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Official CLI plus rclone+restic documented by HN commenters.","chaining":"The only candidate here whose free-tier ceiling is 'unlimited' at a flat price, so it is the single account that can absorb a whole 20 TB archive without sharding — at the cost of upload speed past 5 TB. Pairs naturally as the durable tier under rclone crypt.","limits":[{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"speed throttled above 5 TB, described by HN as a 'harsh inflection' around","source":"https://jottacloud.com/en/pricing"}],"limits_note":"per-ip-shaping: upload speed throttled above 5 TB, described by HN as a 'harsh inflection' around 16 TB. Quotas are quoted in decimal TB, not TiB — rclone about reports 9.095 TiB for a 10 TB plan (forum.rclone.org/t/45928), so the real capacity is ~9% smaller than the marketing number.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"email","country":null},"reliability_note":"Long-running, well-documented provider; the throttle is policy, not breakage. 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