Walrus Console

walrus.xyz · Storage · 2 records · JSON

Walrus Storagefails: quotacardcardR
Walrus Console (Walrus Foundation, Oct 2026 launch) Storagefails: quotaemailno cardR

Walrus Storage

fails: quotacardcardR

walrus.xyz · p2p · storage/walrus · JSON · compare

Free tier	No free tier on the network itself: $0.023/GB/month, billed on encoded size, which is 'about 4.5x the original blob plus a fixed 64 MB of per-blob metadata'. Lighthouse resells Walrus with a 100 MB free plan. unit GB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	No published free egress allowance; reads are served by Walrus storage nodes and aggregators. Cost is denominated in WAL + SUI gas per operation, so there is no 'free' path at all.
Identity	card derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: No free tier on the network itself: $0.023/GB/month, billed on encoded size, which is 'about 4.5x the original blob plus a fixed 64 MB of per-blob metadata'
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	walrus CLI, TypeScript SDK, HTTP aggregator/publisher endpoints; Lighthouse wraps it as an IPFS-compatible layer.
Composes with	none — paid per GB-month with a 4.5x encoding tax. 500 GB of real data costs like 2.3 TB of billing.
Reliability	The 64 MB per-blob metadata overhead is brutal for a data-science corpus of many small files: the docs' own worked example has 6 MB of 10 KiB files costing like 38.4 GB. Quilt batching mitigates but does not remove it.
Notes	No free tier on the network itself: $0.023/GB/month, billed on encoded size, which is 'about 4.5x the original blob plus a fixed 64 MB of per-blob metadata'. Lighthouse resells Walrus with a 100 MB free plan.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	docs.wal.app/docs/system-overview/storage-costs	'fixed, USD-denominated storage cost of $0.023/GB/month'; 'The encoded size is about 4.5x the original blob plus a fixed 64 MB of per-blob metadata'
2026-10-21	www.lighthouse.storage/pricing	Walrus Free plan 'Total Storage: 100 MB'

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "paid",
  "why": "No free tier on the network itself: $0.023/GB/month, billed on *encoded* size, which is 'about 4.5x the original blob plus a fixed 64 MB of per-blob metadata'. Lighthouse resells Walrus with a 100 MB free plan.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (6)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted

Walrus Console (Walrus Foundation, Oct 2026 launch) Storage

fails: quotaemailno cardR

walrus.xyz/products/walrus-console/ · web3-storage · storage/walrus-console · JSON · compare

Free tier	5 GB free. Launched 2026-10-07 with 'Get started today with 5GB free'. No larger free tier is published. unit GB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	One week old at time of research. Storage is leased time, so 'free 5 GB' and 'kept forever' are not the same claim.
Egress	Reads via the Console API/MCP; the underlying Walrus network serves blobs from storage nodes. No egress meter published.
Identity	email email
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 rest
Tooling	Genuinely good for an agent workflow: API keys plus an MCP server that plugs into Claude Code, Codex and Cursor; 'Agent Storage Loop' SDK for batched small writes with durability confirmation. Encrypted by default, per-file on-chain fingerprint.
Composes with	The paid path is buying WAL and paying per epoch (storage is leased in time units, not bytes-forever) — so cost scales with retention period × size, which is the opposite of an archive.
Reliability	One week old at time of research. Storage is leased time, so 'free 5 GB' and 'kept forever' are not the same claim.
Notes	5 GB free. Launched 2026-10-07 with 'Get started today with 5GB free'. No larger free tier is published.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	walrus.xyz/blog/introducing-walrus-console/	opened: 'Get started today with 5GB free'; published 07 Oct 2026; 'Every file gets a cryptographic fingerprint recorded onchain'; MCP integration with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor; 'encryption and renewals in one place' (note: renewals).

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "5 GB free. Launched 2026-10-07 with 'Get started today with 5GB free'. No larger free tier is published.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (5)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted