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The only quota is on PRIVATE staging: 10,000 private deposits or 100 GB equivalent.","unit":"GB","metered_on":"unstated","source_url":"https://documentation.huma-num.fr/nakala/","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://documentation.huma-num.fr/nakala/","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":null,"source_url":"https://documentation.huma-num.fr/nakala/","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"Free. Files are served from Huma-Num/IN2P3-hosted infrastructure in France with no metering and no egress charge; public deposits are downloadable by any visitor and IIIF image endpoints are exposed for tif/tiff/jpg/jpeg/jp2.","metered":false},"interface":["rest","rclone"],"interface_detail":"rest","tooling":"Documented REST API split into search / datas / collections / groups / users / vocabularies, with a per-account API key ('Certaines opérations nécessitent ... sa clé d'API disponible dans son compte personnel'); swagger at api.nakala.fr/doc, separate test instance apitest.nakala.fr. Also OAI-PMH (api.nakala.fr/oai2?verb=Identify), a SPARQL triplestore, IIIF Image API, and a published notebook at gitlab.huma-num.fr/huma-num-public/notebook-api-nakala. No rclone backend.","chaining":"Unlimited public deposits per account, no volume cap per deposit — so the account is the only unit and it does not need multiplying for 500 GB. Groups feature shares deposit rights across a project team, so a lab can pour many researchers' output into one quota-free surface.","limits":[],"limits_note":"Private staging capped at 10,000 deposits / 100 GB; public deposits uncapped. Eligibility is the real limit: the depositor must belong to the French academic world, or be part of a project whose lead team is French-academic.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: 00 GB equivalent. CRITICAL liveness flag: nakala.fr and api.nakala.fr both returned HTTP 503 on 6 consecutive probes across ~25 minutes (site and API, direct and through the proxy","country":null},"reliability_note":"CRITICAL liveness flag: nakala.fr and api.nakala.fr both returned HTTP 503 on 6 consecutive probes across ~25 minutes (site and API, direct and through the proxy), so the quota is docs-verified but the service was NOT live at probe time. Budget-stable (CNRS-funded national infrastructure) but treat availability as unconfirmed.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://documentation.huma-num.fr/nakala/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Il n'existe aucune limite pour les dépôts publics' and 'Le nombre de dépôts privés par déposant est limité à 10 000 (ou l'équivalent de 100 Go)'"},{"url":"https://documentation.huma-num.fr/nakala-API/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"REST API endpoint list, api.nakala.fr/doc, OAI-PMH, SPARQL, IIIF"},{"url":"https://nakala.fr/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"probe: GET -> 503 six times; GET https://api.nakala.fr/oai2?verb=Identify -> 503 (service down at probe time)"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Public deposits are explicitly uncapped: 'Il n'existe aucune limite pour les dépôts publics' (there is no limit for public deposits), and 'Un accès à vos données sans limite de volumétrie, ni de temps' (access to your data with no volume or time limit). The only quota is on PRIVATE staging: 10,000 private deposits or 100 GB equivalent.","extras":{},"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":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":100,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.stated","withheld"]],"history":[],"drift":[{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"storage/nakala","other":"storage/nakala-no-formal-size-limit-but-a-humanid-gate-and-a-con","field":"verdict","a":"qualifies-with-caveat","b":"fails-identity","detail":null}]}