Wormhole
wormhole.app · Storage · 1 record · JSON
Wormhole Storage
fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
| Free tier | Up to 10 GB per send. Only the first 5 GB is actually stored server-side; anything above 5 GB is PEER-TO-PEER and requires the sender's tab to stay open. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | per-object-cap: 5 GB (5000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | Retention: 24 hours hard ('Files are permanently deleted from the server after 24 hours') (1 days) |
| Egress | free while it exists; P2P above 5 GB routes around their egress entirely. |
| Identity | anonymous derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: — files are permanently deleted after 24 hours and the service has no account model. per-object-cap: 5 GB stored / 10 GB total via P2P. Retention: 24 hours hard ('Files are permanently |
| Limits |
per-object-cap: 5 GB stored / 10 GB total via P2P. Retention: 24 hours hard ('Files are permanently deleted from the server after 24 hours'). Client-side AES-128-GCM. |
| Binding | per-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 |
| Interface | unknown none |
| Tooling | No public API. Only the crypto layer is open source (github.com/webtorrent/wormhole-crypto). |
| Composes with | 5 GB stored x 24 hours. Nothing compounds — files are permanently deleted after 24 hours and the service has no account model. |
| Reliability | The 24-hour hard delete plus P2P-above-5GB means the service has no durable component at all. Recorded as the cleanest example of the 'big cap, zero retention' cluster the brief warns about. |
| Notes | Up to 10 GB per send. Only the first 5 GB is actually stored server-side; anything above 5 GB is PEER-TO-PEER and requires the sender's tab to stay open. |
| Evidence rung | reported One page read moves it to documented. |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
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Evidence (2)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | wormhole.app/faq | 'For files up to 5 GB, Wormhole stores your files on our servers for 24 hours. For files larger than 5 GB, Wormhole uses peer-to-peer transfer' |
| 2026-10-21 | wormhole.app/faq | 'Files are permanently deleted from the server after 24 hours' |
More fields (1)
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"dead_end": {
"failure_class": "quota",
"why": "Up to 10 GB per send. Only the first 5 GB is actually stored server-side; anything above 5 GB is PEER-TO-PEER and requires the sender's tab to stay open.",
"retry_when": null,
"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
}
}Unknown or withheld values (5)
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