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Packagecloud.io — Free plan Storage

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packagecloud.io/pricing/ · registry · storage/packagecloud-io-free-plan · JSON · compare

Free tier	2 GB storage + 10 GB bandwidth per month, unlimited repositories and unlimited CI/CD minutes. Private repositories are no longer usable on the free plan (restricted since 7 Sep 2023), so the free tier is effectively public-repo only. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	10 GB/month of download bandwidth; overage is $1.50/GB on paid plans and the account is disabled at the 'maximum overage amount' setting — so on Free it is a hard wall. free_allowance: 10 GB per month
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Limits	per-ip-shaping bandwidth per month, unlimited repositories and unlimited CI/CD minutes source 2 GB storage (high-water mark, so delete-then-reupload does not refund within a period); 10 GB/month bandwidth; private repos gated; packages over 2.6 GB are a paid-plan feature; bandwidth metered from request logs, HEAD/conditional GETs excluded.
Binding	per-ip-shaping one stream is shaped, and a user's throughput is the shaped rate times the number of streams
Interface	rest, cli rest (packagecloud API), native apt/yum/ruby/pypi/npm clients via packagecloud.io/install/repositories/...
Tooling	packagecloud CLI (`packagecloud push`), `curl -X POST` to the API, setup scripts for apt/yum; public repos pull anonymously.
Composes with	Unlimited repositories per account, but storage and bandwidth are account-level watermarks ('high watermark for any given billing period'), so N repos do not multiply the 2 GB. Only N accounts would.
Reliability	Stable hosted service; the 2023 change that cut private repos off the free plan shows the free tier is a moving target.
Notes	2 GB storage + 10 GB bandwidth per month, unlimited repositories and unlimited CI/CD minutes. Private repositories are no longer usable on the free plan (restricted since 7 Sep 2023), so the free tier is effectively public-repo only.
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	packagecloud.io/pricing/	read live (firecrawl render): 'Free ... 10 GB bandwidth ... 2 GB storage ... Unlimited CI/CD Minutes'; comparison table shows 'Unlimited repositories', 'Public repositories' ticked, 'Private repositories' and 'Package sizes > 2.6 GB' as paid
2026-10-21	packagecloud.io/pricing/faq/	read live: 'if you upload 100GB of packages, and delete 90GB of them, you'll still have used 100GB for that billing period' (high-water mark)
2026-10-21	blog.packagecloud.io/packagecloud-private-repositories-on-th	read live: free-plan private repos got 402s from 7 Sep 2023
2026-10-21	packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/config_f	probe: GET -> 200 (anonymous public-repo read)

More fields (1)

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