Bridglet vs Couchdrop a folder per client, or a routing engine for the storage you already run
Couchdrop's job is to take an arriving file and put it somewhere else: SharePoint, Google Drive, Dropbox, a server, your own S3 bucket. Bridglet's job is to give each client a shared folder to send things to. Both answer on port 22, and that is most of what they have in common.
This page is for the decision, not the escape. Already paying Couchdrop and working out what leaving would cost? The Couchdrop alternative page covers that.
Cheapest plan with a published price
Couchdrop Link
1 SFTP or FTP user, 1 mailbox, 100 GB of hosted storage, 10 GB of data a month, 30-day retention
Bridglet Starter
10 GB of space, 5 shared folders, guest portal, webhooks and retention
Couchdrop's tiers are cut on external users. Bridglet's are cut on shared folders and space. How many people send you files decides which unit is kinder to your invoice.
They are shaped for different problems
Price is the last thing to compare here. Start with what each product thinks it is for.
Couchdrop is a router
- It mounts 30-plus storage platforms, so a file dropped over SFTP can land in the account your team already works out of.
- Automations run after arrival: scheduled and event-driven transfers, renaming, compression, PGP, routing between systems.
- A static IP and your own hostname come with every plan, which is what a partner's firewall team usually asks for first.
- AS2 for trading partners, plus SSO and SCIM, are sold as add-ons on the higher tiers.
Bridglet is an inbox
- One shared folder per client, with credentials that reach that folder and nothing else in your account.
- A client file drop that happens to speak SFTP. The people who cannot use SFTP open a link and upload from the browser at bridglet.com/portal.
- Retention in days per shared folder keeps the space behaving like a pipe rather than an archive.
- A webhook fires when a file lands. Whatever happens next is code you own.
Couchdrop Link and Bridglet Starter, line by line
| Couchdrop Link | Bridglet Starter | |
|---|---|---|
| Price to start | $50/mo, verified 2026-09-22. | $15/mo, printed on the pricing page. |
| What the plan holds | 1 SFTP or FTP user, 1 mailbox, 100 GB of hosted storage, 10 GB of data a month. | 10 GB of space, 5 shared folders, 5 guests per shared folder, teammates uncounted. |
| The rest of the ladder | Essentials covers 10 external users with 1 TB and Business covers 100 with 5 TB. Both read contact us for pricing, verified 2026-09-22. | Pro $49/mo with 100 GB and 25 shared folders. Business $149/mo with 500 GB and unlimited shared folders. |
| Per-user fees | External users and endpoints are the unit the tiers are cut on. Admin users are unlimited. | None. Guests are not seats and teammates cost nothing. |
| Transfer | 10 GB a month on Link. Beyond it, $75 per TB of transfer and $60 per TB of storage, verified 2026-09-22. | Not metered. The plan's space is the only ceiling. |
| Retention | 30 days on Link, 90 days on Essentials, 6 months on Business. | A number of days per shared folder, on every plan. |
| Web upload portal for people who will not use SFTP | Upload Links: a brandable page wired to a folder in a connected storage account. | Guest access with per-person credentials at bridglet.com/portal. The guest picks their own passphrase, then uploads and downloads in the browser. |
| Webhooks | Yes, inbound and outbound, on every plan. | Yes, on every plan. One call to a URL you set per shared folder. |
| REST API | Yes, documented alongside the product docs. | On Pro and Business. |
| Where the files end up | Couchdrop's hosted storage, or any of 30-plus platforms you connect. | Bridglet's own storage. There is no way to point a shared folder somewhere else. |
| Static IP and your own hostname | Both, on every plan. | Neither. Everyone connects to sftp.bridglet.com. |
Couchdrop figures read off couchdrop.io/pricing on 2026-09-22. Bridglet figures are the ones billing enforces.
Four reasons to buy Couchdrop instead
Any one of these is a good reason to close this tab.
The file has to land in your storage
SharePoint, Google Drive, Dropbox, S3, a file server: Couchdrop puts the arriving file straight into the account your team already works out of. Bridglet keeps files on its own disks, and there is no setting that changes that.
Something has to happen after the upload
Couchdrop has a builder for scheduled transfers, renaming, compression, PGP and multi-step routing. Bridglet gives you a webhook and expects you to write the rest.
A partner runs AS2, or your firewall team wants an IP
Couchdrop sells AS2 for trading-partner traffic and gives every plan a static IP and a hostname of your own. Bridglet has none of the three.
Sign-in has to go through your identity provider
SSO and SCIM provisioning are available on Couchdrop's higher tiers. Bridglet signs people in with an email link and offers no alternative.
Which one to buy
Buy Couchdrop if
- arrow_right A connected storage account is the real destination.
- arrow_right You have workflow steps that should run without you.
- arrow_right An enterprise checklist is coming: SSO, SCIM, static IP, AS2.
- arrow_right One connection is all you will ever need, and $50 a month is fine.
Buy Bridglet if
- check_circle Several clients each need a place to send files, starting now.
- check_circle Counting external users is the thing you want to stop doing.
- check_circle Half your senders will never open an SFTP client.
- check_circle A webhook and your own code beat a workflow builder you would grow out of.
What Bridglet costs
Three plans, sized by shared folders and space. The guest portal, webhooks and retention are in all of them.
Starter
$15/mo
- 10 GB of space
- 5 shared folders
- Guest portal, webhooks, retention
Pro
$49/mo
- 100 GB of space
- 25 shared folders
- REST API
Business
$149/mo
- 500 GB of space
- Unlimited shared folders
- REST API
A lifetime round is open while you are reading this. Both lifetime tiers carry the REST API. The terms and what is left are on the lifetime page.
Agency vendor file drops
A shared folder per client, credentials that reach nothing else, retention that clears the folder on a schedule.
SFTP for data pipelines
The webhook side of the story: a nightly file lands, your job picks it up, nobody polls a directory listing.
Couchdrop alternative
Written for the other reader: you already pay Couchdrop and want to know what moving would actually involve.