yasync vs MASV
MASV is a genuinely good product with one structural problem: it charges $0.25 per gigabyte every time someone downloads. yasync’s product model does not meter delivery. Anonymous transfers are live; account registration and Pro checkout are paused. Here is the sourced head-to-head, with planned features labeled as such.
| Head to head | MASVpay-as-you-go | yasync€0 live / €39.99 plan preview |
|---|---|---|
| Price per GB delivered | $0.25/GB — billed on egress, every time a recipient downloads¹ | €0 — delivery is free at any volume, on every tier |
| 1 TB delivered, downloaded 10× | ≈ $2,500 (≈ $2,413 with volume tiers)¹ ² | €0 + storage — Pro covers 1 TB stored in €39.99/mo; Stripe sandbox active, live billing locked |
| Free tier | 15 GB/month egress credit on a metered account — not a standalone free product³ | Live: 5 GB per transfer with no account. Protected credentials account tier: 50 GB |
| Anonymous sends (no account) | No — an account is required to send³ | Yes — up to 5 GB without an account, password protection included |
| Max single file | Multi-TB — marketed as unlimited; a ~15 TB practical cap has been documented⁴ | Planned Pro tier: up to 5 TB per single file |
| Retention | ~5 days free per package, then extended storage billing⁵ | 24 hours on live anonymous transfers; planned Pro has no automatic expiry while storage is covered |
| Extra storage price | $0.07/GB/month extended storage⁵ — on top of per-download delivery fees | €0.07/GB-month auto-scale, pro-rated daily and toggleable off — or committed +1 TB packs at €39.99/mo. Downloads stay free either way |
| Cost model | Pay-as-you-go per GB delivered; subscriptions and pre-buys reduce the rate¹ | €0 live anonymous sends; planned €39.99/month Pro with 1 TB included and unmetered delivery |
All MASV numbers from MASV’s published pricing and help-center pages, as of July 2026 — see footnotes below. Re-check the linked sources before using the figures for a purchasing decision.
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Compare a real month, side by side
Total data sitting in storage
Total data downloaded / sent out
Recipients per transfer
Every download is billed again on egress-metered services (MASV, Aspera, Signiant). yasync delivery stays €0 no matter how many people download.
Estimated monthly cost
cheapest → most expensiveyasynclist price€79.98/moPro + 1× committed 1 TB pack · Delivery: €0 — always free
How this is calculated. Pro model: €39.99/month with 1 TB included. Additional storage is modelled from committed +1 TB packs (€39.99/month each) and auto-scale at €7 per 100 GB-month, pro-rated daily. Protected development accounts can exercise Stripe test checkout; live charging remains disabled. Delivery is unmetered.
list price · as of 2026-07
- Delivery is never billed — no per-download, per-recipient, or egress fees on any tier
- Auto-scale storage is pro-rated by the day; the full-month figure shown here is the worst case
- Auto-scale can be toggled off in the dashboard for a hard capacity cap
MASVlist price€977/moValue 5 TB subscription · Delivery: Billed on every download
How this is calculated. Pay-as-you-go: max(0, delivered GB − 15 GB monthly credit) × $0.25 + stored GB × $0.07/month. Value subscriptions (12-month commit): cheapest tier whose allotment covers the delivered GB, plus stored GB × $0.07. The calculator shows whichever is cheaper. 1 TB = 1,024 GB.
list price · as of 2026-07
- Billed per GB egressed — every additional download of the same file costs another $/GB (multi-recipient multiplies cost)
- Storage $0.07/GB/mo starts after 5 free days per upload, pro-rated daily
- Subscription overage rate unpublished ('preferred rate'); tiers are only applied here when the allotment fully covers delivery
- Subscriptions require 12-month commitment; allotment refreshes monthly, no rollover
- PAYG volume-tier discounts beyond flat $0.25/GB exist but boundaries are not published
IBM Aspera on Cloudlist price€2,456/moCommitted Essentials (12-mo) · Delivery: Transfer billed both ways
How this is calculated. Cheaper of pay-as-you-go at $1.07/GB transferred (counts data in AND out — we model uploads ≈ downloads, so ×2) and committed Essentials: ceil(annual transfer TB) × $22.10/month, plus $30/TB-month for storage beyond 1 TB, plus egress beyond 10 TB/year at ≈$2.50 per overage-TB-year per month.
list price · as of 2026-07
- Transfer commit counts BOTH directions (in and out of Aspera storage) — delivery-only modeling understates cost; we apply the ×2 default
- Deliveries out of cloud storage additionally consume the egress allowance (10 TB/yr on Essentials, then $0.03/GB)
- Essentials is feature-minimal (1 workspace); Standard Plus ($660/mo) is the realistic multi-team tier
- IBM marks prices 'indicative, may vary by country, exclude taxes'
- $0.03/GB overages assumed decimal ($30/TB); IBM does not state GB vs GiB
Signiant Media Shuttlelist price + estimateCustom quoteBeyond the published cloud-backed payload cap (25 TB/yr) — Enterprise quote only.
