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Notion (free plan) - file blocks & Files property Storagecaveatinstitutionno cardRper-object-capdisagrees
notion (free workspace as file store) Storagefails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees

Notion (free plan) - file blocks & Files property Storage

caveatinstitutionno cardRper-object-capdisagrees

www.notion.com · cloud-drive · storage/notion-file-blocks-files-property · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

verdict: storage/notion says fails-quota, storage/notion-file-blocks-files-property says qualifies-with-caveat
identity_kind: storage/notion says email, storage/notion-file-blocks-files-property says institution

Free tier	No total storage cap: 'Unlimited file uploads' on Free, but each file is capped at 5 MiB on Free (5 GiB on paid). Block limit is unlimited for a single-member Free workspace. unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	5 MiB per file (5242880 bytes)
Retention	not stated
Egress	Free; Notion serves via S3/presigned URLs on Cloudflare-fronted notion.com. File objects return 'An authenticated HTTP GET URL... valid for one hour', so links must be re-minted - no CDN you can pin a cache to without re-signing.
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: p' in the niche. 5 MiB per file on Free (hard, enforced by API); 20 MiB per single-part API upload; parts must be 5-20 MiB; 600 requests/min per workspace (avg 10/s) shared across al
Limits	per-ip-shaping 1 TB/day source per-object-cap 5 MiB per file source 5 MiB per file on Free (hard, enforced by API); 20 MiB per single-part API upload; parts must be 5-20 MiB; 600 requests/min per workspace (avg 10/s) shared across all connections; only whitelisted MIME types (audio/document/image/video/CAD) - arbitrary binary is rejected
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	rest, rclone rest
Tooling	Official Notion API file-upload endpoints (single-part <=20 MiB, multi-part above with 5-20 MiB parts) + PlakarKorp/integration-notion and many notion-backup repos for bulk extraction; no rclone backend
Composes with	Per-record unlimited: 5 MiB x unlimited files x unlimited blocks x unlimited free workspaces. A 20 TiB archive sharded into 5 MiB objects = ~4.2M objects - feasible at 600 req/min but ~5 days of continuous upload. This is the clearest 'unlimited count, tiny per-file cap' in the niche.
Reliability	The MIME whitelist is the killer: no generic octet-stream blobs, so archival datasets must be packed as .zip/.7z/.tar which Notion does accept. Signed URLs expire in one hour, so serving 1 TB/day out of Notion means re-minting continuously.
Notes	No total storage cap: 'Unlimited file uploads' on Free, but each file is capped at 5 MiB on Free (5 GiB on paid). Block limit is unlimited for a single-member Free workspace.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-ip-shaping 1.0 TB / day `$.limits[1].value` limit:per-object-cap 5.0 MiB

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	developers.notion.com/guides/data-apis/working-with-files-an	'Free workspaces are limited to 5 MiB (binary megabytes) per file'; 'Files larger than 20 MiB must be split into parts'; supported-types table lists .zip, .7z, .tar, .bz2, .rar
2026-10-21	www.notion.com/pricing	'Unlimited file uploads'; 'On the Free plan, you can upload images, videos and file attachments up to 5MB each. Upgrade to a paid plan for unlimited file uploads with a ~5GB max per file.'
2026-10-21	developers.notion.com/reference/file-object	'An authenticated HTTP GET URL to the file. The URL is valid for one hour.'
2026-10-21	api.notion.com/v1/users	probe: GET -> HTTP 401 (API live, auth-gated)

Unknown or withheld values (4)

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

notion (free workspace as file store) Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees

developers.notion.com/guides/data-apis/working-with-files-an · rejected-provider · storage/notion · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

verdict: storage/notion says fails-quota, storage/notion-file-blocks-files-property says qualifies-with-caveat
identity_kind: storage/notion says email, storage/notion-file-blocks-files-property says institution

Free tier	5 MiB per file on Free (API and UI), and every Notion-hosted file URL is a signed S3 URL valid for one hour — 'Don't cache or statically reference these URLs'. Unlimited blocks on a single-o unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
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
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	5 MiB per file on Free (API and UI), and every Notion-hosted file URL is a signed S3 URL valid for one hour — 'Don't cache or statically reference these URLs'. Unlimited blocks on a single-o
Notes	5 MiB per file on Free (API and UI), and every Notion-hosted file URL is a signed S3 URL valid for one hour — 'Don't cache or statically reference these URLs'. Unlimited blocks on a single-o
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	developers.notion.com/guides/data-apis/working-with-files-an	5 MiB per file on Free (API and UI), and every Notion-hosted file URL is a signed S3 URL valid for one hour — 'Don't cache or statically reference these URLs'. Unlimited blocks on a single-o
2026-10-21	developers.notion.com/reference/file-object	cited as the basis of the rejection: 5 MiB per file on Free (API and UI), and every Notion-hosted file URL is a signed S3 URL valid for one hour — 'Don't cache or statically reference these URLs'. Unlimited blocks on a single-o
2026-10-21	www.notion.com/help/understanding-block-usage	cited as the basis of the rejection: 5 MiB per file on Free (API and UI), and every Notion-hosted file URL is a signed S3 URL valid for one hour — 'Don't cache or statically reference these URLs'. Unlimited blocks on a single-o

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "5 MiB per file on Free (API and UI), and every Notion-hosted file URL is a signed S3 URL valid for one hour — 'Don't cache or statically reference these URLs'. Unlimited blocks on a single-o",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded