pCloud
pcloud.com · Storage · 7 records · JSON
- pCloud Premium Plus 2 TB / Ultra 10 TB (lifetime) StoragecaveatcardcardR
- pCloud Ultra 10 TB StoragecaveatcardcardRper-ip-shaping
- pCloud PhotoDay2026 promo — 500 GB free for 3 months Storagetrialemailno cardR
- pcloud / koofr / icedrive / proton drive / mediafire / degoo Storagefails: identityemail?card?Rdisagrees
- pcloud lifetime Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R
- pCloud — lifetime plans (direct) Storagefails: quotaemailno cardRdisagrees
- pCloud Transfer Storagefails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
pCloud Ultra 10 TB Storage
caveatcardcardRper-ip-shaping
| Free tier | 10 TB storage; monthly $29.99 / annual $359.88 unit TB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | $2.999/TB/mo at 10 TB annual ($359.88/12). Monthly billing: $2.999/TB. Lifetime: €1499 one-time / 10 TB; at a 3-year horizon that is €4.16/TB/mo, at 5 years €2.50/TB/mo. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Egress | SHARED-LINK TRAFFIC IS METERED. Verbatim from pCloud's own blog (Sep 2026): 'Each pCloud plan comes with a predetermined amount of link traffic each month. As of September, 2026, it is double the amount of your paid storage … Ultra | 10 TB | 20 TB | 2×'. Non-link (own-client) transfers are not metered. |
| Identity | card card |
| Limits | 2× storage as monthly shared-link traffic; on exceed links are suspended until next month |
| Binding | per-ip-shaping one stream is shaped, and a user's throughput is the shaped rate times the number of streams |
| Interface | webdav, rclone WebDAV, rclone, API |
| Tooling | rclone; WebDAV |
| Composes with | WebDAV mount; lifetime plans available (2799→1499 EUR for 10 TB one-time on the pricing page) |
| Reliability | The 2× link-traffic rule is a genuine trap for serving: 10 TB stored → 20 TB/mo shared-link traffic, i.e. ~666 GB/day, which is just under the client's 500 GB-1 TiB/day serving band. It would work at the low end of serving and break at the top. |
| Notes | 10 TB storage; monthly $29.99 / annual $359.88 |
| Evidence rung | reported One page read moves it to documented. |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence (3)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | blog.pcloud.com/what-is-link-traffic/ | 'As of September, 2026, it is double the amount of your paid storage … Ultra | 10 TB | 20 TB | 2×'; 'If you hit this limit, your links get suspended until the next month' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.pcloud.com/de/cloud-storage-pricing-plans.html?period=mo | 'Ultra 10 TB … 29.99 USD … 359.88 USD / Jahr' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.pcloud.com/cloud-storage-pricing-plans.html | lifetime ladder 709 EUR→499 EUR (2 TB), 2799 EUR→1499 EUR (10 TB), one_time_payment |
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"price_verbatim": "$2.999/TB/mo at 10 TB annual ($359.88/12). Monthly billing: $2.999/TB. Lifetime: €1499 one-time / 10 TB; at a 3-year horizon that is €4.16/TB/mo, at 5 years €2.50/TB/mo."
