Couchdrop alternative when one external user turns out to be one too few
Bridglet is the right alternative if Couchdrop Link covers the single connection you bought it for, a second sender means the plan above it, and the plan above it has a price you have to ask for.
Stay on Couchdrop if SharePoint, Google Drive, Dropbox or your own S3 bucket is where the files are supposed to land, or if its automation is doing real work between systems after a file arrives. Bridglet does neither of those things.
Cheapest published plan
Couchdrop Link
1 SFTP or FTP user, 1 mailbox, 100 GB of hosted storage, 10 GB of data a month
Bridglet Starter
10 GB of space, 5 shared folders, 10 connections an hour, 5 guests per shared folder
Couchdrop counts connections. Bridglet counts shared folders and space. Which one is cheaper depends entirely on how many people send you things.
Why people look for a Couchdrop alternative
None of this is a complaint about the product. It is what the published plans charge for, and why that shape stops fitting some teams.
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Link stops at one external user
The $50 plan covers a single SFTP or FTP user and a single mailbox. That is a fine shape for one connection to one partner, and it runs out the moment a second client asks where to send their files.
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The price above it is a conversation
Essentials covers up to 10 external users or endpoints and Business covers up to 100, and both read "Contact us for pricing" on the published page. Nobody can budget the second year of that without a call first.
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Transfer is metered on the cheapest plan
Link includes 10 GB of data a month against 100 GB of hosted storage. Past that, extra transfer is billed at $75 per TB and extra storage at $60 per TB, so a heavy week shows up on the invoice.
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The product is a routing engine
Couchdrop connects 30-plus storage platforms, builds multi-step workflows and scans for data loss. Teams who need that get a lot for their money. Teams who wanted a folder per client are carrying the rest of it around.
Couchdrop and Bridglet, side by side
| Couchdrop Link | Bridglet Starter | |
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| Price to start |
$50/mo, the plan Couchdrop calls Link. verified 2026-09-22 |
$15/mo, the plan Bridglet calls Starter. |
| What that includes |
1 SFTP or FTP user, 1 mailbox, 100 GB of hosted storage and 10 GB of data transfer a month. verified 2026-09-22 |
10 GB of space, 5 shared folders, 10 connections an hour, 5 guests per shared folder |
| The rest of the ladder |
Essentials covers up to 10 external users or endpoints with 1 TB, Business covers up to 100 with 5 TB, and both are listed as contact us for pricing. Enterprise is a sales conversation. verified 2026-09-22 |
Starter $15/mo (10 GB, 5 shared folders). Pro $49/mo (100 GB, 25 shared folders). Business $149/mo (500 GB, unlimited shared folders). |
| Per-user fees |
External users and endpoints are the unit the tiers are cut on, and Link allows exactly one. Admin users are unlimited on every plan. verified 2026-09-22 |
None. Teammates cost nothing and guests are not seats. |
| Transfer and overage |
10 GB of data a month on Link, with extra transfer at $75 per TB and extra storage at $60 per TB. verified 2026-09-22 |
Uploads and bandwidth are not metered. The plan's space is the only cap. |
| Browser portal for non-technical senders |
Upload Links, a brandable page attached to a folder in a connected storage account. verified 2026-09-22 |
Yes, on every plan. Send a link, the person sets their own passphrase, then uploads and downloads in the browser. |
| Webhooks |
Yes. Inbound webhooks can trigger automations, and notifications go out by email or webhook on every plan. verified 2026-09-22 |
Yes, on every plan. One call to a URL you set per shared folder when a file lands. |
| Retention |
Data retention runs 30 days on Link, 90 days on Essentials and 6 months on Business. verified 2026-09-22 |
Yes, on every plan. Set the number of days per shared folder and files are deleted on that schedule. |
| REST API |
Yes. Couchdrop publishes API documentation alongside the product docs. |
On Pro, Business and both lifetime tiers. |
The Couchdrop column was read off couchdrop.io/pricing on 2026-09-22, and every row marked above carries the date it was checked. Where a cell says a thing is not listed, it means the published plans are not sold on it. Bridglet's column is the limit the server actually enforces.
What you give up
Moving costs you something. Here is the part of Couchdrop that Bridglet has no answer for.
Your own storage as the destination
Couchdrop can put an arriving file straight into SharePoint, Google Drive, Dropbox, S3 or a file server, which is what most of its customers are buying. Bridglet stores files on its own disks and offers no way to point a shared folder somewhere else.
