Microsoft Teams (free / personal)
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
storage/microsoft-teamssays 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
- Free allowance
- 5 GB free per person for files in Teams for personal use; images/videos explicitly do not count and have no storage limit; files land in the 'Microsoft Teams Chat Files' folder in the user's OneDrive.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- 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 | 5 GB free per person for files in Teams for personal use; images/videos explicitly do not count and have no storage limit; files land in the 'Microsoft Teams Chat Files' folder in the user's OneDrive. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | Unmetered; share links resolve to OneDrive direct URLs. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest, graph, rclone rest |
| Tooling | Graph API chatMessageHostedContent + driveItem; no rclone backend for Teams specifically (use the onedrive remote pointing at the Chat Files folder) |
| Composes with | Effectively OneDrive consumer's 5 GB wearing a different hat - Teams free files ARE OneDrive files, so this is not a second quota. The one genuine loophole claim on the page is 'Images and videos are not saved on OneDrive and don't have a storage limit' - unverified whether that means arbitrary files can be smuggled as media. |
| Reliability | Leaving a community does not revoke other members' access; deleting the 5 GB block blocks attaches but not history. |
Evidence 2
| 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' |
| 2026-10-21 | support.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/restrictions-and-limita | 'Individual files | 250 GB' |
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