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pCloud PhotoDay2026 promo — 500 GB free for 3 months Storage
trialemailno cardR
| Free tier | 500 GB free for 3 months, no card, via promo code PhotoDay2026 on a fresh signup. Base free tier is 10 GB.unit GB; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Egress | Same as pCloud paid — unrestricted transfer speeds, no per-GB meter. |
| Identity | email email |
| Binding | none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit |
| Interface | rest, rclone rest |
| Tooling | rclone backend pcloud — the trial grant is a normal quota bump, so rclone works unchanged against it. |
| Composes with | The grant repeats: a new email address creates a new account that holds a new 500 GB for 3 months. 4 grant cycles a year x N email addresses. 10 email addresses = 5 TB of rolling free capacity. The friction is re-uploading data each cycle and that rclone remotes must be re-authed per account. |
| Reliability | Highest-confidence repeatable trial found. It is a marketing code, not a security hole, so it is unlikely to be retroactively enforced; but pCloud can invalidate a code at any time. Verified the promo-redemption page is live; did not burn an account to confirm the grant lands. |
| Notes | 500 GB free for 3 months, no card, via promo code PhotoDay2026 on a fresh signup. Base free tier is 10 GB. |
| Evidence rung | reported One page read moves it to documented. |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
Evidence (3)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | onehack.st/t/pcloud-500gb-free-for-3-months-unlocked-by-one- | posted 2026-08-13, 'Register, hit the promo page and paste PhotoDay2026 ... 500GB of pCloud, free for three months. No card' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.pcloud.com/promo?code=3MONTHS500GB | live redemption page, 'Sign up for free and enter your promo code to activate it instantly', fetched 2026-10-21 |
| 2026-10-21 | www.toolnavia.com/zh-cn/coupons/pcloud | 'pCloud Premium 500 GB：免费3个月' (independent CN-language corroboration) |
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pcloud / koofr / icedrive / proton drive / mediafire / degoo Storage
fails: identityemail?card?Rdisagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
storage/pcloud-koofr-icedrive-proton-drive-mediafire-degoosays fails-identity, storage/pcloud-lifetime-plans says fails-quota
| Free tier | All six are wide-open on identity (email only, no card, no phone) and all six fail the 500 GB floor by 1-2 orders of magnitude: pCloud 10 GB, Koofr 10 GB (Briefcase plan, then 25 GB at EUR 0 unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not recorded |
| Retention | not recorded |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Binding | none the quota is real and unreachable: identity is the binding constraint, and it is not one of the six limits kinds |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
| Composes with | not recorded |
| Reliability | All six are wide-open on identity (email only, no card, no phone) and all six fail the 500 GB floor by 1-2 orders of magnitude: pCloud 10 GB, Koofr 10 GB (Briefcase plan, then 25 GB at EUR 0 |
| Notes | All six are wide-open on identity (email only, no card, no phone) and all six fail the 500 GB floor by 1-2 orders of magnitude: pCloud 10 GB, Koofr 10 GB (Briefcase plan, then 25 GB at EUR 0 |
| Evidence rung | reported |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
Evidence (3)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.pcloud.com/ | All six are wide-open on identity (email only, no card, no phone) and all six fail the 500 GB floor by 1-2 orders of magnitude: pCloud 10 GB, Koofr 10 GB (Briefcase plan, then 25 GB at EUR 0 |
| 2026-10-21 | koofr.eu/pricing/ | cited as the basis of the rejection: All six are wide-open on identity (email only, no card, no phone) and all six fail the 500 GB floor by 1-2 orders of magnitude: pCloud 10 GB, Koofr 10 GB (Briefcase plan, then 25 GB at EUR 0 |
| 2026-10-21 | icedrive.net/ | cited as the basis of the rejection: All six are wide-open on identity (email only, no card, no phone) and all six fail the 500 GB floor by 1-2 orders of magnitude: pCloud 10 GB, Koofr 10 GB (Briefcase plan, then 25 GB at EUR 0 |
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"retry_when": "if the registration gate opens to a foreign individual",
"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
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pcloud lifetime Storage
fails: quotaemail?card?R
| Free tier | Priced as a consumer photo product, not bulk storage: €1499 for 10 TB = €150/TB one-time, roughly 4x Drime's $36/TB lifetime and 15x Internxt's $10/TB. Encryption is a separate €150 purchase unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not recorded |
| Retention | not recorded |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Binding | none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
| Composes with | not recorded |
