vBoxx vs WeTransfer
vBoxx is a European alternative to WeTransfer: same cloud & hosting use case, headquartered in Netherlands and governed by EU GDPR, while WeTransfer (Bending Spoons) is based in the Netherlands.
By the EU Alternatives team Last updated
Business cloud storage, file sync and sharing, password vault, email and VPS hosting from Dutch datacentres, backed by ISO 27001 certification.
- Jurisdiction
- EU / EEA
- Primary privacy law
- EU GDPR
- US CLOUD Act exposure
- No
- Open source
- No
- Free tier
- No
WeTransfer made sending a large file as simple as a link, with no account needed at either end, and that simplicity is the whole product. The free tier now caps transfers at 3 GB with a three-day expiry, tightened since 2024, and paid plans lift it to 200 GB. It is Dutch, registered in Amsterdam and owned since 2024 by Bending Spoons of Milan, so it already sits under European law.
- Jurisdiction
- EU / EEA
- GDPR by default
- Yes
- US CLOUD Act exposure
- No
vBoxx vs WeTransfer at a glance
| vBoxx | WeTransfer | |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | Netherlands | Netherlands |
| Data jurisdiction | EU / EEA | EU / EEA |
| Primary privacy law | EU GDPR | EU GDPR |
| US CLOUD Act exposure | No | No |
| Best for | Teams looking for a different cloud & hosting trade-off on price, openness and features | Teams already invested in the Bending Spoons ecosystem |
Choose vBoxx if…
- You'd rather back the European tech ecosystem
Stick with WeTransfer if…
- You depend on integrations only available in the Bending Spoons ecosystem
- Migration costs outweigh the feature and pricing gains for now
About vBoxx
vBoxx gives businesses a European home for their files, email and servers, run from ISO 27001 certified datacentres in the Netherlands and Germany. Its new vBoxxCloud workspace brings storage, sync, sharing and document collaboration together in one place, aimed squarely at teams leaving Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive.
vBoxxCloud stores files in encrypted vaults with versioning and team folders, syncs them across devices and lets colleagues co-edit with comments, versions and approvals. Around that core, vBoxx sells vBoxxFiles for secure file sharing, the vBoxxVault password manager, hosted email, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace backup, cloud VPS and managed Nextcloud, ownCloud and OpenCloud hosting.
Key benefits:
- Team storage and sync with versioning, team folders and selective sync
- Live co-editing with comments, version history and approvals
- Secure file sharing through vBoxxFiles, separate from the team workspace
- Password vault for storing and sharing company credentials
- Encryption with AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit and per-tenant keys
- Backups for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and company devices
- Hosting options from cloud VPS to managed Nextcloud and ownCloud
vBoxx B.V. is headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, and has operated since 2012. The company is ISO 27001 certified by TUV NORD. vBoxxCloud runs primarily from Maincubes Amsterdam and Greenhouse Datacenters in Naaldwijk, with disaster recovery in Frankfurt, and vBoxx states that every subprocessor is EU-located and GDPR-bound.
vBoxxCloud is currently in an invite-only beta, adding e-signing, chat, video meetings and an AI assistant to the workspace. Ideal for Dutch and European SMEs that want their documents out of US clouds without giving up everyday collaboration.
Why choose vBoxx over WeTransfer?
Jurisdiction is not the argument here: WeTransfer is headquartered in the Netherlands, so both products answer to European data-protection law. What separates them is pricing, openness, feature depth and how much of the European ecosystem you want to back.
vBoxx sits on the same side of that line. As a Netherlands-based provider, it operates under EU GDPR, and data stays inside the EU/EEA by default. For regulated sectors such as health, public administration, and finance, that's not a nice-to-have but a requirement. For everyone else, it's concentration-risk insurance: you avoid depending on a single jurisdiction that can change the rules without warning.