IEEE DataPort

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IEEE DataPort - 2 TB per dataset free upload, but every read costs $40/month (rule 2 in its purest form) Storagefails: egressemailno cardR
IEEE DataPort — Data Competition module (the free + public route) Storagefails: egressemailno cardRper-object-cap

IEEE DataPort - 2 TB per dataset free upload, but every read costs $40/month (rule 2 in its purest form) Storage

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ieee-dataport.org/ · academic · storage/ieee-dataport-2-tb-per-dataset-free-upload-but-every-rea · JSON · compare

Free tier	2 TB of AWS S3 cloud storage per dataset for individual users (10 TB for institutional subscribers). No published limit on the number of datasets. Standard (non-Open-Access) deposit is free; making it Open Access costs $1,950. unit TB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Gated: 'Must be IEEE Paid DataPort Subscriber to Access Files' on the free Standard tier. Reader pays $40/month individual, or the depositor pays $1,950 once for Open Access so anyone can download.
Identity	email email
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	s3-compatible, rest rest
Tooling	Web upload and DOI minting; no S3 API handed to the depositor despite the S3 backing store.
Composes with	Unlimited datasets x 2 TB free is the biggest free write allowance found in this slot - but it is write-only capacity unless you pay $1,950 per dataset to open the read path, which inverts the whole exercise.
Reliability	This is exactly the upload-open / read-gated failure in rule 2. Do not count it as storage.
Notes	2 TB of AWS S3 cloud storage per dataset for individual users (10 TB for institutional subscribers). No published limit on the number of datasets. Standard (non-Open-Access) deposit is free; making it Open Access costs $1,950.
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	ieee-dataport.org/submit-dataset	'2TB Cloud Storage (AWS) for individual users ... Must be IEEE Paid DataPort Subscriber to Access Files'; Open Access option listed at $1,950
2026-10-21	ieee-dataport.org/subscribe	individual plan '$40/month', 'Data Storage 2TB per dataset', 'Open Access Dataset Upload $1950'
2026-10-21	ieee-dataport.org/	'Create a Free Account - Register to view Open Access data files and upload your own research data'

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IEEE DataPort — Data Competition module (the free + public route) Storage

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ieee-dataport.org/submit-dataset · research-data-repository · storage/ieee-dataport-data-competition-module · JSON · compare

Free tier	2 TB per dataset for individual users, 10 TB for Institutional Subscribers. The Data Competition submission type is listed as FREE and carries the same 2 TB / 10 TB ceilings — 'Dataset files may total up to 2 TB or 10 TB for Institutional Subscribers'. Competition files are stored in Amazon S3 and can be downloaded by any logged-in IEEE DataPort user, and 'If Competition has No Access Restrictions, no entry needs to be made in the Access Control List box and all users of IEEE DataPort that are logged in will have access.' That is the only route on this platform where storage is free AND reads are free, because the two paid routes both gate reads: Standard Dataset (free upload) exposes files only to subscribers, and Open Access Dataset costs $1,950 to make them public. unit TB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	0 via Data Competition or IEEE Society membership. Otherwise the read side costs $480/yr for unlimited datasets — at 2 TB that is $20/TB/year = $1.67/TB/month, which is below the wave-6 price floor, and it is a read licence not a per-TB rate. Open Access publication is a flat $1,950 per dataset, no…
Per-object cap	100 GB/file (100000000000 bytes)
Retention	not stated
Egress	Free in the ordinary sense — downloads are served from IEEE's own S3 bucket (ieee-dataport.s3.amazonaws.com, which correctly returns 403 to anonymous listing rather than 200-with-empty-body) and there is no egress meter on the participant side. Real ceiling is per-user concurrency, not bytes.
Identity	email email
Limits	per-object-cap 100 GB/file source write-gated + read-gated, and the gate differs by route. Standard Dataset: upload free, read requires IEEE DataPort subscription (~$480/yr). Open Access: read free to all, write costs $1,950 per dataset. Competition: both free, but the entry is framed as a time-limited challenge with start and end dates and 'Competitions must meet eligibility requirements and are not intended for general dataset publication'. Per-file cap is not stated; IEEE's own guidance is 'for large datasets, we recommend uploading a series of files that are 100 GB or less' — a soft 100 GB/file figure. Supported formats list is broad (zip, tar, 7z, iso, hdf5, parquet, avro, orc, mat, wav, mp4 …).
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	s3, cli web + s3
Tooling	Two real paths. (1) S3: a subscriber gets an AWS access key/secret and the bucket is ieee-dataport, with the dataset path /ieee-dataport/<DATASET TYPE>/<USERID>/<DATASETID> — AWS CLI, boto3, s3cmd, Cyberduck, CrossFTP, S3 Browser all documented. (2) Competition participants read via the 'AWS S3' tab which reveals per-file S3 URIs plus a 'View AWS Security Credentials' dialog with the secret key. Undocumented but usable: the web upload form needs no subscription at all.
Composes with	Datasets are unlimited per account and each carries an independent 2 TB ceiling, so the multiplier is datasets, not accounts — 10 datasets is 20 TB of nominal capacity on one free IEEE web account. Competition module can host several files per competition. Combining the two submission types on one account gives both a subscriber-upload path (S3) and a public-read path (competition).
Reliability	S3 bucket is real and correctly access-controlled (403, not a fake 200). IEEE may unpublish Standard Dataset entries whose files were never uploaded. Competition entries are time-bounded by design, so treat the competition route as a lease with a declared end date rather than an archive.
Notes	2 TB per dataset for individual users, 10 TB for Institutional Subscribers. The Data Competition submission type is listed as FREE and carries the same 2 TB / 10 TB ceilings — 'Dataset files may total up to 2 TB or 10 TB for Institutional Subscribers'. Competition files are stored in Amazon S3 and can be downloaded by any logged-in IEEE DataPort user, and 'If Competition has No Access Restrictions, no entry needs to be made in the Access Control List box and all users of IEEE DataPort that are logged in will have access.' That is the only route on this platform where storage is free AND reads are free, because the two paid routes both gate reads: Standard Dataset (free upload) exposes files only to subscribers, and Open Access Dataset costs $1,950 to make them public.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-object-cap 100.0 GB `$.price_per_tb_month` price-per-tb USD1950.0 TB / month

