Updated Oct 21, 2026 ## Is there a WeTransfer alternative whose links don't expire? WeTransfer's free plan now deletes your transfer after three days and caps you at ten transfers in any 30 days. Link in Seconds gives you a link that isn't counting down to a deletion date, with no monthly send limit, in-browser previews, and view tracking. When the file really is huge, Direct Send moves it device-to-device with no size limit at all. ### Three days vs. forever A free WeTransfer transfer is deleted after three days, and only its Ultimate plan (about $23 a month) lets you switch expiry off. Here every link is permanent by default on every plan, free included, and Pro costs $9 a month. If you want a deadline, every plan lets you set your own expiry date deliberately. ### View tracking that keeps counting WeTransfer tells you when a transfer is downloaded, but the tracking ends when the transfer does. Every Link in Seconds link gets a free live view counter over its whole life. Every plan breaks views down by device and country, emails you when a link is viewed, and can ask viewers for their email first. ### Huge file? Send it with no size limit A hosted link here is capped at 250 MB free and 500 MB on Pro. For a genuinely huge file, Direct Send streams it straight from your device to theirs over an encrypted peer-to-peer connection, no upload, no size limit, no account, nothing stored on our servers. It's usually faster than WeTransfer for a big file. [Try Direct Send](https://linkinseconds.com/transfer) ### A link that looks like you WeTransfer URLs are random and transient. A Link in Seconds URL reads like a real page and belongs in places a transfer link can't go: an email signature, a LinkedIn bio, a printed QR code, the footer of a proposal. On any plan you can serve it from your own domain with automatic SSL, and embed the file into your own site with a copy-paste iframe. ### Where WeTransfer still genuinely wins Huge and asynchronous transfers favour WeTransfer. You can fire off 3 GB now, close your laptop, and let the other person collect it tomorrow, and its Ultimate plan has no transfer size limit. Direct Send needs you both present, and a hosted link here is capped at 500 MB per file even on Lifetime. WeTransfer does things we simply don't. File requests collect files from other people, Paid Transfers let you sell a file, and WeTransfer Sign handles e-signatures. If you need any of those, WeTransfer is the better choice. View-only is a courtesy gate, not copy protection. It hides the download button and deters casual saving, but it can't stop a screenshot or a determined download, and there's no DRM. Link in Seconds turns a file into a clean, permanent, trackable link, not a replacement for your drive. ## Link in Seconds vs WeTransfer at a glance Link in Seconds compared with WeTransfer | Feature | Link in Seconds | WeTransfer | | Free file size | 250 MB per file | 3 GB per transfer | | Free link stays live for | Until you delete it | 3 days | | Free monthly allowance | 50 live links, no monthly cap | 10 transfers or 3 GB per 30 days | | Recipient needs an account | Link in Seconds, Recipient needs an account: no | WeTransfer, Recipient needs an account: no | | Password and custom expiry | Link in Seconds, Password and custom expiry: yes | Ultimate plan | | See who viewed or downloaded | Free, with full detail | Download notifications, until the transfer expires | | Cheapest paid plan | Pro, $9/mo | Starter, $8/mo | | Very large transfers | 500 MB per file at most | No size limit on Ultimate | | File requests and paid transfers | Link in Seconds, File requests and paid transfers: no | WeTransfer, File requests and paid transfers: yes | WeTransfer facts checked on 6 Oct 2026 on wetransfer.com/help-center (plan limits), wetransfer.com/resources and WeTransfer's 2025 plans announcement. Our numbers come from our plan page. Plans change, so check their current pricing before you decide. ## How it works - 1 ### Upload the file you keep re-sending Drop your PDF, image, MP4, or ZIP onto the card and sign in with Google, one tap, no form, no card, so you can test it against a WeTransfer link side by side in under a minute. - 2 ### Give it a name that isn't random characters On any plan you can set a custom name (like acme-proposal) instead of a string of random letters. It reads like a page you meant to send, which matters when it lands in a client's inbox next to your name. - 3 ### Share the link, and keep sharing it Paste the same URL into your email signature, a pitch deck, a Notion page, or a printed QR code. Because nothing is counting down to delete it, you never have to re-upload and re-send when someone opens it a month later, and the view counter shows every open over time. ## Three days vs. forever This is the headline difference, and it got sharper with WeTransfer's late-2024 plan overhaul: a free transfer is now deleted after three days, not a week, and the free plan is capped at ten transfers in any 30 days. Paying for Starter doesn't change the clock, transfers still expire after a few days; only Ultimate, at about $23 a month, lets you switch expiry off. That's fine for a one-off handoff, but brutal for anything you reference repeatedly, a resume in your email signature, a media kit in your bio, a spec sheet in a proposal. On Link in Seconds every link is permanent by default on every plan, free included, and Pro costs $9 a month. If you actually want a deadline, every plan lets you set your own expiry date deliberately, the opposite of having one forced on you. You choose when a link dies, instead of the clock deciding for you. ## Previews with no ads and no countdown WeTransfer now offers file previews too, the sender chooses preview-only, download, or both, so a preview on its own isn't the difference any more. What is: on the free plan the recipient's page comes with ads, and the preview disappears with the transfer three days later. A Link in Seconds link opens the content directly: PDFs render in a clean canvas viewer, images display full-bleed, Office documents render right in the page, and MP4/WebM/MOV videos play with normal seeking. No ads, no upsell interstitial between your recipient and your file, and the same preview is still there when someone opens the link months later. ## View tracking on a link that keeps living WeTransfer does tell you when a transfer is downloaded, on every plan, and can require recipients to verify their email before downloading. The catch is that the tracking ends when the transfer does. Link in Seconds gives every link a free live view counter, so you can see how many times it was opened over its whole life, useful when you've sent a proposal and want to know if the client looked before the follow-up call, or when the same link has sat in your email signature for a year. On any plan, analytics break down by device and country, you can get an email when a link is viewed, and you can ask viewers for their email before they open it. An honest signal of interest, on a link that keeps living. ## Where WeTransfer still genuinely wins An honest comparison has to name this. WeTransfer is better when the transfer is both huge and asynchronous, you want to fire off 3 GB now, close your laptop, and let the other person collect it tomorrow, and its Ultimate plan has no transfer size limit. Direct Send needs you both present; a hosted link here is permanent but capped at 500 MB per file, even on Lifetime. WeTransfer also does things we simply don't: file requests to collect files from other people, Paid Transfers to sell a file, and WeTransfer Sign for e-signatures. If you need any of those, WeTransfer is the better choice. Link in Seconds is for turning a file into a clean, permanent, trackable link, not for being your drive. ## Let them reply right on the link A WeTransfer download page is a dead end, it shut down its Reviews commenting feature in December 2025, so the recipient grabs the file and you never hear whether it landed well. On Link in Seconds, on every plan, you can turn on feedback and comments per link: viewers leave a note or a question right on the shared page, and you get an email for each one. It turns a one-way handoff into a short conversation, a client can say 'approved' or 'can you change slide 4' without a separate email thread. Paired with the view counter, you not only see that someone opened your proposal, you hear back on it, on the same link you already sent. ## A link that looks like you, reusable everywhere WeTransfer URLs are random and transient, you'd never put one on a business card, and even its Ultimate plan only brands a page on a yourname.wetransfer.com subdomain. A Link in Seconds URL reads like a real page and, because nothing is scheduled to delete it, it belongs in places a transfer link can't go: an email signature, a LinkedIn bio, a printed flyer's QR code, the footer of a proposal template. Every link ships with a downloadable QR code, so the same permanent URL bridges digital and print. On any plan you can go a step further and serve the link from your own domain or subdomain (like docs.yoursite.com), with automatic SSL, so a branded delivery reads as yours end to end, and you can embed the file straight into your own site with a copy-paste iframe. You paste it once and it keeps working, instead of minting a fresh disposable link every time someone new needs the file. ## Update the file without changing the link With WeTransfer, a new version means a new transfer and a new link, and anyone holding the old one is stuck on a dead page. Link in Seconds lets you replace the file behind a link while keeping the exact same URL. Send a client 'quote v1,' then swap in the revised PDF later, and their bookmark now shows the current version automatically. This is the quiet superpower of a permanent link: the URL is a stable address for 'the latest version of this thing,' not a snapshot frozen at the moment you sent it. Combined with view tracking, you can even see who opened it before you updated. ## Optional control: password, expiry, view-only WeTransfer lists password protection under its Ultimate plan and offers email-verified downloads on every plan, so control exists on both sides, the difference is what it is attached to and what it costs. Theirs protects a transfer that, below Ultimate, is deleted within days; here it protects a link that stays. On Link in Seconds, on every plan, you can put a password on a link, set a deliberate expiry date for something genuinely time-sensitive (a limited quote, a pre-launch preview), and turn on view-only mode, which hides the download button so casual saving is deterred. We're honest about the limit: view-only can't stop a screenshot or a determined download, and there's no DRM; every plan can overlay a watermark on PDF previews, which discourages passing them around but, like any tool, can't truly prevent copying. 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