MEGA

mega.io · Storage · 3 records · JSON

MEGA S4 (object storage) Storage★ qualifiesemailno cardR
MEGA Storagecaveatemail?card?Rretention-clamped
mega pro i/ii/iii as a per-tb play Storagedeademail?card?R

MEGA S4 (object storage) Storage

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mega.io/objectstorage · S3-compatible object storage, pay-as-you-grow · storage/mega-s4 · JSON · compare

Free tier	No upper limit. Base 3 TB included from EUR 15/mo; EUR 3.50 per additional TB. unit TB; metered on unstated
Price	$4.94/TB at 5 TB (EUR 22.00 = $24.71); $4.18/TB at 20 TB (EUR 74.50 = $83.69)
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Verbatim: '5x free egress, no API charges and no minimum storage period.' Vendor clarifies elsewhere: 'MEGA S4 allows up to 5x of the average monthly stored data as free egress.' At 20 TB stored that is ~100 TB/mo of free egress — covers the client's 1 TB/day serving load 3x over. free_allowance: 100 TB per month
Identity	email email
Binding	none no constraint in the record binds at this scale; the record carries no limit of a kind the vocabulary names
Interface	s3-compatible, rclone, cli S3-compatible (SigV4). Endpoint probed live: https://s3.eu-amsterdam-1.megas4.com/ returns HTTP 400 with {Code:InvalidRequest, Message:'Please use AWS Signature Version 4 for authentication'} — a real, correctly-implemented S3 endpoint, not a marketing page.
Tooling	rclone (first-party guide), AWS CLI, Synology Hyper Backup, TrueNAS, Duplicacy, MSP360, Cyberduck, Terraform
Composes with	Native S3 -> any S3 client; first-party Cloudflare CDN guide documented at help.mega.io/megas4/setup-guides/cloudflare-setup-guide-for-mega-s4
Reliability	MEGA has run since 2013; S4 is a newer product line (2025) so the durability record on S4 itself is short. Brand-level: no mass data-loss event. Note the 2013 MEGA breach was credential/architecture, not storage loss.
Notes	No upper limit. Base 3 TB included from EUR 15/mo; EUR 3.50 per additional TB.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.price_per_tb_month` price-per-tb USD83.69 TB / month

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	mega.io/objectstorage	'EUR 3.50 per TB a month on our pay-as-you-grow plan, with 3 TB included from EUR 15. 5x free egress, no API charges and no minimum storage period.'
2026-10-21	s3.eu-amsterdam-1.megas4.com/	HTTP 400 SigV4 error, endpoint live
2026-10-21	help.mega.io/megas4/setup-guides/rclone-setup-guide-for-mega	first-party rclone guide
2026-10-21	mega.io/objectstorage/developer-automation-storage	'MEGA S4 allows up to 5x of the average monthly stored data as free egress'

More fields (1)

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}

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MEGA Storage

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mega.io/ · cloud-drive · storage/mega · JSON · compare

Free tier	20 GB free at signup, plus stacking achievements of 5 GB each (desktop app, mobile app, per invite, VPN trial, Pass trial) valid 365 days unit GB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	Achievements expire after 365 days (365 days)
Egress	Not metered per GB, but free/non-account downloads are throttled by a transfer quota computed on your IP over the past six hours. Paid users are metered per account instead and can grant a slice of their quota to link downloaders (25% default).
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Limits	per-ip-shaping 1 TiB/day source retention-clamped expire after 365 days source write-gated invite, VPN trial, Pass trial) valid 365 days Transfer quota is per-IP over 6 h on fre source Transfer quota is per-IP over 6 h on free accounts — this is the real blocker for 500 GB-1 TiB/day serving, because one IP's allowance throttles before the volume is reached. Achievements expire after 365 days. Zero-knowledge encryption means every client re-encrypts.
Binding	retention-clamped a clock, not a quota: bytes leave whether or not the client is finished with them
Interface	s3-compatible, rest, rclone, cli rest
Tooling	Native rclone backend 'mega' (Tier 2, v1.41+); official MEGAcmd CLI; MEGA S4 (S3-compatible) is the paid object store.
Composes with	20 GB + N x 5 GB achievements per account, x unlimited free accounts. Achievement bonuses are per-account and do NOT compound within one account beyond one of each, so the multiplication is accounts, not achievements.
Reliability	Does not lose data; throttles hard per IP and per link. Accounts with no login for ~3 months are at risk of quota cuts.
Notes	20 GB free at signup, plus stacking achievements of 5 GB each (desktop app, mobile app, per invite, VPN trial, Pass trial) valid 365 days
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-ip-shaping 1.0 TiB / day

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	mega.io/storage	'Get 20 GB free storage with MEGA's secure encrypted cloud storage' (meta description) and body 'MEGA offers 20 GB of free storage'
2026-10-21	mega.io/achievements	(archive 20260215) — 'Get 5 GB of free storage when you install our MEGA app... Valid for 365 days' for each of desktop, mobile, invite, VPN trial, Pass trial; 'Achievement bonuses stack'
2026-10-21	help.mega.io/plans-storage/space-storage/transfer-quota	(archive 20250519) — 'For free account holders or non-MEGA users... The limit is based on the amount of data downloaded from your IP address over the past six hours.'
2026-10-21	rclone.org/mega/	native Mega backend, Tier 2

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mega pro i/ii/iii as a per-tb play Storage

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mega.io/pricing · rejected-provider · storage/mega-pro-i-ii-iii-as-a-per-tb-play · JSON · compare

Free tier	Not a dead end as a product, but it LOSES to MEGA's own S4 line and to Jottacloud on this metric. Pro III is 16 TB for EUR 29.99/mo, and MEGA's own comparison strip advertises 'MEGA 1.25* pe 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	Not a dead end as a product, but it LOSES to MEGA's own S4 line and to Jottacloud on this metric. Pro III is 16 TB for EUR 29.99/mo, and MEGA's own comparison strip advertises 'MEGA 1.25* pe
Notes	Not a dead end as a product, but it LOSES to MEGA's own S4 line and to Jottacloud on this metric. Pro III is 16 TB for EUR 29.99/mo, and MEGA's own comparison strip advertises 'MEGA 1.25* pe
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	mega.io/pricing	Not a dead end as a product, but it LOSES to MEGA's own S4 line and to Jottacloud on this metric. Pro III is 16 TB for EUR 29.99/mo, and MEGA's own comparison strip advertises 'MEGA 1.25* pe
2026-10-21	www.capterra.com/p/232384/MEGA/pricing/	cited as the basis of the rejection: Not a dead end as a product, but it LOSES to MEGA's own S4 line and to Jottacloud on this metric. Pro III is 16 TB for EUR 29.99/mo, and MEGA's own comparison strip advertises 'MEGA 1.25* pe

More fields (1)

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