How this is calculated. Plan floor ÷ 12 (official "starting at" prices: Small Business $13,000/yr, Professional $25,000/yr; actual quotes scale with active users), plus your own cloud storage (≈$23/TB-month) and cloud egress (≈$90/TB delivered) paid to your cloud provider — Signiant never includes storage. Cloud-backed payload is capped (25 TB/yr on Professional); beyond the published cap: Enterprise quote.
list price + estimate · as of 2026-07
- $13,000 / $25,000 are official 'starting at' floors — actual quotes scale with active-user count (per-user rates unpublished)
- Storage is NEVER included: customer pays own on-prem or cloud storage AND the cloud provider's egress (S3 ~$23/TB-mo + ~$90/TB egress — pass-through ESTIMATE)
- Cloud-backed transfers are capped (25/100 TB per year); overage billed at an unpublished rate
- Enterprise pricing is quote-only
You’d save €897/month vs MASV — that’s €10,762/year.
Competitor prices converted from USD at ~0.875 (as of 2026-07). List prices and published plans only — where dialed values exceed a vendor’s public pricing we show “custom quote” rather than a fabricated number. 1 USD = 0.8751 EUR on 2026-07-11 (exchange-rates.org / valutafx.com history for 2026-07); refresh before launch
The $25 that became $275
A documented MASV customer case⁶: a 100 GB package, expected to cost about $25 to deliver. Multiple recipients and repeated download attempts later, the bill was $275 — eleven times the estimate, because MASV bills every download event, including retries and failed attempts. Surprise bills are the dominant theme in MASV’s negative reviews despite its high overall ratings.
The same 100 GB package on yasync: €0 to deliver, no matter how many recipients download it or how many times their connection drops.
What a month of delivery actually costs.
MASV pay-as-you-go after the 15 GB monthly credit, using their published volume tiers¹ ³ — annual subscriptions and pre-buys can lower it. yasync does not meter delivery; the planned Pro price is €39.99/mo with 1 TB included, and only what you store past that is billed — €7 per 100 GB/month, pro-rated by the day.
| Monthly delivery volume | MASV | yasync |
|---|---|---|
| 1 TB delivered / month | ≈ $252 | €0 delivery · planned Pro €39.99/mo |
| 5 TB delivered / month | ≈ $1,235 | €0 delivery · planned Pro €39.99/mo |
| 10 TB delivered / month | ≈ $2,413 | €0 delivery · planned Pro €39.99/mo |
MASV figures assume single delivery of each byte — every additional download of the same package bills again. yasync never bills delivery, so re-downloads are always €0.
When MASV is the right choice.
An honest comparison cuts both ways. MASV has real strengths yasync doesn’t try to match, and if these are what you need, use MASV.
Dedicated 10 Gbps transfer tooling
MASV markets up to 10 Gbps transfers over 400+ servers, plus Multiconnect connection bonding — purpose-built acceleration for broadcast-grade pipes.
The Portals ecosystem
Branded upload Portals for receiving files from clients, Watch Folders, a transfer API, and delivery integrations into S3, Frame.io, Dropbox, and other cloud targets.
Enterprise compliance & SLAs
ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II, and TPN Gold Shield certifications, with enterprise contracts down to ~$0.05/GB at 25 TB+ commitments.
yasync’s bet is simpler: for the everyday job — get big files from A to B, fast, resumably, and without a metered bill — you shouldn’t pay per download. That’s most transfers, most of the time.
Where we won’t compare: privacy
We only publish claims about MASV that we can source, and we haven’t verified their AI and data-sharing stance — so there is no comparison row for it. Here is ours, stated plainly, and it applies to every tier including Free and Anonymous:
- We process files to store and deliver them, but do not scan them for advertising or profiling. Specific abuse reports may be reviewed by authorised people.
- No AI training, period. Your files never train ML models — ours or anyone else’s.
- Personal data is never sold. Required service providers are listed on our Compliance page, and ads are never based on file contents.
- TLS in transit, encrypted at rest, and an optional password on every transfer.
Sources — MASV figures as of July 2026
- 1. MASV pricing & how MASV charges (egress billing, volume tiers) — massive.io/pricing/
- 2. How MASV charges for services (per-download billing) — help.massive.io/en/how-masv-charges-for-services
- 3. MASV free tier & pay-as-you-go (15 GB/month credit, account required) — help.massive.io/en/free-tier-pay-as-you-go
- 4. MASV features (unlimited file size marketing; the former help-center article documenting a 15 TB single-file cap now 404s — cited via archived snippets) — massive.io/features/
- 5. MASV transfer expiry & extended storage ($0.07/GB/month) — help.massive.io/en/how-do-i-change-the-expiry-date-for-a-file-transfer
- 6. MASV reviews on G2 (4.8/5 — the surprise-bill case study appears in public user reviews on Capterra/G2) — www.g2.com/products/masv/reviews
MASV and massive.io are trademarks of LiveQoS Inc. / MASV Inc. yasync is not affiliated with MASV. This page compares published prices and features in good faith. Source links are listed above so every figure can be checked directly.