SFTP To Go alternative for teams that keep running out of credentials
Bridglet is the right alternative when the thing pushing you up a plan is the number of people who need their own login, not the amount of data you actually move.
If you need the SOC 2 and HIPAA paperwork, or you want your files landing in S3 where your own tools can reach them, stay on SFTP To Go. Bridglet has neither and is not going to talk around it.
Cheapest published plan
SFTP To Go Bronze
1 credential, 5 GB
Bridglet Starter
10 GB of space, 5 shared folders, 10 connections an hour, 5 guests per shared folder
One ladder counts logins. The other counts shared folders. That is the whole difference, and it decides which one gets cheaper as you add clients.
Why people look for a SFTP To Go 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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Credentials are the unit of pricing
The published ladder counts logins. Bronze is 1 credential at about $18 a month, Micro is 5 at about $59, Mini is 15 at about $80. Your second client is not a setting, it is a plan change.
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Space and logins are sold together
You cannot buy credentials without also buying storage. Bronze carries 5 GB, Micro 10 GB, Mini 20 GB, Small 50 GB at about $160, and the listing runs up to about $1,600 for 800 credentials and 4 TB. Whichever number you need, you pay for both.
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The steps between plans are wide
There is nothing between about $18 and about $59, and nothing between 15 logins and 50. Teams end up sitting just over a line, paying for the next step rather than for what they use.
SFTP To Go and Bridglet, side by side
| SFTP To Go Bronze | Bridglet Starter | |
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| Price to start |
About $18/mo, the plan the listing calls Bronze. verified 2026-07-30 |
$15/mo, the plan Bridglet calls Starter. |
| What that includes |
1 credential and 5 GB. verified 2026-07-30 |
10 GB of space, 5 shared folders, 10 connections an hour, 5 guests per shared folder |
| The rest of the ladder |
Micro about $59 (5 credentials, 10 GB). Mini about $80 (15, 20 GB). Small about $160 (50, 50 GB). The listing runs up to about $1,600 for 800 credentials and 4 TB. verified 2026-07-30 |
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-credential fees |
Credentials are the plan. One sender more than a tier allows means buying the tier above it. verified 2026-07-30 |
None. What the plans count is shared folders and space. |
| Browser portal for non-technical senders |
The published plans are sold on credentials and storage. A per-folder link you hand to an outside sender is not among the things they list. verified 2026-07-30 |
Yes, on every plan. Send a link, the person sets their own passphrase, then uploads and downloads in the browser. |
| Webhooks |
Yes. verified 2026-07-30 |
Yes, on every plan. One call to a URL you set per shared folder when a file lands. |
| Retention |
Not one of the things the published plans price. |
Yes, on every plan. Set the number of days per shared folder and files are deleted on that schedule. |
| REST API |
Yes. |
On Pro, Business and both lifetime tiers. |
The SFTP To Go column was read off the official Heroku Elements listing on 2026-07-30, 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 SFTP To Go that Bridglet has no answer for.
SOC 2 and HIPAA paperwork
SFTP To Go publishes compliance documentation. Bridglet publishes none: no SOC 2 report, no BAA, nothing an auditor can be handed. Regulated work belongs where the paperwork already exists.
S3 behind the endpoint
SFTP To Go puts your files in S3, so your own tools can read the bucket directly. In Bridglet the files live in Bridglet. You get them back over SFTP, through the portal, or through the REST API on Pro and up.
Provisioning through the platform
As a Heroku add-on, SFTP To Go arrives with its credentials in your config vars and its price on the same invoice as everything else. Bridglet is a separate signup, a separate card, a separate bill.
Room to grow to terabytes
The top of the SFTP To Go ladder is 4 TB. Bridglet stops at 500 GB on Business, because it is an inbox rather than storage. Past that, Bridglet is the wrong shape.
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 SFTP To Go
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 credentials you are actually using
Not the ones the plan allows: the ones something logs in with. In most accounts it is one per client or per system, and a couple that nobody remembers creating.
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Create one shared folder per sender
Each gets its own path, its own retention setting in days, and credentials scoped to it. Nothing you create counts against a seat number, because there is no seat number.
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Hand out the new way in
Scripts and vendor systems get an SFTP host, a username and a password or public key. People who never wanted an SFTP client get a portal link and set a passphrase the first time they open it.
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Point your webhook at the new URL
You already have something listening for new files. Give it Bridglet's URL and read the webhook docs first, because the payload is shaped differently.
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Empty the old bucket, then cancel
Nothing copies itself across. Pull down whatever you still need from the S3 side, let one cycle run with both live, and close the add-on when the last sender has moved.
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
Does Bridglet charge per credential?
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No. A shared folder can have several logins and several guests without the price moving. Plans are sized by how many shared folders you keep and how much space they use.
Can I keep my existing SFTP client?
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Yes. Bridglet speaks standard SFTP with password or public key authentication, so FileZilla, WinSCP, Cyberduck and the sftp command that ships with OpenSSH all work. A vendor changes a host and a username and carries on.
Do I still get S3 access to my files?
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No. There is no bring-your-own bucket and no direct S3 path into a shared folder. Files come back out over SFTP, through the browser portal, or through the REST API on Pro and above.
Is Bridglet HIPAA or SOC 2 compliant?
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No, on both counts. There is no SOC 2 report and no BAA on offer. If either is a requirement of the work, this is the wrong product and the honest advice is to stay put.
Can I keep the webhook I already have?
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You keep the receiver, you change the sender. Set your URL on each shared folder and Bridglet calls it when a file arrives. The body is not identical to what you get today, so check the docs before you cut over.
Is Bridglet available as a Heroku add-on?
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No. Bridglet is its own account with its own billing, so there is nothing to provision from a platform dashboard and nothing lands in your config vars automatically.
Keep reading
Head to head
Bridglet vs SFTP To Go
The same two products, written for someone choosing between them rather than leaving one.
Use case
SFTP for data pipelines
An endpoint a partner system can write to on a schedule, with a webhook that starts your job the moment the file is there.
Use case
SaaS SFTP exports
Giving your own customers an SFTP endpoint to pull exports from, without running the server side of it yourself.