Workflow automation
Scheduled and event-driven transfers, PGP, renaming, compression, routing between systems: Couchdrop has a builder for all of it. With Bridglet you get a webhook, and the steps after that are code you write.
AS2 and EDI
Couchdrop sells AS2 for trading-partner traffic. Bridglet speaks SFTP and HTTPS in the guest portal, so an EDI partner on AS2 is a reason to stay exactly where you are.
The enterprise checklist
SSO, SCIM provisioning, a static IP for a partner's firewall team and your own hostname on the endpoint are all things Couchdrop lists. Bridglet has none of them, and a review that asks for any one of them ends here.
Things Bridglet has never had
No SOC 2 report. No custom domain for your endpoint. No command line tool. No option to point a shared folder at a storage bucket you own. No phone support, and no static IP address to hand a firewall team. If any of those is a requirement, this is the wrong product and the page will not pretend otherwise.
Switching from Couchdrop
There is no migration tool and nothing copies itself across. What a move involves is this, and it is mostly telling people where to send things now.
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Count the connections you actually use
Open the account and list the SFTP users, the mailboxes and the upload links that have seen traffic this quarter. Most Link accounts are one sender and one folder, and the answer decides whether this move is worth an afternoon.
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Create the same shared folders in Bridglet
One per sender rather than one per plan slot. Each carries its own path, its own retention in days, and credentials that reach nothing else in your account.
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Give each sender their new way in
A partner running a script gets a host, a username and a password or a public key. Someone who has been using an upload link gets a portal link and chooses a passphrase the first time they open it.
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Decide what replaces the automation
This is the step people underestimate. Anything Couchdrop was doing after the file landed has to move into your code, triggered by Bridglet's webhook. If that list is long, the honest answer is to stay.
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Run both for one cycle, then cancel
Nothing copies itself across, and files sitting in Couchdrop's hosted storage or in your connected accounts are not Bridglet's to move. Keep the old account until the last thing you need has come out of it.
What Bridglet costs
Plans are sized by shared folders and space. Teammates, guests, webhooks and retention are in every one of them.
Starter
$15/mo
- 10 GB of space
- 5 shared folders
- 10 connections an hour
- Guest portal, webhooks, retention
Pro
$49/mo
- 100 GB of space
- 25 shared folders
- 60 connections an hour
- Guest portal, webhooks, retention
Business
$149/mo
- 500 GB of space
- unlimited shared folders
- 200 connections an hour
- Guest portal, webhooks, retention
A lifetime round is open while you read this: $59 once for Starter's limits, or $149 once for 50 GB and 15 shared folders. It is capped and it closes. Read the terms on the lifetime page.
Questions people ask before they move
I only need two senders. What does that cost?
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Starter is $15/mo and allows five shared folders, so two senders fit inside the cheapest plan with room left. On Couchdrop, a second external user moves you off Link and into a tier priced on request.
Can Bridglet drop files into SharePoint or S3 for me?
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No, and that is the main thing you would be giving up. Files stay on Bridglet's storage. If a connected storage account is the point of the setup, Couchdrop is the product that does that and this page will not argue otherwise.
Is there a transfer limit I should know about?
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No. Uploads and bandwidth are not metered on any plan, so the only number to watch is the space on your plan, and retention keeps that from filling up. Couchdrop Link includes 10 GB of data a month and bills extra transfer by the terabyte.
Do my senders need a Bridglet account?
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No. A guest opens a link, sets a passphrase, and uploads or downloads in the browser. Someone with a script gets SFTP credentials scoped to one shared folder. Neither counts as a seat and neither changes your price.
What about SSO, a static IP or my own hostname?
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Bridglet has none of those. Sign-in is an email link, the endpoint is sftp.bridglet.com, and there is no static IP to hand a firewall team. Couchdrop lists all three, so a requirement here is a reason to stay.
What happens when 10 GB is not enough?
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Pro is $49/mo with 100 GB and 25 shared folders, Business is $149/mo with 500 GB. Because retention clears each folder on the schedule you set, the space behaves like a pipe rather than an archive.
Keep reading
Head to head
Bridglet vs Couchdrop
The same two products, written for someone choosing between them rather than leaving one.
Use case
Agency vendor file drops
One shared folder per client, credentials that reach nothing else, and retention that clears the folder without anyone remembering to.
Use case
Bookkeeping and accounting
Statements and receipts arriving from clients who will never install an SFTP client, collected in the browser instead.