Storacha

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Storacha (successor to web3.storage) Storage

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Free tier	No longer offered — the developer upload and IPFS service was shut down. Was 5 GB free at launch (2025-05); the old web3.storage 1 TB free plan did not survive into Storacha. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	N/A — service closed. w3s.link, the Storacha/web3.storage gateway, now 301-redirects to dweb.link, which returns 429 with Retry-After: 900.
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, cli rest
Tooling	Previously @storacha/client, UCAN-based; CLI 'w3'. Repos remain but the hosted service is gone.
Composes with	none — dead.
Reliability	Data-loss event, not a throttle: the team joined Filecoin Foundation and the upload service shut down. The successor for the same shape is Fil One (S3, 1 TB free for 30 days = trial) and Filecoin Onchain Cloud / Filecoin Pin (paid per TiB).
Notes	No longer offered — the developer upload and IPFS service was shut down. Was 5 GB free at launch (2025-05); the old web3.storage 1 TB free plan did not survive into Storacha.
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	medium.com/@storacha/an-update-on-storacha-and-important-new	(2026-04-03) — 'The Storacha developer upload and IPFS service, however, will be shutting down.' 'you will have to move it — by the end of May at the very latest.'
2026-10-21	medium.com/@storacha/you-can-get-started-with-5gb-for-free-e	(2025-05-27) — 'You can get started with 5GB for free!'
2026-10-21	w3s.link/ipfs/bafybei...5u4	probe: GET -> 301 Location: https://dweb.link/... -> 429 Retry-After 900

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "dead-service",
  "why": "No longer offered — the developer upload and IPFS service was shut down. Was 5 GB free at launch (2025-05); the old web3.storage 1 TB free plan did not survive into Storacha.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (8)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted