SwissTransfer is far more generous than WeTransfer on the free tier: according to each company's own pages, SwissTransfer sends up to 50 GB per transfer with no account, while WeTransfer's free plan allows 3 GB or 10 transfers across a rolling 30 days. SwissTransfer also keeps files longer — 15 days by default, extendable to 30 — and stores them in Switzerland. If you just need to get one big file across for free, SwissTransfer wins that comparison clearly.
I run Yungle, a third option, so I have a stake. Every competitor fact below is from that company's own documentation with the date I checked it, and I say plainly where each one is better.
Side by side
| SwissTransfer | WeTransfer | |
|---|---|---|
| Free transfer size | 50 GB | 3 GB or 10 transfers per 30 days |
| Account needed | No | Not stated on the pages checked |
| How long files last | 15 days, extendable to 30 | Indefinitely on the top tier only |
| Where files are stored | Switzerland | Not stated on the pages checked |
| Ads on the free tier | Not stated on the pages checked | Ad-supported |
SwissTransfer facts checked 21 September 2026 and 1 August 2026 (Infomaniak's own pages); WeTransfer facts checked 31 July 2026, free limit re-checked 21 September 2026. No prices, deliberately.
Where SwissTransfer is clearly better
Size. Fifty gigabytes free per transfer is in a different league from WeTransfer's three. For a video editor or a photographer sending a full shoot, that alone decides it.
No monthly count. WeTransfer's free allowance is shared across a rolling month; a busy week can use it up. SwissTransfer's limit is per transfer.
Longer life, by request. Files stay 15 days, and Infomaniak's own guide says the sender is offered an extension to 30 days by email on the 12th day.
Where WeTransfer can be the better choice
Familiarity. WeTransfer is the name most people know. If your recipients are used to its download page, there is value in not explaining anything new.
Its wider product. WeTransfer has its own apps and paid features that a pure transfer service does not replicate. If you rely on them, weigh that.
One nuance about "Swiss"
Switzerland has strong privacy law, and SwissTransfer is run by a Swiss company. Worth knowing precisely, though: Switzerland is not in the European Union. For most people that changes nothing. For an organisation whose policy says "EU only", it is a line worth reading carefully rather than assuming. European file sharing services covers the distinction.
What neither does
Both are transfer services: the link works for a while, then ends. Neither lists client collections or proofing — a lasting place where a client favourites and comments on files — and neither offers a developer API, CLI or MCP server on the pages checked.
If your work is one-off hand-overs, that does not matter and SwissTransfer is excellent. If clients come back to files months later, the expiring link becomes the problem, and you end up re-uploading.
A third option, briefly
Yungle sends up to 10 GB per transfer free — less than SwissTransfer — with as many transfers as you like, no account and no ads, on servers in Germany in the EU. What it adds is the part after the transfer: on a subscription, collections that do not expire, with favourites and comments; receipts showing who downloaded what; your own domain; and an API, CLI and MCP server.
Which to pick
- One big file, free, now: SwissTransfer.
- Your recipients know WeTransfer and you send small files: WeTransfer.
- Clients return to files, or sending is part of your workflow: a service built for lasting collections.
Sourced detail is on Yungle vs SwissTransfer and Yungle vs WeTransfer, and the wider field is in SwissTransfer alternatives.