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Cloud Combo vs cloudHQ
cloudHQ offers continuous sync and backup between cloud services, alongside a large suite of Gmail productivity tools. Its core storage product keeps two clouds continuously in sync, with free tier limits and premium subscriptions for heavier use.
At a glance
| Cloud Combo | cloudHQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | 5 GB/month free; one-time passes $7-$49, no subscription | Free tier with limits; premium subscriptions |
| Continuous sync | No — on-demand transfers | Yes |
| Unified file browser | Yes | Limited — sync-pair focused |
| Self-hosted / WebDAV storage | Yes | Limited |
| One-time migrations | One-time fee by size, $7-$49 — paid once, not monthly | Large migrations need premium |
Where cloudHQ shines
- Continuous real-time sync between clouds — changes propagate automatically, which Cloud Combo does not do.
- A broad ecosystem of email and productivity add-ons if you live in Gmail.
Where Cloud Combo shines
- A one-time migration costs once — $7 to $49 depending on size, with 5 GB a month free — instead of a subscription you have to remember to cancel afterwards.
- A unified file manager: browse, upload, download, and delete across accounts, not just pipe data between them.
- WebDAV support for Nextcloud, Synology NAS and other self-hosted storage.
Which one should you use?
Pick cloudHQ if
- You want two clouds continuously mirrored, so a change in one shows up in the other without you asking.
- You live in Gmail and want the wider suite of email productivity tools that come with it.
- You need ongoing replication as a standing arrangement rather than a migration with an end date.
Pick Cloud Combo if
- The move has an end. You are consolidating or leaving a provider, and after it is done you want to stop paying, not keep a sync running.
- You want a file manager as well as a pipe: browse, upload, download and delete across accounts in one place.
- Your storage includes a Nextcloud or a NAS over WebDAV.
How a Cloud Combo transfer actually runs
- Transfers run on our servers, not in your browser or on your machine. Your own bandwidth is not used and nothing needs to stay switched on — start a 500 GB migration from a laptop, close it, and the transfer keeps going.
- Every file is checked on arrival rather than assumed: Dropbox returns its content_hash, OneDrive and pCloud return a hash we compare, WebDAV servers are checked on size because the protocol offers nothing better. Anything that does not match is transferred again.
- Files are retried individually. One unreadable file never stops the other 200,000, and you get a report naming what failed and why instead of a silent partial copy.
- Names that a destination would reject are repaired rather than skipped — OneDrive refuses " * : < > ? / \ | and any name starting or ending with a space or dot, so those characters are replaced and the file still lands.
- Nothing is overwritten. Where a name already exists the file is written alongside, so re-running a transfer to fill gaps can never destroy what arrived the first time.
- It is built for runs that take days. The largest single migration routed so far was 2 TB, and a 510 GB move of 222,844 files completed in full — that scale is the normal case, not the edge case.
Verdict
Choose cloudHQ if you need two clouds continuously mirrored. For day-to-day multi-cloud file management Cloud Combo is free, and for a one-time migration you pay once by size rather than subscribing to move files you are only moving once.
Common questions
Does Cloud Combo do continuous sync like cloudHQ?
No. Cloud Combo does one-way transfers and scheduled one-way backups. If you need two clouds mirrored continuously, with edits flowing both ways, cloudHQ is built for that and Cloud Combo is not.
Is a one-time migration cheaper with Cloud Combo?
For a single move, usually — you pay once, by size, and nothing recurs. A sync service is priced as a subscription because syncing never finishes. They are solving different problems and are priced accordingly.
Can I use Cloud Combo for regular backups?
Yes, as scheduled one-way backup routes: a source folder is copied to a destination on a schedule, adding what is new. That is a backup copy, not a mirror — deletions at the source are not repeated at the destination.
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