Evidence (8)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	ieee-dataport.org/submit-dataset	'Open Access Dataset $1,950'; 'Data Competition FREE … 2 TB Cloud Storage'. This single page proves all three routes and their prices.
2026-10-21	ieee-dataport.org/faq/what-fields-are-available-submit-data-	opened: 'Dataset files may total up to 2 TB or 10 TB for Institutional Subscribers'; 'Administrator must either check Restricted Access via Email List or check No Access Restrictions'; 'If Competition has No Access Restrictions … all users of IEEE DataPort that are logged in will have access.'
2026-10-21	ieee-dataport.org/help/upload-your-files-directly-ieee-datap	opened: bucket name ieee-dataport, path /ieee-dataport/<DATASET TYPE>/<USERID>/<DATASETID>, credentials 'only provided to subscribers', and the note that the web upload form 'does not require a subscription'.
2026-10-21	ieee-dataport.org/faq/do-i-have-subscribe-ieee-dataport-orde	opened: 'Yes, users need to subscribe to access and/or download Standard datasets … Open Access datasets are available to all registered users.' Confirms the read gate.
2026-10-21	ieee-dataport.org/getting-started	opened: 'Free Account: Download open access datasets, upload standard datasets up to 2TB, and join/host data competitions.' Identity is a plain IEEE web account.
2026-10-21	ieee-dataport.org/open-access/heart-disease-dataset-comprehe	PROBED: HTTP 200, 94,355 bytes of HTML, DOI 10.21227/dz4t-cm36 rendered, but no direct file link in the markup for a logged-out client — i.e. the open-access landing page is public while the object itself needs a session. Consistent with rule 2.
2026-10-21	ieee-dataport.s3.amazonaws.com/?list-type=2&max-keys=2	curl -qsS -D - -> HTTP 403 with a proper <Error><Code>AccessDenied</Code>, not a 200. The bucket is real and locked; no anonymous listing.
2026-10-21	ieee-dataport.org/news/ieee-society-members-get-free-ieee-da	opened: 'All IEEE Society members automatically have a free individual subscription' ($480/yr value) and 'Every IEEE DataPort member is given an AWS access key'. This is the subscription-free shortcut to the S3 path — an IEEE Society membership (student rate is low tens of USD) removes the read gate entirely.

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 "price_verbatim": "0 via Data Competition or IEEE Society membership. Otherwise the read side costs $480/yr for unlimited datasets — at 2 TB that is $20/TB/year = $1.67/TB/month, which is below the wave-6 price floor, and it is a read licence not a per-TB rate. Open Access publication is a flat $1,950 per dataset, not per TB."
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