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Sign up to store longer.\" The free path accepts uploads but keeps them three days; the site also says file upload privileges are for v...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":2},"record":{"topic":"debrid","slug":"fileq","provider":"FileQ","url":"https://fileq.net/","category":"premium file host with a webmaster-gated free tier and pay-per-download programme","tier":"free","free_tier":{"stated":"\"Deleted after 3 days. Sign up to store longer.\" The free path accepts uploads but keeps them three days; the site also says file upload privileges are for verified webmasters.","unit":"none","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://fileq.net/","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":"Three days is the shortest free retention met."},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"\"Upload Large Files 110GB\" - the headline figure, 110 GB per file.","bytes":118111600640,"source_url":"https://fileq.net/","notes":"110 GB taken in the site's own decimal-free phrasing; stored above as 110 x 1024^3. The page does not say whether the 110 GB applies to the free path or to Premium."},"retention":{"stated":"Anonymous uploads: 'Deleted after 3 days'. Registered accounts 'store longer' - the number is not printed.","days":3,"source_url":"https://fileq.net/","notes":""},"egress":{"terms":"Downloads are served from a CDN: 'Multi-region with CDN for fast global delivery'. Premium advertises 'unlimited bandwidth'. No allowance is printed for the free path.","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://fileq.net/premium"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"A web upload form at /upload with no documented API on the pages read. A referral URL pattern exists (/api/ref/<code>) which is a marketing link, not an endpoint.","tooling":"Browser upload only as read. for a user that is a tooling note, not a verdict: the form is a POST and could be driven by a script.","chaining":"Not a storage answer at three days. Its place in the corpus is as a price reference: EUR/USD 20 per TB-month for storage is the shape of a host that sells capacity, against hosts here that give it away and monetise the player instead.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"upload privileges are for 'verified webmasters with established websites and significant traffic', by application","source":"https://fileq.net/premium"},{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"3 days for anonymous uploads","source":"https://fileq.net/"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"additional storage at USD 20 per TB per month for non-webmaster accounts","source":"https://fileq.net/premium"}],"limits_note":"Two gates stack: the upload right is reviewed, and the free retention is three days. A client that is not a webmaster cannot use this as storage at any price below USD 20/TB-month.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"Before any byte or day can bind, the account has to be approved as a webmaster. At 1 TiB a month an unapproved account never reaches a quota question, and an approved one hits the 3-day retention on the free path.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"Registration is free, but the upload right needs a review of the applicant's website: 'FileQ provides file upload privileges exclusively to verified webmasters with established websites and significant traffic'.","country":null},"reliability_note":"A hosting service whose free tier deletes in three days and whose upload right is discretionary: both are account decisions, so both can change without a pricing page changing. The 110 GB figure is a headline with no stated tier attached.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The 3-day retention, the 110 GB headline, the webmaster gate and the USD 20/TB price were read on the vendor's pages today. Not established: whether 110 GB applies to free or paid, and what an account's retention actually is.","evidence":[{"url":"https://fileq.net/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Upload Large Files 110GB', 'Deleted after 3 days. Sign up to store longer.', and the webmaster-oriented pitch"},{"url":"https://fileq.net/premium","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Additional Storage: $20 per TB monthly for non-webmaster accounts', the webmaster-only upload policy, 'unlimited bandwidth' on premium, and PPD on Pro and Team"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-23T03:42:02.709Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 20 per TB-month of additional storage","notes":null,"extras":{"referral_pattern":"/api/ref/<code> is a referral link, not an API endpoint"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[2].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":20.0,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":20.0,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.notes","withheld"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}