Internxt is a privacy- and security-focused cloud storage service with competitive pricing and great features. It has web, desktop, and mobile applications, and it supports CLI, which is very useful for storing datasets and models when I’m writing machine learning and LLM applications.
Pricing
Internxt offers 1 GB of free storage when you open a new account. You get a bonus gigabyte of storage for completing tasks such as installing the web or desktop app, sharing a link, or inviting friends.
Personal customers can subscribe to 200GB (€4.99 monthly or €45.99 yearly), 2TB (€9.99 monthly or €109.99 yearly), 5TB (€19.99 monthly or €199.99 yearly), or 10TB (€29.99 monthly or €299.99 yearly). There are also discounted lifetime plans, which is an interesting option if you don’t want to see that billing email every month or year.
Internxt also has an upcoming Enterprise plan.
As of July 2024, there’s an 80% discount on Internxt’s plans, which is an excellent value proposition, especially if you’re considering the lifetime plan. You can get 2 TB of lifetime storage at €180 and 5 TB at €380, which is a great one-time purchase, especially as internet speeds continue to rise.
All plans come with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Features, experience, and security
In addition to its website, Internxt also has desktop and mobile applications, and it can automatically sync your files across devices. Internxt also supports offline access for when you don’t have an internet connection. The account creation process is easy, and getting the apps is also very intuitive. The experience across the different interfaces is seamless and painless.
Internxt has decent sharing features. You can share files and folders as publicly available links or make them available to specific Internxt users and determine read/write access. It also has a password-protection feature that you can activate for specific files.
One of simple but decent features of Internxt is being able to preview files online before downloading them (it is surprising to me how many online storage platforms miss this simple feature). You can preview PDF files, .docx documents, and different image formats (strangely, you can’t preview .txt files).
One thing that is missing is editing files such as text and documents. For that, I still rely on Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. But the security features make it a good option for archiving sensitive documents and data.
Internxt’s also has a cloud backup service available tat can be useful to backup your devices in a safe location
Internxt uses zero-knowledge file storage to provide absolute privacy and security for your files. When you upload a file on Internxt, it is encrypted on your device with your private key before sending it to the cloud. This is in contrast to other services, which encrypt customer data in transit. The services AES-256 CTR encryption model, ensuring that only you can decrypt and access the files.
Internxt also breaks up data into different shards and stores them in different locations to avoid having a single point of failure.
To secure your account, you can enable two-factor authentication (2FA) through OTP generator apps (unfortunately, there is no support for physical keys like Yubikey).
Internxt has released the source code used to make its app so that the security community can verify the security of its encryption and sharding mechanisms. By rejecting the “security by obscurity” scheme, Internxt shows it has nothing to hide about its platform.
CLI interface
One of the features that I really like about Inernxt is its CLI interface, which allows you to connect to your online storage programmatically.
I’ve been experimenting with it and found it to be very useful for creating machine learning projects. For example, I can directly connect to it through Google Colab to upload or download my datasets and models. Internxt’s privacy and security features give assurance for the secure storage of my sensitive datasets. The CLI library also enables me to create CI/CD pipelines to automatically update my models and datasets through GitHub or other DevOps platforms.
Internxt is an up and coming platform that is very good for various applications. With the competitive prices and the current discount, it’s a good time to consider signing up.