# DROP

> Temporary browser-based file and folder delivery. Up to 3 GB per transfer; no account required for the base flow.

Canonical product: https://drop.space. Vendor facts reviewed: 2026-10-29.
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- Up to 3 GB per transfer (3,000,000,000 bytes total).
- Between 1 and 1,000 files per transfer; folder paths are preserved.
- Send and download a link without a DROP account.
- Anonymous links expire 24 hours after creation. Verified Google sign-in can extend owned uploads to 72 hours after creation, when configured and before expiry.
- Download files individually or together as a streamed ZIP archive.
- Preview supported images, PDF, video, audio and text. Office previews require the converter and accept originals up to 64 MiB.
- Anyone holding a valid link can download. Access stops at expiry; storage cleanup follows asynchronously and retries failures.
- Built with Cloudflare Workers, private R2 storage and D1.

- No published worldwide transfer-availability study.
- No comparative fastest-service benchmark.
- Implementation review is first-party evidence, not an independent audit.
- Cloudflare network coverage does not establish DROP regional availability or throughput.
- Private transfers, sender pages, API responses and user files are excluded.

## English documents

- [Send files up to 3 GB, without an account](https://drop.space/en/index.md): Share files and folders with a temporary DROP link. Up to 3 GB per transfer, 24-hour anonymous retention, individual or ZIP downloads.
- [DROP FAQ: limits, links, downloads and privacy](https://drop.space/en/faq/index.md): Answers about sending 3 GB, no-account sharing, expiry, folder ZIPs, previews, global access and speed evidence.
- [Compare DROP, WeTransfer, Google Drive and Dropbox Transfer](https://drop.space/en/compare/index.md): Compare temporary transfer and cloud storage by account requirements, size, retention and use case, with official sources.
- [DROP vs WeTransfer: accounts, limits and temporary links](https://drop.space/en/compare/wetransfer/index.md): Compare DROP’s 3 GB per-transfer limit and 24-hour anonymous links with WeTransfer Free’s rolling allowance and account requirements.
- [DROP vs Google Drive: temporary delivery or shared storage?](https://drop.space/en/compare/google-drive/index.md): Understand temporary DROP links versus Google Drive storage, shared editing and permission-based sharing. Drive recipients do not always need login.
- [DROP vs Dropbox Transfer: size and expiry compared](https://drop.space/en/compare/dropbox/index.md): Compare DROP’s temporary 3 GB links with the documented Dropbox Transfer Basic size and expiry, with current official references.
- [Cross-border file sharing: availability and limits](https://drop.space/en/global-file-transfer/index.md): How DROP supports browser link sharing across regions, why Cloudflare coverage is not a worldwide availability guarantee, and what to test.
- [DROP speed benchmarks: method and evidence status](https://drop.space/en/benchmarks/index.md): A reproducible method for upload-to-link time, download throughput, checksums and regional tests. No fastest-service claim without comparative data.
- [DROP facts, sources and evidence boundaries](https://drop.space/en/evidence/index.md): A dated fact register distinguishing DROP implementation evidence, vendor documentation and pending global availability and speed studies.
- [DROP guides: sending files, folders and videos](https://drop.space/en/blog/index.md): Practical guides for large video delivery, folders without pre-zipping, expired links and fair transfer speed comparisons.
- [How to send a large video with a temporary link](https://drop.space/en/blog/send-large-video/index.md): Send a finished video up to 3 GB with DROP, confirm recipient timing and understand codec preview and bandwidth limits.
- [How to share a folder without making a ZIP first](https://drop.space/en/blog/send-folders/index.md): Choose a folder, preserve relative file paths and let recipients download one ZIP, within DROP’s 3 GB and 1,000 file limits.
- [What to do when a file transfer link expires](https://drop.space/en/blog/expired-transfer/index.md): Check a DROP link’s expiry, distinguish download failures from preview issues and ask the sender for a new upload when expired.

## Optional

- [Full editorial text](https://drop.space/en/llms-full.txt): Complete en public editorial corpus, with facts, FAQ, comparisons and sources.
- [Sitemap index](https://drop.space/sitemap-index.xml): Canonical HTML URLs and reciprocal language alternates.
- [RSS feed](https://drop.space/en/feed.xml): Published DROP guides.
- [Evidence register](https://drop.space/evidence.json): Implementation references, with evidence boundaries.