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  "why": "1 GB/month of storage, TOTAL per Hobby team — not per project. Pricing table: 'Blob Storage Size | Regional | Usage-based | 1GB/month' for the Hobby Included column, alongside 'Blob Simple Operations | First 10,000', 'Blob Advanced Operations | First 2,000', 'Blob Data Transfer | First 10 GB'. Per-file ceiling is genuinely large: 'you can store files up to 5 TB' (multipart above 100 MB). Unlimited stores since Sept 2026 — but the changelog is explicit that this buys no storage: 'Splitting the same data across more stores doesn't change those costs.'",
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