Storage: rejected and dead

Rejected 1149

fails: egress 129

• 0x0.st (the null pointer) fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Uploads are globally disabled right now, not merely rate limited. POST returns HTTP 503 with the body 'uploads disabled because it's been almost nothing but ...
• 4EVERLAND (IPFS + S3-compatible Bucket) fails: egresscardcardRper-ip-shaping
  Standard free package: 'IPFS Storage: 6 GB/month', 'Arweave Storage: Total 100 MB', 'Bandwidth: 10 GB/month', resets on the 1st. Separate 7-day Trial: 1 GB I...
• Air Cluster — commercial product that advertises combining several accounts (incl. accounts from the same provider) fails: egressemail?card?R
  'Air Cluster allows you to add several accounts from the same server (e.g., three different OneDrive accounts) and combine their capacity into one single clu...
• AkiraBox fails: egressanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  unlimited storage advertised; 5 GB/file anonymous, 20 GB/file with a free account
• Amazon DynamoDB fails: egresscard?cardR
  25 GB of storage, always free (does not expire), plus 25 WCU and 25 RCU provisioned capacity and ~200M requests/month
• Anthropic Claude Files API fails: egressany-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-cap
  1 TB per organization; 500 MB per file; files persist until deleted or until expires_at
• ardrive / turbo (arweave free tier) fails: egressemail?card?R
  Free upload allowance is 105 KiB per file, 10 MiB lifetime per wallet AND 10 MiB lifetime per IP range — the IP-range meter makes it un-multipliable, six ord...
• Baseten Delivery Network (BDN) model weight mirrors fails: egressanonymousno cardR
  No published per-account storage number. BDN 'mirrors model weights to Baseten and caches them near your replicas'; there is no documented quota and no free ...
• Boosty (RU) fails: egressemailno cardRper-object-cap
  20 GB per attached video (official FAQ post: 'Вы можете прикреплять к постам видео размером до 20 ГБ'). Community reports the effective limit was cut to 1 GB...
• bunny stream fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Paid per GB stored and per GB delivered. Transcoding and player are free, storage is 'From $0.01/GB' and traffic is billed on top — this is exactly the per-G...
• bunny.net as a *free* egress source fails: egressemail?card?R
  Free transit applies only from Bunny Storage *into* Bunny CDN. There is no free public egress: end-user delivery is $0.01/GB EU/NA and $0.03/GB Asia, with a ...
• bytescale fails: egressemail?card?R
  No free tier at all any more — cheapest plan is $7/mo Basic with 10 GB storage and 10 GB download bandwidth; over-quota returns HTTP 400
• bytesized hosting — appbox range fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Unmetered at every tier but the per-TB rate never improves: €5/500GB (€10/TB) down to €96/18TB (€5.33/TB). Beaten on both axes by HostBrr and PulsedMedia.
• cachix fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  5 GB free for open source. Cloudflare egress is genuinely unlimited, but 5 GB is the cap.
• cloudflare stream fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Paid, and metered in MINUTES not bytes: $5/month per 1,000 minutes of storage (≈16.7 h) and $1 per 1,000 minutes delivered. The inversion is interesting — be...
• cloudinary fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Free plan is 25 credits/month where 1 credit = 1 GB storage OR 1 GB CDN bandwidth OR 1,000 transformations — i.e. 25 GB total across storage+delivery combine...
• contabo object storage fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  The 'unlimited free egress' claim is real but the price is €2.49 per 250 GB slice = €9.96/TB/mo, roughly 5× Hetzner Storage Box and 10× the 1fichier floor. I...
• contabo storage vps line (all tiers) fails: egressemail?card?R
  Checked and rejected on price, not availability: $13.44/TB at the 1 TB tier versus €2.03/TB at Hetzner BX41. The 'Unlimited Traffic*' asterisk is a discretio...
• contentful (free / starter space) fails: egressemail?card?R
  Files are capped at 50 MB each and asset bandwidth at 50 GB/month with NO overage purchasable on Free; only 1 Starter space, 100k API calls/month. Storage si...
• Crust Network (free Web3Auth IPFS gateway + on-chain pinning) fails: egressemail?card?R
  Gateway writes are described as 'free' but need a signature; the storage quota itself comes from a Discord channel, not a published number: 'Get free storage...
• cults3d fails: egressemail?card?R
  1 GB per upload, plus a daily upload-count limit to throttle mass AI uploads.
• DeepSeek Files API fails: egressemailno cardRper-object-cap
  25 GiB per user, 10,000 files, 64 MiB per file. Permanent if expires_after is omitted; otherwise 1 hour – 30 days.
• deluxhost storage-4 (€6.99 / 3 tb) fails: egressemail?card?R
  €2.33/TB headline looks competitive but the offer table lists no traffic allowance at all for the STORAGE line (the '20G'/'30G' column is NVMe, not bandwidth...
• deviantart core as quota escape fails: egressemail?card?R
  100 GB requires a paid Core subscription — that is metered spend, not free storage
• DocDroid fails: egressinstitutionno cardRretention-clamped
  Free/Standard account: 10 uploads per 24h, no document-count or storage figure published; Pro is "Unlimited Documents" for $19/month (3-day trial). Home page...
• e2e networks object storage (in) fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  ₹2.5/GB/mo = $26.46/TB plus ₹3/GB egress = $31.77/TB of egress. Billed on PEAK monthly usage, so deleting early in the month does not help. Both dimensions a...
• Ethereum blobs (EIP-4844) as a storage layer fails: egresscardcardRper-object-cap
  No free tier. Live cost at time of check: $0.012 per MB as blobs (vs $11.01/MB as calldata). 128 KB per blob package, separate blob fee market.
• evolution host fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Checked as named. No storage product line at all — the entire catalogue is NVMe VPS from 20 GB to 160 GB with generous transfer (10-80 TB). High bandwidth, n...
• fil one / storacha s3 tier fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Marketed as cheap S3 ($5.99/TB/month, $0 egress) but the free component is a 30-day 1 TB trial, not a free tier. Below the archive requirement and time-boxed.
• Filecoin Plus DataCap (faucet + allocators) fails: egressemail?card?Rper-ip-shaping
  1 TiB of free DataCap per verified client, instantly, via Gitcoin Passport (score >= 20) on Optimism. Fil+ allocators can grant more. DataCap is a one-time, ...
• FileDitch (new.fileditch.com) fails: egressanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  No total storage quota stated; uploader accepts an unbounded number of files. Live uploader JS caps a single file at 155 GiB (constant MAXB = 155*1024*1024*1...
• FileLu fails: egressemailno cardRper-object-cap USD 449/TB-mo
  1 GB free. Free accounts can upload 10 GB per file but only hold 1 GB total. Paid: S3-compatible 'FileLu S5', 1 PB scale. Lifetime promo: 1 TB $149, 2 TB $24...
• filestack fails: egressemail?card?R
  Free plan is 1 GB bandwidth, 1 GB storage, 500 uploads, 1,000 transformations — pure demo tier
• Firebase Realtime Database fails: egressemail?card?Rper-ip-shaping
  1 GB stored on the Spark (no-cost) plan; 10 GB/month downloaded (~360 MB/day)
• Firebase Storage (Cloud Storage for Firebase) fails: egressemail?card?Rper-ip-shaping
  5 GB stored on Spark (no-cost) plan; 1 GB downloaded per day; 50k download ops/day
• FolderFort — free tier + 2.0 pricing fails: egressemailno cardRwrite-gated
  Free plan with encrypted storage, no card; '+25GB free' if you post a social-media review. Paid Personal from 100 GB; Business up to 2x storage in bandwidth.
• gitbook (free site plan) fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Free plan exists but publishes zero storage, bandwidth or file-size figures — it is positioned as a docs editor, not a host. No quota to verify means no basi...
• gitea cloud fails: egressemail?card?R
  Commercial managed Gitea. 30-day free trial only, storage is a paid add-on pack, and the 'unlimited network traffic' feature is unlimited-bandwidth-at-thrott...
• github lfs as bulk storage fails: egressemail?card?R
  10 GiB storage and 10 GiB/month egress on Free — three orders of magnitude short of the 20 TiB archive, and egress is metered rather than unmetered.
• github packages fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Already covered (dossiers/github-packages.json); 500 MB storage + 1 GB transfer free on Free plan, metered beyond — far below the bar.
• github pages as bulk storage fails: egressemail?card?R
  1 GB published site and one user/org site per account; 100 GB/month soft bandwidth. Deduplicating into accounts gives ~hundreds of accounts per TB — not viab...
• google artifact registry fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Free tier is 1 GiB-month of storage per billing account, shared across all projects, and egress between regions is $0.01-0.05/GB. Fails both the quota and eg...
• Google Artifact Registry (incl. the gcr.io domain) fails: egresscountry-phoneno cardphoneRdisagrees
  0.5 GiB-month, once per billing account, shared across every project on it: 'Artifact Registry Storage | 0 gibibyte month to 0.5 gibibyte month | $0.00 (Free...
• google cloud source repositories fails: egressemail?card?R
  50 GB/month storage and 50 GB/month egress on the free tier, but the product is end-of-sale and being replaced by Secure Source Manager. Also a git-only inte...
• gozunga fails: egressemail?card?R
  100 GB/month free S3-compatible, then $0.025/GB and $0.005/GB egress. Fails both the 500 GB filter and the free-egress filter; also below the 500 GB threshold.
• helpjuice fails: egressemail?card?R
  12 GB / 24 GB / 38 GB by plan is the whole storage story and there is no free plan — 'Free 14 Day Trial' only. Small and paywalled.
• Icedrive — lifetime plans (direct) fails: egressemailno cardRretention-clampeddisagrees
  Lifetime Personal 500 GB $229 (from $344); Lifetime Personal+ 2 TB $499 (from $749). One-time, 'No recurring renewal'. Live on the vendor page 2026-10-21.
• IEEE DataPort - 2 TB per dataset free upload, but every read costs $40/month (rule 2 in its purest form) fails: egressemailno cardR
  2 TB of AWS S3 cloud storage per dataset for individual users (10 TB for institutional subscribers). No published limit on the number of datasets. Standard (...
• IEEE DataPort — Data Competition module (the free + public route) fails: egressemailno cardRper-object-cap USD 1950/TB-mo
  2 TB per dataset for individual users, 10 TB for Institutional Subscribers. The Data Competition submission type is listed as FREE and carries the same 2 TB ...
• imagekit fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Free plan: 3 GB DAM storage (fixed limit) and 20 GB bandwidth/month; 225 GB storage costs $89/mo
• ImageShack fails: egressemail?card?R
  Free account with no published image-count or total-byte cap; the metered axis is bandwidth, not storage. 'Paid subscriptions don't impose a fixed file-count...
• inbox.eu free fails: egressemail?card?R
  Messaging docs say 20 GB ("Mailbox size ... is the same - 20Gb") but the pricing page's 100 GB is the 30-day Business *trial* with a 3-emails-per-day send th...
• IngramSpark fails: egressemailno cardRper-object-cap
  1.5 GB via web upload ('web upload for files up to 1.5 GB, zip/stuff compression accepted'); user guide says files should not exceed 1.6 GB; ebook interiors ...
• InterServer Storage Hosting ST 600 (20 TB) fails: egresscardcardR USD 2.1/TB-mo
  200 GB $3 · 1 TB $5 · 2 TB $8 · 4 TB $10 · 10 TB $25 · 20 TB $42, all per month
• IONOS CLOUD Object Storage fails: egresscardcardR USD 32/TB-mo
  Per-GB-month; "Just 4.99 Dollar per TB for 30 days"; multi-region redundant
• IPFS Foundation public gateways (ipfs.io / dweb.link / trustless-gateway.link) fails: egressemail?card?R
  No storage at all — gateway only. And the gateway itself is being retired: ipfs.io/dweb.link return HTTP 429 with 'Retry-After: 900' and 'Sunset: Mon, 21 Sep...
• iroh n0 public relays fails: egressemail?card?R
  Free tier is 'rate-limited traffic' with 'No uptime guarantees' and the exact limits are deliberately unpublished ('The exact rate limits aren't published to...
• iroh Services — Community (free tier) fails: egressemailno cardR
  0 bytes of storage. Free plan = public relays in US/EU/Singapore, 7-day metrics retention, no auth, rate-limited traffic, no uptime guarantee.
• iwinv (kr) object storage and sata block fails: egressemail?card?R
  Priced per GB and it is expensive: ₩20/GB/mo = $15.09/TB for object, ₩39,000/TB = $29.42/TB for SATA block. On top of that, egress is separately metered on a...
• jottacloud fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  5 GB free; the genuinely interesting 'Unlimited' plan is NOK 129/mo and throttles upload after 5 TB. Not free.
• jottacloud free fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  5 GB free. The interesting product is 'Unlimited' at NOK 129/mo, which throttles upload after 5 TB — and it is paid.
• Keep2Share / TezFiles (same operator) fails: egresscardcardRper-ip-shaping
  Free plan: 10 GB/day of download traffic, no storage quota published. Paid Premium Max: 100 GB/day. Both are download-traffic products, not storage products.
• KeyCDN Push Zone (CDN storage) fails: egressemailno cardR USD 0/TB-mo
  Unlimited volume. Push Zone storage '$0.12/GB per month and charged on a daily basis' = **$120/TB/mo**. Tiered down to $0.04/GB above 1 TB/month of stored by...
• linux.do and nodeseek as deal feeds fails: egressemail?card?R
  BOTH ARE WRITE/READ-GATED FOR THIS PURPOSE. linux.do returns a Cloudflare challenge to direct search.json, and behind it demands login for search (firecrawl ...
• Lulu fails: egressemailno cardR
  No hard file limit. Own help page: 'We technically do not have a file limit for projects; however, the larger a file is, the longer it will take to process. ...
• magalu cloud object storage (brazil) fails: egressemail?card?R
  R$0.10/GiB/mo storage is a fair $20.39/TB/mo, but egress is R$0.10/GiB — a 1:1 storage-to-egress ratio, the worst structure possible for a serving workload, ...
• Mattermost Team Edition / Entry (self-hosted) fails: egressemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  No storage quota at all in self-hosted Mattermost, free or paid. Only the per-file ceiling is configurable: default 100 MB (MaxFileSize = 104857600 bytes),...
• metered open relay at the advertised 20 gb fails: egressemail?card?R
  The 20 GB/month figure on the Open Relay landing page is stale; the billing page sells a 500 MB/month free tier shared ingress+egress. 40x overstatement on t...
