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No retention clock published","days":null,"source_url":"https://shadow.tech/eu/drive/offers/"},"egress":{"terms":"Not metered in the offer table","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://shadow.tech/eu/drive/offers/"},"interface":["webdav","rest","rclone"],"tooling":"rclone webdav against /remote.php/webdav/, which answers 401 with a Basic realm of 'Shadow Drive'. Standard Nextcloud clients","chaining":"The cheapest Enterprise-build Nextcloud in Europe at EUR 2.99 for 200 GB, so it is a candidate small shard. The 20 GB per-file cap is uniform across tiers and does not scale, which stops it being an archive target","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"20 GB per upload on every tier including 2 TB","source":"https://shadow.tech/eu/drive/offers/"}],"identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"a card, and a billing address in one of twelve countries: France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Spain","country":"FR, GB, BE, CH, LU, DE, NL, AT, IT, SE, DK, ES"},"reliability_note":"Signup is geo-fenced to twelve countries. Encryption at rest is still listed as not implemented. The price rose from EUR 4.99 to EUR 6.99 for 2 TB since the 2024 announcement while press coverage still quotes the old figure","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://shadow.tech/eu/drive/offers/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Free 20 GB ... Upload up to 20 GB', 'Basic 200 GB ... 2.99 EUR/month', 'Premium 2 TB ... 6.99 EUR/month', all three with the same 20 GB upload line, and 'Shadow Drive is already available in 12 countries: France, UK, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Spain'"},{"url":"https://drive.shadow.tech/status.php","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"HTTP 200, version 27.1.11.4, versionstring '27.1.11 Enterprise', productname Nextcloud"},{"url":"https://drive.shadow.tech/remote.php/dav/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"OPTIONS returned HTTP 401 with WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"Shadow Drive\""}],"verdict":"fails-quota","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","binding":"per-object-cap","binding_note":"The free 20 GB is an order of magnitude under the 500 GB filter, and the paid tiers carry a 20 GB per-file cap that does not move with the plan. Either number alone stops it; the cap is the one that would still bind at 2 TB.","confidence_note":"What would raise it is a live re-read of the offers page, because this provider has already moved its price once.","notes":"The free 20 GB is real and it is the same Enterprise build as the paid tiers, so it works as a cheap test endpoint. It fails as capacity on size, and it fails on a per-file cap that never improves.","extras":{"access_mode":"registration-gated","free_tier_exists":true,"geo_fenced_countries":12,"per_file_cap_bytes_derived":20000000000,"nextcloud_version":"27.1.11 Enterprise"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":20.0,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-object-cap","num":20.0,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}