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Synapse (Sage Bionetworks) Storage

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Free tier	No clear public storage cap found. Platform is free SaaS on S3; documented pain point is a '1GB per day' quota on modelState (compute artifacts), not on file storage. unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	per-object-cap: none documented for plain files; 1 GB/day on modelState. Retention: indefinite for public content
Egress	Free to download for public projects; anonymous download of public entities is supported.
Identity	anonymous derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: te: upload requires 'certified user' status (a quiz), so no anonymous write path exists. academic
Limits	per-ip-shaping 1GB per day source per-ip-shaping 1 GB/day source per-object-cap: none documented for plain files; 1 GB/day on modelState. Retention: indefinite for public content. Gate: upload requires 'certified user' status (a quiz), so no anonymous write path exists.
Binding	per-ip-shaping one stream is shaped, and a user's throughput is the shaped rate times the number of streams
Interface	s3, rest, oci rest
Tooling	Python/Java/R clients (`synapseclient`), REST API, and a built-in Docker registry. Also supports custom storage locations (your own S3/GCS) — which makes it a metadata layer over someone else's bucket rather than storage itself.
Composes with	Unlimited projects per certified user. The interesting chain is the inverse: point Synapse at a custom S3/GCS location and you get a free DOI-style sharing and permissions layer over any bucket you already have.
Reliability	Certification gate plus no published quota means capacity is discretionary; large uploads are known to be throttled/queued without a documented ceiling. Treat quota as unverified.
Notes	No clear public storage cap found. Platform is free SaaS on S3; documented pain point is a '1GB per day' quota on modelState (compute artifacts), not on file storage.
Evidence rung	inferred One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-20
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-ip-shaping 1.0 GB / day `$.limits[1].value` limit:per-ip-shaping 1.0 GB / day

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	docs.synapse.org/synapse-docs/uploading-and-organizing-data	'you need to be a certified user', S3-backed, no quota stated
2026-10-21	docs.synapse.org/synapse-docs/custom-storage-locations	files can live in your own S3/GCS bucket, Synapse keeps metadata
2026-10-21	www.synapse.org/Synapse:syn4224222/discussion/threadId=1648	'Model State exceeded 1GB per day quota'

Unknown or withheld values (4)

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

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