• neocities as the archive tier fails: egressemail?card?R
  1 GB per site and 200 GB/month bandwidth per site means 20 TiB would need 20,480 sites and would still be bandwidth-starved; Free also restricts uploadable f...
• Netlify Blobs fails: egressemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  Object store with 5 GB max per object, but the Free plan is 300 credits/month where 1 GB of web bandwidth = 20 credits — i.e. ~15 GB of transfer/month total,...
• OpenRouter Files API (workspace files) fails: egressinstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  10 GiB per workspace, stated verbatim: 'Each workspace can store up to 10 GiB in total. When the workspace is full, uploads return a 403 error.'
• ovhcloud object storage fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  No free storage tier at all; S3-compatible and 'no hidden fees for ingress/egress or API calls', but you pay for stored GB from the first one. Only a $200 ne...
• ovhcloud object storage (standard / cold archive) fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Free egress and free API calls is genuinely attractive, and OVH is not on the excluded list — but the arithmetic loses. Standard One Zone is ~$0.0081/GiB/mo ...
• Perplexity Projects (formerly Spaces) — persistent file repository fails: egressemailno cardRper-object-cap
  5 GB per Project, 10,000 files per Project, 100 MB per file — identical on every plan, including free. Projects themselves: 'There's no limit on how many Pro...
• PikPak Global Premium (10 TB) fails: egresscardcardRper-ip-shaping
  10 TB storage on Premium; additional storage purchasable
• Pinata — dedicated gateway (free plan) fails: egressemail?card?Rrequest-rate
  1 dedicated gateway included on Free; serves only CIDs pinned to your own account unless a Gateway Access Control is added. 10 GB/month bandwidth, 10,000 req...
• pixeldrain pro / prepaid fails: egressemail?card?R
  Prepaid storage is genuinely €4/TB/mo but egress is metered at €1/TB with NO free download allowance on the filesystem — 'Downloads from the filesystem are c...
• Pixiv fails: egressemail?card?R
  No published total quota; per-post caps only. Effectively unlimited posts.
• podomatic fails: egressemail?card?R
  500 MB total storage and 15 GB/month bandwidth on the free Basic plan — smaller than Podbean and with no unlimited-drafts trick. 'Unlimited Storage and Bandw...
• proton mail free fails: egressemail?card?R
  1 GB storage only ("Proton Free — 1 GB storage"), and the programmatic path is paywalled: "Proton Mail Bridge is currently available only with a paid Proton ...
• Proxyware earn-app tier as a purchasable egress path (Honeygain, EarnApp, Pawns.app, Traffmonetizer, Repocket, Grass) fails: egressemailno cardR
  these pay you; they do not sell to you. Honeygain 10 GB = $1 ($0.10/GB); PacketStream $0.10/GB; EarnApp moved to hourly pay on 20 Aug 2025, ceiling $10/IP/mo...
• pulsedmedia — 'eternal väinämöinen' €1.99 storage tiers fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  The headline €0.83-1.00/TB prices carry egress quotas an order of magnitude below storage: 'Storage 2TB R5 1G' is €1.99/mo for 2 TB with 268 GB/month traffic...
• qiniu cloud kodo (七牛云对象存储) fails: egressemail?card?R
  Structurally identical trap to Tencent and marginally cheaper on storage. Standard ¥0.115/GB/mo ($17.60/TB/mo), archive ¥0.031, deep archive ¥0.012 — but egr...
• qiniu kodo free quota fails: egressemail?card?R
  10 GB/month standard storage + 10 GB/month CDN origin traffic + 1M GETs. Two orders of magnitude under the 500 GB floor and China-only CDN egress.
• quotaless (quotaless.cloud) fails: egressemail?card?R
  Genuinely unlimited storage with rclone/S3/WebDAV and unmetered bandwidth — but it is EUR 60/month recurring plus a one-time EUR 20/10TB fee. It is the *corr...
• Replit (App Storage) fails: egresscardcardR
  No free storage allowance. App Storage is metered: $0.015/GiB/mo storage, $0.05/GiB data transfer, $0.0004/1k basic ops.
• Rocket.Chat self-hosted (Community / Starter) fails: egressemail?card?R
  No storage quota. Per-file ceiling is a single setting: 'Maximum File Upload Size (in bytes) ... Use -1 to remove the limit.'
• Scaleway Container Registry (public images) fails: egresscardcardR
  Public images are free up to 75 GB of storage; private images are €0.027/GB/month: 'Public images | Free up to 75GB | ... | Free'. The FAQ repeats it verbati...
• Scaleway Object Storage — Glacier class fails: egresscardcardR USD 11.2/TB-mo
  Per-GB-month; Paris (DC4), one region
• scaleway perpetual 75 gb free object storage fails: egressemail?card?R
  Removed December 2023; only the 75 GB/month free egress survived. The replacement is a one-shot 750 GB / 90-day trial. A free-for-dev PR was merged removing ...
• Scribd fails: egressemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  100 MB max per document; no published account-level document or storage cap ("you can continue to upload more documents ... as often as you like"). Effective...
• Selectel Object Storage (Russia) — coldest tier is cheap, the traffic is not fails: egresscardcardR USD 23.19/TB-mo
  Ice (ледяное) ₽0.89/GB/mo; Cold ₽1.26/GB/mo; Standard ₽2.57/GB/mo. Volume ladder: up to 10 TB ₽1.35, 10-50 TB ₽1.31, 50 TB+ lower (per Selectel's own price-c...
• Self-hosted Kubo/Rainbow gateway (own VPS) fails: egressemail?card?Rper-ip-shaping
  Storage and egress are whatever your VPS/host allows. No provider quota exists — the cost moves to the host's bandwidth allowance.
• Self-hosted Synapse media repository fails: egressinstitutionno cardR
  Unbounded — max_upload_size defaults to 50M and can be set to any value; storage and media retention are entirely operator-controlled.
• sftp to go fails: egressemail?card?R
  7-day free trial only; the free plan is a trial, and storage/bandwidth are priced per month.
• sharepoint embedded fails: egressemail?card?R
  Unlimited containers but every byte and every API call is metered against an Azure subscription. Zero free allotment.
• SlideShare fails: egressemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  300 MB max per file (PDF/PPT/DOC), 300 slides for presentations; account-level storage not published. Uploads are currently disabled service-wide.
• stack exchange as bulk storage fails: egressemail?card?R
  2 MiB cap plus no API upload path plus per-site posting rate limits; the permanence is excellent but the throughput is a human-editor workflow
• Stoat / Revolt — self-hosted instance fails: egressemail?card?R
  No platform cap at all: body_limit_size and [files.limit] live in Revolt.toml and are yours to set. Storage is whatever disk/MinIO you attach to Autumn.
• storacha / fil one fails: egressemail?card?R
  1 TB free but for 30 days only, with 2 TB of egress in the trial: '1 TB free for 30 days · No credit card required ... The 30-day trial includes 2 TB of egre...
• Storadera Space Premium fails: egressemailno cardR USD 8.9/TB-mo
  €7.95 per TB per month, granular per-byte, no minimum. 50 GB free for 30 days.
• Storj fails: egresscardcardR
  No free tier since 2024-03-31. Current public page offers only a 30-day free trial; Standard plan $7/TB storage + $7/TB egress with a $5/month minimum.
• storj dcs standard fails: egressemail?card?R
  $7/TB storage AND $7/TB egress — the egress term alone ($7,168/TB-equivalent pattern) makes it the exact '$2 store with $10 egress' pathology inverted. $5/mo...
• storj object storage (paid) fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Egress is priced identically to storage, so it is strictly worse than Wasabi for this workload: $7/TB stored + $7/TB out. Serving 500 GB-1 TiB/day (15-30 TB/...
• Storj Object Storage — Standard fails: egresscardcardRdisagrees USD 14/TB-mo
  Per-TB-month, globally distributed; $5 minimum monthly fee
• storx fails: egressemail?card?R
  Every route lands on a sign-in wall; the only quotable copy is 'S3-Compatible Offsite Backup Storage — No Egress Fees'. No free allowance was visible after t...
• Supabase fails: egressemail?card?R
  1 GB file storage — PER ORGANIZATION, not per project; 5 GB egress + 5 GB cached egress per org; 2 free projects per user (across all orgs)
• telepedia fails: egressemail?card?R
  15 MB per file (live siteinfo) and the media CDN is 403 to everything: static.telepedia.net/metawiki/1/18/favicon.ico returns 403 both direct and through t...
• telnyx cloud storage fails: egressemail?card?R
  $6.14/TB/mo (at $0.006/GiB) with genuinely free egress — but 3× the floor, and the pricing page now reframes the product around 'egress to inference' (no egr...
• tencent cloud cos (腾讯云对象存储) fails: egressemail?card?R
  Storage is cheap, egress is the entire cost and it is the worst ratio in the set. Standard storage ¥0.118/GB/mo ($18.06/TB/mo) but outbound traffic ¥0.5/GB —...
• Tencent Cloud COS — new-user free tier fails: egresscard?cardR
  50 GB STANDARD storage capacity, valid 6 months (180 days), new users only. Some third-party summaries claim enterprise accounts get 1 TB/month for 6 months ...
• tencent edgeone free plan / edgeone makers (pages) as storage fails: egressemail?card?R
  Two separate failures.
• tensorart fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Bot-walled beyond use: tensor.art/ returns 403 with the extraction flagging paywall:status, /models likewise, /upload returns 422. Its landing page claims 'm...
• timeweb cloud s3 fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Priced from 1 RUB/GB/mo with an auto-upgrade ladder (79 RUB for 10 GB, 349 for 100 GB, 'unlimited' 639 RUB/mo capped at 250 GB included then 4 RUB/GB), and e...
• transferrocket fails: egressemail?card?R
  Free is 5 GB transfer AND 7 days storage, both as hard pay-per-use boundaries ('Transfers up to 5 GB are free', 'Transfers up to 7 days are free') — the prod...
• uploadthing fails: egressemail?card?R
  Free '2GB App' shared across all apps, no egress allowance beyond that; next tier is 100 GB for $10/mo
• UPYUN 又拍云 USS (Storage Service) fails: egressnational-idno cardR
  No standing free tier. Free capacity comes from (a) a 7-day trial with no storage/traffic cap, (b) 61 CNY voucher on real-name signup (1 month), (c) the 又拍云联...
• UpZur Premium fails: egressemailno cardR USD 9.17/TB-mo
  'Unlimited upload size, Unlimited storage space, Download volume Unlimited' on Premium. Registered free tier is 1,953 GB.
• utho object storage (in) fails: egressemail?card?R
  ₹500/mo for 100 GB then ₹4/GB = $42.34/TB. 'No egress fees in India' is genuinely attractive but the storage rate is 20x the floor.
• veilid for bulk data fails: egressemail?card?R
  No congestion control and no relay throttling implemented; relay bandwidth management is an open to-do. Mobile-first design assumes 'limited storage and band...
• vercel blob fails: egressemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Hobby includes 1 GB/month blob storage and 10 GB data transfer, then regional metered pricing. 1 GB per account is 3 orders of magnitude below the bar and th...
• VK Cloud Object Storage fails: egressemailno cardRretention-clamped
  no perpetual free volume — pay-as-you-go per GB, per storage class (Hotbox/Icebox/Backup)
• WeChat Official Account — uploadimg (图文消息图片, the uncapped endpoint) fails: egressanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  NO documented count cap. The docs state explicitly: "该接口所上传的图片，不占用公众号的素材库中图片数量的100000个的限制" — images uploaded via this endpoint do NOT count against the 100,0...
• wenshushu (文叔叔) fails: egressemail?card?R
  Free space is 40 GB, explicitly: '免费提供网络硬盘空间 40GB'. Well under the 500 GB floor. Its 'never throttled' promise is real but irrelevant at this quota.
• zrok (netfoundry public instance) fails: egressemail?card?R
  Free plan is bandwidth-metered at 5 GB/day over a rolling 24-hour window, with 50 share backends. It is a tunnelling service, so all traffic transits their e...
• 小飞机网盘 FeijiPan (feijipan.com) fails: egressany-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-cap
  Homepage: '上传下载永不限速，该权益开放给所有用户，无需开通会员即刻享有极速下载' + '签约领1024G — 为支持站长、自媒体主分享资源，小飞机网盘推出「开发者计划」活动，参与活动签约成功即可领取1TB网盘空间'. Baseline free space is small; the 1 TB com...
• Bilibili video upload fails: egressemail?card?Iper-object-cap
  8 GB per video reported for most accounts; some accounts higher (third-party guide, not vendor docs)
• Cisco Webex — Messages API file attachments fails: egressinstitutionno cardI
  No storage quota published. Per-attachment cap is the only hard number: 'Message attachments are limited to 100MB each.'
• Unity Cloud Content Delivery (CCD) fails: egressnational-idno cardI
  Conflicting. The live UGS pricing page lists Cloud Content Delivery 'Cloud Storage — Free'. A third-party writeup of the same product reports 5 GB/month incl...

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• CSC Allas (Finland) — 10 TiB default per project, S3 + Swift on Ceph fails: identityinstitutionno cardD
  10 TiB per CSC project by default. The quota table lists 'Allas / Storage / 10 TiB' with the increase path 'Contact CSC Service Desk'. There is no per-file o...
• LUMI-O (CSC / EuroHPC LUMI) — 150 TB allocated per LUMI project by default fails: identityinstitution?card?D
  'LUMI-O offers a total of 30 PB storage space ... By default 150 TB of storage space is allocated per LUMI project, but projects can request for more LUMI-O ...
• 123pan vip (20 tb) fails: identityemail?card?R
  Cheaper tier of a provider already rejected on identity. ¥258/yr continuous annual = ~¥21.5/mo. At 20 TB that is ~¥1.08/TB/mo (~$0.15/TB/mo) — again an order...
• academia.edu fails: identityemail?card?Rdisagrees
  upload flow documented but no quota anywhere in the help centre; documents are public-by-design and tied to an academic identity. No API
• anonymous write to any github surface fails: identityemail?card?R
  Every write path needs an authenticated identity: anonymous release create -> 401, anonymous GHCR push scope -> DENIED, anonymous release-asset upload -> 400...
• AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program (revisit) - uncapped, 2 years, but the signatory must be an organisation fails: identityinstitutionno cardRdisagrees
  No published byte limit; AWS pays S3 storage plus egress and cross-region fees for the approved dataset, in a dedicated Program Account joined to AWS's billi...
