Most cloud services make you pick one thing: a lasting cabinet, or real link controls, or official apps, or a VPN. upload.am ships all four on Free, then raises storage as you pay — nothing gets locked away as a paid feature.
A real account, a real cabinet, real support — not an anonymous upload that vanishes with no way to prove it was ever yours.
Free accounts do not get throttled here. The only thing Free waits on is a 10-second pause before the download starts — paid plans skip even that.
No-logs OpenVPN comes with every account, including Free, for as long as the account exists — not a 7-day trial designed to expire.
Terabyte-sized plans, monthly or yearly, pay by card or crypto — no forced annual lock-in, no tier that quietly shrinks your storage later.
Your files live in one lasting cabinet with folders, search, previews, versions and a protected trash. The Windows and Android apps back up what matters, and any file can leave the cabinet as a link you control: password, expiry, download limit, watermark.
People compare us with services they already know. Here is the honest difference.
Drives such as Dropbox or Google Drive keep folders in step. upload.am also gives every file link-level control (password, download limits, burn-after-download, watermark, address restrictions), Drop Rooms, Client Portals, e-signatures and data rooms — and a free account has no ads and a free VPN.
Zero-knowledge vaults such as Sync.com or Tresorit lead on encryption. upload.am offers client-side encryption as an option (Encrypt in my browser, Windows Vault) and adds what teams usually buy separately: e-signatures, data rooms, projects and clients, backups with ransomware alerts, single sign-on and an audit log — from $24.95 a month for a team of three.
Services such as pCloud, MEGA or Internxt compete on storage per dollar. We compete on what you can do with it: every plan lists exactly which features and limits it includes, and the features a business needs sit in plans a small team can afford.
One-off transfer pages such as WeTransfer delete files after days. Here files stay while you use the account — with versions, trash, restore to a date and backups — and you decide when a link expires.
Most comparisons only look at free gigabytes. Here is what actually comes with an account across the categories of cloud storage — a lasting personal cabinet, a one-off transfer page, and a classic file host.
| upload.am | Generic cloud drive | One-off transfer link | Classic file host | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persistent cabinet — folders, search, versions, trash | ||||
| Official Windows + Android apps | ||||
| No ads on the download page | ||||
| Unlimited download speed | ||||
| Free no-logs VPN included | ||||
| Password, download limit, burn-after-download | ||||
| Group links and folder links | ||||
| Personal Upload Inbox (receive files, no account needed for the sender) | ||||
| Resumable uploads AND downloads | ||||
| Locked trash — recent deletes can't be force-erased for days | ||||
| Interface in 12 languages | ||||
| Team workspace — shared pool, roles, folder permissions |
Categories, not specific brands: "generic cloud drive" covers Google Drive/Dropbox-style sync tools, "one-off transfer link" covers WeTransfer/Smash-style send pages, "classic file host" covers 1fichier/MediaFire-style hosts. See Features for the complete feature list and Pricing for storage and pricing.
upload.am is operated by a registered company in Armenia and has been live since 2013. Files go straight to S3-compatible storage nodes we run, over presigned URLs — the same protocol the public API uses.
Roles and guests, a shared pool, e-signatures, data rooms with NDA and Q&A, projects and clients, backups with ransomware alerts, legal hold and single sign-on — in plans that start at $24.95 a month for a team.
Official Windows + Android apps
A real cloud explorer, folder backup, live sync, and Upload Inbox on the desktop — see Windows for the full picture.
Free VPN, every account
No-logs OpenVPN included on Free and every paid plan — not a bundled trial.
Drop Rooms
A secure temporary room for exchanging files with a deadline — everything is deleted when it ends. Free.
Client Portals
A permanent, branded page for each client or project: custom address, two-way file exchange, e-sign.
Resumable transfers
A dropped connection on a huge file does not mean starting from zero — uploads and downloads both resume.
Ransomware-resistant trash
Recently deleted files cannot be force-erased for a few days — a cheap, real defense if an account is ever compromised.
Team workspace
Shared storage pool, owner/admin/member roles, per-folder permissions, and a company Inbox.
Real link controls
Password, download limits, burn-after-download, group links — the controls a serious file host is supposed to have.
Personal Upload Inbox
Let anyone send you a file with no account of their own — accept or decline each one.
12 languages
The full interface, not a machine-translated landing page.
Optional client-side encryption
Encrypt a file on your own machine, in the desktop app, before it ever reaches our servers.