September 20, 2026 · 4 min read
Tresorit Send vs WeTransfer
Tresorit Send and WeTransfer, compared by what happens after the link exists.

People ask this as if one of them cheated. They didn’t. Tresorit Send and WeTransfer grew up answering different complaints.
Tresorit Send
Tresorit Send is the encrypted envelope from a company that sells encrypted drives. Swiss, end-to-end, serious face.
The upload is a minute. The afterwards is the product.
You can send without an account, commonly up to about 5 GB, with a password and an expiry you choose.
The security story is not a sticker. It is the architecture.
The annoying part: Five gigabytes and a stern page. A video job will bounce off the ceiling. A studio that wants warmth will find it chilly.
WeTransfer
WeTransfer taught a whole generation that a file could be a link. You drop it in the browser, you get a URL, the other person does not make an account.
Their own pages, as of late 2026, put the free plan at 3 GB per transfer, with 10 transfers or 3 GB total in a rolling month, and links that die after 3 days. Free use is framed as personal, not commercial.
It is still the name people say when they mean “just send the file.” The page is calm. Recipients are not puzzled.
The annoying part: Three days is a rude expiry if your client is on a shoot. Three gigabytes is a short film, not a project. And the free plan is not really for invoices you send every Tuesday.
Side by side
| Tresorit Send | WeTransfer | |
|---|---|---|
| Free size | About 5 GB | 3 GB |
| Free expiry | You choose | 3 days |
| Account to send | No | They push for one |
| Password | Yes | Paid |
| The top end | About 5 GB on the free send | Ultimate lifts the cap |
Which one, then
Open Tresorit Send when the file is sensitive and 5 GB is honestly enough. Open WeTransfer when you already live in their paid plan, your files are under a few gigabytes, and everyone on the thread already knows the orange page.
If both have started to feel like a membership, the smaller idea is a transfer that ends. Pink Jeepney’s free ride is 2 GB and 7 days. The paid plans are 25 GB, 100 GB, and 250 GB. That is a third afterwards, not a verdict on the first two.

Written by
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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