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Mixcloud — Basic tier (unlimited drafts) Storage

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Free tier10 published shows (>15 min) + 10 published tracks (<=15 min). But: 'there's currently no limit to the number of uploads you can have in your drafts' — drafts are uploaded, stored, and private. That is the actual finding: published storage is capped at 20 items, unpublished storage is uncapped.
unit objects; metered on stored-bytes
Pricenone stated
Per-object cap4 GB ceiling (4000000000 bytes)
Retentionnot stated
EgressFree streaming for listeners; no egress charge to the creator, but drafts are not publicly downloadable at all, so 'egress' is the wrong axis — a draft has no delivery surface.
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Limits
  • per-object-cap 4 GB ceiling source
4 GB max per show file; shows must be >15 min, tracks <=15 min (so the 4 GB ceiling only applies to long files); 10 published shows + 10 published tracks; RSS-fed podcasts also count toward the 10-show cap ('only the 10 most recent shows will display').
Bindingper-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
Interfacerclone wrapper-only
ToolingNo public API. Desktop-only upload for tracks ('only available through the desktop platform and not the Mixcloud app'); shows upload from web. No rclone backend, no client library found.
Composes withUnlimited drafts x 4 GB per show x N free accounts. Whether drafts are garbage-collected is not stated — the FAQ only says previous uploads are not deleted when you exceed the publish cap, which is a different promise from 'drafts are kept forever'.
ReliabilityMixcloud is a streaming platform: shows are transcoded for playback and there is no original-file download link on Basic. Drafts are inaccessible to anyone but the uploader, which means they are storage but not retrieval — a draft is only recoverable by publishing it, and publishing consumes one of the 10 slots.
Notes10 published shows (>15 min) + 10 published tracks (<=15 min). But: 'there's currently no limit to the number of uploads you can have in your drafts' — drafts are uploaded, stored, and private. That is the actual finding: published storage is capped at 20 items, unpublished storage is uncapped.
Evidence rungreported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[0].value limit:per-object-cap 4.0 GB
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21help.mixcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/6617808567708-FAQ-Publis'Creators on the basic tier can have a total of 10 published shows (over 15 minutes long), and 10 published tracks'; 'we won't delete your previous uploads, and there's currently no limit to the number of uploads you can have in your drafts'
2026-10-21help.mixcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005918580-How-do-I-up'Choose a file over 15 minutes in length (max 4GB)'; 'Lossless and lossy formats are supported ... WAV, AIFF, FLAC or AAC, OGG, M4A, MP2, MP3 and WMA'
Unknown or withheld values (6)
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.identity_cost.detail defaulted
  • $.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.stated not-extracted