WeTransfer vs SwissTransfer

People ask this as if one of them cheated. They didn’t. WeTransfer and SwissTransfer 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.

SwissTransfer

SwissTransfer is Infomaniak’s free booth. No paid tier. The company makes money on other products and leaves this one alone.

Up to 50 GB a transfer. You pick 1, 7, 15, or 30 days. The 30-day option asks you to confirm around day 12 or the files go early. There is a cap on downloads and on how many transfers an IP can open in an hour. No account.

Fifty gigabytes, Switzerland, no account, no ads. For a free send, that is the grown-up offer.

The annoying part: No dashboard, no brand on the page, no one to call when a client says the link looks unfamiliar. The download cap can surprise a producer who forwarded the URL to a whole crew.

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 SwissTransfer when you want the largest honest free transfer and you do not need a logo, a password story, or a receipt.

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.