Two things decide whether switching providers is worth it: how long your files take to move, and what the destination costs once they are there. This answers both from 52 verified plans across 10 providers.
13 days 5 hours
That is a realistic sustained figure — 70% of your line rate, which is roughly what large uploads achieve once protocol overhead and client-side encryption are accounted for. At a perfect 50 Mbps with no overhead at all it would be 9 days 6 hours, and nothing achieves that for a day at a time. Leave the machine on and awake.
The same 5000 GB at every common upload speed. This is why two people report wildly different experiences of the same provider.
| Upload speed | Time to move 5000 GB |
|---|---|
| 5 Mbps | 18.9 weeks |
| 10 Mbps | 9.4 weeks |
| 25 Mbps | 3.8 weeks |
| 50 Mbps | 13 days 5 hours |
| 100 Mbps | 6 days 15 hours |
| 300 Mbps | 2 days 5 hours |
| 1000 Mbps | 15.9 hours |
10 plans we track can hold 5000 GB. The cheapest paid option over three years is Icedrive Pro Max at $292 (billed monthly). Ranked by what three years actually costs, because that is the only number that compares a one-time lifetime price against a subscription.
| Provider | Plan | Capacity | Room left | Monthly | 3-yr cost | Zero-knowledge | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Icedrive | Pro Max | 6000 GB | 1000 GB | {# A lifetime plan's "monthly" figure is the one-time price spread over 24 months, which reads as a contradiction beside a one-time 3-year total unless it says so. Same note the compare tool uses. #}$8.00 | $292 billed monthly |
Yes | |
| Sync | Enterprise | Unlimited | No limit | {# A lifetime plan's "monthly" figure is the one-time price spread over 24 months, which reads as a contradiction beside a one-time 3-year total unless it says so. Same note the compare tool uses. #}$15.00 | $540 billed monthly |
Yes | |
| Icedrive | Pro Plus | 5000 GB | 0 GB — tight | {# A lifetime plan's "monthly" figure is the one-time price spread over 24 months, which reads as a contradiction beside a one-time 3-year total unless it says so. Same note the compare tool uses. #}$15.00 $599 once, spread over 24 mo |
$599 one-time |
Yes | |
| MEGA | Pro II | 10000 GB | 5000 GB | {# A lifetime plan's "monthly" figure is the one-time price spread over 24 months, which reads as a contradiction beside a one-time 3-year total unless it says so. Same note the compare tool uses. #}$19.00 | $701 billed annually |
Yes | |
| Tresorit | Enterprise | Unlimited | No limit | {# A lifetime plan's "monthly" figure is the one-time price spread over 24 months, which reads as a contradiction beside a one-time 3-year total unless it says so. Same note the compare tool uses. #}$24.00 | $864 billed monthly |
Yes | |
| MEGA | Pro III | 20000 GB | 15000 GB | {# A lifetime plan's "monthly" figure is the one-time price spread over 24 months, which reads as a contradiction beside a one-time 3-year total unless it says so. Same note the compare tool uses. #}$29.00 | $1052 billed annually |
Yes | |
| Filen | Pro X | 10000 GB | 5000 GB | {# A lifetime plan's "monthly" figure is the one-time price spread over 24 months, which reads as a contradiction beside a one-time 3-year total unless it says so. Same note the compare tool uses. #}$39.99 | $1440 billed monthly |
Yes | |
| pCloud | Family 10 TB | 10000 GB | 5000 GB | {# A lifetime plan's "monthly" figure is the one-time price spread over 24 months, which reads as a contradiction beside a one-time 3-year total unless it says so. Same note the compare tool uses. #}$62.46 $1499 once, spread over 24 mo |
$1499 one-time |
No | |
| Internxt | Ultimate | 5000 GB | 0 GB — tight | {# A lifetime plan's "monthly" figure is the one-time price spread over 24 months, which reads as a contradiction beside a one-time 3-year total unless it says so. Same note the compare tool uses. #}$66.00 $3999 once, spread over 24 mo |
$3999 one-time |
Yes | |
| Wasabi | Reserved Capacity Storage | Unlimited | No limit | {# A lifetime plan's "monthly" figure is the one-time price spread over 24 months, which reads as a contradiction beside a one-time 3-year total unless it says so. Same note the compare tool uses. #}$7.99 | — | No |
Prices and capacities come from our verified provider database, last updated Aug 25, 2026. Plans whose price fields currently contradict each other are left out of the results entirely rather than shown with a figure we cannot stand behind. Compare every plan side by side →