Hightail vs Wasabi Comparison 2026
Both cover media storage & review. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Send big files and collect notes on them
Object storage at one rate, with no egress fee
At a glance
- Wasabi starts cheaper, at $7.99.
- Only Hightail has a free tier.
Side by side
Hightail | Wasabi | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $12 | From $7.99 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Paid subscription |
| Free tier (they differ) | Yes | No |
| Billing | Not stated | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Yes |
| Data export | Not stated | Everything, in an open format |
| Their cut | None | None |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Hightail
Send big files and collect notes on them
Hightail sends files far past what email allows and then keeps the feedback attached to the thing being reviewed, so comments on a cut land on the frame rather than in a thread somewhere. The free tier caps uploads at a hundred megabytes, which is a document rather than a video. Paying takes that to twenty-five gigabytes with storage uncapped. Teams are priced per user, so a solo editor sending to clients pays once rather than per seat.
Our note
Buy this for the review workflow rather than the transfer, because plain file sending is a solved problem with cheaper answers and comments pinned to a frame are not. The free tier's 100MB ceiling makes it useless for video, which is worth knowing before treating it as a trial.
Wasabi
Object storage at one rate, with no egress fee
Wasabi sells cloud storage as a flat rate per terabyte and charges nothing to get the data back out, which is the line item that makes a bill from the big clouds unpredictable. For an archive of finished footage that gets pulled occasionally, that is the whole calculation. It speaks the same API as S3, so most backup software already knows how to talk to it. There is a minimum retention period, and it is worth reading before moving anything.
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