{"rid":"debrid/telegram-drive-desktop-caamer20","card":{"rid":"debrid/telegram-drive-desktop-caamer20","eid":"telegram-drive","topic":"debrid","slug":"telegram-drive-desktop-caamer20","provider":"Telegram Drive (desktop, caamer20)","url":"https://telegram-drive.com/","domain":"telegram-drive.com","category":"software (Telegram-backed drive, local-first desktop app)","tier":"free","verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"documented","binding":"per-object-cap","identity_kind":"any-phone","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":1,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":2000000000,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T01:52:23.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-24","stale_on":"2026-11-23","n_evidence":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"'Every feature is free. The optional $5 license only removes sponsor placements.' Files live in the client's Saved Messages and channels; there is no separat...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":1},"record":{"topic":"debrid","slug":"telegram-drive-desktop-caamer20","provider":"Telegram Drive (desktop, caamer20)","url":"https://telegram-drive.com/","category":"software (Telegram-backed drive, local-first desktop app)","tier":"free","free_tier":{"stated":"'Every feature is free. The optional $5 license only removes sponsor placements.' Files live in the client's Saved Messages and channels; there is no separate storage account.","unit":"unlimited","metered_on":"stored-bytes","source_url":"https://telegram-drive.com/","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":"again, 'unlimited' is Telegram's account claim"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"'The application caps a Telegram object at exactly 2,000,000,000 bytes.' and 'Files over 2 GB are skipped and logged.'","bytes":2000000000,"source_url":"https://github.com/caamer20/Telegram-Drive","notes":"2,000,000,000 is the app's own hard cap, below Telegram's stated 2 GB"},"retention":{"stated":"Until deleted from the account. The site answers the storage question with 'No. Storage and file handling follow Telegram's account, service, and per-file limits.'","days":null,"source_url":"https://telegram-drive.com/"},"egress":{"terms":"Telegram's; the app streams from Telegram's media DCs and keeps only caches locally.","metered":false,"free_allowance":"no allowance published","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://telegram.org/faq"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"A GUI application over MTProto (Rust/Tauri/Grammers per the repository); no public HTTP API or CLI is documented. Desktop folder sync is the automation surface.","tooling":"Windows, macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), Linux, Android and Google TV builds, released on GitHub.","chaining":"A client-side drive over one Telegram account: no server, no database, and a hard 2e9-byte object cap, so it composes with a free compute tier only as a sync target.","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"2,000,000,000 bytes per object in the app","source":"https://github.com/caamer20/Telegram-Drive"},{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"2 GB per object at Telegram","source":"https://telegram.org/faq"}],"binding":"per-object-cap","binding_note":"The app's own 2e9-byte cap is marginally stricter than Telegram's and is the one a user meets; neither leaves a 1 TiB month with fewer than ~550 objects.","identity_cost":{"kind":"any-phone","detail":"The client's own Telegram account credentials; no account with the project.","country":null},"reliability_note":"The vendor's own warning: 'Telegram Drive should not be treated as literally unlimited storage or as the only backup of important data.' Files above 2 GB are skipped, not split.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Both the 2e9 cap and the skip behaviour are stated on the vendor's site and repository, read today. No install was run.","evidence":[{"url":"https://telegram-drive.com/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Every feature is free. The optional $5 license only removes sponsor placements.' and 'No. Storage and file handling follow Telegram's account, service, and per-file limits.'"},{"url":"https://telegram-drive.com/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Files over 2 GB are skipped and logged.' and 'Telegram-Drive currently limits a Telegram object to roughly 2 GB'"},{"url":"https://github.com/caamer20/Telegram-Drive","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'The application caps a Telegram object at exactly 2,000,000,000 bytes.' and 'Telegram Drive should not be treated as literally unlimited storage'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"Software, not a hosted service. Abandon if the 2e9 cap or the free-everything claim changes; the $5 licence is cosmetic and does not gate a feature.","verified_at":"2026-10-23T01:52:23.000Z"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-object-cap","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:per-object-cap","num":2,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.interface","interface-unknown"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}