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NuGet.org Storage

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Free tier	250 MB per package. No documented total-storage quota and no documented cap on package count per account; organizations are free. Over 500k packages / petabytes-scale gallery in practice. unit MB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Free and unmetered, Cloudflare-fronted, CORS-open. Probe: api.nuget.org v3-flatcontainer .nupkg GET -> 200, Server: cloudflare, Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, Cache-Control: max-age=86400.
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: has to be planned up front. 250 MB per package (hard 413). API rate limited (429 + Retry-After). Deleting a package is strongly discouraged and effectively unsupported ('In general,
Binding	none no constraint in the record binds at this scale; the record carries no limit of a kind the vocabulary names
Interface	rest rest
Tooling	Push via PUT/POST to the v2 endpoint (nuget.exe / dotnet nuget push); pull via the v3 flat-container URL pattern api.nuget.org/v3-flatcontainer/{id}/{version}/{id}.{version}.nupkg. First-class clients, anonymous read.
Composes with	UNBOUNDED in principle: unlimited packages x 250 MB. 10 TiB = ~44,000 packages. Rate limits are the binding constraint (HTTP 429 with Retry-After). Package IDs are globally unique per version and cannot be reused, so name-sharding has to be planned up front.
Reliability	No deletion path means data does not vanish — good for archive. No total quota documented means no hard ceiling appears anywhere, but also no documented guarantee; a bulk workload has no stated allowance to point at. 429s on sustained pushes.
Notes	250 MB per package. No documented total-storage quota and no documented cap on package count per account; organizations are free. Over 500k packages / petabytes-scale gallery in practice.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/nuget-org/publish-a-package	'Nuget.org has a package size limit of about 250 MB' + the 413 error text
2026-10-21	learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/nuget-org/nuget-org-faq	'NuGet.org allows packages up to 250MB'; 'In general, we do not support deleting a package published to NuGet.org'
2026-10-21	learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/api/rate-limits	429 with 'Rate limit is exceeded. Try again in N seconds.'
2026-10-21	api.nuget.org/v3-flatcontainer/newtonsoft.json/13.0.3/newton	probe: GET -> 200, Content-Length: 2441966, Server: cloudflare

Unknown or withheld values (5)

$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted

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