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Civitai — model version files (the 'arbitrary 65 GiB blob' hub) Storagecaveatinstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
civitai training-data / lora-dataset path (as a storage vector) Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R
civitai vault (paid tier) Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R

Civitai — model version files (the 'arbitrary 65 GiB blob' hub) Storage

caveatinstitutionno cardRper-object-cap

civitai.com · media · storage/civitai-model-version-files · JSON · compare

Free tier	No published per-account or per-file byte quota. Its own Data Storage Policy states: 'By default, uploaded content will be stored indefinitely with the exception of input and output files related to model training.' Empirically: a single file of 65.83 GiB exists in production, and single free accounts hold 453 GiB (Lykon, 212 models) and 97 GiB (NanashiAnon, 412 models). unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	single file of 65.83 GiB (70684424273 bytes)
Retention	No published per-account or per-file byte quota. Its own Data Storage Policy states: 'By default, uploaded content will be stored indefinitely with the exception of input and output files related to model training.' Empirically: a single file of 65.83 GiB exists in production, and single free accounts hold 453 GiB (Lykon, 212 models) and 97 GiB (NanashiAnon, 412 models)
Egress	Unmetered; downloads 307-redirect to civitai-delivery-worker-prod...r2.cloudflarestorage.com with a 24 h X-Amz-Expires, then serve 206 with Accept-Ranges: bytes. No per-GB egress charge exists on any Civitai page.
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: act when ungated: a full 13,649,928-byte fetch matched the API-advertised SHA-256 exactly (8184D4BA...). Rate: sustained 20 ranged GETs with no 429. The trap is silent partial bodies
Limits	per-object-cap single file of 65.83 GiB source per-object-cap: >=65.83 GiB observed, no published number. THE BINDING CONSTRAINT IS NOT SIZE — it is a per-object access flag plus NSFW gating: creators may set 'require login to download', and such files return HTTP 401 with body {"error":"Unauthorized","message":"The creator of this asset requires you to be logged in to download it"} on BOTH ranged and full GETs (verified consistent — no ranged-lies-while-full-gates behaviour, unlike some round-1 hosts). Of 20 large models sampled, 12 were anonymous-206 and 8 were 401. Training-data retention is a separate, much shorter clause: inputs and training outputs are 30 days. Published per-account storage: Vault is paid-only (Bronze 100 GB / Silver 250 GB / Gold 500 GB) and is a separate product from model hosting.
Binding	per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interface	rest, rclone, cli rest
Tooling	Public REST API v1 (no auth for reads/metadata): /api/v1/models, /api/v1/model-versions/{id}, /api/v1/model-versions/by-hash/{sha256}. Download via GET /api/download/models/{versionId}. Working clients: civitai/cli (official, `civitai download` needs a token), RtypeStudios/CivitAI-Model-Archiver. No rclone backend.
Composes with	Free accounts carry no stated limit and each holds the same allowance. Models per account and versions per model are unlimited, with a per-file ceiling >=65.8 GiB. 30 TiB = ~460 files at the observed 65.8 GiB ceiling, i.e. one account pushing ~460 'models'. Verified excess-use precedent already on the platform: model 1219185 is literally titled 'hunyuanvideo-lora-training-wsl-ubuntu-system-backup' and is a 65.83 GiB zip of a WSL Ubuntu install uploaded as type 'Other'.
Reliability	Downloads are reliable and hash-exact when ungated: a full 13,649,928-byte fetch matched the API-advertised SHA-256 exactly (8184D4BA...). Rate: sustained 20 ranged GETs with no 429. The trap is silent partial bodies — a curl without -f writes the 106-byte JSON 401 body to disk as if it were your file, so every download must be hash-checked.
Notes	No published per-account or per-file byte quota. Its own Data Storage Policy states: 'By default, uploaded content will be stored indefinitely with the exception of input and output files related to model training.' Empirically: a single file of 65.83 GiB exists in production, and single free accounts hold 453 GiB (Lykon, 212 models) and 97 GiB (NanashiAnon, 412 models).
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-object-cap 65.83 GiB

