Azure DevOps Artifacts (Universal Packages)

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/reference/lPaaSstorage/azure-devops-artifactsJSON compare report an error provider JSON

Sibling records disagree:

identity_kind: storage/azure-devops-artifacts says card, storage/azure-devops-artifacts-2 says email

Free allowance: 2 GiB free storage per organization; Universal Packages up to 4 TiB per file.
Verdict: fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
Cost: free tier
Identity: cardcard required, no phone
Binding limit: per-object-cap4 TiB per file; 500 MiB per file
Evidence: reported2 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05

Free tier	2 GiB free storage per organization; Universal Packages up to 4 TiB per file. unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Limits	per-object-cap (binding) 4 TiB per file source per-object-cap (binding) 500 MiB per file source Hard 2 GiB per org; publishing is blocked at the cap until you delete packages or enable pay-go billing ($0.25-$2/GB/mo tiers). 500 MiB per file for NuGet/npm/Maven/Python/Cargo.
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
Identity	card not published
Egress	Unmetered for restore (ADO has no egress meter).
Per-object cap	4 TiB per file (4398046511104 bytes)
Retention	\| Hard 2 GiB per org; publishing is blocked at the cap until you delete packages or enable pay-go billing ($0.25-$2/GB/mo tiers)
Interface	rest rest
Tooling	az artifacts universal publish/download, nuget/npm/maven/python clients; Universal Packages are the only type that lets you push a multi-TiB blob
Composes with	2 GiB x unlimited orgs - but only 2 GiB per org and each org needs an Azure subscription to create. The interesting number is the 4 TiB per-file ceiling, which is moot at 2 GiB of pool.
Reliability	At the 2 GiB cap, 'you won't be able to publish new packages' - hard stop, no grace.
Parsed numbers	per-object-cap 4 TiB per-object-cap 500 MiB

Evidence 2

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/reference/l	'Azure Artifacts provides 2 GiB of free storage per organization'; 'Universal Packages \| 4 TiB'; 'When your organization reaches the 2 GiB free-tier storage limit, you won't be able to publish new packages'
2026-10-21	azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/devops/azure-devop	'First 2 GiB free'; '0 - 2 GiB = Free; 2 - 10 GiB = $2 per GiB'

More fields 1

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "2 GiB free storage per organization; Universal Packages up to 4 TiB per file.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown values 3

$.identity_cost.detail boilerplate
$.per_object_cap.notes the field may be stated in a source that was not read
$.retention.notes the field may be stated in a source that was not read