{"rid":"storage/filebase","card":{"rid":"storage/filebase","eid":"filebase","topic":"storage","slug":"filebase","provider":"Filebase (IPFS tier)","url":"https://filebase.com","domain":"filebase.com","category":"p2p","tier":null,"verdict":"fails-quota","vorder":6,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"reported","binding":"none","identity_kind":"institution","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":1,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"s3-compatible,rclone,cli","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"inherited","checked_on":"2026-10-21","stale_on":"2026-11-04","n_evidence":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Free: 5 GB pooled storage across Object Storage and IPFS, 500 pinned files, 10 GB/month IPFS bandwidth, object egress free. Pro $7.50/mo: 500 GB pooled.","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":6},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"filebase","provider":"Filebase (IPFS tier)","url":"https://filebase.com","category":"p2p","free_tier":{"stated":"Free: 5 GB pooled storage across Object Storage and IPFS, 500 pinned files, 10 GB/month IPFS bandwidth, object egress free. Pro $7.50/mo: 500 GB pooled.","unit":"GB","metered_on":"stored-bytes","source_url":"https://filebase.com/pricing/","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://filebase.com/pricing/","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://filebase.com/pricing/","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"Split, and the split is the trap. 'For S3-compatible object storage buckets on the non-IPFS tier at s3.filebase.io, egress is free on every paid plan.' But 'IPFS bandwidth is not free... On the free tier, there is a 5 GB / month egress cap' — and the pricing page states 10 GB IPFS Egress. Either way it is single-digit-to-10 GB/month.","metered":false,"free_allowance":"5 GB per month"},"interface":["s3-compatible","rclone","cli"],"interface_detail":"s3","tooling":"S3 API at s3.filebase.io, region 'auto', SigV4; rclone s3 backend works; IPFS Pinning Service API; dedicated gateways; docs list rclone/boto3/aws-cli explicitly.","chaining":"1 bucket on Free, no limit on object count within it. 5 GB per account is not repeatable to 500 GB in any practical way, and each account needs its own S3 keys.","limits":[],"limits_note":"Single PUT 5 GB; multipart total 5 TB (1 TB recommended); 500 req/s S3 API; 1 bucket on Free; 500 pinned files.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: th, object egress free. Pro $7.50/mo: 500 GB pooled. S3 API held up live: the public gateway served the test CID at 200 (414,201 bytes, Server: Filebase) but throttled during a ra","country":null},"reliability_note":"S3 API held up live: the public gateway served the test CID at 200 (414,201 bytes, Server: Filebase) but throttled during a rapid burst (2 of 8 answered before the burst ran long). The 'no egress fees' headline applies to the S3 tier, not the IPFS tier — a genuinely confusing pricing page and the single most common misread in this niche.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://filebase.com/pricing/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"Free: 'Storage 5 GB', 'Shared across Object Storage and IPFS', 'Pinned Files 500', 'IPFS Egress 10 GB', 'Object Egress Free'"},{"url":"https://filebase.com/docs/concepts/bandwidth","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'IPFS bandwidth is not free. IPFS buckets, gateways, Bitswap, trustless gateway responses, RPC responses, and Filebase Sites have separate IPFS bandwidth accounting.'"},{"url":"https://ipfs.filebase.io/ipfs/bafybei...5u4","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"probe: GET -> 200, 414201 bytes, Server: Filebase"}],"verdict":"fails-quota","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Free: 5 GB pooled storage across Object Storage and IPFS, 500 pinned files, 10 GB/month IPFS bandwidth, object egress free. Pro $7.50/mo: 500 GB pooled.","extras":{"dead_end":{"failure_class":"egress","why":"Free: 5 GB pooled storage across Object Storage and IPFS, 500 pinned files, 10 GB/month IPFS bandwidth, object egress free. Pro $7.50/mo: 500 GB pooled.","retry_when":null,"first_recorded":"2026-10-21"}},"binding":"none","binding_note":"no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":5,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.extras.dead_end.retry_when","process"],["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.stated","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}