Evidence (7)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	withheld	probe: GET civitai.com/api/v1/model-versions/2752735 -> file 46,149,344,974 bytes (43.0 GiB); GET /api/download/models/2752735 -r 0-1023 -L -> 307 -> 206 Content-Range: bytes 0-1023/46149344974
2026-10-21	withheld	probe: full GET /api/download/models/171989 -> 13,649,928 bytes, sha256sum = 8184D4BA9DA2B849638531F3DEF563AD2A0AB695B97FBB74F80AC099F2EB7396 = API hashes.SHA256 (MATCH)
2026-10-21	withheld	probe: GET /api/download/models/493690 -> 401, 106 bytes, {"error":"Unauthorized","message":"The creator of this asset requires you to be logged in to download it"}
2026-10-21	withheld	probe: 20-model sample of >35 GiB files -> 12x 206 anonymous, 8x 401 (creator-gated); size is not the gate
2026-10-21	withheld	probe: model 1219185 = 'hunyuanvideo-lora-training-wsl-ubuntu-system-backup', 65.83 GiB zip, type 'Other'
2026-10-21	withheld	probe: paginated /api/v1/models?username=Lykon -> 212 models, 358 files, 452.7 GiB in ONE free account
2026-10-21	civitai.com/content/training/data-policy	'uploaded content will be stored indefinitely ... except input and output files related to model training' (30 days for those)

Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.evidence[0].url private-url
$.evidence[1].url private-url
$.evidence[2].url private-url
$.evidence[3].url private-url
$.evidence[4].url private-url
$.evidence[5].url private-url
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted

civitai training-data / lora-dataset path (as a storage vector) Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

civitai.com/content/training/data-policy · rejected-provider · storage/civitai-training-data-lora-dataset-path · JSON · compare

Free tier	The cheapest-sounding Civitai surface is the shortest-lived: 'this data will be retained for 30 days', and training outputs 'retained for 30 days after the completion of the training job'. C unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	The cheapest-sounding Civitai surface is the shortest-lived: 'this data will be retained for 30 days', and training outputs 'retained for 30 days after the completion of the training job'. C
Notes	The cheapest-sounding Civitai surface is the shortest-lived: 'this data will be retained for 30 days', and training outputs 'retained for 30 days after the completion of the training job'. C
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	civitai.com/content/training/data-policy	The cheapest-sounding Civitai surface is the shortest-lived: 'this data will be retained for 30 days', and training outputs 'retained for 30 days after the completion of the training job'. C
2026-10-21	civitai.com/articles/11969/	cited as the basis of the rejection: The cheapest-sounding Civitai surface is the shortest-lived: 'this data will be retained for 30 days', and training outputs 'retained for 30 days after the completion of the training job'. C

More fields (1)

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 "dead_end": {
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  "retry_when": null,
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Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded

civitai vault (paid tier) Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

education.civitai.com/civitais-guide-to-vault/ · rejected-provider · storage/civitai-vault · JSON · compare

Free tier	The obvious 'personal unlimited storage' feature on Civitai is paid and capped: Free has 'No access to Vault'; Bronze $10/mo = 100 GB, Silver = 250 GB, Gold = 500 GB. It is also download-deg unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	The obvious 'personal unlimited storage' feature on Civitai is paid and capped: Free has 'No access to Vault'; Bronze $10/mo = 100 GB, Silver = 250 GB, Gold = 500 GB. It is also download-deg
Notes	The obvious 'personal unlimited storage' feature on Civitai is paid and capped: Free has 'No access to Vault'; Bronze $10/mo = 100 GB, Silver = 250 GB, Gold = 500 GB. It is also download-deg
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	education.civitai.com/civitais-guide-to-vault/	The obvious 'personal unlimited storage' feature on Civitai is paid and capped: Free has 'No access to Vault' Bronze $10/mo = 100 GB, Silver = 250 GB, Gold = 500 GB. It is also download-deg
2026-10-21	civitai.com/pricing	cited as the basis of the rejection: The obvious 'personal unlimited storage' feature on Civitai is paid and capped: Free has 'No access to Vault'; Bronze $10/mo = 100 GB, Silver = 250 GB, Gold = 500 GB. It is also download-deg

More fields (1)

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  "why": "The obvious 'personal unlimited storage' feature on Civitai is paid and capped: Free has 'No access to Vault'; Bronze $10/mo = 100 GB, Silver = 250 GB, Gold = 500 GB. It is also download-deg",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded