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Maven Central (Sonatype Central Portal) - post-2026 publishing limits Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R

maven central as bulk storage Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

central.sonatype.org/publish/maven-central-publishing-limits · rejected-provider · storage/maven-central-as-bulk-storage · JSON · compare

Free tier	Still no total-storage cap, but 2026 monthly per-organization publishing thresholds (~78 MB release size at p90, ~1.8 GB at p99) plus a commercial-nature gate from 2026-10-01 make sustained 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	Still no total-storage cap, but 2026 monthly per-organization publishing thresholds (~78 MB release size at p90, ~1.8 GB at p99) plus a commercial-nature gate from 2026-10-01 make sustained
Notes	Still no total-storage cap, but 2026 monthly per-organization publishing thresholds (~78 MB release size at p90, ~1.8 GB at p99) plus a commercial-nature gate from 2026-10-01 make sustained
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	central.sonatype.org/publish/maven-central-publishing-limits	Still no total-storage cap, but 2026 monthly per-organization publishing thresholds (~78 MB release size at p90, ~1.8 GB at p99) plus a commercial-nature gate from 2026-10-01 make sustained

More fields (1)

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  "why": "Still no total-storage cap, but 2026 monthly per-organization publishing thresholds (~78 MB release size at p90, ~1.8 GB at p99) plus a commercial-nature gate from 2026-10-01 make sustained",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
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Maven Central (Sonatype Central Portal) - post-2026 publishing limits Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

central.sonatype.org · registry · storage/maven-central-post-2026-publishing-limits · JSON · compare

Free tier	Maven Central introduced hard monthly publishing limits per organization in 2026. Three independent metrics: file count, release size, release count, evaluated as hard thresholds against the current calendar month, with a 30-day grace period on first breach (resets after 2 consecutive below-limit months). Thresholds are set near the top-10% of publishers; the published distribution table gives 90th percentile = 1,167 files / 78 MB release size / 7 releases per month, 99th = 17,724 / 1,808 MB / 50. Separately, from 2026-10-01, any artifact with a 'commercial nature' requires a paid Publisher Pro subscription regardless of volume. unit objects; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	Three independent metrics: file count, release size, release count, evaluated as hard thresholds against the current calendar month, with a 30-day grace period on first breach (resets after 2 consecutive below-limit months) (30 days)
Egress	Free and effectively unmetered for consumers - repo1.maven.org is a heavyweight CDN. Publishing is what is metered, not download.
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	rest, rclone rest
Tooling	`mvn deploy` / central-publishing-maven-plugin, `gradle` publishing, `curl` to the Central Portal API, and plain HTTPS Maven-layout GETs from repo1.maven.org. No rclone backend.
Composes with	unlimited namespaces/group-ids x unlimited organizations x (monthly release-size threshold, ~78 MB at p90, ~1.8 GB at p99). Because limits are per organization per month and reset monthly, an organization publishing 1.8 GB/month sustained is ~21.6 GB/year - three orders of magnitude short of 20 TiB. Multiplying by many free organizations multiplies the account surface, not the rate, and every org has the same monthly reset.
Reliability	The 2026 change is the important signal for the whole niche: the largest free package registry concluded that '10% of namespaces accounted for more than 88% of all files published' and moved to hard monthly thresholds plus a commercial-use gate. Any plan that treats a public registry as a bulk blob store is now rate-limited at ~GB/month/org, not capped at a total. Already partly covered in round 1 C-C2; the exact thresholds table and the commercial-nature gate are new.
Notes	Maven Central introduced hard monthly publishing limits per organization in 2026. Three independent metrics: file count, release size, release count, evaluated as hard thresholds against the current calendar month, with a 30-day grace period on first breach (resets after 2 consecutive below-limit months). Thresholds are set near the top-10% of publishers; the published distribution table gives 90th percentile = 1,167 files / 78 MB release size / 7 releases per month, 99th = 17,724 / 1,808 MB / 50. Separately, from 2026-10-01, any artifact with a 'commercial nature' requires a paid Publisher Pro subscription regardless of volume.
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	central.sonatype.org/publish/maven-central-publishing-limits	'These limits are evaluated as hard thresholds against an organization's usage during the current calendar month'; percentile table (p90: 1,167 files / 78 MB / 7 releases; p99: 17,724 / 1,808 MB / 50)
2026-10-21	withheld	same page - '30-day grace period rather than immediate enforcement'; 'Commercial-nature artifacts require Maven Central Publisher Pro from October 1, 2026'
2026-10-21	withheld	same page - 'Public artifacts already published to Maven Central remain available for download.'
2026-10-21	repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/jetbrains/kotlin/kotlin-compiler/	probe: GET -> 200, 60,219,212 bytes, application/java-archive

More fields (1)

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  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Maven Central introduced hard monthly *publishing* limits per organization in 2026. Three independent metrics: file count, release size, release count, evaluated as hard thresholds against the current calendar month, with a 30-day grace period on first breach (resets after 2 consecutive below-limit months). Thresholds are set near the top-10% of publishers; the published distribution table gives 90th percentile = 1,167 files / 78 MB release size / 7 releases per month, 99th = 17,724 / 1,808 MB / 50. Separately, from 2026-10-01, any artifact with a 'commercial nature' requires a paid Publisher Pro subscription regardless of volume.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

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