{"rid":"storage/osf-per-component-quotas","card":{"rid":"storage/osf-per-component-quotas","eid":"osf","topic":"storage","slug":"osf-per-component-quotas","provider":"OSF (Open Science Framework) — per-component quotas","url":"https://osf.io","domain":"osf.io","category":"academic","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"reported","binding":"per-object-cap","identity_kind":"institution","identity_basis":"defaulted","needs_card":null,"needs_phone":null,"needs_id":null,"needs_institution":1,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":5000000000,"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":"50 GB per public project, 5 GB per private project, 5 GB per file — but 'Each Component on a project has its own 5GB/50GB storage limit' and, crucially, 'Cur...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":5},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"osf-per-component-quotas","provider":"OSF (Open Science Framework) — per-component quotas","url":"https://osf.io","category":"academic","free_tier":{"stated":"50 GB per public project, 5 GB per private project, 5 GB per file — but 'Each Component on a project has its own 5GB/50GB storage limit' and, crucially, 'Currently, there is no applied overall cap on the amount of OSF Storage per user.' 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A project can nest components, each with its own 50 GB, and there is no overall per-user cap — so the structure is the same per-record multiplier as Zenodo but with a smaller unit (50 GB) and a much lower per-file ceiling (5 GB).","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"5 GB per file","source":"https://help.osf.io/article/555-add-ons-storage-api-integration-faq-s"}],"limits_note":"5 GB per file is the hard limit — worse than Zenodo's 50 GB and worse than Harvard's 2.5 GB only in being middling. 5 GB applies to private projects, so working storage is the expensive tier here; 50 GB requires making the project public.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"inferred from the category 'academic'; the source record states no identity cost, so this is a class assumption, not evidence","country":null},"reliability_note":"OSF is mid-'Project Transition' per its own help banner, which is a structural-change risk for a long-lived archive. 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