• azure blob storage 'always free' 5 gb fails: identityemail?card?R
  5 GB per subscription with card verification, and the grant is labelled 12 months on the free-services page. Egress is metered at $0.087/GB after the first 1...
• Borealis (Canadian Dataverse Repository, University of Toronto / Scholars Portal) fails: identityemailno cardR
  No quota object. Not a policy number either — nothing published. 24,727 datasets across 1,858 collections, all unmetered by the platform.
• CaltechDATA (InvenioRDM, California Institute of Technology) fails: identityinstitutionno cardR
  1 TB of free storage per user, announced 2026-06-26, 'made possible through a National Science Foundation Campus Cyberinfrastructure grant' and backed by the...
• Chameleon Cloud (TACC / UChicago) fails: identityinstitutionno cardR
  534 nodes across KVM@TACC, CHI@UC, CHI@TACC, CHI@NRP; 62 nodes with >1TB total storage, dedicated 'storage' (20) and 'storage_nvme' (10) node classes, plus 2...
• CloudLab c240g1 / per-node local blockstore (40 TB) fails: identityinstitutionno cardR
  c240g1 node type = 12 x 3 TB HDDs (36 TB raw) on 5 nodes at Wisconsin; the storage table prices a 'per-node local blockstore' at 90GB-40TB, so a multi-TB blo...
• CloudLab persistent remote dataset (10 TB, iSCSI) fails: identityinstitutionno cardR
  up to 10 TB per persistent remote dataset; pool is 500 TB at Utah, 160 TB at Wisconsin, 40 TB at Clemson. Anything over 1 TB 'likely to require administrativ...
• cstcloud 数据胶囊 (china science and technology cloud 'data capsule') fails: identityemail?card?R
  Free quota is 20 GB — 25x short — and it requires 实名认证 (real-name verification) to reach even that. Source
• DANS Data Stations (ssh.datastations.nl / DataverseNL) fails: identityinstitutionno cardR
  9.3 GB maximum per file, no per-dataset or per-collection quota configured. Dutch national repository (KNAW/NWO); deposit is free for researchers at Dutch in...
• DaRUS (Universität Stuttgart) fails: identityinstitutionno cardRdisagrees
  No quota defined at root.
• data.boston.gov (City of Boston, Socrata/CKAN hybrid) fails: identityemailno cardR
  235 datasets, 32 organisations, 0 unowned. Portal-hosted /download/ paths (tmp05gz_hzf.csv etc.).
• data.gov.ie (Ireland) fails: identityemailno cardR
  22,883 datasets, 172 organisations. No published per-user quota.
• data.gov.il (Israel, CKAN) fails: identityemailno cardR
  1,203 datasets, 61 organisations. Files self-hosted (/dataset/.../download/datafile.csv).
• data.gov.ro (Romania national portal) fails: identityemailno cardR
  5,255 datasets across 181 organisations. Files are hosted on-portal, not linked out: resources resolve to /dataset/<uuid>/resource/<uuid>/download/<name>.xls...
• data.gov.ua (Ukraine national portal) fails: identityemailno cardR
  No published quota. Files self-hosted at /dataset/<uuid>/resource/<uuid>/download/<file>.
• data.qld.gov.au (Queensland Open Data Portal) fails: identityemailno cardR
  188,887 datasets. No published per-user or per-file quota. Resources split between portal-hosted /download/ paths and agency app endpoints (apps.des.qld.gov....
• DATADOI (Estonian Data Archive, University of Tartu) fails: identityemailno cardR
  No quota defined at root.
• DataverseNL fails: identityinstitutionno cardR
  no quota defined (API); effectiveDatasetFileCountLimit=10000 — the highest file-count ceiling seen in the sweep
• DataverseNO (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, national consortium) fails: identityinstitutionno cardRdisagrees
  No quota defined at root — 2,311 datasets, 32 collections.
• draft2digital / smashwords fails: identityemail?card?R
  Accepts only Word/ODT/RTF/EPUB for conversion; Smashwords is being fully absorbed into D2D (final migrations during 2025). An activation fee plus tax verific...
• DSpace 7+ platform class (MIT, UCT, demo.dspace.org and ~3,485 registered sites) fails: identityinstitutionno cardR
  NO QUOTA CONCEPT AT ALL. The string 'quota' does not appear once in DSpace's 2,125-line dspace.cfg; the only two hits repo-wide are a Solr query-parser class...
• edmond (max planck, edmond.mpdl.mpg.de) fails: identityemail?card?R
  308 permanent redirect to edmond.mpg.de on every path
• EOSC EU Node — 50 GB personal + 500 GB group file storage per user, free credits from the European Commission fails: identityinstitutionno cardR
  Access-policy table: File Storage (Personal) = 50 GB for Collaborator and Investigator; File Storage (Group) = 500 GB for Investigator only. Investigator als...
• EPrints 3.x platform class (White Rose, QUT, Southampton) fails: identityinstitutionno cardR
  No quota model. EPrints has no per-user or per-collection byte accounting; the only constraints are the JavaScript max on the upload widget and Apache's Limi...
• Europeana (EU cultural heritage aggregator) fails: identityinstitutionno cardRdisagrees
  No direct deposit at all — Europeana ingests metadata via accredited national aggregators; the media object stays on the provider's own server and is only li...
• FABRIC testbed fails: identityinstitutionno cardR
  VMs up to 64 cores / 384 GB RAM with directly attached NVMe, GPUs, SmartNICs; 'large storage volumes'; facility holds 'between 1/2 and 1PB of file storage sp...
• GRO.data (Göttingen) fails: identityinstitutionno cardR
  no quota defined (API)
• Helix (Imperial College London, launched 2025-26) fails: identityinstitutionno cardR
  No published per-record or per-user quota; the live API already serves a 13.58 GB single object and four objects over 6 GB, so per-object caps are at least ~...
• InvenioRDM platform class — CaltechDATA, TU Graz, TU Wien, TalTech, KTH, Bamberg, MSD-Live fails: identityinstitutionno cardR
  Per-record, NOT per-account: RDM_FILES_DEFAULT_QUOTA_SIZE = 10 GB and RDM_FILES_DEFAULT_MAX_FILE_SIZE = 10 GB, with APP_RDM_DEPOSIT_FORM_QUOTA maxFiles = 100...
• jiocloud / jioaicloud fails: identityemail?card?R
  50 GB free and 'Proudly made in India, securely stored in India', but the entire auth surface is an OTP sent to a phone ('OTP verification — Enter the OTP se...
• magentacloud (deutsche telekom) fails: identityemail?card?R
  The whole product now redirects to a login page whose only identity path is 'Login with Telekom' — a Telekom customer account. There is no standalone registr...
• misskey.io registration (as opposed to its capacity) fails: identityemail?card?R
  Its numbers are good (10 GiB, 500 MiB objects) but signup is closed indefinitely — the operator states it cannot add server capacity because their cloud prov...
• Nakala (Huma-Num, France) - no formal size limit, but a HumanID gate and a conversation with the team fails: identityinstitutionno cardRdisagrees
  'There is no formal limitation on the size of data deposited'; above ~10 GB per file you must contact the Nakala team first. Private pre-publication space is...
• NASA Earthdata AWS allocation (2 PB pool via Space Act Agreement) fails: identityinstitutionno cardR
  A 2 PB storage allocation held by NASA's Earth Science Division inside the AWS Open Data Program, subdivided by request. Individual allocations are not publi...
• nft.storage classic (free ipfs pinning) fails: identityemail?card?R
  Free upload/pinning decommissioned 30 June 2024. Page still advertises 'up to 31GiB per individual upload' but signup is closed and existing data is only 'pr...
• pcloud / koofr / icedrive / proton drive / mediafire / degoo fails: identityemail?card?Rdisagrees
  All six are wide-open on identity (email only, no card, no phone) and all six fail the 500 GB floor by 1-2 orders of magnitude: pCloud 10 GB, Koofr 10 GB (Br...
• Recherche Data Gouv (French national Dataverse) fails: identityinstitutionno cardRdisagrees
  50 GB max per file via the deposit interface; institutional datasets carry an agreement limit 'currently 5 TB'; datasets over 50 GB are explicitly supported ...
• roblox open cloud assets api fails: identityemail?card?R
  20 MB per asset, and the asset types that matter are throttled monthly: audio 10 total uploads/month without ID verification (100 with), video 20/day. Asset ...
• serverius eurostack — 'free 1 tb for a €1 setup fee' fails: identityemail?card?R
  A 2021 LET thread that never resolved into a usable service: commenters could not register ('cant seem to register here.. any luck so far?'), flagged it as '...
• terabox (kr/id/jp localisation) fails: identityemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Same 1 TB as everywhere else, and the localised pages are the interesting part: the /indonesian URL now redirects to /simple-verify with a 'Verification code...
• Together AI Files API (with 100 GB fine-tune objects) fails: identitycardcardR USD 0.16/TB-mo
  100 GB per training file (JSONL or Parquet); SDK constant MAX_FILE_SIZE_GB = 50.1 and MULTIPART_THRESHOLD_GB = 5.0. No published total-storage quota.
• verypan (yun.verypan.com) fails: identityemail?card?R
  Advertises unlimited storage ('∞ 存储容量') but caps a single file at 500 MB and requires 实名认证 (real-name identity verification) to upload at all. 500 MB x unlim...
• 什么值得买 (smzdm) / chinese netdisk promo calendar fails: identityemail?card?R
  The 双十一/618 promo ecosystem is entirely Chinese-consumer netdisks (Baidu SVIP ¥162-189/yr, Quark, 115, 移动云盘) and it fails for a user on identity, not price: ...
• 爱发电 (afdian) fails: identityemail?card?R
  Chinese creator-subscription platform; no public per-file storage figure, and creator payout is Alipay/WeChat gated — the exact identity wall the client hit.
• 面包多 (mbd.pub) fails: identitynational-idno cardR
  Their help centre says '面包多提供无限制的文件托管和高速下载服务(文件<1G)' — unlimited file hosting, with a per-file note of <1 GB. So: unlimited total, 1 GB per object.
• data.govt.nz (New Zealand) fails: identityemailno cardI
  CKAN API answers 200 but the payload is replaced by an Incapsula/Imperva JS challenge wrapper on the HTML side; dataset count not machine-readable through th...
• DICE / EUDAT cost-free storage call (the EU's funded-storage instrument) fails: identityinstitutionno cardI
  Not published as a number — DICE is a funding instrument, not a product. It buys you 'personal drive storage' up to long-term preservation, priced by negotia...

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• Filecoin Plus / DataCap free storage fails: quotainstitutionno cardD
  was: DataCap granted by allocators, deals free or near-free for a user because SPs got 10x quality-adjusted power
• 0x0.st fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Uploads are DISABLED, not merely broken. POST returns HTTP 503 with body 'uploads disabled because it's been almost nothing but AI botnet spam for the past f...
• 163.com / 126.com free (netease) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  3 GB mailbox with a 280 MB bundled netdisk, attachment cap 20 MB: "3G（送280兆免费网盘）的超大空间 ... 附件支持高达 20兆". IMAP is live (imap.163.com:993 -> `APPENDLIMIT=71680...
• 189.qaiu.top — netdisk-fast-download '专业版' (baidu/xunlei/quark/uc/139/189/w fails: quotaemail?card?R
  AUTH-REQUIRED and paid. This is the tier that actually covers Baidu Pan, Quark, UC, 139, 189 and Unicom — precisely the pans the free tier omits. Every /pars...
• 4shared fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  15 GB free per account
• 4shared paid fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Could not verify. https://www.4shared.com/upgrade/ and /upgrade both 302 to https://e.4shared.com/linkerror.jsp and render 'linkerror' content; /plans.jsp li...
• 4TU.ResearchData fails: quotaemailno cardR
  5 GB per researcher per year free, then a one-off €4.50/GB (~$4,900/TB). Some sources cite 10 GB for non-4TU institutions.
• 500px fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A Basic free account is capped at 21 uploads per rolling 7 days (~1,092 images/year). 'Lossless original image storage' is a paid Pro feature, not free.
• 8gears container registry (container-registry.com) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Per-user dedicated Harbor instances with project-level storage quotas; the pricing markdown twin renders empty (JS-gated) and signup provisions a paid subscr...
• abv.bg free fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Blog states the quota evolution 6 GB -> 10 GB (7 GB mailbox + 3 GB drive), and the live IMAP port did not complete a CAPABILITY handshake. Under threshold re...
• academia.edu — data upload fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Same category error as ResearchGate, one step worse: it is a paper-sharing site with premium paywalls and no repository function, no DOI, and no documented b...
• academic literature on free-tier pooling / multi-free-account aggregation fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Does not exist. Four separate research-broker queries ('multi-cloud storage cost optimization free tier', 'erasure coding multi-cloud storage cost', 'free ti...
• Acast — Starter (free) plan fails: quotaemail?card?R
  1 show, 5 episodes on Free — 'unlimited episodes when you make your show available in Acast's advertising marketplace'. So free capacity is 5 episodes unless...
• activeloop deep lake / hivemind fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The product pivoted away from storage. deeplake.ai/pricing now sells 'Hivemind' agent traces and queries ($15 credits, 150k traces, 1.5M queries) with no sto...
• ads (archaeology data service) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Deposit is curated and costed per project via the 'Ingest' system; a registered account is required 'so that the ADS can manage your data deposits' and you '...
• afrihost and xneelo (south africa) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Neither sells bulk storage as a product; both sell web/cloud hosting where disk is a small attachment to a compute SKU. Afrihost Bronze is R310/mo for 100 GB...
• ai data commons as storage: fineweb, common pile, dclm, dolma/olmo, pleias fails: quotaemail?card?R
  All five are read-only distribution, not deposit targets, and they all sit on infrastructure the client cannot write to. FineWeb (25.9B docs / 48.6 TB) and C...
• ai2 / allenai hosted datasets fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No user-facing hosting. allenai.org/data is a catalogue that points at Hugging Face (allenai/WildChat-1M, allenai/winogrande), GitHub, or Semantic Scholar — ...
• airtable for nonprofits (50% off, not free) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Nonprofit plans are 'a 50% monthly discount per user on Team plans' — not a grant. Attachment storage per base: Free 1 GB, Team 20 GB, Business 100 GB, Enter...
• aispace.sh agent file drop fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free tier is 10 MB of storage and 100 uploads/month, max 7-day file lifetime, explicitly 'nothing lingers'. Off by 5 orders of magnitude.
