4shared.com
4shared
Who runs 4shared, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest file hosting alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- MediaFire
Measured from 4shared’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit 4shared01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs 4shared
4shared 4shared.com
Online file sharing and storage - 15 GB free web space. Easy registration. File upload progressor. Multiple file transfer. Fast download.
Wikidata: file-sharing platform
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What 4shared tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
7 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to 4shared
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to 4shared, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to 4shared match.
- 01
MEGA
MEGA provides free cloud storage with convenient and powerful always-on privacy. Claim your free 50GB now!
Very close - 02
cloud storage and file hosting service
Very close - 03
Cloud storage and data transfer services ~ pixeldrain
Pixeldrain is a file transfer service, you can upload any file and you will be given a shareable link right away. pixeldrain also supports previews for images, videos, audio, PDFs and much more.
Very close - 04
Catbox
The cutest free file host you've ever seen
Very close - 05
pCloud - Secure Cloud Storage for Files, Photos & Documents
Store, sync, and share your files securely with pCloud. Get up to 10 GB of free secure cloud storage and access your files from any device, anywhere.
Very close - 06
Free File Transfer | Send Large Files Instantly | SendSpace
Send and share large files for free with SendSpace. Fast, secure uploads with no registration required — share download links by email or direct link.
Very close - 07
Seafile - Open Source File Sync and Share Software
Seafile is an open source, self-hosted file sync and share solution with high performance and reliability. Sync, access, and collaborate on files on your own server or private cloud.
Very close - 08
Proton: Privacy by default
Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.
Very close - 09
Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting
Polish wiki hosting corporation
Very close - 10 Very close
- 11
Postimages — free image hosting / image upload
Provides free image uploading and hosting integration for forums. Free picture hosting and photo sharing for websites and blogs.
Very close - 12
Telegram Messenger
Fast. Secure. Powerful.
Very close - 13
Cloud Backup and Storage solutions for home and business - IDrive®
IDrive provides Online cloud Backup for PCs, Macs, iPhones, Android and other Mobile Devices all into ONE account for one low fee
Very close - 14
Web Hosting Built for Growth - DreamHost
DreamHost offers domain names, web hosting, managed WordPress hosting, business email, and much more. 100% uptime guarantee, 24/7 support. Sign up today!
Very close - 15
ImgBB — Upload Image — Free Image Hosting
Free image hosting and sharing service, upload pictures, photo host. Offers integration solutions for uploading images to forums.
Very close - 16
Audiomack - Music platform empowering artists & fans | Audiomack
Audiomack is a youth-driven, artist-first music streaming platform that allows creators to share unlimited music and podcast content for free.
Very close - 17
Hosting en domeinregistratie – Antagonist
Standaard de beste hosting en service zonder erom te vragen! Door de MT1000 en Emerce 100 uitgeroepen tot een van de beste webhosters van Nederland.
Very close - 18
streaming media service
Very close - 19 115.com No trackers
115科技官网_首页_115生活(曾用名“115网盘”)
115生活是一款面向个人用户的云服务产品,连续15年为上亿用户提供海量信息化数据的安全存储服务,可实现多端同步与文件快速存取。同时提供智能管理、多维社交、生活服务等功能,是一款安全可靠、高效智能的数字化生活产品
Very close - 20
Appwrite · The open-source cloud for developers and agents
Appwrite is an open-source developer platform with Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and Sites. The open-source cloud for agents and developers.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles 4shared’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones 4shared uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what 4shared adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,199
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 35 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to 4shared’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://static.4shared.com/js/plugins/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js?ver=-2016413654
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.4shared.com include:_spf.google.com -all
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: TAHHq_0Z0qBcUDZV7Tcq0Qr_Rozut_akWgbrOLJnuVo
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on 4shared.com 11/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- nginx · not on 4shared.com 8/20
- Zendesk · not on 4shared.com 6/20
- Google Analytics 5/20
- jQuery · not on 4shared.com 5/20
- HubSpot · not on 4shared.com 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on 4shared.com 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on 4shared.com 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on 4shared.com 4/20
- Stripe · not on 4shared.com 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on 4shared.com 4/20
- Apple Business · not on 4shared.com 4/20
- DocuSign · not on 4shared.com 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on 4shared.com 3/20