ShiftMyData vs Movebot
A migration service for businesses: files, shared drives and mailboxes, paid per gigabyte and per mailbox with no subscription.
Weighing up Movebot alternatives? This page sets ShiftMyData beside Movebot on providers, transfer metering, self-hosting and sync modes, and says plainly where Movebot is the better choice.
Side by side
| ShiftMyData | Movebot | |
|---|---|---|
| Transfer metering | Prepaid: 30 GB free, then 500 GB for ₹100 or 2,500 GB for ₹500, each valid a year | $0.75 or less per GB of files; $15 per mailbox |
| Self-hostable | Yes — your tokens stay on your server | No |
| Runs without your machine on | Yes — transfers run on the server | Yes |
Where Movebot falls short
File migrations are charged per gigabyte, up to $0.75 per GB, and each mailbox costs $15 to move.
A 2 TB move is a four-figure bill before anything goes wrong, and repeating a migration -- a second pass, a cutover -- is paid for again.
Source: www.movebot.io · checked 2026-10-14
Movebot runs all the infrastructure itself; there is no self-hosted option.
Your providers' credentials are held by the service for the length of the move.
Source: www.movebot.io · checked 2026-10-14
Where Movebot is the better choice
Movebot's pricing is unusually plain -- no subscription, no seat fees, free scanning -- and it moves mailboxes with their contacts and calendars as one priced unit. For a one-off business migration with a known size, that is easy to budget.
Questions
Is ShiftMyData a drop-in replacement for Movebot?
For moving, syncing and backing up files between clouds, yes. Movebot and ShiftMyData cover the same ground, and ShiftMyData reaches 85 services. Check the list for your specific pair before you commit to either.
Do my files pass through your servers?
A transfer within one provider is carried out by that provider on its own storage and never touches us. Between two providers it is streamed from one to the other in memory and never written to our disks.
Why would I still choose Movebot?
Movebot's pricing is unusually plain -- no subscription, no seat fees, free scanning -- and it moves mailboxes with their contacts and calendars as one priced unit. For a one-off business migration with a known size, that is easy to budget.
Beyond moving files
What ShiftMyData also does, each with its limits stated on its own page:
- Every cloud as a network drive
- SFTP gateway
- Email backup and archive
- Calendars and contacts
- Chat archives
- Website and database backup
- Business migration
- Teams, single sign-on and audit
- Automation
- Duplicates and clean-up across clouds
- Upload request links
Try it
Connect two clouds and move a folder between them. Nothing downloads to your machine.