• Aiven free tier (PostgreSQL / MySQL / Valkey / OpenSearch / Kafka) fails: quotacardcardR
  1 GB disk each for PostgreSQL, MySQL and Valkey (Valkey maxmemory = 50% of 1 GB RAM = 512 MB usable); 20 GB storage for OpenSearch; Kafka free tier is throug...
• akash network fails: quotaemail?card?R
  It is a compute marketplace, not storage: persistent storage is a paid resource attached to a deployment (per-GB-month in AKT), ephemeral by default, and the...
• akkoma / pleroma hosts as a distinct quota tier fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Probed akko.wtf, cofe.rocks, pleroma.envs.net, spinster.xyz. The first three return {"error":"Nodeinfo schema version not handled"} on /nodeinfo/2.0 and no...
• ALCC (ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRwrite-gated
  10-30% of ALCF/OLCF/NERSC resources each year, with associated project storage (e.g. OLCF 200 TB archive, 50 TB work).
• alexhost storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Named, checked, and there is no storage VPS — the VPS line is NVMe up to 80 GB. The storage product is a dedicated server starting at 20 TB HDD for €153/mo, ...
• Algolia fails: quotaemail?card?R
  50,000 records on the Free/Build plan (100K on the paid Grow tier); 10,000 search requests/month
• Alibaba Cloud ACR Enterprise Edition / OSS-backed registries (structural note, not a candidate) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Enterprise Edition stores artifacts in YOUR OSS bucket, so 'registry storage' is just OSS storage and is billed as OSS pay-as-you-go. There is no free allowa...
• Amazon CloudFront free tier (as the egress layer for any origin) fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-ip-shaping
  1 TB/month data transfer out + 10,000,000 HTTP/HTTPS requests + 2,000,000 CloudFront Function invocations, free every month, explicitly 'no longer limited to...
• amazon kdp (kindle direct publishing) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  650 MB conversion cap and 8,000-page cap; large files are actively discouraged and conversion fails above the limit.
• amazon photos fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Unlimited full-resolution photos only for Prime members — Prime is paid, so this is not a free tier. Free accounts get 5 GB; video is capped at 5 GB even on ...
• amazon sns fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Pub/sub only — zero storage. 1M publishes/month free, but messages are pushed and discarded; there is nothing to read back later.
• ameriflux fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Deposit is gated on registering a physical tower site and having a Site PI choose a data policy; content is restricted to half-hourly flux/BADM formats. No b...
• Anaconda.org (public conda channels) fails: quotaanonymousno cardR
  3 GB per free personal account. Anaconda staff on the official forum: 'You'll hit a hard limit at 10 GB with the default storage settings. If you need a larg...
• anaconda.org free plan fails: quotaemail?card?R
  3 GB total per account; would need ~6,800 accounts for 20 TiB.
• anna's archive fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No upload endpoint of its own — it is an index. Its FAQ routes uploads to Z-Library / Libgen.li and only takes >10,000-file dumps by email contact; its own '...
• anonymous spn2 (no account) capture fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The 2022 spec advertised 4,000 captures/day anonymous; live endpoint now refuses all anonymous writes with 401 and the GET form 429s.
• anonymous telegram file links for arbitrary documents fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The t.me/s preview path carries photos and videos only. Probed seven public channels for tgme_widget_message_document: zero hits, zero .pdf links. There is n...
• anubis / techaro botstopper walls (dans, dataverse.nl, bonndata, uni-bonn, fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Proof-of-work interstitial served with HTTP 200 on every HTML route. It inflates naive status-code probes: 10 hosts looked like they had an open signup form ...
• api.video fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Encoding free but hosting is $0.00285 per minute per month and delivery $0.0017 per minute. Per-minute-of-video pricing, so it is both paid and duration-shap...
• appimagehub fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Whole site sits behind an Anubis proof-of-work bot wall (upstream_status 200 but body is 'Making sure you're not a bot!'). Also it only indexes AppImages hos...
• appsumo fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No storage product exists in the catalogue. A site search for 'storage' returns 344 products and the top results are scheduling and social-media tools (TidyC...
• appsumo pcloud 500 gb and icedrive lifetime listings fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Both SOLD OUT / withdrawn. The AppSumo 60-day refund window — the main protection a lifetime buyer had — is therefore unavailable for storage. pCloud and Ice...
• appveyor artifacts fails: quotaemail?card?R
  14-day free trial only, no perpetual free tier. Artifacts are stored in 'AppVeyor cloud storage' but fetching them by URL requires authentication — no anonym...
• Appwrite Cloud fails: quotaemail?card?R
  2 GB storage + 5 GB bandwidth on Free; 2 projects
• arch user repository (aur) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Git only, PKGBUILDs and small aux files; hard 256,000-byte (250 KiB) per-blob limit enforced in aurweb's git hook. No binaries at all.
• archive-it fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Paid subscription crawler, not free storage; only appeared because it shares the Wayback infrastructure.
• archive.org classic web uploader (browser drag-and-drop) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Fails the programmatic-access filter on its own; also the weakest path (Resume-button retries, 503-slowdown-spam, ASCII-only filenames). Only the IAS3 API or...
• archive.org forum '10gb per item' guidance fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Decade-old staff answer; superseded. Real current limits are 1TB/item. Recorded so nobody sizes an architecture from it.
• ardc nectar research cloud (australia) as free object storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Every researcher gets a 'project trial with 4 VCPUs allocated for six months', but object storage is not part of the trial — it is an RC-NAS allocation item ...
• arize ax / phoenix cloud free tier fails: quotaemail?card?R
  AX Free is 25k spans/month with 1 GB ingestion and 7-15 day retention; Pro is 10 GB/30 days. Spans are telemetry, not objects, and there is no bulk-blob path.
• artstation fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Image posts cap at 10,000x10,000 px and the platform re-encodes for the portfolio viewer; free accounts have no meaningful byte quota but no original-byte de...
• arvancloud free cdn (iran) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free CDN tier is 100 GB/month of traffic, per a LowEndTalk report and their own catalogue entries — a third of Gcore's free slice and with far worse latency ...
• Arweave via ar.io / Turbo (ario-deploy free tier) fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  Turbo free tier: 105 KiB per data item, 10 MiB over the lifetime of a wallet AND 10 MiB over the lifetime of an IP range. Larger files are billed.
• Arweave via Turbo / ar.io free tier fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  Free tier: 105 KiB per data item, and only 10 MiB over the lifetime of a wallet AND 10 MiB over the lifetime of an IP range. Anything larger is billed in Tur...
• arxiv fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Endorsement-gated and paper-shaped: 'We only accept submissions from registered authors. If you are a new user or are submitting to a new category, you may b...
• astraweb fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No free trial on the live site any more — the homepage goes straight to $15/month, 5,500 days retention, 50 connections. The 'free trial' I searched for does...
• asu dataverse / unc dataverse / uva dataverse (unverified openness) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  All three answered the liveness and quota probes (6.11 asu build, 6.8, 6.9) and all three report 'No quota defined for this collection' — but I did not estab...
• atlassian anonymous media-upload token (jira service desk portal) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A promising-looking wrapper that dies on probe. Public Jira Service Desk portals emit an anonymous, 20-minute 'mediaApiUploadInformation' bearer token scoped...
• atomgit (atomgit.com / docs.atomgit.com) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  5 GB of LFS per repo. The capacity doc states it plainly: 'By default, a repository has 2GB Git storage space and 5GB LFS storage space', confirmed by a 2024...
• Audiovisual / heritage: Open Heritage 3D (CyArk + UC San Diego CHEI) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRwrite-gated
  No published quota. The project is a consortium repository — 'we invite others to join the Open Heritage 3D project and contribute their datasets' — with 200...
• aur fails: quotaemail?card?R
  250 KiB hard blob cap enforced by a server-side git hook. Off by three orders of magnitude.
• AUR (Arch User Repository) fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  Not a storage candidate at all: the AUR enforces a hard maximum blob size of 250 KiB per git object. The git hook rejects the push: 'remote: error: maximum b...
• aussda (austria) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Self-deposit is limited to researchers at partner universities (Vienna, Graz, Linz, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Krems, WU, OeAW) who sign an archive contract. Not a...
• AWS Bedrock — custom model import fails: quotacardcardR
  Hard per-object cap: 'The size of the imported model weights must be less than 100GB for multimodal models and 200GB for text models.' No free storage at all...
• AWS Cloud Credit for Research fails: quotainstitutionno cardRwrite-gated
  Students capped at $5,000; 'Faculty and Staff awards are not capped'. Credit-denominated against S3 list price.
• AWS CodeArtifact fails: quotacardcardRper-object-cap
  First 2 GB of storage and first 100,000 requests per month free — a recurring monthly allowance, described on the pricing page as 'a monthly AWS Free Tier fo...
• aws ecr private free tier (500 mb / 12 months) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Trial, not free tier, and tiny: 'As a new Amazon ECR customer, you get 500 MB per month of storage for your private repositories for one year as part of the ...
• AWS Lambda layers (and function deployment packages) fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  Per-function/per-layer caps only, plus a regional aggregate. Verbatim: 'Deployment package (.zip file archive) size | 50 MB (zipped, when uploaded through th...
• aws s3 5 gb / 12-month free tier (as commonly cited) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The current AWS free-tier page and S3 pricing page no longer present a perpetual or 12-month 5 GB S3 allowance; the programme is now $200 of credits over 6 m...
• ayaya.beauty fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  no account; 1 GiB per file
• Azure Artifacts fails: quotacardcardRdisagrees
  2 GiB free per ORGANIZATION (not per project, not per feed), then tiered per-GiB: 2–10 GiB $2/GiB, 10–100 GiB $1/GiB, 100–1,000 GiB $0.50/GiB, 1,000+ GiB $0....
• azure artifacts (azure devops) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  2 GiB free per organization, and publishing is blocked at the limit: 'Once your organization reaches the storage limit, you won't be able to publish new arti...
• Azure Blob Storage always-free tier fails: quotacardcardRper-object-cap
  5 GB LRS hot block storage, with 20,000 read and 10,000 write operations per month, free for 12 months. Azure Files: 100 GB LRS hot/cool/transaction-optimize...
• Azure Container Registry (Basic / free 12-month Standard) fails: quotacardcardR
  Basic SKU includes 10 GiB storage; Standard includes 100 GiB; Premium 500 GiB. Registry storage limit 40 TiB (Basic/Standard) / 100 TiB (Premium). Free grant...
• azure container registry free standard tier fails: quotaemail?card?R
  'Included storage' is bundled into a paid daily SKU rate, not granted free; 100 GB for 12 months then billing. Basic is a paid SKU from day one.
• azure devops artifacts fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  2 GiB free per org, hard block on publish at the cap, and pay-go tiers start at $2/GB for the 2-10 GiB band. The 4 TiB Universal Package file ceiling is unus...
• Azure DevOps Artifacts (Universal Packages) fails: quotacardcardRper-object-capdisagrees
  2 GiB free storage per organization; Universal Packages up to 4 TiB per file.
• azure files 100 gb free fails: quotaemail?card?R
  100 GB for 12 months only, then bills; requires an Azure subscription with card. No path to 500 GB.
• azure for students fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  $100 credit valid 12 months plus free monthly service amounts - a credit, not storage. Expires to pay-go.
• azure for students ($100 credit) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  '$100 credit to use on Azure services within 12 months', renewable annually 'as long as you're a student'. $100 is a few TB-months at best; the 12-month bala...
• azure for students ($100/yr, renewable) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Genuinely renewable - '$100 credit to use on Azure services within 12 months', renewed annually 'as long as you're a student' - but it is $100, roughly 1-2 T...
• azure open datasets (as a hosting programme) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  No intake at all. It is a curated catalogue of Microsoft/partner data surfaced through Azure ML; there is no application, no quota and no route to place your...
• azure pipelines build artifacts (as a free archive) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Retention is configurable and a run can be marked 'retained indefinitely', but the backing storage is the Azure DevOps organization's storage, and the org's ...
• b2drop (eudat) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  20 GB per user ('For the current prototype there is a limit of 20GB per user'). Well below the bar and the FAQ still calls the service a prototype.
• baidu pan fails: quotaemail?card?R
  historically 2 TB free, but the free allowance was cut to 100 GB for accounts not logged in for two years (2020 announcement). Endpoint and open-platform quo...
• baidu qianfan 'unlimited' knowledge base storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The unlimited claim is enterprise-tier marketing from 2024 and routes through user-funded BOS. The shared-storage path is documented as '小规模文件导入' (small-scal...
• Baidu Qianfan AppBuilder knowledge bases fails: quotaany-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-cap
  Advertised as '文件存储和处理不限量' (file storage and processing unlimited) on the shared-storage path; documented default is 100 knowledge bases x 800 files each = 8...
• bandwidth alliance / free-to-cloudflare peering as the egress answer fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Every one of the seven answers with 'Server: cloudflare', but that is only the front door. All of them sit behind Cloudflare's proxy on the HTML, and then se...
• basecamp for free fails: quotaemail?card?R
  1 GB of file storage, 1 project, 3 users; 'Public sharing links' and 'additional storage' explicitly not available on the free plan. No API for files.
• bashupload.com fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Domain no longer resolves to an origin — DNS returns only an SOA in the Authority section (NXDOMAIN-equivalent, registrar-servers.com), and the proxy returns...
• beehiiv (free plan) — 500 MB per podcast episode, newsletter attachment host fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  Free plan is "Free forever" with unlimited email sends (pricing page). Per-file: "The maximum file size for a single podcast episode upload is 500 MB." File ...
• Beget S3 (Russia) — free egress S3 at 350 Mbit/s, the only Russian object store with traffic in the price fails: quotacardcardRper-ip-shaping USD 9.34/TB-mo
  ₽0.07 per GB per DAY (≈ ₽2.10/GB/month), billed daily on actual usage, unlimited buckets. Avail 99.98 %, three copies across servers.
• behance fails: quotaemail?card?R
  500 MB per file for project asset types and unlimited projects, but Behance renders display images at 1400px/2800px so the source file is not what is served....
• bibliothèque nationale de france — dépôt légal fails: quotaemail?card?R
  You must be th
• bilibili as a byte store fails: quotaemail?card?R
  8 GB sounds good but every upload is transcoded and content-reviewed; playback is signed m3u8. Cannot return the uploaded bytes
• bioconductor fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Hard 5 MB per individual file even after acceptance, and 10 MB per source package. 'individual files must be <= 5MB. This restriction exists even after the p...
