{"rid":"debrid/pikpak-free-download","card":{"rid":"debrid/pikpak-free-download","eid":"mypikpak","topic":"debrid","slug":"pikpak-free-download","provider":"PikPak - free account (cloud download plus downstream)","url":"https://mypikpak.com/en-US/faq","domain":"mypikpak.com","category":"private cloud drive with a cloud-download engine","tier":"free","verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"documented","binding":"volume-quota","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"webdav,cli,rest","egress_metered":1,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T03:15:33.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-24","stale_on":"2026-11-23","n_evidence":2,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"'Free accounts include 6 GB of storage, and Premium includes 10 TB.' 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The 6 GB store is what the downloaded bytes must pass through, exactly as CloudPipe's 450 GB must pass through a 15 GB Google Drive."},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not stated. No per-object number is published; the limits that bite on a free account are the 6 GB store and three Cloud Download tasks a day.","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://mypikpak.com/en-US/faq","notes":"A 20 GiB object cannot be held in a 6 GB store at all, so the object cap is the store, not a published file limit."},"retention":{"stated":"files stay in the account until deleted, and the free account holds 6 GB, so retention is bounded by capacity rather than by a day count. Non-Premium accounts with no login for 12 consecutive months may be deleted.","days":null,"source_url":"https://mypikpak.com/en-US/faq"},"egress":{"terms":"Metered in three dimensions per calendar month: cloud download 40 TB, downstream 4 TB, upload 1 TB, then a separate free-account daily downstream cap of 20 GB. 'All Connected Apps together can use up to 25% of this daily limit, or 5 GB per day.' Over the limit 'Downstream traffic slows to about 100 KB/s' and 'New Cloud Download tasks are blocked'.","metered":true,"free_allowance":"20 GB/day downstream in the official apps; 5 GB/day for Connected Apps","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://mypikpak.com/en-US/faq"},"interface":["webdav","cli","rest"],"interface_detail":"official apps plus WebDAV, an official CLI, an MCP server and personal access tokens, all grouped by the vendor as 'Connected Apps' and all subject to the 5 GB/day cap","tooling":"rclone over WebDAV or the CLI; both land in the Connected Apps bucket and take the quarter allowance","chaining":"Adds 150 GB a month to a no-card ladder for one email address, making it the largest per-signup free step that is not CloudPipe. Its counter resets daily, so it repeats in month two.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"6 GB of storage on a free account","source":"https://mypikpak.com/en-US/help-center/file_management/space/insufficient_cloud_storage_space"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"20 GB/day downstream for the whole free account, resets at 0:00 Singapore Time","source":"https://mypikpak.com/en-US/faq"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"5 GB/day downstream for all Connected Apps together (25% of the daily cap)","source":"https://mypikpak.com/en-US/faq"},{"kind":"request-rate","value":"three Cloud Download tasks a day on a free account","source":"https://mypikpak.com/en-US/faq"}],"limits_note":"The monthly 4 TB downstream quota is not the binding number for a free account; the daily cap is, by a factor of 120.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"At 5 GB/day a programmatic client gets 150 GB/month and at 20 GB/day an app-only client gets 600 GB/month. Both are below every other group-1 step except Bitport, and both require deleting through a 6 GB store.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"Registration is by email. No card and no phone is named on the help-centre pages read; the signup form itself was not opened, so this is the published gate rather than an observed one.","country":null},"reliability_note":"Over the daily cap downstream slows to about 100 KB/s and new cloud-download tasks are blocked while running ones continue; a free account with no login for 12 months may be deleted.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Both counters are vendor sentences read today. No account was created, so neither the 5 GB nor the 20 GB was measured, and the 6 GB store was not filled to see what happens.","evidence":[{"url":"https://mypikpak.com/en-US/faq","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Free PikPak accounts have a daily Downstream limit of 20 GB, which resets at 0:00 Singapore Time. All Connected Apps together can use up to 25% of this daily limit, or 5 GB per day.' Also the 40 TB / 4 TB / 1 TB monthly tab and the 12-month inactivity deletion."},{"url":"https://mypikpak.com/en-US/help-center/file_management/space/insufficient_cloud_storage_space","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Free accounts include 6 GB of storage, and Premium includes 10 TB.'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-23T03:15:33.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 0","notes":"The number that matters to the ladder is 150 GB/month programmatic, not 600: the client drives the service with a script, and the vendor caps every programmatic path at 25% of the daily allowance.","extras":{"ladder_status":null,"gb_month_programmatic":150,"gb_month_app_only":600,"daily_reset_sentence":true,"existing_records":["dossier/netdisk-pan/pikpak.json","dossier/storage/pikpak.json",null]}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":6,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":6,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":20,"unit":"GB","per":"day","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[2].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":5,"unit":"GB","per":"day","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[3].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":0,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":0,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.extras.existing_records[2]","withheld"],["$.extras.ladder_status","withheld"],["$.notes","partly-held"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}