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VK Video

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VK Video (video hosting as bulk store) Storage

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vk.com/video · media · storage/vk-video · JSON · compare

Free tierup to 256 GB per single uploaded file; no per-account total published on the page read
unit GB; metered on unstated
Pricenone stated
Per-object cap256 GB per single upload (256000000000 bytes)
Retentionnot stated
Egressfree to viewers — playback is served from VK's own streaming CDN, no per-GB charge to the uploader
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Limits
  • per-object-cap 256 GB per single upload source
256 GB single file; video must be a real playable video container (arbitrary bytes only survive if 'original file download' is enabled by the uploader); retrieval goes through the player/extractor path
Bindingper-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
Interfaceunknown wrapper-only
Toolingyt-dlp VK extractor (yt_dlp/extractor/vk.py) for retrieval; VK API video.save / video upload for pushing files
Composes withper-record, not per-account: 256 GB per upload x unlimited videos on one account. 20 TiB archive = ~80 videos at the per-file cap. Shards by file, so it multiplies without new identities.
ReliabilityUploaded media may be transcoded; non-video payloads die on transcode; VK periodically changes the playback protocol and breaks yt-dlp (yt-dlp issues 16070/11715 track exactly this churn), and content can be removed for complaints.
Notesup to 256 GB per single uploaded file; no per-account total published on the page read
Evidence rungreported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[0].value limit:per-object-cap 256.0 GB
Evidence (3)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21vk.com/press/new-video'Видео ВКонтакте теперь поддерживает загрузку «тяжёлых» файлов размером до 256 Гбайт'
2026-10-21github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/yt_dlp/extractor/vk.pymaintained VK extractor (working retrieval client)
2026-10-21github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16070'[VK Video] supposedly updated protocol inhibits downloads' (retrieval breaks periodically)
Unknown or withheld values (7)
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.identity_cost.detail defaulted
  • $.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.stated not-extracted