• BIShare fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  100 GB per transfer by link, no account on either side; unlimited size device-to-device on the same LAN (nothing uploaded).
• bitbucket cloud free fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free workspaces were cut to 1 GB of total repository storage (all repos combined) effective 2025-04-28, delayed to 2025-05-29. Free plan also lost the Downlo...
• Bitbucket Cloud Git LFS fails: quotacardcardRper-object-cap
  Free (up to 5 users): 1 GB LFS storage. Academic 5 GB, Standard 5 GB, Premium 10 GB. Extra storage sold in 100 GB units at $10/month. Notable counter-propert...
• bitrise artifacts fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Time-boxed and aggressively shortened in 2026: non-installable artifacts 90 days, installables 150 days, HTML reports and pipeline intermediates 7 days. Remo...
• bittorrent / webtorrent seeding fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Same structural failure as Hypercore: no host, no quota, no persistence guarantee. WebTorrent needs an active seeder (you) and browser peers; a torrent with ...
• Blaze (BLAZE Quantum) fails: quotacardcardRper-object-cap
  Free Forever: 2 GB transfer with 7-day retention, plus 2 GB of BLAZE Drive storage, 2 workspaces, 2 upload portals. Starter €6/user/mo: 100 GB transfer / 30-...
• blinkenshell / sdf / free shell accounts (the 'tilde' route) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free SSH shell accounts exist and are charming, but the disk is 100 MB (Blinkenshell 'Disk Quota 100 MB', x4 on Supporter at EUR 3/mo). SDF's MetaARPA tier g...
• Blossom blob servers (nostr.download, blossom.nostr.build, 24242.io) fails: quotaanonymousno cardRretention-clamped
  Per-object caps only, and small: nostr.build free uploads 20 MiB, hard cap 100 MiB, then storage plans 5 GB / $18/yr up to 500 GB / $240/yr. 24242.io: 100 Mi...
• blossom.band / nostr.build blossom (free tier) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free uploads are 20 MiB per file with no retention guarantee ('A hard cap of 100 MiB per upload (20 MiB for free uploads)'), and the BUD-06 pre-flight is act...
• Bluesky / AT Protocol PDS — 5 MiB blob default, GC'd unless referenced fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  blobUploadLimit defaults to 5 * 1024 * 1024 = 5 MiB per blob, overridable per-PDS via the BLOB_UPLOAD_LIMIT env var. Per-account: bsky.app's hosted PDS is ge...
• boinc projects as storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  BOINC allocates *client* disk to projects, not server storage to users. The user-facing server facility is a 'file sandbox' for job inputs, and job submitter...
• BOOTH (pixiv) fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  1.2 GB per file (raised from 1 GB on 2026-03-09), 10 GB total per shop; storage add-on ¥540/month per extra block.
• BorgBase — Medium / Large fails: quotaemailno cardR USD 6/TB-mo
  10 GB free forever; Small 250 GB, Medium 1 TB, Large 2 TB; flexible quota up to 3x plan
• Box (free developer plan) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  10 GB storage, 250 MB file upload limit, 1 file version
• Box for Nonprofits — donated Starter (10 perpetual licences) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  Box Starter, free for nonprofits via TechSoup validation: 'Secure file collaboration, storage and native e-signatures for up to 10 users | 100 GB of storage ...
• Bright Data residential network (buy side) fails: quotacardcardRper-ip-shaping USD 4/TB-mo
  pay-as-you-go $4.00-$8.00/GB depending on tier (141 GB included at $4.00/GB after the RESIGB50 coupon; $3.50, $3.00, $2.50 at higher volumes); free trial on ...
• btfs (bittorrent file system) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  It is a host-side staking scheme, not a consumer storage tier: hosts must stake in 500,000 BTT units, redeem only after 90 days, and are penalised 10,000 BTT...
• buildkite artifacts fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Metered both ways: storage billed per GB-month and transfer billed per GB beyond plan inclusion, and retention maxes at 7/30/90 days depending on plan. Full ...
• Bunkr fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  No total quota published; 2 GB maximum per file.
• BuyVM Block Storage Slabs fails: quotacardcardRper-object-cap USD 5.18/TB-mo
  Sold in 256 GB chunks at $1.25/mo. Max 10 TB per Slab, max 8 Slabs per KVM Slice = 80 TB theoretical. Requires an accompanying KVM slice in the same facility...
• buzzsprout — free plan fails: quotaemail?card?R
  2 hours of upload per month AND episodes are deleted from the feed after 90 days (with a further 90-day 'safety net' before permanent removal). It is a demo ...
• c-v.sh fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Advertised as a 'pastor' 512 MiB temporary host, but the documented upload form requires an Authorization header ('Header of type authorization was missing...
• Cachix (Nix binary cache hosting) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  5 GB free for open-source projects: 'Users have a free 5 GB limit for open source projects and 20 Cachix Deploy agents.' Paid tiers start at 50 GiB.
• cafe24 quick server (kr) hdd expansion fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The marginal HDD rate is genuinely the cheapest thing I found — ₩16,000/mo per 4 TB = ₩4,000/TB = $3.02/TB — but it is an add-on to a dedicated server whose ...
• Calameo fails: quotaemail?card?R
  BASIC (free) account: 1 GB storage, 100 MB / 500 pages max per document, unlimited number of publications, 5 private publications.
• calckey.world — Sharkey, 10 GB per user fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  10240 MB = 10 GiB per user; maxFileSize 250 MiB.
• canfar / opencadc vospace (canada) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Storage is per-deployment and per-project and the docs explicitly defer the number: 'The exact mounts, quotas, and retention policy belong to the deployment ...
• canva nonprofits (free canva pro, up to 50 seats) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  '100% free for registered nonprofits ... up to 50 users' but the Pro tier gives '100GB of cloud storage' for the whole team (pricing ladder: Free 5 GB, Pro 1...
• cdnjs / cdnjs.cloudflare.com as a personal store fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not open-write: packages are added by maintainer PR against the cdnjs/cdnjs repo, i.e. write-gated by review. Its free mirror hop.js is useful (see candidate...
• cern document server (repository.cern, inveniordm) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  CERN institutional repository — submissions are internal. Also holds no large files: querying files.size >= 1GB returned 0 records out of 73,837, so even as ...
• cern open data portal fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Read-only for outsiders. It disseminates LHC experiment data under experiment data policies; there is no deposit path for a member of the public. Excellent f...
• cern open data portal / cern document server as writable storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Read-only dissemination for outsiders; CDS submissions are internal. Already recorded by the D-D1 agent; confirmed here as read-only only. No deposit path fo...
• cess deoss fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Could not be probed alive: the documented endpoint does not resolve and the Cloudflare-fronted host returns 530. No quota page could be opened, so nothing to...
• chainguard free images (cgr.dev) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Read-only. Free images are pull-only base images — no push path for user artifacts, and the free entitlement is '5 images of your choice, including previous ...
• character.ai fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No document/file storage product at all — text persona chat only. Nothing to store.
• ChatGPT consumer file storage / Library + Projects fails: quotaany-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-cap
  25 GB shared upload storage per user, 100 GB per organization. 512 MB per file. Project file counts: Free 5, Go/Plus 25, Edu/Pro/Business/Enterprise 40. GPT ...
• Chocolatey Community Repository fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-capdisagrees
  200 MB hard per package: 'NOTE: 200MB is the maximum size of a package on the Chocolatey Community Repository. The package must download larger tools from a ...
• chocolatey community repository (community.chocolatey.org) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  150 MB max per package, moderation on every push, and active rate-limiting at ~100 installs/hour average with manual IP blocks that 'will not automatically e...
• circle fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Paid-only — storage is 200 GB (Professional) / 500 GB (Business) / 1 TB (Scale, Plus), starting at $89/mo after a 14-day trial, and overage is auto-billed at...
• CircleCI artifacts fails: quotaemail?card?Rretention-clamped
  No storage quota advertised on Free (30,000 credits/month). Artifact retention default AND maximum is 30 days on Cloud; storage usage is a billed meter, not ...
• cirrus ci fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Could not verify: the API host failed TLS negotiation from this environment, and the docs/pricing pages returned no extractable artifact-storage terms. Recor...
• civitai training-data / lora-dataset path (as a storage vector) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The cheapest-sounding Civitai surface is the shortest-lived: 'this data will be retained for 30 days', and training outputs 'retained for 30 days after the c...
• civitai vault (paid tier) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The obvious 'personal unlimited storage' feature on Civitai is paid and capped: Free has 'No access to Vault'; Bronze $10/mo = 100 GB, Silver = 250 GB, Gold ...
• ckan's own default per-file cap (structural, applies to every instance abov fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The default deployment is hostile to bulk storage before any policy gate applies: ckan.max_resource_size defaults to 10 MB and ckan.max_image_size to 2 MB. A...
• claude files api as an archive fails: quotaemail?card?R
  1 TB/org quota is real and per-file 500 MB is real, but uploaded files are explicitly non-downloadable — write-only. 100 workspaces x 1 TB would be 100 TB of...
• ClearML (hosted free tier) fails: quotaemailno cardR
  Zero free bytes by design. ClearML's free tier is 'Flexible Storage — Store your datasets on any storage service and connect to ClearML – HTTP/S3/GCS/Azure/N...
• clicknupload / filespace / dosya.co / hostize / storage.to / anon.cat fails: quotaemail?card?R
  All live, all far under the floor. Clicknupload: unlimited-for-active-files but 2 GB guest / 3 GB registered per file, inactive purged in 7-30 days. FileSpac...
• clickup fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free Forever Workspace gets 60 MB of total file storage — not per file, total. Paid jumps straight to 'Unlimited', which confirms the free tier is deliberate...
• clickup (free plan) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  'File Storage / 60MB' on Free - and the paid tiers are the only route to 'Unlimited'. 60 MB is a rounding error; not chainable in any useful way.
• Clojars (repo.clojars.org) fails: quotacountry-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-cap
  No published byte quota on the site pages read. A 2020-era project commit records an 81 MB uberjar being rejected as 'too large for clojars', and a later com...
• Cloud Firestore fails: quotaemail?card?Rrequest-rate
  1 GiB stored data on the free tier; 50,000 document reads/day; 20,000 writes/day; 10 GiB/month outbound
• cloud identity free (as a source of free identities / unlimited tenants) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Attractive in theory (free identities, Drive for desktop supported), but it grants no Workspace storage entitlement and no shared drives, so it produces iden...
• Cloud Storage for Firebase (Spark/Blaze) fails: quotacardcardRper-ip-shaping
  5 GB stored free, but only on the Blaze pay-as-you-go plan; Spark project buckets return 402/403.
• Cloud.ru Evolution Artifact Registry fails: quotaemail?card?R
  500 GB storage quota and 1 TB/month egress quota per organisation — but storage is billed, no free tier
• Cloud.ru Evolution Object Storage (ex-SberCloud) — cheapest Russian object rate, VAT-inclusive fails: quotacardcardR USD 38/TB-mo
  Single-zone S3 object storage ₽1.1346 per GB per month including 22 % VAT (₽0.93 ex-VAT). Tariff document takes effect 2026-09-28. No volume published.
• cloudcone storage vps fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Storage line tops out at 400 GB (Hashtag-26-Stor-VPS-4) and the headline '$14.24/Year' SKU is 55 GB. Fails ≥500 GB per unit; annual-only promotional pricing ...
• clouder (oleksandrshabaldas/clouder) and the drive-pooling family fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A clean, well-tested Windows app ('107 tests') that pools 'Google Drive and MEGA today' into one 45 GB folder. Names only already-researched providers and ad...
• cloudflare hyperdrive fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not a store — it is a connection pooler/cache in front of YOUR origin database. It carries no storage of its own, so it adds nothing to the byte budget. Its ...
• cloudflare images — storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The Free plan explicitly has NO storage: 'The Paid plan allows transformations, as well as access to storage in Images.' Free is transformations-only, 'up to...
• cloudflare pages as a mutable object store fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Recorded as a boundary, not a provider: Pages (and Workers static assets) cannot be used as mutable storage. Uploads are whole-deployment snapshots via git o...
• cloudflare queues fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Tempting because per-queue backlog is 25 GB, but on Workers Free message retention is 'non-configurable at 24 hours' — everything written is deleted within a...
• Cloudinary (free plan) fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-capdisagrees
  25 monthly credits. 1 credit = 1 GB managed storage OR 1 GB CDN bandwidth OR 1,000 transformations, mixable. So max 25 GB if every credit is spent on storage...
• cloudmate 500 gb free backup box (beta) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A LET comment advertised 'Backup storage box with SFTP and FTP over TLS access but its currently FREE under BETA 500GB'. The linked cart (host.cloudmate.in/c...
• cloudsmith fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Free Core plan is 500 MB artifact storage and 1 GB package delivery — three orders of magnitude short, and the pricing page 429'd on first fetch, requiring e...
• Cloudsmith — open-source (Broadcast: Open Source) repositories fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-capdisagrees
  At least 50 GB of artifact data + 200 GB of package delivery per month, free, pooled across ALL open-source repositories in one org — 'You get at least 50GB ...
• cnab (cloud native application bundles) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A packaging spec for distributed apps, not a storage provider; it defines a bundle format you push to a registry you already have. Adds nothing beyond ORAS i...
• cocalc fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Pricing page has been reduced to a membership/licensing blurb with no comparable tier table and no published storage figure — the numbers that used to make C...
• CockroachDB Cloud (Basic tier) fails: quotacardcardR
  $15/month of free resource consumption per pay-as-you-go org, equivalent to 50 million Request Units AND 10 GiB of storage per month
• CockroachDB Cloud (Basic) / Continuum fails: quotacardcardR
  $15/month of free resource consumption per pay-as-you-go org = 50M Request Units + 10 GiB storage/month
• cocoapods trunk fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Trunk accepts a .podspec (JSON metadata, a few KB) and nothing else; the pod's source is a URL field pointing at your own host. 'pod trunk push [NAME.podspec...
• codeberg (as a storage host) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Explicitly capacity-managed for F/LOSS code: request approval above 750 MiB Git storage and 1.5 GiB of packages/LFS/attachments, 100 MB private storage witho...
• codeberg (forgejo flagship instance) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Quota is ~750 MiB Git + 1.5 GiB combined LFS/packages/attachments per user, plus 100 MiB for non-promoted/private content, plus 100 MB per release/issue atta...
• Codeberg (Forgejo) Git LFS fails: quotaemail?card?Rwrite-gated
  750 MiB git repository storage + 'Additional 1.5 GiB' for 'LFS, Packages, Releases, Attachments' per user or organization. Non-promoted/personal content is c...
• codeberg (forgejo) packages / container registry fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Caps are tiny and hard: 750 MiB git repo, plus 1.5 GiB combined for LFS/Packages/Releases/Attachments, and non-promoted personal repos capped at 100 MiB. Quo...
• codeberg / forgejo package registry (forgejo packages) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Hard caps: 750 MiB git repository storage plus 1.5 GiB combined for LFS/Packages/Releases/Attachments per user or org, and non-promoted personal repos capped...
• Codeberg Pages (git-pages) fails: quotaemail?card?Rwrite-gated
  No hard quota: 'there is no quota for valid use-cases', with a soft review threshold at 750 MiB Git storage and 1.5 GiB packages/LFS/attachments per account.
• codehive (codehive.sr.ht) / sourcehut generally fails: quotaemail?card?R
  codehive.sr.ht does not resolve (NXDOMAIN) - there is no such host. sourcehut itself is paid-for-project-hosting ('All users who host projects on SourceHut a...
• Codemagic artifacts fails: quotaemail?card?R
  500 free build minutes/month on macOS M2 (individuals). No free storage allowance advertised. Artifact retention is per-team policy; Enterprise default is 1 ...
• Comet ML (Comet / Opik) — artifact + dataset management fails: quotaemailno cardRretention-clamped
  No storage allowance at all on the free tier. The free cloud plan is metered in spans, not bytes: 'Up to 10 team members · 25k spans per month · 60-day data ...
• Common Crawl (the petabyte corpus — read side only) fails: quotainstitution?card?R
  Not a hosting service: ~300 billion web pages across ~100+ monthly crawls, multi-petabyte, free to READ and free to re-host yourself. There is NO path to hos...
• Confluence Cloud Free fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  2 GB per site on Free (250 GB Standard, unlimited Premium); 100 MB default per attachment, admin-configurable
• confluence standard/premium as a free route fails: quotaemail?card?R
  250 GB and unlimited are paid tiers; the free tier is hard-capped at 2 GB and archived content still counts
• confluent cloud (kafka) fails: quotaemailcardR
  'New signups receive $400 to spend during their first 30 days.' The documentation adds 'Your free credit expires 30 days after you receive it.'
• conoha (jp) object storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  ₩450/100 GB/mo = ¥4,500/TB = $28.50/TB. Its headline pitch is 'unlimited capacity, free data transfer', which is true and irrelevant at 6x the floor. Require...
• contabo object storage as a *new* signup fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Product appears delisted from public pricing — contabo.com/en/object-storage/ now 301s to /storage-vps/ (a VM product) and contabo.com/en/pricing/ lists no O...
• contabo storage vps fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Worst $/TB of any storage VPS checked, and the advertised price is explicitly a 24-month teaser. Storage VPS 30 gives 1 TB for €11.20/mo = €11.20/TB — five t...
• Contabo Storage VPS 30 fails: quotacardcardR USD 17.14/TB-mo
  1 TB SSD (Storage VPS 10/20: 300/400 GB)
• Contabo Storage VPS — unlimited traffic, 300 GB–1.4 TB fails: quotacardcardRper-ip-shapingdisagrees
  Storage VPS 10: 300 GB SSD (150 GB NVMe option), 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM, €5.50/mo for the first 24 months. Top tier 1.4 TB SSD at €37/mo. Higher tiers listed as '...
• controlc.com fails: quotaemail?card?R
  100 KB per text paste, guest pastes expire in 48 hours max, and even media uploads cap at 500 MB/day guest / 2 GB/day member with 50 MB per image. Expiry and...
• Convex fails: quotaemail?card?R
  1 GB file storage on Free; 1 GB/month file egress; 0.5 GB database; 40 deployments
• copernicus cds / ads fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Retrieval-only by design: a queue-based API (cdsapi) that materialises requested slices. There is no user deposit path, so it cannot store the client's dat...
• Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE / ESA DIAS) - 12 TB/month of free READ, zero writable storage fails: quotaemailno cardRper-ip-shaping
  12 TB per rolling 30 days of download via S3/OData/STAC for a Copernicus General User, 20 MB/s per connection, 4 concurrent connections, 2,000 requests/min, ...
• core (core.ac.uk) — the 'can i deposit?' answer fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No deposit path at all. CORE is a harvester: it indexes full text from repositories it already crawls and explicitly refuses author submissions. The API key ...
• cpan / pause fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No published quota, but the whole of CPAN was only 29.0 GB in 2021 and PAUSE has publicly run out of disk. A 2 MB distribution was rejected with 413 'Request...
• CPAN / PAUSE (pause.perl.org) fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  No published byte quota, and the empirical evidence points to a tight request-body limit rather than a documented number: a 2,072,566-byte distribution was r...
• cran fails: quotaemail?card?R
  10 MB soft cap on source tarballs, 5 MB for data; policy explicitly rejects using packages to distribute bulk content. Human review.
• CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network) fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  Deliberately tiny, by policy. CRAN policy: 'As a general rule, neither data nor documentation should exceed 5MB ... Source package tarballs should if possibl...
• cran (r) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Policy explicitly caps and actively polices size: 'neither data nor documentation should exceed 5MB ... authors will be asked to trim their documentation to ...
• crawl-scale free-host ftp hosts (storage share, cloudtb, fbipool, octopusft fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Every one is paid. Storage Share 1 TB is a paid Nextcloud plan; CloudTB is '100 GB / $2 per month'; FBIPool 'Starts at Only Rs.24 Per Month' for 10 GB; ftpgr...
• creodias free trial (cloudferro) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A credit, not storage: up to EUR 250 valid for 6 months, considered per applicant and revocable at will ('CloudFerro reserves the right to refuse granting fr...
• ctan fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Web-form upload with manual editorial review; no API, no programmatic path regardless of size.
• CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRwrite-gateddisagrees
  No numeric quota published, but upload is a *manual web form* reviewed by the CTAN team, with extensive packaging rules (TDS layout, no .git, no editor backu...
• CurseForge (Overwolf) author upload API fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  No published per-file or total quota. Known caps: project media/gallery images limited to 2 MB (author complaint, Apr 2026); mod file upload limit not docume...
• curseforge (upload api / forgecdn) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Media cap is 2 MB; the mod-file cap is not published anywhere I could open, and the CDN actively refuses direct hotlinks — probe through the edge returns 302...
• CyVerse Data Store fails: quotaemailno cardRwrite-gated USD 5/TB-mo
  5 GB default for every account, explicitly for 'all domestic and international CyVerse account holders'. Above that it is paid: $125/TB/year single-copy up t...
• czi essential open source software for science (eoss) as an individual rout fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Grants go to organisations; an unaffiliated person must designate a fiscal sponsor, and every CZI RFA I read repeats 'All grants will be awarded to instituti...
• dans data stations (knaw, netherlands) / dataversenl fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Both sit behind Anubis proof-of-work ('Beveiligde verbinding wordt gecontroleerd...'), and DANS deposit is scope- and institution-oriented (archaeology, SSH,...
• darus (university of stuttgart, dataverse) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Explicitly restricted to 'Mitglieder und Partner der Universität Stuttgart' (Stuttgart members and partners) and to completed research results — not a genera...
• data.europa.eu fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Aggregator of national portals and open-data directives, not a host. Listing requires being an authorised representative of a European institution or a natio...
• data.gov (us federal catalog) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Metadata-only harvester. It does not host data files and has no self-service publisher path at all: sources are federal agency data.json inventories. The con...
• data.gov.au fails: quotaemail?card?R
  CloudFront returns 403 'Request blocked' for a user for both the API and the register page, so no probe was possible. Publishing is in any case restricted to...
• data.gov.in (india) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Host did not resolve/connect at all (curl exit 6/000) from this network, so nothing could be verified. India's public-data policy routes publication through ...
• data.gov.uk (uk national data library) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Stopped hosting entirely. The 2026 guidance says the Library 'does not host datasets' — you must publish on your organisation's own website, GOV.UK or your s...
• data.world fails: quotaemailno cardR USD 120/TB-mo
  100 GB total storage on the free Community plan, but with a 3 GB limit per dataset or project — and their own docs are stricter still: 'Dataset ingested to d...
• databricks free edition (default storage as an archive) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Free Edition is perpetual in the sense that it does not expire, and hitting quota does not delete data ('your data and settings will not be deleted'). But it...
• datacite commons, openalex, base, semantic scholar s2orc fails: quotaemail?card?R
  All four are discovery/index layers with zero writable storage. DataCite Commons is the PID graph over DOIs; OpenAlex and BASE are harvesters; S2ORC bulk acc...
• datacomp (datacomp.ai) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A benchmark definition, not a data host: 'the models are fixed and the challenge is to find the best possible data'. The pools (DataComp-1B CLIP pool, LM poo...
• dataone fails: quotaemail?card?R
  It is a federation of member nodes, not a depositor. The Coordinating Node answers (cn.dataone.org/cn/v2/node -> 200 XML) but there is no general deposit end...
• DataONE Hosted Repository (TACC / UC Santa Barbara) - the price anchor for managed 1 TB fails: quotacardcardRper-object-cap
  1 TB repository capacity, 'Grow your 1 TB repository capacity based on your storage needs in 1 TB increments', replicated to two geographic regions (Californ...
• Datarade fails: quotaemailno cardR
  Zero bytes hosted. Datarade is explicitly a discovery and brokerage layer: it 'doesn't host or deliver data, instead, it focuses on discovery, comparability,...
• datarade — see candidate entry (fails-quota) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A brokerage that stores no bytes on principle: 'doesn't host or deliver data'. The whole 'data marketplace' category (Datarade, data.world, AWS Data Exchange...
• dataverseno (norway) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Explicitly affiliation-gated: 'Anyone affiliated with a Norwegian research institution can deposit their research data, free of charge at DataverseNO.' Exter...
• DDownload fails: quotaanonymousno cardRretention-clamped
  Ultimate (paid, EUR 3.33-14.99/mo): 'Unlimited Storage' and 'Unlimited File Size'. Free registered accounts are explicitly limited: 'Free accounts have a lim...
• debian snapshot fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Read-only ingest of the Debian archive; no user write path at any size. 172 TB is theirs, not yours.
• Debian snapshot archive (snapshot.debian.org) fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  No user quota because there is no user write path - snapshot ingests the Debian archive itself. Scale reference from the site's own news: 'Snapshot is curren...
• deCDN fails: quotaemailno cardRwrite-gated
  No free capacity. No storage tier at all: 'Not a blockchain or storage network — durability relies on cheap, reliable object storage (S3-class) owned by orig...
• deepghs hub (hub.deepghs.org) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  An HF-software deployment run by one anime-dataset group (deepghs): 73 models, 25 datasets, 26 spaces, and a 'Host Your Own Hub' link. Tiny to the point of b...
• Deepnote fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  Free plan: 3 editors, 5 projects, Basic machine (5 GB RAM, 2 vCPU) unlimited. No free-tier disk figure is published anywhere on the pricing page or docs.
• DeepStorage (deepstorage.dev) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free: 2 TB. Community (join their Telegram channel): storage becomes 'Unlimited, while you are in the channel'. Both have no per-file size limit.
• deezer for creators fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No upload path at all — 'While Deezer doesn't accept direct uploads from artists, we've made the process simple through our partnerships with trusted music d...
• degoo fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free tier is 20 GB today (was 100 GB), 3 devices, 90-day inactivity deletion. No rclone backend — feature request issue #4424 has been open since 2020; only ...
• degoo 10 tb lifetime (stacksocial) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Listing is still up but the vendor's reliability record disqualifies it: users report account deactivation and data loss including on the old lifetime plan. ...
• Degoo Ultimate 5 TB fails: quotacardcardRper-object-cap USD 9.99/TB-mo
  Free 20 GB; Pro 500 GB; Ultimate 5 TB. Third-party trackers put Ultimate at $9.99/mo.
• Degoo — 20 GB free + referral ladder fails: quotaemailno cardR
  20 GB free, plus 5 GB referral bonus and 250 MB per referred friend. Paid: 500 GB $2.99/mo, 5000 GB Ultimate.
• deic interactive hpc / ucloud (denmark) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Storage is a Weka filesystem product granted through a reviewed 'grant application' scored by an internal committee per provider, requested in GB with no pub...
• Deno Deploy (managed Deno KV) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  1 GiB of KV storage on Free. Pricing page, KV section: 'KV storage: 1 GiB'; 'KV read units/mo (4KiB): 1,000,000'; 'KV write units/mo (1KiB): 500,000'. Pro ra...
• deno deploy deployment assets (static file store) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The deployment bundle cap is 1 GB for ALL files in a deployment: 'the total size of all files within the deployment (source files and static files) should no...
• designsafe-ci / nheri data depot (tacc) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Publishing is genuinely uncapped — 'Currently we do not impose restrictions on the size of the datasets that can be published ... Largest published datasets ...
• DeviantArt Sta.sh fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  2 GB Sta.sh storage free, up to 100 GB with Core
• DigitalOcean Container Registry (DOCR) — Starter fails: quotaemail?card?R
  'Starter is a free offering with a single registry and repository to let you try out DOCR.' Storage 500 MiB: table row 'Storage | 500 MiB | 5 GiB | 100 GiB'....
• DigitalOcean Spaces fails: quotacardcardR USD 10.24/TB-mo
  $5.00/mo base subscription includes 250 GiB across all buckets; +$0.02/GiB beyond
• digitalocean spaces via github student pack fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The $100-$200 student credit was removed. Changelog: 'DigitalOcean is leaving the Student Developer Pack, and their student credit offer for $200 of platform...
• directus cloud (core) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Core is $0/mo but is capped on seats/collections (3 seats, 25 collections, 5 flows) and provides no advertised free storage allowance — assets go to the stor...
• disk-o (disk-o.cloud) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not a storage provider — a desktop aggregator client that mounts *other* clouds (its own copy: 'Переносите файлы из любых подключенных хранилищ в Облако Mail...
• disk-o (mail) as a storage source fails: quotaemail?card?R
  It is a multi-cloud client/aggregator for Yandex Disk, Google Drive, Dropbox, Mail.ru etc. — it owns no storage and adds no quota, so it can only ever surfac...
• disroot fails: quotaemail?card?R
  free Nextcloud (so WebDAV works out of the box) but only 2 GB; extra space is granted by an application form, not by scaling accounts, and the instance is do...
