, no account, files deleted after 15 days, with an extension to 30 days offered by email on the twelfth day.
Ten times Filemail's free ceiling. The catch that matters for large work: archives over 10 GB must be downloaded one file at a time, so a 60 GB shoot arrives as a long list rather than one archive. Swiss, so outside the EU.
Smash, for large-and-patient
From Smash's own pricing page, checked 1 August 2026: free sends up to 2 GB with expiry up to 7 days, and above 2 GB you are queued rather than blocked. Pro reaches 250 GB with 30-day expiry, Team 1 TB.
Pro matches Filemail Pro on transfer size. The free tier's queue is the interesting part if you are not in a hurry.
Yungle, if the problem is delivery rather than size
Mine, so discount accordingly. The free tier is 10 GB a transfer with no cap on how many, no account and no ads; paid plans start at 250 GB of storage where nothing expires.
The difference from Filemail is what happens after the upload. Collections keep folder structure exactly as you organised it, clients get a gallery they can browse and select from rather than a download button, file request links let clients send you things, and on the top plan delivery happens on your own domain. Files are encrypted at rest with their own keys, on one server in Germany on renewable power.
Where Filemail is straightforwardly better: raw transfer ceiling. Filemail Pro sends 250 GB in one transfer and Business advertises no ceiling at all; Yungle's free transfers cap at 10 GB and paid plans are bounded by your storage quota. If a single 300 GB handover is your routine job, Filemail is built for it and I am not.
So if a single 300 GB handover is your routine job, stop here and buy Filemail. The rest of this page is for people whose problem is what happens after the upload.
Dropbox Transfer and WeTransfer
Dropbox Transfer (checked 31 July 2026): 2 GB free, 30 days, no ads, bundled with Dropbox. WeTransfer (checked 31 July 2026): 3 GB free across a rolling 30 days, ad-supported, never-expiring transfers on the top tier only.
Both are a significant step down from Filemail on size. Mentioned for completeness rather than as recommendations for anyone currently using Filemail.
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 actually your constraint. What costs you time is folders arriving flattened, clients unable to find things, and re-uploading because something expired. That is a different product category, and the video editor comparison is the closer fit.
If speed to a distant recipient is the specific complaint, that is a network problem more than a service problem. Read how to send 4K and RAW footage before switching vendors: resumable uploads and not re-encoding the master usually save more time than a faster pipe.