{"rid":"storage/microsoft-365-office-365-a1-education-tenant","card":{"rid":"storage/microsoft-365-office-365-a1-education-tenant","eid":"microsoft","topic":"storage","slug":"microsoft-365-office-365-a1-education-tenant","provider":"Microsoft 365 / Office 365 A1 Education tenant (100 TB pooled)","url":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/office","domain":"microsoft.com","category":"cloud-drive","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies","vorder":0,"grp":"usable","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":"rest,graph,rclone","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":4,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"100 TB (102,400 GB) free pooled storage per education tenant, spanning OneDrive + SharePoint + Exchange; pooled capacity = 100 TB base + per-license contribu...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":5},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"microsoft-365-office-365-a1-education-tenant","provider":"Microsoft 365 / Office 365 A1 Education tenant (100 TB pooled)","url":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/office","category":"cloud-drive","free_tier":{"stated":"100 TB (102,400 GB) free pooled storage per education tenant, spanning OneDrive + SharePoint + Exchange; pooled capacity = 100 TB base + per-license contributions. Office 365 A1 licenses contribute 0 GB but consume from the pool.","unit":"TB","metered_on":"stored-bytes","source_url":"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/office-365-platform-service-description/office-365-education","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/office-365-platform-service-description/office-365-education","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/office-365-platform-service-description/office-365-education","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"Not metered. Microsoft 365 is a subscription service with no per-GB egress meter; Microsoft support states 'if the user has the related license, there is no charge for uploading and downloading files'. SharePoint/OneDrive downloads are direct HTTPS URLs.","metered":true},"interface":["rest","graph","rclone"],"interface_detail":"rest","tooling":"Microsoft Graph driveItem API (whole-tenant app-only auth: Files.ReadWrite.All + Sites.Read.All); rclone backend 'onedrive' with drive_type=business or drive_type=documentLibrary, and a SharePoint remote type; office365-rest-python-client (vgrem) for list/library operations","chaining":"100 TB is per TENANT and tenants are per institution, not per user: N schools x 100 TB. Inside one tenant the ceiling is much higher than the pool in principle - 2,000,000 site collections per org at up to 25 TB per site - but the 100 TB pool is the binding limit. Add unlimited free A1 user licenses (which add 0 GB but give each user a 100 GB or 1 TB OneDrive ceiling), and paid A3/A5 at 50/100 GB per license. Multiply across tenants for archival shards.","limits":[],"limits_note":"Office 365 A1 OneDrive = 100 GB/user hard max (set Feb 2024); Microsoft 365 A1 OneDrive = up to 1 TB/user, capped by the same 100 TB pool. 250 GB max single file upload. 50,000 major versions / 511 minor per file - versioning silently duplicates storage on overwrite, so use a Communication site with versioning disabled. 25 TB max per site collection. Tenant goes read-only when over pool.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: no migration path. 100 TB is per TENANT and tenants are per institution, not per user: N schools x 100 TB. Inside one tenant the ceiling is much higher than the pool in principle - 2,000,000","country":null},"reliability_note":"Storage is enforced at the tenant pool level and tenants get flipped to read-only on overage - data survives but writes fail; per-user OneDrive caps were cut (5 TB -> 100 GB for A1) in 2024 with no migration path.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/office-365-platform-service-description/office-365-education","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'All Education tenants with Pooled Storage are granted an initial and free 100 TB of storage to their pool'; 'Storage for site collections: Up to 25 TB per site collection or group'; 'Site collections per tenant: 500,000'"},{"url":"https://cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/microsoftcorp/microsoft/final/en-us/microsoft-product-and-services/microsoft-education/downloadables/M365-Education-Storage-FAQ.pdf","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'100TB of free pooled storage across OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange'; 'Office 365 A1 ... maximum OneDrive limit of 100GB'; '100 TB Default Limit (102,400 GB)'"},{"url":"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint-limits","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"(via /office365/servicedescriptions/sharepoint-online-service-description/sharepoint-online-limits) - '250 GB - File upload limit', '1 TB + 10GB per license purchased'"},{"url":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/office","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Educators and students with an eligible education email address can get Office 365 A1 for free'"}],"verdict":"qualifies","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"100 TB (102,400 GB) free pooled storage per education tenant, spanning OneDrive + SharePoint + Exchange; pooled capacity = 100 TB base + per-license contributions. 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