Pixeldrain features two different payment modes. We offer a monthly subscription which is managed by Patreon, and a Prepaid subscription which supports a dozen different payment providers. With Prepaid you pay in advance to charge your credit, then usage will be subtracted from your account credit. For low usage Prepaid is usually better as the monthly fee is much lower.

Free
Pro
Prepaid
Recurring price
None
{#snippet label()} €4 / month or €40 / year {/snippet} The Pro subscription is managed by Patreon. Patreon's own fees and sales tax will be added to this price. After paying you need to link your pixeldrain account to Patreon to activate the plan.
{#snippet label()} €1 / month minimum {/snippet}

The minimum fee is only charged when usage is less than €1. This calculation is per day, the €1 amount is divided by the number of days in the month and if your usage is lower than that, you will be charged the minimum fee.

{#snippet label()} 6 GB per day {/snippet}

Free users are limited to downloading 6 GB per day, this limit is linked to your IP address, even if you are logged in to an account.

When the download limit is exceeded the download speed is reduced to 1 MiB/s. You can have at most three concurrent downloads running.

{#snippet label()} 4 TB per 30 days {/snippet}

The transfer limit is used for downloading, sharing and hotlinking files.

Paid plans do not have a concurrent connection limit.

{#snippet label()} €1 per TB transferred {/snippet}

Prepaid does not have a transfer limit, instead you are charged for what you use at a rate of €1 per terabyte downloaded. This applies to downloading your own files, other people's files and others downloading your files (if you have hotlinking enabled in your account settings).

Paid plans do not have a concurrent connection limit.

Hotlinking not supported
Hotlinked files get blocked
Hotlinking supported
Hotlinking uses your transfer limit
Storage
No limit
Files expire when they are not downloaded
€4 / TB / month
No limit, you pay for what you use
{#snippet label()} 120 days (4 months) {/snippet}

Files expire when they have not been downloaded in the last 120 days. A download is counted when more than 10% of the whole file was downloaded in a single request.

{#snippet label()} 240 days (8 months) {/snippet}

The Pro plan has 240 day file expiry. The same rules apply as the free plan. Higher Patreon subscription plans are available where files do not expire at all.

{#snippet label()} Files do not expire {/snippet}

Files don't expire while your Prepaid plan is active. If your credit runs out you have one week to top up your balance. If you fail to do so your files will revert to the regular file expiry rules.

Download page customization
None
None
Theme, background, header and footer image can be customized
Max file size
20 GB per file
100 GB per file
Payment processors
None
PayPal, Credit/debit
PayPal, Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero
Free
{#if window.user.subscription.id === "patreon_1"} You have this plan
Thank you for supporting pixeldrain! {:else} € 4 per month or € 40 per year!
(Excluding tax)
Subscription managed by Patreon {/if}
{#if window.user.username === ""} Account required
login Log in or how_to_reg Register
Payments processed by Mollie
No recurring payments {:else} {#if window.user.subscription.type === ""} Deposit credit to activate Prepaid {:else if window.user.subscription.type === "patreon"} Patreon subscription active. Prepaid cannot be activated {:else if window.user.subscription.type === "prepaid"} Prepaid subscription is active
Current balance
Top up my credit {/if} {/if}

Other plans available on Patreon