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Sale ladders reach 2 TB $299 and 10 TB $890.","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":5},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"pcloud-premium-plus-2-tb-ultra-10-tb","provider":"pCloud Premium Plus 2 TB / Ultra 10 TB (lifetime)","url":"https://landing.pcloud.com/lifetime-cloud-storage","category":"Swiss cloud drive, lifetime one-time","free_tier":{"stated":"500 GB $219; 2 TB $499 (list $709); 10 TB $1,499 (list $2,799). Sale ladders reach 2 TB $299 and 10 TB $890.","unit":"GB","metered_on":"unstated","source_url":"https://landing.pcloud.com/lifetime-cloud-storage","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://landing.pcloud.com/lifetime-cloud-storage","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://landing.pcloud.com/lifetime-cloud-storage","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"TRAP-SHAPED but escapable. Verbatim from support: 'Every pCloud plan includes a specified amount of shared link traffic that resets on a monthly basis (regardless of whether you have a monthly, annual, or Lifetime subscription) ... pCloud Premium Plus (2 TB): 4 TB per month ... pCloud Ultra (10 TB): 20 TB per month'. Blog confirms the ratio is 2x storage: 'As of September, 2026, it is double the amount of your paid storage'. 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No mass data-loss event. r/DataHoarder 'The Lifetime Trap' thread documents $745 spent and ROI scepticism, not data loss. Payment: card, PayPal, Alipay for select regions; Bitcoin historically accepted (Apple/Google in-app also available).","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://landing.pcloud.com/lifetime-cloud-storage","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Premium Plus 2 TB Lifetime 499USD 709USD'; 'Ultra 10 TB Lifetime 1499USD 2799USD'"},{"url":"https://help.pcloud.com/article/shared-link-traffic","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"per-plan monthly caps quoted verbatim above"},{"url":"https://blog.pcloud.com/what-is-link-traffic/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'As of September, 2026, it is double the amount of your paid storage'"},{"url":"https://help.pcloud.com/article/connect-to-pcloud-using-webdav-and-rsync","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"WebDAV + rsync documented"},{"url":"https://api.pcloud.com/getapiserver","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"live API, returns region hosts"},{"url":"https://help.pcloud.com/article/payment-methods-billing-cycles","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Credit and Debit Cards ... 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At the $890 sale price for 10 TB: $1.48/TB/mo over 5 years."},"binding":"none","binding_note":"no constraint in the record binds at this scale; the record carries no limit of a kind the vocabulary names"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":500,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":1.48,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":1.48,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.stated","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}