Comparison

Internxt vs IDrive

Internxt and IDrive both land on Depends.

Internxt

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Fine as a cheap, encrypted second copy of non-critical personal files, especially on lifetime deals.

Depends

Confidence: Medium

A strong value pick for individuals and small businesses backing up many devices on a budget.

Internxt versus IDrive
Compare	Internxt	IDrive
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Privacy-first individuals	Budget multi-device personal backup
Who it's not for	Businesses storing critical or client data	Anyone needing guaranteed fast, painless restores
Privacy	Zero-knowledge end-to-end encryption with open-source clients; no known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.^⁷	Private-key encryption offered, but a pattern of client vulnerabilities . including a critical 2026 privilege escalation . is a real concern.
Support quality	Trustpilot 2.8; support complaints on Reddit	Reddit restoration and support complaints recur.
Public sentiment	Reviews are heavily polarized: praise for cheap encrypted lifetime storage, but repeated reports of unreliability, weak features, and poor support.^¹	Reviewers praise the price and feature breadth, but power users repeatedly report restore pain, client bugs, and intro-pricing frustrations.¹¹
Biggest gotcha	Multiple Reddit threads report sync/backup failures . never keep your only copy here^²	Patch the Windows client immediately: CVE-2026-1995 enables local privilege escalation.