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Not applicable as a storage delta — the bytes live on HF, which is already known and excluded as a discovery.","metered":false},"interface":["rest","rclone"],"interface_detail":"rest","tooling":"Drop-in hostname swap: HF_ENDPOINT=https://hf-mirror.com for huggingface_hub / hf_transfer / rclone (rclone 'hf' backend points at it).","chaining":"Only as an egress accelerator for an HF dataset you already have — it is a CDN in front of a host already on the known list, not a new quota. Worth noting for the serving workload (500 GB-1 TiB/day): it is an extra free CDN edge for HF pulls from mainland China, and the provider place '高频非法盗链或恶意耗尽公用网络资源' (hotlinking to exhaust shared bandwidth) outside the allocation.","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"50 GB/file","source":"https://hf-mirror.net/terms.html"}],"limits_note":"per-object-cap: inherits HF (50 GB/file at the time of the linked HF issues). Retention: inherits HF. Write path is redirected straight to huggingface.co, not mirrored: probe POST /api/repos/create -> 308 Location: https://huggingface.co/api/repos/create. So the mirror gives you nothing new to store INTO.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: cted straight to huggingface.co, not mirrored: probe POST /api/repos/create -> 308 Location: https://huggingface.co/api/repos/create. So the mirror gives you nothing new to store INT","country":null},"reliability_note":"Reads work; One probe returned a bare 200 with an HTML body from the LFS batch endpoint rather than JSON — parse the body, not the status.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://hf-mirror.net/terms.html","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"(last revised 2026-09-11) — proxy-only positioning, no storage offered, no upload surface"},{"url":null,"date":"2026-10-21","proved":"probe: GET hf-mirror.com/HPAI-BSC/Llama3.1-Aloe-Beta-8B/resolve/main/LICENSE -r 0-99 -L -> 308 (Caddy) -> 307 to HF CDN"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/api/repos/create","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"probe: POST hf-mirror.com/api/repos/create -> 308 Location: (writes are not mirrored)"}],"verdict":"fails-quota","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"None of its own — it is a transparent reverse proxy.","extras":{"dead_end":{"failure_class":"quota","why":"None of its own — it is a transparent reverse proxy.","retry_when":null,"first_recorded":"2026-10-21"}},"binding":"per-object-cap","binding_note":"the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota"},"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:per-object-cap","num":50.0,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.evidence[1].url","private-url"],["$.extras.dead_end.retry_when","process"],["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.stated","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}