Pixeldrain: Owner, Membership, Blockage, How To Use, Earnings & Networth

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Pixeldrain is a cloud storage & file sharing website that allows the distribution of CV, documents, PDF and other files. Pixeldrain gives unlimited bandwidth to its users and it also allows for the online previews of Images, Video, Audio, PDF & Text.

Pixeldrain also allows for the preview of code and scripts, formatted in a way that is pretty and acceptable.

Owner
Pixeldrain is owned by Wim Brand. As a web developer, Wim built PixelDrain as a means to offer the cheapest and most secure cloud storage. Wim Brand launched PixelDrain in June of 2015.

Files Accepted & Deletions
PixelDrain allows all file types including coding scripts. Team of coders can share their works without any limitations.

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Files uploaded to PixelDrain cloud are stored for a long time provided they have a hit or view in the last 30 days. Inactive files with no visit in the last 30 days are removed from the cloud.

PixelDrain permanently retains files such as images that are being hotlinked from popular websites.

Membership
Pixeldrain offers both free and paid membership. Free membership comes with lots of cloud usage limitations. The Pro and Prepaid comes with no limits.

Earnings & Networth
PixelDrain earns its income via paid membership. Their pro account goes for $4/month ($40/year). As at December of 2023, PixelDrain has over 7k Patreon supporting members, raking in over $22k/month and $264k yearly. PixelDrain also draws in income from its prepaid membership and as of December of 2024, it had an income of about $17,696. Due to the high cost of maintaining the multiple cloud servers Pixeldrain uses, 80% of its total earnings goes into expenditures.

Currently, PixelDrain doesn’t run ads. They depend on the subscription of its Patreon members to run its expenses.

Bandwidths Usage & Website Statistics
It’s estimated that PixelDrain currently has over 80m monthly unique visitors. Its website processed over 1,455,396,890 file views and 1,554,120,843 downloads with a bandwidth usage of 371.7 Petabytes.

Website Blockage
Although PixelDrain was built to be used by all, its access is currently being blocked by several countries such as Philippines, Egypt, Israel and Saudi Arabia.

How to Use
Uploading files to PixelDrain cloud is pretty much easy. Below are steps to follow.

  1. Visite PixelDrain.com
  2. Click on the Upload Files button (If you want to share texts, you should use the Upload Text button)
  3. Wait for your upload to file and copy your link.