{"rid":"storage/mixcloud-basic-tier","card":{"rid":"storage/mixcloud-basic-tier","eid":"mixcloud","topic":"storage","slug":"mixcloud-basic-tier","provider":"Mixcloud — Basic tier (unlimited drafts)","url":"https://www.mixcloud.com","domain":"mixcloud.com","category":"media","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"reported","binding":"per-object-cap","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"defaulted","needs_card":null,"needs_phone":null,"needs_id":null,"needs_institution":null,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rclone","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":4000000000,"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":2,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"10 published shows (>15 min) + 10 published tracks (<=15 min). But: 'there's currently no limit to the number of uploads you can have in your drafts' — draft...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":6},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"mixcloud-basic-tier","provider":"Mixcloud — Basic tier (unlimited drafts)","url":"https://www.mixcloud.com","category":"media","free_tier":{"stated":"10 published shows (>15 min) + 10 published tracks (<=15 min). But: 'there's currently no limit to the number of uploads you can have in your drafts' — drafts are uploaded, stored, and private. That is the actual finding: published storage is capped at 20 items, unpublished storage is uncapped.","unit":"objects","metered_on":"stored-bytes","source_url":"https://help.mixcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/6617808567708-FAQ-Publishing-limits","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"4 GB ceiling","bytes":4000000000,"source_url":"https://help.mixcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/6617808567708-FAQ-Publishing-limits","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://help.mixcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/6617808567708-FAQ-Publishing-limits","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"Free streaming for listeners; no egress charge to the creator, but drafts are not publicly downloadable at all, so 'egress' is the wrong axis — a draft has no delivery surface.","metered":false},"interface":["rclone"],"interface_detail":"wrapper-only","tooling":"No public API. Desktop-only upload for tracks ('only available through the desktop platform and not the Mixcloud app'); shows upload from web. No rclone backend, no client library found.","chaining":"Unlimited drafts x 4 GB per show x N free accounts. Whether drafts are garbage-collected is not stated — the FAQ only says previous uploads are not deleted when you exceed the publish cap, which is a different promise from 'drafts are kept forever'.","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"4 GB ceiling","source":"https://help.mixcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/6617808567708-FAQ-Publishing-limits"}],"limits_note":"4 GB max per show file; shows must be >15 min, tracks <=15 min (so the 4 GB ceiling only applies to long files); 10 published shows + 10 published tracks; RSS-fed podcasts also count toward the 10-show cap ('only the 10 most recent shows will display').","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"Mixcloud is a streaming platform: shows are transcoded for playback and there is no original-file download link on Basic. Drafts are inaccessible to anyone but the uploader, which means they are storage but not retrieval — a draft is only recoverable by publishing it, and publishing consumes one of the 10 slots.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://help.mixcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/6617808567708-FAQ-Publishing-limits","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Creators on the basic tier can have a total of 10 published shows (over 15 minutes long), and 10 published tracks'; 'we won't delete your previous uploads, and there's currently no limit to the number of uploads you can have in your drafts'"},{"url":"https://help.mixcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005918580-How-do-I-upload-on-Mixcloud","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Choose a file over 15 minutes in length (max 4GB)'; 'Lossless and lossy formats are supported ... WAV, AIFF, FLAC or AAC, OGG, M4A, MP2, MP3 and WMA'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"10 published shows (>15 min) + 10 published tracks (<=15 min). But: 'there's currently no limit to the number of uploads you can have in your drafts' — drafts are uploaded, stored, and private. That is the actual finding: published storage is capped at 20 items, unpublished storage is uncapped.","extras":{},"binding":"per-object-cap","binding_note":"the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-object-cap","num":4,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.identity_cost.detail","defaulted"],["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.stated","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}