{"rid":"storage/matrix-media-repository","card":{"rid":"storage/matrix-media-repository","eid":"matrix","topic":"storage","slug":"matrix-media-repository","provider":"Matrix media repository (matrix.org homeserver)","url":"https://matrix.org/homeserver/pricing/","domain":"matrix.org","category":"messaging","tier":null,"verdict":"fails-quota","vorder":6,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"reported","binding":"per-ip-shaping","identity_kind":"institution","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":1,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","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 plan: 10 MB maximum per attachment, 100 MB of attachments per 24 hours, up to 500 MB per 28 days. Premium: 100 MB per attachment, 1 GB/24h, 5 GB/28d. Ac...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":6},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"matrix-media-repository","provider":"Matrix media repository (matrix.org homeserver)","url":"https://matrix.org/homeserver/pricing/","category":"messaging","free_tier":{"stated":"Free plan: 10 MB maximum per attachment, 100 MB of attachments per 24 hours, up to 500 MB per 28 days. Premium: 100 MB per attachment, 1 GB/24h, 5 GB/28d. Accounts not on any plan get 500 MB/24h up to 2 GB/28d. So the total is a few GB per month — not a storage provider at all.","unit":"MB","metered_on":"stored-bytes","source_url":"https://matrix.org/homeserver/pricing/","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://matrix.org/homeserver/pricing/","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://matrix.org/homeserver/pricing/","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"Egress itself is free ('the HTTPS data transfer to/from the matrix.org homeserver' does not count towards limits), but that is irrelevant at a 500 MB/28-day ingest rate.","metered":false},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"rest","tooling":"Excellent — the Content Repository API is a real spec, mxc:// URIs, every Matrix client library implements it. 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So no anonymous CDN reads.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: ee users 'may be changed to a free plan in the future'. Any federation of homeservers multiplies it, but you are then running the homeservers yourself, which is just 'buy a server'. On the p","country":null},"reliability_note":"Stable, but the 28-day rolling cap means an upload-heavy workload simply stops. matrix.org also states pricing is not final and free users 'may be changed to a free plan in the future'.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://matrix.org/homeserver/pricing/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Size of attachment that can be sent | 10MB maximum per attachment ... 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