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- Free allowance
- Quick Transfers are free and have NO file-size limit, but they are ephemeral P2P: 'deleted automatically when either party closes the transfer window'.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- card?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap200 GB/file
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Quick Transfers are free and have NO file-size limit, but they are ephemeral P2P: 'deleted automatically when either party closes the transfer window'. Persistent storage starts at Starter $6/mo (200 GB storage, 200 GB/file, 14 days). unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-object-cap (binding) 200 GB/file source
per-object-cap: none on Quick Transfer, 200 GB on Starter. Retention: zero on Quick Transfer (session-bound); 14 days on Starter paid. 'Unlimited free file size' on the marketing page refers to the P2P mode. |
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| Identity | card (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | free for Quick Transfer (browser-to-browser, so their egress is minimal). |
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| Per-object cap | 200 GB/file (200000000000 bytes) |
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| Retention | until the instance is recycled; not persistent |
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| Interface | unknown wrapper-only |
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| Tooling | Open source (github.com/robinkarlberg/transfer.zip-web, 1,514 stars) and self-hostable — which means you can run the whole service on your own box, but that is your storage, not theirs. |
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| Composes with | The free path is a WebRTC pipe, so it multiplies to nothing durable. Self-hosting it is a legitimate option only if you already have the disk. |
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| Reliability | Its own terms are unambiguous that Quick Transfers are ephemeral and that paid plans are a pool of SIMULTANEOUS storage, not cumulative. Reading 'unlimited free file size' as a storage quota would be a mistake. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 2
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "retention","why": "Quick Transfers are free and have NO file-size limit, but they are ephemeral P2P: 'deleted automatically when either party closes the transfer window'. Persistent storage starts at Starter $6/mo (200 GB storage, 200 GB/file, 14 days).","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 3
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read