The Dispatch

September 14, 2026 · 4 min read

Pink Jeepney vs Microsoft OneDrive

Microsoft OneDrive keeps a file close. Pink Jeepney is trying to let it leave.

Cartoon Bonifacio Global City at night, one pink jeepney

The upload is the easy part. Everyone can build an upload. The product is what the file does after that.

OneDrive is the shelf that comes with the Microsoft account you already have. Sharing is a permission, not a goodbye.

What Microsoft OneDrive is actually for

If the client is a company on Outlook and SharePoint, a OneDrive link is the path of least argument.

If the file only needed one trip, a home for it is a strange gift.

The free allotment is small, on the order of 5 GB, and it shares a life with the rest of your Microsoft clutter.

Microsoft 365 is the real plan: a terabyte and the Office apps. Transfer is not why you bought it.

Where it gets awkward

Permissions rot. People keep access. You meant to send a file and you founded a library.

The numbers, side by side

Pink JeepneyMicrosoft OneDrive
Free size2 GBAbout 5 GB free
Free expiry7 daysUntil you revoke it
Account to sendNoA Microsoft account
PasswordPaid plansLink permissions
The top end250 GB on BusinessMicrosoft 365

Read the row you care about and ignore the rest. Most people only have one complaint. Size, or time, or the account.

What I would do

I would stay with Microsoft OneDrive if you are already inside Microsoft 365 and the file needs to be edited, not delivered.

I would use Pink Jeepney when I want a delivery with a checkout: one link, a sentence on the ticket, a zip if I sent a pile, and a burn switch if one download should be the end. Free is 2 GB for 7 days, three times a month. Past that the plans are $9, $24, and $59.

If you will still want the file in their account next year, you wanted a drive. If you wanted it gone after they took it, you wanted a transfer.

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David Krug

Twenty-plus years of building cute little websites, and big ones, with an independent footprint. In the Philippines since 2016. Based in Manila, with two children and one amazing partner.

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