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DocumentCloud (MuckRock) Storage

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Free tier	500 MB per PDF (25 MB for non-PDF, converted via LibreOffice); no published account storage cap, but uploads require a manually verified account. unit MB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Free public document pages and a full REST API; funded by Knight Foundation so no egress billing, but it is journalism-only.
Identity	anonymous derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: ng, which the FAQ says is being replaced by 'a paid model'. anonymous-dump
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	rest rest
Tooling	Full REST API at https://api.www.documentcloud.org/api plus python-documentcloud and a batch uploader github.com/MuckRock/dc_batch_upload.
Composes with	Gated at the identity layer: upload rights require 'account verification', so the account multiplier (the usual escape hatch) is closed here.
Reliability	Upload is not self-serve; verification can be refused, and the funding model is explicitly in transition to paid.
Notes	500 MB per PDF (25 MB for non-PDF, converted via LibreOffice); no published account storage cap, but uploads require a manually verified account.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2020/nov/10/release-notes-bet	'PDF files have a much larger size limit of 500 MB'; non-PDF 'up to 25 MB'
2026-10-21	www.documentcloud.org/help/faq/	(redirects to help.muckrock.com) — 'if you are seeking to upload documents, you need to request account verification'; 'We are currently developing a paid model'
2026-10-21	www.documentcloud.org/help/api/	'All APIs ... are served from https://api.www.documentcloud.org/api'

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "500 MB per PDF (25 MB for non-PDF, converted via LibreOffice); no published account storage cap, but uploads require a manually verified account.",
  "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