Transfer.it

transfer.it · Storage · 2 records · JSON

Transfer.it (MEGA) Storagecaveatinstitutionno cardRretention-clampeddisagrees
transfer.it (mega) as a paid capacity route Storagefails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees

Transfer.it (MEGA) Storage

caveatinstitutionno cardRretention-clampeddisagrees

transfer.it · cloud-drive · storage/transfer-it · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

verdict: storage/transfer-it says qualifies-with-caveat, storage/transfer-it-as-a-paid-capacity-route says fails-quota
identity_kind: storage/transfer-it says institution, storage/transfer-it-as-a-paid-capacity-route says email

Free tier	No per-transfer size limit (MEGA blog: 'Send 100 GB, 1 TB, or even more, all for free'). Backing store is a fresh ANONYMOUS ephemeral MEGA account per uploader with mstrg = 21474836480 (20 GiB), read live from the API. unit TB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	Retention: SERVER CLAMPS EXPIRY TO 90 DAYS (90 days)
Egress	unmetered; direct host-issued CDN URL (gfsXXX.userstorage.mega.co.nz) supports Range and returns 206. Link/bandwidth not metered per-download on the free tier.
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: ader with mstrg = 21474836480 (20 GiB), read live from the API. Expiry IS re-settable in place: a:xm with a new 'e' on an existing xh works and returns 0 (verified 1d -> 30d -> 90
Limits	per-ip-shaping 0.29 MB/s source per-ip-shaping 2.73 MB/s source retention-clamped Retention: SERVER CLAMPS EXPIRY TO 90 DAYS source per-object-cap: none advertised per transfer, but the real ceiling is the 20 GiB ephemeral-account storage (mstrg) — a transfer larger than the account's remaining space cannot complete. Retention: SERVER CLAMPS EXPIRY TO 90 DAYS. Verified with a:xl on transfers requested at 1d/90d/1y/10y/no-expiry: all returned e = now+90.00 days. The 10-year ceiling in transferit-py's docs (MAX_EXPIRY_SECONDS) is a CLIENT clamp the server silently overrides. Request-rate: not hit in ~10 uploads.
Binding	retention-clamped a clock, not a quota: bytes leave whether or not the client is finished with them
Interface	rest, git, cli rest
Tooling	transferit-py (PyPI, github.com/viperadnan-git/transferit-py, 20 stars, pushed 2026-04-22) — CLI + library, pip install worked and roundtrip verified. Also NTFSvolume/mega.py has a read-only transfer.it client.
Composes with	Each Transferit() upload creates a NEW anonymous MEGA account (a:up + a:us, no email/phone) => 20 GiB x unlimited free accounts. Shard a file into 20 GiB (or 4 GiB) objects, one ephemeral account per shard, one URL per shard. Cost per identity: two unauthenticated API calls.
Reliability	Expiry IS re-settable in place: a:xm with a new 'e' on an existing xh works and returns 0 (verified 1d -> 30d -> 90d). This is the 'transfer as store' trick — an unexpired transfer can be pushed back to the 90-day wall indefinitely without re-uploading, so the object only dies if you stop touching it for 90 days. Parallel ranged GETs scale (0.29 MB/s @1 conn -> 2.73 MB/s @32 conn on a 32 MiB object, 206s throughout); occasional 403 on a range suggests per-connection shaping, not a hard pull cap.
Notes	No per-transfer size limit (MEGA blog: 'Send 100 GB, 1 TB, or even more, all for free'). Backing store is a fresh ANONYMOUS ephemeral MEGA account per uploader with mstrg = 21474836480 (20 GiB), read live from the API.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-ip-shaping 0.29 MB `$.limits[1].value` limit:per-ip-shaping 2.73 MB

Evidence (5)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	transfer.it/t/JzZzzDxj2JCS	probe: transferit upload 1 MiB -> , download + sha256 match 66a5b62e...d1637
2026-10-21	withheld	probe: a:uq on ephemeral session -> mstrg 21474836480 (20 GiB), identical across two independent sessions
2026-10-21	withheld	probe: a:xl after xm e=365d -> e=now+90.00 days (clamped); xm re-set to 30d then 90d both returned 0
2026-10-21	transfer.it/t/<xh>	probe: GET -> 200 text/html 900 bytes (JS SPA; the URL is NOT a plain-GET byte link)
2026-10-21	blog.mega.io/introducing-transfer-it	(archived 2025-07-21) — 'No file size limits. Send 100 GB, 1 TB, or even more, all for free'

Unknown or withheld values (6)

$.evidence[1].url private-url
$.evidence[2].url private-url
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted

transfer.it (mega) as a paid capacity route Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees

transfer.it/ · rejected-provider · storage/transfer-it-as-a-paid-capacity-route · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

verdict: storage/transfer-it says qualifies-with-caveat, storage/transfer-it-as-a-paid-capacity-route says fails-quota
identity_kind: storage/transfer-it says institution, storage/transfer-it-as-a-paid-capacity-route says email

Free tier	Transfer.it has no paid tier of its own — it is a sharing front end that requires MEGA storage: 'You can only share files that you have uploaded to MEGA.' Its expiry selector offers up to 1 unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	Transfer.it has no paid tier of its own — it is a sharing front end that requires MEGA storage: 'You can only share files that you have uploaded to MEGA.' Its expiry selector offers up to 1
Notes	Transfer.it has no paid tier of its own — it is a sharing front end that requires MEGA storage: 'You can only share files that you have uploaded to MEGA.' Its expiry selector offers up to 1
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	transfer.it/	Transfer.it has no paid tier of its own — it is a sharing front end that requires MEGA storage: 'You can only share files that you have uploaded to MEGA.' Its expiry selector offers up to 1

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Transfer.it has no paid tier of its own — it is a sharing front end that requires MEGA storage: 'You can only share files that you have uploaded to MEGA.' Its expiry selector offers up to 1",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded