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Podbean — Basic Free plan Storage

fails: quotacountry-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-cap

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Free tier	5 hours / 500 MB TOTAL, not monthly: 'Total storage: 5 hours (500MB). Note: Storage does not reset monthly.' Help centre adds: 'The total file size should not exceed 500MB' and 'The total length of the file should not exceed 5 hours' — both accumulate and block further uploads when either is hit. unit MB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	file size should not exceed 500MB (500000000 bytes)
Retention	not stated
Egress	100 GB per month on Free ('Monthly bandwidth: 100GB'), unmetered beyond that in the sense of no per-GB charge but the account stalls at the cap. Paid Unlimited Audio ($12/mo) is 'Unmetered bandwidth'. free_allowance: 100 GB per month
Identity	country-phone derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: ent-Range 0-1023/73948726; declared length 73948726 for a 3081 s episode = 191,988 bps, i.e. exactly 192 kbps CBR, and the ID3 tag names Lavf60.16.1 (ffmpeg) as the encoder. The uplo
Limits	per-object-cap file size should not exceed 500MB source 3 episodes/day; 100 MB single file on Free (3 GB on paid); RSS feed exposes only the most recent 20 episodes on Free; formats on Free are MP3 and M4A only (paid adds ogg/zip/pdf/pptx/docx/xml — note zip is a paid-plan format, so Free cannot take archives at all).
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	rest rest
Tooling	No public upload API on Free (Podbean developer docs exist for read/embed; upload is dashboard). Migration-in by RSS is one click and is explicitly free, which is a heavier hammer than a per-episode upload.
Composes with	5 hours / 500 MB per free account, 100 GB/mo bandwidth. At ~128 kbps that is ~9 hours of audio; at 500 MB hard cap the file-size ceiling bites first for anything lossless. Genuinely small — only interesting multiplied across many accounts, and each account needs an email + verification.
Reliability	Likely re-encodes. Verified live: enclosure https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/rhvxkzpmimms9sf5/riverside_....mp3 -> 302 -> 206, Content-Range 0-1023/73948726; declared length 73948726 for a 3081 s episode = 191,988 bps, i.e. exactly 192 kbps CBR, and the ID3 tag names Lavf60.16.1 (ffmpeg) as the encoder. The upload was a 'riverside_..._processed.mp3' (Riverside's own processed export, normally 128 kbps), so 192k suggests Podbean re-encoded upward rather than storing as-is — unverified without an account, but the ffmpeg stamp plus exact CBR strongly implies server-side processing.
Notes	5 hours / 500 MB TOTAL, not monthly: 'Total storage: 5 hours (500MB). Note: Storage does not reset monthly.' Help centre adds: 'The total file size should not exceed 500MB' and 'The total length of the file should not exceed 5 hours' — both accumulate and block further uploads when either is hit.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-object-cap 500.0 MB

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	help.podbean.com/support/solutions/articles/25000019893-basi	'Total storage: 5 hours (500MB)'; 'Storage does not reset monthly'; 'Monthly bandwidth: 100GB'; 'Maximum of 3 episodes ... per day'; 'Single file size limit: 100MB'; 'Displays up to 20 episodes in the RSS feed'
2026-10-21	podbean.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/25000029110	'The total file size should not exceed 500MB'; 'Total file length = actual used length + estimated length < 18000 seconds'
2026-10-21	help.podbean.com/support/solutions/articles/25000005097-podb	'Free plan: mp3, m4a'; 'The maximum allowed single file size: 3GB' (paid)
2026-10-21	withheld	probe: GET feed.podbean.com/jmonken/feed.xml -> 200; enclosure mcdn.podbean.com -> 302 -> 206, 73,948,726 bytes for 3081 s = 192 kbps, ID3 TSSE 'Lavf60.16.1'

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "5 hours / 500 MB TOTAL, not monthly: 'Total storage: 5 hours (500MB). Note: Storage does not reset monthly.' Help centre adds: 'The total file size should not exceed 500MB' and 'The total length of the file should not exceed 5 hours' — both accumulate and block further uploads when either is hit.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (6)

$.evidence[3].url private-url
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted