{"rid":"storage/gcore-free-cdn","card":{"rid":"storage/gcore-free-cdn","eid":"gcore","topic":"storage","slug":"gcore-free-cdn","provider":"Gcore Free CDN (1 TB/mo traffic, no card)","url":"https://gcore.com/cdn","domain":"gcore.com","category":"cdn","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"reported","binding":"none","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","egress_metered":1,"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":46,"summary":"1 TB/month included traffic and 1 billion requests on the free PAYG plan at €0/month. Verified against Gcore's own pricing payload: 'Included FREE Traffic 1 ...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":6},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"gcore-free-cdn","provider":"Gcore Free CDN (1 TB/mo traffic, no card)","url":"https://gcore.com/cdn","category":"cdn","free_tier":{"stated":"1 TB/month included traffic and 1 billion requests on the free PAYG plan at €0/month. Verified against Gcore's own pricing payload: 'Included FREE Traffic 1 TB/Month', 'Traffic overage (per GB) €0.01', 'Requests over 1B (per 1M) €0.75'. No trial period — it is a standing free plan.","unit":"TB","metered_on":"unstated","source_url":"https://gcore.com/pricing/edge-network","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://gcore.com/pricing/edge-network","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://gcore.com/pricing/edge-network","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"The free 1 TB/month IS the egress. Overage €0.01/GB (≈$10/TB). Separately, Gcore Object Storage has free egress to Gcore CDN and free ingress.","metered":true,"free_allowance":"1 TB per month","price_per_tb":"$10/TB"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"rest","tooling":"Standard CDN pull-zone config; origin can be any URL. No card needed for the CDN free plan (confirmed: 'CDN (Free) … Free plan has no trial period, but has a 1 TB traffic limit' with no card condition listed).","chaining":"Each email-only account carries the same monthly allowance, and cycling the origin across 10 accounts yields ~330 GB/day in total. Gcore's own object storage is too expensive (€0.04/GiB = €40/TB) to be the origin.","limits":[],"limits_note":"per-object-cap: none published. The binding limit is the 1 TB/month traffic counter plus 1B requests. Gcore blocks Gcore storage if a plan payment fails, which can cascade into CDN suspension.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"email","country":null},"reliability_note":"210+ PoPs, 200+ Tbps. Origin-shielding is 'Basic' on the free plan. Free tier has been reshaped before (was 100 GB until ~2025, then moved to 1 TB), so budget for the number moving.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://gcore.com/pricing/edge-network","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"raw HTML extract: 'CDN PAYG … €0/mo … Included FREE Traffic 1 TB/Month … Traffic overage (per GB) €0.01 … Requests over 1B (per 1M) €0.75' (fetched via fetch broker because the read broker returns only nav chrome)"},{"url":"https://docs.gcore.com/account-settings/billing/trial-conditions","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'CDN (Free) | Not available | Free plan has no trial period, but has a 1 TB traffic limit'"},{"url":"https://docs.gcore.com/storage/how-storage-is-billed","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"S3 Standard €0.04/GiB/mo, 'Egress to CDN Free', 'Ingress Free'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"$0 for the first 1 TB/mo; $10/TB beyond (€0.01/GB). Object storage €0.04/GiB/mo ≈ €40/TB ≈ $46/TB — not a viable origin.","notes":"1 TB/month included traffic and 1 billion requests on the free PAYG plan at €0/month. Verified against Gcore's own pricing payload: 'Included FREE Traffic 1 TB/Month', 'Traffic overage (per GB) €0.01', 'Requests over 1B (per 1M) €0.75'. No trial period — it is a standing free plan.","extras":{"price_verbatim":"$0 for the first 1 TB/mo; $10/TB beyond (€0.01/GB). Object storage €0.04/GiB/mo ≈ €40/TB ≈ $46/TB — not a viable origin."},"binding":"none","binding_note":"no constraint in the record binds at this scale; the record carries no limit of a kind the vocabulary names"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":1,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":46,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":46,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.chaining","partly-held"],["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.stated","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}