Ghost(Pro)

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Ghost(Pro) — 5 MB on free trial/Starter, 100 MB Publisher; self-hosted is unbounded Storage

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ghost.org · media · storage/ghost-5-mb-on-free-trial-starter-100-mb-publisher-self-h · JSON · compare

Free tier	"When uploading media files to Ghost, while there is no limit on the number of files you can upload to your site, there is a file size limit based on your Ghost(Pro) plan. Free trial: 5mb / Starter: 5mb / Publisher: 100mb / Business: 250mb / Custom: 1gb" unit mixed; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	per-object-cap 5 MB (5000000 bytes)
Retention	not stated
Egress	CDN-served; free tier has no egress billing. Fair Use Policy applies to media hosting.
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: rits an unbounded media library. That chains Ghost's admin API to whatever free compute/storage the client already has, rather than being storage itself. per-object-cap 5 MB (free/St
Limits	per-object-cap per-object-cap 5 MB source per-object-cap 5 MB (free/Starter), 100 MB (Publisher), 250 MB (Business), 1 GB (Custom). No file-count cap on any plan. Ghost Fair Use Policy constrains 'other file types made available' — enforcement is the practical ceiling.
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 rest
Tooling	Ghost Content API + Admin API (REST), official JS SDK. Self-hosted Ghost has no file-count or size limit except the web server config: "The upload limit is effectively determined by the web server that's serving your Ghost site."
Composes with	The interesting half is not Ghost(Pro) — it is that Ghost's unlimited-file design means a self-hosted Ghost on any free host inherits an unbounded media library. That chains Ghost's admin API to whatever free compute/storage the client already has, rather than being storage itself.
Reliability	Ghost(Pro) free trial expires; the unlimited-file behaviour only persists on a paid plan or self-hosted install.
Notes	"When uploading media files to Ghost, while there is no limit on the number of files you can upload to your site, there is a file size limit based on your Ghost(Pro) plan. Free trial: 5mb / Starter: 5mb / Publisher: 100mb / Business: 250mb / Custom: 1gb"
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 MB

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	ghost.org/help/media-file-size-limits/	per-plan 5mb/100mb/250mb/1gb table, "no limit on the number of files"
2026-10-21	forum.ghost.org/t/media-upload-limits-hosted-vs-self-hosted/	limit is the web server's on self-hosted

More fields (1)

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  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "\"When uploading media files to Ghost, while there is no limit on the number of files you can upload to your site, there is a file size limit based on your Ghost(Pro) plan. Free trial: 5mb / Starter: 5mb / Publisher: 100mb / Business: 250mb / Custom: 1gb\"",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (5)

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$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted