Lighthouse
lighthouse.storage · Storage · 1 record · JSON
Lighthouse (Filecoin/IPFS pinning) Storage
fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
| Free tier | Filecoin plans, Free: 'Total Storage: 5 GB' (IPFS + Filecoin). Walrus plans, Free: 'Total Storage: 100 MB'. Next tier is $12/month for 500 GB. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Egress | not stated on the pricing page; gateway is ipfs-gw-style and historically unmetered, but there is no published allowance to quote. |
| Identity | institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: 100 MB. 5 GB x unlimited free accounts, each requiring an API key; the jump from 5 GB free to 500 GB at $12 means the free tier is deliberately a demo, not a base to multiply. per-o |
| 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, rclone rest |
| Tooling | IPFS pinning API + Filecoin deals; SDKs exist. No rclone backend. |
| Composes with | 5 GB x unlimited free accounts, each requiring an API key; the jump from 5 GB free to 500 GB at $12 means the free tier is deliberately a demo, not a base to multiply. |
| Reliability | Free plan omits encryption, IPNS and migration support that paid plans have, and the Walrus sub-product free tier is only 100 MB. |
| Notes | Filecoin plans, Free: 'Total Storage: 5 GB' (IPFS + Filecoin). Walrus plans, Free: 'Total Storage: 100 MB'. Next tier is $12/month for 500 GB. |
| Evidence rung | reported One page read moves it to documented. |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
Evidence (1)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | lighthouse.storage/pricing | 'Free ... Total Storage: 5 GB, IPFS: Yes, Filecoin: Yes'; 'Walrus ... Free ... Total Storage: 100 MB' |
More fields (1)
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"why": "Filecoin plans, Free: 'Total Storage: 5 GB' (IPFS + Filecoin). Walrus plans, Free: 'Total Storage: 100 MB'. Next tier is $12/month for 500 GB.",
"retry_when": null,
"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
}
}Unknown or withheld values (7)
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