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- Free allowance
- 500 MB on Free, 90-day retention, token required for download.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 500 MB on Free, 90-day retention, token required for download. It is a build handoff medium, not storage. unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not recorded |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Tooling | not recorded |
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Evidence 1
More fields 1
{
"dead_end": {
"failure_class": "not-storage",
"why": "500 MB on Free, 90-day retention, token required for download. It is a build handoff medium, not storage.",
"retry_when": "never; it is not storage",
"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
}
}Unknown values 8
$.binding_note boilerplate$.chaining the record was rejected before this field was looked at$.egress.terms the record was rejected before this field was looked at$.interface the access interface was not established$.per_object_cap.notes the record was rejected before this field was looked at$.per_object_cap.stated the record was rejected before this field was looked at$.retention.stated the record was rejected before this field was looked at$.tooling the record was rejected before this field was looked at