Zhihu image hosting

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Zhihu image hosting Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?I

zhihu.com · media · storage/zhihu-image-hosting · JSON · compare

Free tier	no vendor page found; user reports cluster at 2-10 MB per image unit MB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	free CDN (pic1.zhimg.com etc.) but with Referer checks on hotlink
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	unknown wrapper-only
Tooling	no public API; zhihu-oauth projects are abandoned. Web editor only
Composes with	unverified — per-image cap too small and per-account behaviour too opaque to model
Reliability	no usable vendor documentation exists for the cap; images are stripped from answers that get moderated. Treat as unusable
Notes	no vendor page found; user reports cluster at 2-10 MB per image
Evidence rung	inferred One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-20

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.zhihu.com/en/answer/1983511455	user reports: 'a picture that is less than 10MB can't be uploaded'; 'ensuring it is less than 2MB'
2026-10-21	withheld	not published

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "no vendor page found; user reports cluster at 2-10 MB per image",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (11)

$.evidence[1].proved withheld
$.evidence[1].url private-url
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted