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The business page is titled «Eliminate Egress Fees» and argues against providers «that charge hidden egress fees», and the pricing JSON-LD implies flat-rate. But no numbered egress allowance, no fair-use clause and no overage rate is published anywhere on the site — so the claim cannot be falsified from outside.","metered":true},"interface":["s3","rest","webdav","rclone","cli"],"interface_detail":"rest","tooling":"None documented. No public API, no WebDAV, no S3 endpoint, no rclone backend, no CLI. The product page describes «Zero-Knowledge Personal Vault», AES-256-GCM client-side encryption, mobile sync and a web UI. This is the disqualifying gap.","chaining":"Per-account consumer plans; no documented route that uses several accounts and no API to automate one.","limits":[],"limits_note":"Zero programmatic access. Client-side zero-knowledge encryption means even a reverse-engineered API would return ciphertext only to the holder of the key, which is fine for backup but blocks the CDN/serving workload entirely. The entire site is SEO-shaped: multiple near-identical 2026 comparison articles on its own domain ranking itself #1, with an «Independent Industry Audit» framing. The 1 TB price is also contradicted by its own pricing page rendering an empty shell to every reader that reached it — /pricing, /pricing.html and /cloud-storage-pricing all resolved to the same 37-word stub with `confidence: low`.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"email","country":null},"reliability_note":"Record as UNVERIFIED, not qualifying. Three independent signals of thinness: (1) the site 403s a plain `curl` with a bare HTML body and no content negotiation; (2) the actual /pricing page returns a 37-word synthetic stub to every extraction path tried (read broker, firecrawl, direct fetch) while the marketing articles are fully readable — i.e. the price exists only in prose, never in a page that renders a table; (3) no API, no status page, no company registration details. ₹150/TB/mo is ~1/17th of AWS and 1/6th of Utho's best tier, which is not a price a real 1 TB Indian host can hold.","confidence":"inferred","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://spacebyte.in/cloud-storage-pricing","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"«1TB of high-speed cloud storage on SpaceByte costs just ₹150/month with zero foreign exchange credit card markups»; «25 GB Permanent Free Storage»; «Pay in Indian Rupees using PhonePe, Google Pay, Paytm, BHIM UPI, and RuPay from ₹20/month»"},{"url":"https://spacebyte.in/pages/spacebyte-business-cloud-storage-2026-guide","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"«SpaceByte’s transparent, tiered approach … Starter: 50GB for ₹20/month. Freelancer: 100GB for ₹35/month. Studio Pro: 1TB for ₹150/month»; page title «Eliminate Egress Fees, Ensure Compliance, and Scale Infinitely»"},{"url":"https://spacebyte.in/pricing","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"read broker returned only 37 words, `extraction: synthetic`, `confidence: low`: «SpaceByte Cloud provides fast, secure, and affordable cloud storage.» — no plan table"},{"url":"https://spacebyte.in/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"probe: curl -> HTTP 403 in 0.44 s; no S3/WebDAV/REST endpoint exists to probe"}],"verdict":"fails-quota","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"$1.58/TB/mo at 1 TB ($18.95/TB/yr) as advertised, $1.19/TB/mo on the ₹1,650/yr annual. At 5 TB and 20 TB: NO PUBLISHED PLAN — the ladder stops at 1 TB and «Enterprise pooled storage» is quote-only, so the 5 TB and 20 TB figures do not exist and the number cannot be used for a user's sizing.","notes":"Starter 50 GB ₹20/mo; Freelancer 100 GB ₹35/mo; 500 GB ₹100/mo; Studio Pro 1 TB ₹150/mo (or ₹1,650/yr); 25 GB free forever. Enterprise pooled storage on request.","extras":{"dead_end":{"failure_class":"quota","why":"Starter 50 GB ₹20/mo; Freelancer 100 GB ₹35/mo; 500 GB ₹100/mo; Studio Pro 1 TB ₹150/mo (or ₹1,650/yr); 25 GB free forever. Enterprise pooled storage on request.","retry_when":null,"first_recorded":"2026-10-21"},"price_verbatim":"$1.58/TB/mo at 1 TB ($18.95/TB/yr) as advertised, $1.19/TB/mo on the ₹1,650/yr annual. 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