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- Free allowance
- Free with a Cloudflare account; scans of the exact URL in the last 30 days
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clamped30 days of reach; a request pinned to it outside that range is a 400 naming the reach
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | free with a Cloudflare account; scans of the exact URL in the last 30 days unit requests; metered on request-count |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate 240 requests a minute on this deployment's account window, shared with read, which keeps 4 free for a read lookup
- retention-clamped (binding) 30 days of reach; a request pinned to it outside that range is a 400 naming the reach
- per-object-cap a listing reads the newest 100 scans of the URL; when that search is full and its oldest scan is after from, older scans are unknown
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| Identity | email a Cloudflare account |
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| Egress | not applicable: the archived document |
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| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a scan |
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| Retention | 30 days: a scan older than that is not held, and a pinned request before it is a 400 |
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| Interface | rest REST; read service, never submitted by it |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | The archive fallback when the Wayback Machine is slow or holds nothing; a page it answers always points on to the other archives |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | A 30-day window is not an archive. |
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| Parsed numbers | - request-rate 240 requests / minute
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | source not published | cfscan is the scans of the exact URL in the last 30 days; a page it answers carries skip=cfscan and more=true; provider=cfscan outside the 30 days is a 400 naming its reach |
| 2026-10-22 | web.archive.org/web/*/nodeseek.com/post-918318-1 | 200, 0 captures, more false, misses wayback none, arquivo none, commoncrawl unknown |
Unknown values 2
$.reliability_note nothing of this kind was observed$.tooling a source was read and is silent on this field