WeTransfer vs SendGB

People ask this as if one of them cheated. They didn’t. WeTransfer and SendGB grew up answering different complaints.

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.

The upload is a minute. The afterwards is the product.

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.

SendGB

SendGB is the straightforward booth: a few gigabytes free, and a pay-per-send button when the file is ruder than that.

About 5 GB free. Smaller files can keep a long link, sometimes quoted up toward 90 days. Bigger files live shorter.

Paying once, for this file, matches how freelancers actually work.

The annoying part: The page is plain. There is no brand, no ritual, no “your client opened it.”

Side by side

Which one, then

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. Open SendGB when you send rarely and you would rather pay for the one file than rent a plan.

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.