Last Updated on June 15, 2025 by Mathew Diekhake
Pixeldrain.com is a storage and data transfer service website. Pixeldrain.com says that it is a file transfer service, where you can upload any file and be given a shareable link right away. You can use pixeldrain.com for images, videos, audio, PDFs and more.
ALTERNATIVES
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DESCRIPTION
When I analyzed pixeldrain.com, I had to scroll below the fold to find the register and login links, which was unusual for a site like this. For inexperienced Web users, the pixeldrain.com homepage might be less user friendly than average for the niche. However, with my experience, I can tell that the service is likely legit and run by passionate geeks who aren’t necessarily perfect on the marketing side, which is not uncommon. As I scrolled down the page, I could see lots of details related to the subscriptions on offer, which is a good thing. The aesthetics are original and potentially not designed to mazimize trust, but they were also appealing visually and all the details were open and honest, which is good. 6/12/2025
HISTORY
As of May 2025, pixeldrain.com has an estimated 32.06 million monthly views, according to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates that pixeldrain.com was founded on February 7, 2011. The Internet Archive has saved pixeldrain.com 1,433 times between February 7, 2011 and June 11, 2025.
Is pixeldrain.com Safe to Visit or Use?
Pixeldrain.com is as safe as the average website (graded 6.5/10). All our scans came back as clean except for the VirusTotal scan where Dr.Web has flagged it as malicious. However, 1/94 security vendors is not bad, so it’s still within an average result. We don’t believe pixeldrain.com is a scam. Full results:
I checked pixeldrain.com on Sucuri, and it returned with no issues.
Our Sucuri scan came back clean; however, there were some minor security header improvements that could be made.
- Missing Strict-Transport-Security security header:
https://pixeldrain.com/404javascript.js
https://pixeldrain.com/404testpage4525d2fdc
I then ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on pixeldrain.com, and it is flagged as malicious by Dr.Web.
I also checked pixeldrain.com on VirusTotal, and it is flagged as malicious by Dr.Web.
Further, pixeldrain.com passed all blocklist engines on URLVoid.
In conclusion, with an index score of 6.5, we graded pixeldrain.com as relatively safe. OVERALL GRADE: Relatively Safe.
Links and Profiles
Website: pixeldrain.com
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Pixeldrain is a file-hosting website similar to MEGA and MediaFire. Pixeldrain prefers to emphasize the ability to share a link with others rather than the uploading and storing of the files themselves. This could be because they're trying to gain some visibility when they struggled trying to compete with sites like MEGA as file hosting sites, or it could be because they want to target users who plan on sharing files because they are more active, etc.
Pixeldrain has been in business since 2020. Thus, it's still a relatively new website for trusting it as a file hosting website because most users want to feel their files will definitely remain online until they're ready to take them offline again. The top organic keywords for Pixeldrain in Google Search are related to Pixeldrain itself as a brand rather than to the keywords it may be targeted on webpages, meaning thousands of people search for it every month because they're using the service already.
I have been using Pixeldrain for 5 months and it is has a good interface and is easy to use. However, it suffered a big keyword visibility drop in 2024 so it may struggle to gain new customers. To get its visibility back, it needs to show search engines some kind of original data (it should have plenty since it hosts millions of files). But files and pictures don't seem as respected as dat in text at the moment.
Pixeldrain is most popular in Vietnam and Indonesia, suggesting the webmaster may originate from one of those two areas.
The best file hosting/sharing website will eventually offer the best video player natively. The MEGA video player is decent, but not very resposive and you have to wait a while each time you skip the video (sometimes it doesn't load at all). Pixeldrain has a very good video player already and better than MEGAs IMO.