| Reliability | Priced as a consumer photo product, not bulk storage: €1499 for 10 TB = €150/TB one-time, roughly 4x Drime's $36/TB lifetime and 15x Internxt's $10/TB. Encryption is a separate €150 purchase |
| Notes | Priced as a consumer photo product, not bulk storage: €1499 for 10 TB = €150/TB one-time, roughly 4x Drime's $36/TB lifetime and 15x Internxt's $10/TB. Encryption is a separate €150 purchase |
| Evidence rung | reported |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
Evidence (2)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.pcloud.com/cloud-storage-pricing-plans.html | Priced as a consumer photo product, not bulk storage: €1499 for 10 TB = €150/TB one-time, roughly 4x Drime's $36/TB lifetime and 15x Internxt's $10/TB. Encryption is a separate €150 purchase |
| 2026-10-21 | shieldfive.com/resources/is-pcloud-lifetime-worth-it | cited as the basis of the rejection: Priced as a consumer photo product, not bulk storage: €1499 for 10 TB = €150/TB one-time, roughly 4x Drime's $36/TB lifetime and 15x Internxt's $10/TB. Encryption is a separate €150 purchase |
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pCloud — lifetime plans (direct) Storage
fails: quotaemailno cardRdisagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
storage/pcloud-koofr-icedrive-proton-drive-mediafire-degoosays fails-identity, storage/pcloud-lifetime-plans says fails-quota
| Free tier | 500 GB $219, 2 TB $499, 10 TB $1,499 one-time. Live as of 2026-10-17 per price audit; AppSumo listing sold out. unit TB; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | Longest-running lifetime seller (since 2013), 14-day refund — short window, upload real data inside week one (14 days) |
| Egress | 'Upload files of any size with unrestricted transfer speeds' — no egress meter quoted on pricing page. Traffic quotas exist on some tiers but not metered per-GB billing. |
| Identity | email email |
| Binding | none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit |
| Interface | rest, webdav, rclone rest |
| Tooling | rclone backend pcloud (long-standing, first-class). WebDAV also offered. |
| Composes with | $250/TB one-time at 2 TB, $150/TB at 10 TB. No account multiplication needed. Family plan 5 users on one quota is the only multiplier. |
| Reliability | Longest-running lifetime seller (since 2013), 14-day refund — short window, upload real data inside week one. Best-in-class survival odds among lifetime vendors. |
| Notes | 500 GB $219, 2 TB $499, 10 TB $1,499 one-time. Live as of 2026-10-17 per price audit; AppSumo listing sold out. |
| Evidence rung | reported One page read moves it to documented. |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
Evidence (3)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.dealkeep.io/blog/pcloud-lifetime-deal | 'checked 17 Oct 2026: 500 GB $219, 2 TB $499, 10 TB $1,499 sold direct with a 14-day refund' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.pcloud.com/cloud-storage-pricing-plans.html | live pricing page, fetched 2026-10-21 (JS price grid not in text extract; prices corroborated by the 2026-10-17 audit) |
| 2026-10-21 | slickdeals.net/f/18392425- | ... — 2025 deal thread now marked 'expired'; the 2026-05 thread f/19491207 is the current one |
More fields (1)
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pCloud Transfer Storage
fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
| Free tier | 5 GB per transfer, no registration; 200 MB per single file via the web uploader. unit GB; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | 200 MB per single file (200000000 bytes) |
| Retention | not stated |
| Egress | Free, but 5 GB total per transfer and short retention. |
| Identity | institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: ymous transfer product is a funnel for pCloud accounts; no API for the transfer path. 5 GB x unlimited transfers, expiring. 200 MB/file on the web path is the real blocker for bulk a |
| Limits |
per-object-cap 5 GB per transfer and 200 MB per single file; retention not stated on the page I read (unverified). |
| 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 |
| Interface | unknown web-only for Transfer (pCloud Drive itself has an API, but that is a separate 10 GB account product) |
| Tooling | none for Transfer; pCloud Drive has an API but a different quota |
| Composes with | 5 GB x unlimited transfers, expiring. 200 MB/file on the web path is the real blocker for bulk archives. |
| Reliability | Anonymous transfer product is a funnel for pCloud accounts; no API for the transfer path. |
| Notes | 5 GB per transfer, no registration; 200 MB per single file via the web uploader. |
| Evidence rung | reported One page read moves it to documented. |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
| Parsed numbers |
|
Evidence (1)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | transfer.pcloud.com/ | 'Send up to 5GB Free. No need to register.', 'Up to 200MB per single file' |
More fields (1)
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