• dns txt records as a storage medium (desec / duckdns / freedns) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Works as a protocol but the ceiling is ~1 MB per name: one RRset allows max 4091 record values and 64,000 characters total after JSON encoding, and RRset wri...
• document360 fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free plan is 1 GB media storage (Startup 50 GB, Business 'Unlimited'), 150 MB per upload, 5,000 files per folder. 1 GB free is far under the 500 GB filter an...
• DocumentCloud (MuckRock) fails: quotaanonymousno cardR
  500 MB per PDF (25 MB for non-PDF, converted via LibreOffice); no published account storage cap, but uploads require a manually verified account.
• dpaste.org fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  approx. 1 MiB per paste (measured: 1,040,000 chars accepted, 1,133,336 chars -> HTTP 413). No account, no quota, no count limit observed.
• dropbox basic fails: quotaemail?card?R
  2 GB free at signup; referral bonuses are capped and the account is capped well under 500 GB. rclone backend exists (Tier 1) but the quota is fatal.
• DropMeFiles fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-ip-shaping
  no account; up to 50 GB per transfer
• Dryad fails: quotainstitutionno cardRdisagrees
  Pay-to-publish (Data Publishing Charge). Up to 5 GB = $150; 1 TB = $6,077; 2 TB = $12,162. Not a free tier in any sense.
• dryad (data publishing with fee waiver) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  A publishing charge, not a grant: $150 for a 0-5 GB dataset, rising by size band, and sponsorship exists only through a partner institution or journal. There...
• dryad — the 2025-26 pricing model fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Pay-to-publish, and the price scales with size, so it is anti-correlated with a user's need. Large-data fees: $259 for >10–50 GB, $464 to 100 GB, $1,123 to 2...
• dumbpipe / pigeons / iroh-ssh (as storage) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Tunnel products, not stores. dumbpipe's own tagline is 'Unix pipes between devices'; pigeons is SSH-over-iroh; iroh-ssh is 'SSH to any machine without ip'. T...
• e2e networks object storage (india) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  ₹2.5/GB/month is $26.95/TB/mo — 6.6× Utho's archive tier and 17× its own archive — and data transfer is ₹3/GB, i.e. $32.24 per TB read. Worse, billing is on ...
• earnapp (bright data) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Dropped per-GB pay on 20 Aug 2025 and now pays per hour of active use, capped at $10/month per US IP and $5 elsewhere - a hard ceiling that makes it useless ...
• earthstar fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A specification plus JS library for local-first apps; explicitly self-hosted and serverless. 'Always self-hosted. Servers optional.' There is no provider, so...
• ebird / macaulay library fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A real media archive with no total quota, but JPG only under 20 MB and WAV under 500 MB, and every asset must attach to a valid checklist (species, count, lo...
• Edge Network Storage fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  Free tier: '2 buckets / 5 GB storage / S3-compatible API / Zero egress fees'.
• edgio / limelight networks fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Chapter 11 in September 2024, CDN went dark 15 Jan 2025. Akamai acquired the assets and select contracts. Any cached pricing for Edgio is fiction.
• egnyte fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Trial only — every plan tier says 'Start Free Trial' with no perpetual free plan. The '100GB/150GB' figures on the pricing page appear to be trial or add-on ...
• elastic cloud (elasticsearch/opensearch hosted) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  14-day trial only, no permanent free tier. The trial is time-boxed, not byte-boxed, so it fails both the free test and the durability test.
• elephantdrive fails: quotaemail?card?R
  2 GB free 'Open Edition'; entry paid is 1,000 GB starting at $10/month. No programmatic path (app-only backup).
• ena (european nucleotide archive) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Free and effectively unlimited, but Webin accounts are for nucleotide sequence submission only; the upload area is 'a temporary transit area which is not bac...
• enter cloud suite object storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  OpenStack Swift, pay-per-use IaaS, no public price list — only protocol documentation exists. Zero pricing transparency, and Swift is not S3.
• eosc eu node as bulk storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  50 GB personal / 500 GB group, 1 TB/month transfer, credits that do not roll over and cannot be topped up. Reported as a candidate above for completeness; it...
• esa network of resources (nor) sponsorship fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Was a EUR 5,000 voucher for any non-revenue EO project; the eligibility now reads 'ESA is currently supporting research, development and pre-commercial APEx ...
• esm.sh as a blob store fails: quotaemail?card?R
  It is a *transform* service, not a file server: request any module and you get a 136-byte re-export stub pointing at a rewritten path, not the bytes. Only JS...
• Estonia e-Residency fails: quotanational-idno cardR
  None. The programme issues a digital identity card + DigiDoc software and the right to run an EU company; it confers no storage allocation of any kind.
• Eternal September (news.eternal-september.org) — free NNTP read/write fails: quotacountry-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-cap
  No byte quota. Free read AND write access to all *text* newsgroups after online registration. 281 hierarchies, alt.* alone is 8,728 groups, free.* is 1,284. ...
• ethstorage / evmfs / on-chain calldata file systems fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Real systems (EthStorage mainnet chain 333, FlatDirectory contracts; EVMFS 20 KB chunks per call) but pricing is per-calldata-byte. Calldata is $11.01/MB liv...
• etsy (digital downloads) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  5 files per listing at 20 MB each = 100 MB per listing ceiling, plus a $0.20 listing fee per shard, so sharding costs more than the storage is worth. No prog...
• eu ai factories — playground access fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free, FIFO, no competitive selection, access within 2 working days — the closest thing in Europe to a self-serve allocation. But it is aimed at 'Industry use...
• eurohpc benchmark access (as a storage route) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Explicitly a short pre-allocation test: 'Users receive a limited number of node hours; the maximum allocation period is three months.' No storage allocation ...
• eurohpc ju benchmark access as a storage route fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Benchmark access gives 'a limited number of node hours; the maximum allocation period is three months' for code-scaling tests. No storage allocation is descr...
• EuroHPC JU Regular Access (LUMI, Leonardo, MareNostrum 5, JUPITER) fails: quotainstitution?card?R
  Node-hours plus an associated storage quota set by the hosting entity (LUMI-O alone defaults to 150 TB per LUMI project). Not a standalone storage call.
• europeana fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Aggregator, not a store. Europeana ingests metadata from accredited national aggregators and domain aggregators; an individual cannot deposit bytes, and the ...
• europeana (incl. europeana 3d) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  An aggregator, not a host. Content arrives by harvesting institutional metadata; there is no self-serve deposit and no byte storage. /share-your-collections ...
• euserv backuphd 1t (se2021 / se2019 / wme2018) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The 1000 GB free-year offers are expired: the page itself says 'Offer is valid until 31.12.2021', one contract per customer, auto-renews at paid rates. The o...
• euserv backuphd classic free fails: quotaemail?card?R
  2 GB. The surviving free tier of the host everyone cites for 'free 1 TB'. Two orders of magnitude below the floor.
• evex storage (storage.evex.land) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Genuine unknown that turned out broken. A Hono service whose own page says 'Unlimited storage', with a published SDK (raicdev/evex-storage-sdk) — but the upl...
• ExaVault (Files.com) — free self-hosted appliance fails: quotacardcardR
  The hosted product is gone. What is free is the *appliance*: unlimited capacity on your own disk, licensed for up to 50 users, no expiry, no throttling. Ther...
• F-Droid (f-droid.org/repo APK archive) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No published total or per-app byte quota. The archive is large and browsable: index-v2.json is 66,480,070 bytes and a single APK (org.fdroid.fdroid) is 12,42...
• fal.ai fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Same shape as Replicate and worse-documented for storage: the platform is per-second GPU billing for model APIs and Serverless deploys, with a 'fal CDN' for ...
• fal.ai persistent /data volume fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  No published byte quota on the /data volume — the docs state only 'Files written to /data persist between requests, across runner restarts, and across deploy...
• falco fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No storage provider named Falco exists to verify. falco.io and falco.org both resolve to the CNCF runtime-security project (falco.io serves 'Falco — Why Falc...
• farcaster as a file store fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Fails on first principles, not on a URL: the protocol stores no media. A cast embed is a URL to somebody else's host, and message acceptance is gated on rent...
• Farcaster hubs / Snapchain — storage RENT, actively metered fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Storage is allocated in integer units per fid and must be BOUGHT from the Storage Registry contract on Optimism (0x00000000fcCe7f938e7aE6D3c335bD6a1a7c593D)....
• fars.ee (listed as a file host in the free-s3 research.md '0x0 family') fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not a file host at all — it is a ptpb/pb text pastebin and warns 'do NOT post large files'. A useful warning about the catalog itself: one of its 19 rows i...
• Fastly free account + Fast Forward OSS programme fails: quotaemailno cardRwrite-gated USD 280/TB-mo
  Free account: 100 GB bandwidth/month free across all regions, 1M CDN requests/month, 5 domains, 100K purge requests. Above 100 GB: $0.12/GB EU/NA, $0.19/GB A...
• febbox / feb fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The 'free 1TB' figure is stale marketing. The 2024 press release still says 'free 1TB storage', but the live plan page now reads 'Free Plan ... 10GB basic sp...
• febbox / feb 1 tb free fails: quotaemail?card?R
  BAIT AND SWITCH, ALREADY EXECUTED. The 1 TB free offer circulated on Chinese forums in January 2026 (nodeloc thread 75566, '1T免费网盘febbox'). By March 2026 lin...
• fed4fire+ / slices-ri fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Fed4FIRE+ closed in June 2022 ('reached its finish line ... Its legacy will be taken by SLICES-RI'). SLICES is a consortium of 16 European countries still bu...
• figshare (figshare.com free accounts) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  20 GB storage quota per account. Note: the brief's '5 GB per file' is stale — the current limit is 20 GB per individual file. Items 500, files per item 500, ...
• figshare for institutions fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Raises file size to 5 TB and private space per institution, but only for users with an institutional figshare repository — no self-serve route for an individ...
• figshare+ (large-data tier) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Paid, one-time data publishing charge ($875 per 250 GB per a third-party guide); requires a single publication/project, max 10 item DOIs, and all items submi...
• File Garden fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  free, 'forever' retention; per-file and per-account caps not published on the landing page
• File.io fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-ip-shapingdisagrees
  no account; 4 GB per transfer ('file transfers are limited to a total of 4 GB')
• file.io (now limewire) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  file.io redirects into LimeWire. Free plan is 40 GB storage with a 4 GB upload cap and files expire after 3 days; 20 downloads per file per day. Retention ma...
• file.kiwi Web Folder+ (prepaid Upload-GB) fails: quotaemailno cardR USD 607/TB-mo
  Prepaid Upload-GB: 50 GB upload $1.20, 100 GB $1.60, 500 GB $3.99, 1000×n GB $6.99×n. 1 Upload-GB = a 1 GB file kept available for 7 days.
• FileAxa fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  Free registered: 488 GB storage, 10,000 Mb (10 GB) per file; free (unregistered) row has no storage pool
• Filebase (IPFS tier) fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  Free: 5 GB pooled storage across Object Storage and IPFS, 500 pinned files, 10 GB/month IPFS bandwidth, object egress free. Pro $7.50/mo: 500 GB pooled.
• Filebin fails: quotaanonymousno cardRretention-clamped
  no account; per-bin, no published byte cap; bins expire 6 days after creation
• filebin.net fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Hard 6-day automatic deletion of every bin, and bins require approval before downloads are allowed. No persistence path at any price.
• filecoin pin (pin.filecoin.cloud) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The public demo is Calibration testnet only: 'data isn't permanent and infrastructure resets regularly', and the UI caps uploads at 200 MB. Mainnet use runs ...
• fileditch old domain (fileditch.com) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Root domain is now only a meta-refresh stub to new.fileditch.com; all real limits/API live on the new host, so any blog citing fileditch.com figures is stale.
• Filemail fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  5 GB per transfer with no registration; 2 transfers per 24 hours; 7-day retention. Paid: Pro 250 GB/transfer, Business/Enterprise 'unlimited file size' — and...
• filemail 'store files forever' fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The only genuine forever-retention product in this niche, but it is Business/Enterprise only and consumes paid account storage. Not reachable from the free t...
• Filemail Basic fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  5 GB of storage space and 5 GB max per transfer, on a free 1-user account.
• filemoon.sx fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Video-hosting shell, not a general file dump: the page is 1605 bytes of 'Byse Frontend' JS that only activates on /e/ embed paths. No upload API and no file ...
• Filen fails: quotacardcardR
  10 GiB free at signup; Pro I 200 GiB / €1.99 mo, Pro III 2 TiB / €8.99 mo
• filen lifetime plans fails: quotaemail?card?R
  WITHDRAWN. Filen phased out Pro lifetime after Black Friday 2025 and has kept the Starter lifetime unavailable since January 2026, citing hardware costs. Exi...
• fileport fails: quotaemail?card?R
  5 GB per upload, 50 GB/month on a free account, 7-day expiry for free uploads
• filepost / filepost.jp / filepost.com fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Two separate corpses. filepost.jp returns 504 through the reader and has no live upload surface; filepost.com was already recorded in round 2 as an ad/affili...
• filerule 2 tb lifetime (stacksocial) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Unvetted white-label, listed at $69 for 2 TB ($34.50/TB one-time). No independent reviews, no API, no rclone backend, no WebDAV. Included here only to docume...
• filesend / 宅ふぁいる便 (filesend.jp, ex-ogis ri) — twice dead fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Closed. The landing page reads 'サービス終了のお知らせ — FileSendサービスは新規アップロードの受付を終了しました'. The original 宅ふぁいる便 was killed in 2020 by a data breach with no resumption (O...
• filetransfer.io fails: quotaemail?card?R
  4 GB free, no registration, short retention. Below the floor by two orders of magnitude.
• firefish (firefish.social) — project abandoned fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The flagship returns an HTML shell instead of /api/meta JSON, and the wider Firefish ecosystem has been superseded by Sharkey/IceShark. Do not build against ...
• firstvds vds storage (russia) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The base plan is 300 GB for ₽949-1,249/mo — $38.31/TB/mo at best — and expansion is priced at ₽125/mo per 50 GB without redundancy or ₽185/mo per 50 GB with,...
• fjord commons (hosted forgejo) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  5 GB per account and 'Git LFS is not enabled' at all. Free and non-expiring, but the LFS layer is simply absent.
• Flathub (dl.flathub.org OSTree repo) fails: quotaemail?card?Rwrite-gated
  No published storage quota for published applications. This is a deduplicating OSTree/OCI repo: apps are stored as content-addressed ostree commits, so ident...
