figshare

figshare.com · Storage · 3 records · JSON

figshare (figshare.com free accounts) Storagefails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
figshare+ (large-data tier) Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R
figshare for institutions Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R

figshare (figshare.com free accounts) Storage

fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap

figshare.com · academic · storage/figshare · JSON · compare

Free tier	20 GB storage quota per account. Note: the brief's '5 GB per file' is stale — the current limit is 20 GB per individual file. Items 500, files per item 500, collections 100, projects 100. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	5 GB per file (5000000000 bytes)
Retention	Stable commercial service (Digital Science); the binding constraint is the 20 GB pool, and published items are permanent/citable, so it behaves more like a publication endpoint than a bucket.
Egress	Free and CDN-friendly. Download path: ndownloader.figshare.com -> 302 -> S3 object (Server: AmazonS3), with Accept-Ranges/Content-Range exposed. No egress metering on free accounts.
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: p to 10 MB. Exceeding 20 GB requires figshare+ (paid) or an institutional subscription. academic
Limits	per-object-cap 5 GB per file source 20 GB total storage and 20 GB max single file; 500 items, 500 files per item, 50 versions; virus scan only up to 10 MB. Exceeding 20 GB requires figshare+ (paid) or an institutional subscription.
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 rest
Tooling	figshare REST API v2 (live: GET api.figshare.com/v2/articles -> 200 JSON; per-file download_url at ndownloader.figshare.com). OAI-PMH available. figshare Python client (official, github.com/figshare/figshare-python). No rclone backend.
Composes with	20 GB x unlimited free accounts. Weak multiplication within an account: the 20 GB is a single pool and the 500-item cap binds long before the bytes do at 20 GB/item.
Reliability	Stable commercial service (Digital Science); the binding constraint is the 20 GB pool, and published items are permanent/citable, so it behaves more like a publication endpoint than a bucket.
Notes	20 GB storage quota per account. Note: the brief's '5 GB per file' is stale — the current limit is 20 GB per individual file. Items 500, files per item 500, collections 100, projects 100.
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 5.0 GB

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	info.figshare.com/user-guide/account-limits/	'storage quota: 20GB', 'max individual file size: 20GB', 'max number of items: 500'
2026-10-21	info.figshare.com/user-guide/file-size-limits-and-storage/	'All figshare.com accounts are provided with 20GB of private storage and are able to upload individual files up to 20GB'
2026-10-21	ndownloader.figshare.com/files/69259858	probe: GET -L -> 302 then 200, 1512608 bytes, Server: AmazonS3

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "20 GB storage quota per account. Note: the brief's '5 GB per file' is stale — the current limit is 20 GB per individual file. Items 500, files per item 500, collections 100, projects 100.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (4)

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

figshare+ (large-data tier) Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

info.figshare.com/figshare-plus/ · rejected-provider · storage/figshare-2 · JSON · compare

Free tier	Paid, one-time data publishing charge ($875 per 250 GB per a third-party guide); requires a single publication/project, max 10 item DOIs, and all items submitted within 12 months. Commercial 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	Paid, one-time data publishing charge ($875 per 250 GB per a third-party guide); requires a single publication/project, max 10 item DOIs, and all items submitted within 12 months. Commercial
Notes	Paid, one-time data publishing charge ($875 per 250 GB per a third-party guide); requires a single publication/project, max 10 item DOIs, and all items submitted within 12 months. Commercial
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	info.figshare.com/figshare-plus/	Paid, one-time data publishing charge ($875 per 250 GB per a third-party guide) requires a single publication/project, max 10 item DOIs, and all items submitted within 12 months. Commercial

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Paid, one-time data publishing charge ($875 per 250 GB per a third-party guide); requires a single publication/project, max 10 item DOIs, and all items submitted within 12 months. Commercial",
  "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

figshare for institutions Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

info.figshare.com/user-guide/account-limits/ · rejected-provider · storage/figshare-for-institutions · JSON · compare

Free tier	Raises file size to 5 TB and private space per institution, but only for users with an institutional figshare repository — no self-serve route for an individual. Institutional quotas are set 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	Raises file size to 5 TB and private space per institution, but only for users with an institutional figshare repository — no self-serve route for an individual. Institutional quotas are set
Notes	Raises file size to 5 TB and private space per institution, but only for users with an institutional figshare repository — no self-serve route for an individual. Institutional quotas are set
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	info.figshare.com/user-guide/account-limits/	Raises file size to 5 TB and private space per institution, but only for users with an institutional figshare repository — no self-serve route for an individual. Institutional quotas are set

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Raises file size to 5 TB and private space per institution, but only for users with an institutional figshare repository — no self-serve route for an individual. Institutional quotas are set",
  "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