Microsoft Teams (free / personal) - Gallery & Media uploads
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
storage/microsoft-teamssays email, storage/microsoft-teams-gallery-media-uploads says institution - identity_kind:
storage/microsoft-teams-freesays email, storage/microsoft-teams-gallery-media-uploads says institution - verdict:
storage/microsoft-teamssays fails-quota, storage/microsoft-teams-gallery-media-uploads says qualifies-with-caveat - verdict:
storage/microsoft-teams-freesays fails-quota, storage/microsoft-teams-gallery-media-uploads says qualifies-with-caveat
- Free allowance
- 5 GB OneDrive-backed file storage per user, BUT images and videos uploaded via Gallery/Media are explicitly NOT stored in OneDrive and have no storage limit
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap100 MB per file
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 5 GB OneDrive-backed file storage per user, BUT images and videos uploaded via Gallery/Media are explicitly NOT stored in OneDrive and have no storage limit unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
250 GB max per individual file in OneDrive (personal); 100 MB per file in the Teams channel Files UI; media path takes images/video only, no arbitrary binaries; chat history limits are separate from file limits |
| 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 | institution not published |
| Egress | Free; media served from Microsoft's CDN, chat-attached files via OneDrive share links |
| Per-object cap | 100 MB per file (100000000 bytes) |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest, graph rest |
| Tooling | No public Teams-free file API; attachments land in OneDrive, so Graph API against the backing OneDrive is the usable path. Wrapper-only for the media path. |
| Composes with | 5 GB x unlimited free Microsoft accounts (OneDrive-backed); separately the media path is per-record unlimited - 'share as many photos and videos as you want' - which is the interesting half: an image/video album with no byte cap, multiplied by unlimited free accounts. |
| Reliability | The media path has no documented retention guarantee and no API - it is UI-only, so it is a manual archive at best; the 5 GB OneDrive ceiling hits almost immediately. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | support.microsoft.com/en-us/teams/free/troubleshoot/where-is | 'The amount of free storage... is 5 GB. Images and videos are not saved on OneDrive and don't have a storage limit. You can share as many photos and videos as you want.' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/free | '5 GB of cloud storage per user' (free) vs '1 TB of cloud storage per user' (paid) |
| 2026-10-21 | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specificatio | 'File upload limit (per file) | 250 GB'; SharePoint-backed 'Up to 25 TB per site or group' on licensed plans |
Unknown values 4
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