DICE / EUDAT cost-free storage call

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DICE / EUDAT cost-free storage call (the EU's funded-storage instrument) Storage

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Free tier	Not published as a number — DICE is a funding instrument, not a product. It buys you 'personal drive storage' up to long-term preservation, priced by negotiation with whoever provides it. The EC put over EUR 6 million into Virtual Access to make it free for new users. What that buys in TB is determined per request. unit TB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Free at the point of use — paid by the EC grant, not the user.
Identity	institution institution
Binding	none the quota is real and unreachable: identity is the binding constraint, and it is not one of the six limits kinds
Interface	rest rest
Tooling	Whatever the chosen provider offers; services are ordered through the EOSC Portal (marketplace.eosc-portal.eu) by selecting a service and submitting an order flagged as a DICE request. No uniform API.
Composes with	Basic requests ('personal workspace') are granted same-day on registration alone; Standard (2–10 working days) and Customised (negotiated) tiers scale into archives. The multiplier is service requests, each of which is separately approved.
Reliability	The page still advertises the call but dates itself to a funding period that ended in 2023. Treat as a lead to re-check with the EUDAT helpdesk, not as an available quota.
Notes	Not published as a number — DICE is a funding instrument, not a product. It buys you 'personal drive storage' up to long-term preservation, priced by negotiation with whoever provides it. The EC put over EUR 6 million into Virtual Access to make it free for new users. What that buys in TB is determined per request.
Evidence rung	inferred One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-20

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.eudat.eu/news/submit-your-request-for-cost-free-dice-dat	opened: 'Any individual, or research entity located within the EU Member States or Associated Countries is eligible to access the DICE services free of charge'; 'over six million Euros … to offer free data storage facilities … until June 2023'; 'Basic service requests are satisfied immediately after request … it needs just an account registration — for example, an individual user requesting a personal workspace'; 'Created on: Mar 2, 2021 Last updated: Nov 2, 2023'.
2026-10-21	www.dice-eosc.eu/call-service-requests	504 via the read broker on the first attempt; the EUDAT copy of the same call was readable, so the content is confirmed but the canonical URL is flaky.

More fields (1)

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  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Not published as a number — DICE is a funding instrument, not a product. It buys you 'personal drive storage' up to long-term preservation, priced by negotiation with whoever provides it. The EC put over EUR 6 million into Virtual Access to make it free for new users. What that buys in TB is determined per request.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (6)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted