Gigasend
- Free allowance
- Up to 10 GB free - 3-day link expiration
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap10 GB free
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | Up to 10 GB free - 3-day link expiration unit GB; metered on none; Paid tiers go to 5 TB per transfer; the free tier is the 10 GB row. |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 0 |
| Limits |
Four shape probes at the likely API paths returned 403 rather than 404, so the edge is refusing before the application sees the request. |
| Binding | per-object-cap 10 GB per transfer with a 3-day life: at 1 TiB a month the object size forces 100 transfers, and the retention means none of them is still there when the month ends. |
| Identity | anonymous The page states no account is needed for the free 10 GB tier; uploads are browser-driven and no registration was attempted. |
| Egress | The page advertises no per-download charge and no account; traffic is not metered on the free tier as stated. free allowance: none published |
| Per-object cap | Up to 10 GB free, or up to 5 TB with a paid transfer (10000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | 3-day link expiration (3 days) |
| Interface | unknown A browser drop zone. No anonymous HTTP upload endpoint was found: POST to /api/upload, /upload, /api/files and /v1/upload all returned 403 from the edge, so the upload is a browser-orchestrated presigned flow whose endpoint is inside a JS bundle. |
| Tooling | Browser only as observed. A wrapper would need a headless browser or the presigned-URL flow read out of the JS bundle; neither was done here. |
| Composes with | A 10 GB drop with a 3-day life is the hand-off tier: send a finished archive to one reader, not a mirror an archive can be rebuilt from. |
| Reliability | An SEO-visible 2026 entrant with no published API and an edge that refuses unknown POSTs; nothing indicates long-term operation. |
| Notes | Browser-only: programmatic use needs a wrapper. |
| Evidence note | documented The offer and the 3-day expiry are quoted from the vendor page read; the upload path could not be driven from a script, so no byte was moved and the cap is the vendor's sentence only. |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | gigasend.us/ | 'Up to 10 GB free - 3-day link expiration' and 'Share up to 10 GB free - or up to 5 TB' |
| 2026-10-23 | probe: https://gigasend.us/api/upload | multipart POST to /api/upload, /upload, /api/files, /v1/upload, /api/v1/upload -> HTTP 403 on all five, so no anonymous HTTP upload endpoint is exposed |
More fields 2
| api shapes tried | ["/api/upload","/upload","/api/files","/v1/upload","/api/v1/upload"] |
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| api result | 403 on every path |
Unknown values 1
- interface: the access interface was not established