FileHost.net vs WeTransfer

FileHost.net and WeTransfer at a glance

Facts as of November 2026. "Not published" means the provider does not state it publicly. Plans and limits change, so confirm on the official site before deciding.

Trade-offs to weigh with WeTransfer

• Transfers expire, so it is not a place to keep a video that people can return to.
• The free plan counts transfers over a rolling 30 days, which can run out mid-project.
• No streaming player or embed code.
• Keine Creator-Monetarisierung.
• Plan names and prices have shifted, so budgeting requires checking the current page.

Expiry is the product

WeTransfer is designed around the idea that a transfer is a delivery and not an archive. The link lives for a limited time, the recipient downloads the file, and the data is cleaned up. For a client review that fits naturally: you do not want a rough cut sitting online forever, and the expiry removes the need to remember to delete it.

That same design makes WeTransfer unsuitable as a place to publish. A tutorial, a trailer, a recorded webinar or a product demo is meant to be found over weeks and months, and every broken link is a lost viewer. A host that keeps the file online and serves it as a stream is the appropriate tool, which is where FileHost.net comes in.

Some teams use both. The editor sends the draft by WeTransfer for approval, and once approved, the final export is uploaded to FileHost.net and embedded on the product page.

Free allowance and paid tiers

WeTransfer help describes the free plan as 10 transfers or 3 GB in any rolling 30-day window, and its Starter plan as 10 transfers or 300 GB in that window. Ultimate removes the transfer count and adds custom expiry. Third-party reviews put Starter at about $84 a year and Ultimate somewhere around $19 to $23 a month depending on billing, but the official page was not reachable when this was checked, so confirm the figures before you buy.

The consequence for video is practical. A single 4K export can be several gigabytes, so the free 3 GB allowance can disappear in one send. If you work with big files regularly, a paid tier or a different tool is almost mandatory.

FileHost.net does not count transfers. Free accounts accept up to 5 GB per file, premium raises that to 20 GB for $7.99 a month, $37.99 for six months or $77.99 for a year, and there is no monthly cap on how many files you can publish.

Typical workflows for editors and agencies

Consider a freelance editor delivering a client project. The first review cut goes out as a transfer, because nobody wants a rough draft to stay online. Feedback comes back by email, a second and third cut follow, and each one expires on its own schedule. When the client signs off, the final export has a different future: it will go on a landing page, a social post and probably an email newsletter. At that point an expiring link becomes a liability.

Moving that final export to a permanent host takes minutes. Upload the file, wait for packaging, and use the embed code or the share link. The same file can then be reused across channels, and the viewer count accumulates in one place. If the client has no tracking requirements you can even let the video earn on its own, though you should agree that with them first.

For agencies with dozens of finished videos per month, the API is the useful part. Uploads, remote uploads and folder management can be scripted so that approved files are published without a person clicking through a dashboard.

The recipient experience

A WeTransfer recipient gets a tidy page with a download button and, in most cases, a preview. That is excellent for a person who needs to save the file and open it in an editor. It is not a viewing experience for a crowd.

On FileHost.net, a viewer clicks a link or arrives on your page and the video starts playing. They do not need an account. If the video is embedded, they never leave your site. This difference matters much more for marketing and education content than for client approvals.

Moving from WeTransfer to FileHost.net

1. 1Download the files that you still have from WeTransfer before the link expires, because expired transfers cannot be recovered.
2. 2Log in to FileHost.net and open the upload page.
3. 3Upload the videos from your computer, up to 5 GB each on a free account or 20 GB on premium.
4. 4Wait for processing, then copy the share link or embed code.
5. 5Send the permanent link to your client in place of the expiring one.