Alibaba Cloud OSS — new-user free trial

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Free allowance: Current international page: 'Standard LRS resource plan: 500 GB for 1 month' (individual) / '1 TB for 1 month' (enterprise), stacking with a 5 GB/month perpetual allowance to 505 GB (individual) / 1,029 GB (enterprise) during the trial month.
Verdict: triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
Cost: not stated
Identity: institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: noneno named constraint binds
Evidence: reported3 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05

Free tier	Current international page: 'Standard LRS resource plan: 500 GB for 1 month' (individual) / '1 TB for 1 month' (enterprise), stacking with a 5 GB/month perpetual allowance to 505 GB (individual) / 1,029 GB (enterprise) during the trial month. The help.aliyun.com (China) variant of the same doc instead states 20 GB for 3 months — the docs disagree, so treat 500 GB/1 month as the international figure and 20 GB/3 months as the China figure. unit TB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Identity	institution (inferred, not read) not published
Egress	Outbound internet traffic free trial: 2 GB for 3 months (China doc), stacked with a 5 GB/month perpetual quota => ~7 GB/month. Paid after that. This is the hardest egress failure in the slot. free allowance: 5 GB per month
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	s3-compatible, rclone s3
Tooling	OSS S3-compatible API — rclone 's3' provider 'Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Object Storage System (OSS)'; ossutil; OSS SDKs.
Composes with	New-user-only, one trial per verified identity. The 500 GB is 30 days, not recurring. No free per-account multiplication.
Reliability	Reliable object store; the trial simply expires and billing starts on everything, with an SMS warning at exhaustion.

Evidence 3

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/oss/free-quota-for-new-users	'Standard LRS resource plan: 500 GB for 1 month', 'Individual users ... 505 GB'
2026-10-21	help.aliyun.com/en/oss/free-quota-for-new-users	the conflicting '20 GB for 3 months' + 'outbound traffic 2 GB for 3 months' + '5 GB monthly free quota'
2026-10-21	www.alibabacloud.com/en/product/oss/pricing	'Standard Storage(LRS) 0~5GB Free' rows across regions (the perpetual sliver)

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dead end	{"failure_class": "quota","why": "Current international page: 'Standard LRS resource plan: 500 GB for 1 month' (individual) / '1 TB for 1 month' (enterprise), stacking with a 5 GB/month perpetual allowance to 505 GB (individual) / 1,029 GB (enterprise) during the trial month. The help.aliyun.com (China) variant of the same doc instead states 20 GB for 3 months — the docs disagree, so treat 500 GB/1 month as the international figure and 20 GB/3 months as the China figure.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}

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per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read