• flathub as bulk storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Human-reviewed flatpak app submissions; content-addressed/deduplicated OSTree means distinct bytes are not additive; registry.flathub.org does not resolve pu...
• Flickr fails: quotaemail?card?R
  FREE TIER IS 1,000 ITEMS, NOT 1 TB. The famous 1 TB was killed on 2019-01-08. Free = 1,000 photos/videos total, of which max 50 may be non-public. Pro (paid)...
• flock starter (free) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  5 GB of team storage on Starter; paid-only growth. No documented file API.
• Folder Fort 2.0 fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  Free plan exists with no credit card, size not published on the pricing page; free-plan bandwidth is 10 GB/month. Paid Personal starts at 100 GB, Business 1 TB.
• fosshub fails: quotaemail?card?R
  NO LONGER HOSTS FILES AT ALL. The FAQ (updated 2026-09-24) is explicit: 'Application download links open the publisher's official service. Some publishers us...
• FOSSVPS / ST-Hosting — free VPS for open-source developers (Frankfurt, Buffalo, LA, Chisinau) fails: quotaemailno cardR
  Free VPSs on donated hardware; the Frankfurt node is an AMD EPYC 7402P, 128 GiB RAM, 1 TB SSD donated by ST-Hosting for at least two years. Per-VM disk is sm...
• Fourthwall fails: quotaemailno cardR
  1 GB per listing (all files counted together) on paid/members-only products; 25 MB total for free digital products. 50 products on Free, 500 on Pro.
• free-tier stacking as the host's own upstream (the 'r2 free tier / backblaz fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Ruled out by arithmetic. R2's free tier is 10 GB-month and Bunny/Backblaze free tiers are single-digit GB. No host in this set is running on anybody's free a...
• FreeMach — community free VPS (LES/HT/LET members, 3-month account age) fails: quotaemailno cardR
  US1.KVM: 2 vCPU, 3 GB RAM, 120 GB HDD, 1 TB transfer. EU1.KVM: 2 vCPU, 2 GB, 25 GB SSD, 1 TB. Hosts are a VirMach Buffalo E3-1240v3 with 2x1TB HDD and an Alp...
• freeturn.net fails: quotaemail?card?R
• freidata (university of freiburg, inveniordm) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Unreachable — the host stopped completing TLS handshakes mid-research (curl: 'Failed to connect to freidata.uni-freiburg.de port 443 after 21086 ms'). It ans...
• freifunk (as a storage provider) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A federated set of German community WiFi projects whose stated purpose is free communication and open routers. No storage service, no quota, no API - the con...
• Fshare / FshareStorage (fshare.vn, FPT Telecom) fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-ip-shaping
  Free tier: 50 GB of 'dung lượng không đảm bảo' (non-guaranteed capacity). From 2027-01-01 the platform rebrands to FshareStorage, guaranteed capacity rises 5...
• fshare's 4share.vn sibling fails: quotaemail?card?R
  4share.vn is mid-pivot to a paid backup product: the pricing page says 'Dịch vụ đang nâng cấp' and the only purchasable plan is 50 GB / 30 days for 59,000 VN...
• gaia-x / catena-x as free hosting fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Both are federation and trust frameworks, not storage providers. Gaia-X issues credentials and compliance labels; Catena-X onboards companies into an automot...
• gakunin rdm (nii, japan) standard storage fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  100 GB per user and <5 GB per file on NII Storage, consumed from the project creator's allowance, and access requires a Japanese institutional GakuNin accoun...
• galaxy zoo / foldit / seti@home fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Pure volunteer-compute. Galaxy Zoo runs inside Zooniverse (so the same 10,000-subject / review gate applies) and Foldit distributes protein-puzzle clients; n...
• game jolt fails: quotaemail?card?R
  3 GB total per game, and users routinely hit it (games taken down for exceeding it).
• Game Jolt game builds fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  3 GB TOTAL PER GAME, not per file. Go upload big things!'), a developer post 4 months old ('the upload limit for total game size on GameJolt has been extende...
• gamesparks fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Retired. AWS states 'Amazon GameSparks (Preview) is no longer accepting new customers'; the AWS SDK has removed the service entirely. Nothing to sign up for.
• gbif fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Publishes Darwin Core occurrences and derived download archives, not arbitrary blobs. Anonymous download *requests* are refused (403), and the synchronous AP...
• GCP research credits programme (Cloud for Higher Education) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRwrite-gated
  $5,000 one-time for faculty/postdoc; $1,000 per year for PhD students. Credit-denominated, buys GCS at list price (~$20/TB-month Standard).
• gel (formerly edgedb) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free Cloud tier is 1 GB disk, ~1/4 compute unit. Pro starts at $19.50/mo with 10 GiB. No project multiplication documented.
• Gemini File Search stores (managed RAG) fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  Free tier 1 GB of store; Tier 1 10 GB; Tier 2 100 GB; Tier 3 1 TB. 100 MB per document.
• gemini file search stores as bulk storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free tier is 1 GB of store, and store size runs ~3x input size, so real input capacity is ~333 MB. Only embeddings persist; raw files are deleted after 48h.
• gemini files api (ai studio) as an archive fails: quotaemail?card?R
  48-hour retention, clamped server-side, plus 'you can't download user-uploaded files'. 20 GB/project is moot.
• geni fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No longer a going concern as an allocation portal - the geni.net front page is a news archive whose most recent items are NSF/FABRIC announcements and a 2021...
• gigafile member / paid plan fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The paid tier buys ad removal, not capacity. Verbatim from the member page: joining a paid plan gives '広告なしでファイルをアップロード / 広告なしでダウンロード' (upload and download w...
• Git LFS fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  Free: 10 GiB storage AND 10 GiB bandwidth per month; per-file 2 GB on Free/Pro, 4 GB Team, 5 GB Enterprise.
• git-annex bup / ddar special remotes fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Both dedupe into a repository you must host yourself and both need full shell access (bup: 'git-annex-shell does not support bup ... you need full shell acce...
• Git-tracked repo files (direct, or via git-unlimited-storage wrapper) fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  100 MiB hard per file ('GitHub blocks files larger than 100 MiB'); repository size is soft — "We recommend repositories remain small, ideally less than 1 GB,...
• GitCode (gitcode.com, CSDN) — Git/LFS/container quota fails: quotaemailno cardphoneR
  No number published. GitCode documents that it meters four resources per user — Git Repository Storage (all branches + all history, excluding LFS), Container...
• gitee (gitee.com) as a storage host fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The most precisely documented small quota in the whole slot, which makes it a useful calibration point: 1,000 repos, 500 MB per repo, 50 MB per file, 5 GB to...
• gitgud.io fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free GitLab-based host, 100k users, zero-tracking, but publishes no storage or LFS quota anywhere I could reach. Their support repo 504'd and /help returned ...
• github actions artifacts as an archive fails: quotaemail?card?R
  500 MB on Free, 90-day retention, token required for download. It is a build handoff medium, not storage.
• GitHub Actions dependency cache fails: quotaemail?card?R
  "the limit is 10 GB per repository" by default (configurable up to 10 TB for user-owned repos, but anything past 10 GB is billed).
• github actions dependency cache (as storage) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Explicitly a cache with an eviction policy: 10 GB per repo free, entries not accessed for 7 days are removed, LRU eviction at the cap, and caches are never p...
• github campus program (school-level github enterprise cloud) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  '50,000 GitHub Actions minutes and 50 GB GitHub Packages storage' — 50 GB, licence 'free for one year and will automatically renew annually'. An order of mag...
• github codespaces disk fails: quotaemail?card?R
  15 GB-month of storage on GitHub Free, 120 core-hours. Explicitly a time-based quota in GB-hours, not a disk you can leave data on.
• github packages — maven registry fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  No file-size figure published on the doc page at all, so no quotable ceiling — cannot be reported as verified. Anonymous read denied (probed 401 Basic realm=...
• github packages — npm registry fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  256 MB per tarball version, and it does not fall under the free-container carve-out; a private package on Free gets 500 MB storage + 1 GB/month transfer shar...
• github packages — rubygems registry fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Documented cap is on metadata, not payload ('maximum uncompressed size of a gem's metadata.gz file must be less than 2 MB'), and gems are a poor container fo...
• GitHub Pages (Fastly-served, 1 GB site) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  "Published GitHub Pages sites may be no larger than 1 GB"; source repositories "recommended limit of 1 GB". Bandwidth: "a *soft* bandwidth limit of 100 GB pe...
• github pages as a >1 gb site fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Hard 1 GB per published site. The 10 GB artifact limit in upload-pages-artifact misleads people into thinking 10 GB is available; the served site is still ca...
• github student developer pack (as a storage programme) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No bulk storage in the pack. The only storage lines are GitHub Pro's 2 GB Packages + 10 GB LFS, plus a Microsoft 365 seat that is tied to a personal account ...
• github student developer pack (bundled storage) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The 2026 pack bundles no bulk storage at all. GitHub Pro gives only 2 GB Packages + 10 GB LFS; the Microsoft 365 offer is '1TB of cloud Storage' for one stud...
• github student developer pack — storage angle fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The Pack's 2026 partner list has no meaningful bulk-storage grant. What it offers is Microsoft Azure $100 credit (a trial that expires, 5-20 GB practical), 1...
• gitlab pages fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Hard 1 GB maximum site size on GitLab.com regardless of tier, plus a 200,000 file-entry cap and a 150 custom-domain cap. The 1 GB limit is a product-wide con...
• GitLab Pages (gitlab.io) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  1 GB maximum site size on gitlab.com (tied to the 1 GB max artifact size); 200,000 file entries per site; unlimited projects.
• gitpod (now ona) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  gitpod.io no longer resolves to a pricing page — it redirects to ona.com, which routes /pricing to a sales contact form. There is no self-serve free tier to ...
• gitverse (gitverse.ru) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  2 GB/month LFS storage per user AND per organization, 100 MB per file over HTTP, 1 GB per file over SSH. Too small, hard-capped, monthly.
• GitVerse (Sber git hosting: LFS + releases + packages) fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  2 GB Git LFS per user AND per org (monthly), 4 GB release assets per user/org, 500 MB packages per user/org
• Gmail (free @gmail.com) — 15 GB shared, and the honest ceiling of 'Gmail as infinite storage' fails: quotaemailno cardRper-ip-shaping
  15 GB per Google Account, shared across Gmail, Drive and Photos: "Each Google Account includes up to 15 GB of storage, which is shared across Gmail, Google D...
• gmail as bulk storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Gmail shares the same 15 GB (or pooled Workspace) quota as Drive, and attachments are capped at 50 MB inbound / 25 MB outbound — so it multiplies nothing whi...
• GMX (free) — 65 GB mailbox, IMAP after opt-in, 135 MiB SMTP SIZE fails: quotaemailno cardR
  GMX's own storage page: "With GMX, you can store up to 65 GB worth of emails. To put that into perspective, that's around 500,000 emails!"
• gnu ftp / ftp.gnu.org (mirroring side) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not a place to put data - ftp.gnu.org is the canonical GNU release server, and mirroring it is a 169 GB inbound commitment in the wrong direction. The upload...
• gnu savannah as an sftp target fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The transport everybody assumes works does not: SFTP was disabled outright in 2023-11 after a vulnerability, and scp only works with -O (legacy protocol) o...
• gnunet fs as a storage provider fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Files are addressed by hash onto a DHT with no hosting guarantee — retrievability requires live peers holding the blocks, and the local QUOTA setting governs...
• GoAnywhere MFT / GoDrive fails: quotacard?cardR
  GoDrive EFSS is 'completely free' but only as a component of on-premises GoAnywhere MFT. Capacity is your server's disk; there is no hosted free storage.
• gofile.my (the 'free unlimited storage' lookalike) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Markets 'Free unlimited storage with no file size restrictions', but its TLS certificate expired 2026-09-30 and its upload API host does not answer — and it ...
• gog galaxy cloud saves fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Hard 200 MB per game, and GOG actively purges the oldest files once a game exceeds it — capacity shrinks over time rather than growing. No public write API.
• google artifact registry (as a blob store) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  0.5 GB/month free — three orders of magnitude short. Only GC's own container/image storage is bigger, and that is already covered by the known GHCR slot.
• Google Cloud Free Tier — Cloud Storage fails: quotacardcardRper-ip-shaping
  5 GB-months of regional storage per month (us-east1/us-west1/us-central1 only), 5,000 Class A ops, 50,000 Class B ops, 100 GB outbound/month from North America.
• google cloud free trial ($300 / 90 days) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Explicitly time-boxed: 'The Free Trial is a 90-day program'; at day 90 or credit exhaustion 'your Free Trial billing account will be closed and all of its as...
• google cloud public datasets (as an intake) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No application process exists. Google hosts only its own and partner datasets (Sentinel-2, Landsat, ARCO-ERA5, NEXRAD), and the only stated route for anyone ...
• Google Cloud Shell fails: quotaemailno cardRretention-clamped
  'Cloud Shell provisions 5 GB of free persistent disk storage mounted as your $HOME directory ... on a per-user basis and is available across projects.'
• Google Cloud Storage Always Free tier fails: quotacardcardRper-ip-shaping
  5 GB-months of regional storage (US regions only) + 5,000 Class A ops + 50,000 Class B ops per month.
• Google Colab fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  No persistent disk at all. Notebook files live in Drive; the VM disk is per-session.
• google colab as a serving box fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Both disqualifiers land at once: file hosting and media serving are in the provider's published list of restricted activities, and the VM is deleted on idle.
• google colab free-tier runtime disk (as scratch storage) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  VMs are deleted when idle and runti
• google container registry (gcr.io) as a separate free tier fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not a separate quota. gcr.io-domain repositories are billed as Artifact Registry ('Repositories that support the gcr.io domain' are listed as storing artifac...
• google docs / sheets as unlimited storage (uds, base64 embedding) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Closed. Collaborative files (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms) created or edited after 2021-06-01 / 2022-05-02 now count toward quota. The stewardmcgown...
• Google Gemini Files API (AI Studio) fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  20 GB per project; 2 GB per file; 48-hour retention
• google groups as a file store fails: quotaemail?card?R
  There is no file storage. Limits are message-activity limits: "Individual message size 25 MB", "Total message size 2.4 GB per hour" per group, "Total inbound...
• google photos fails: quotaemail?card?R
  15 GB shared across the whole Google account (Gmail/Drive/Photos). Original quality counts against it, and 'Storage saver' re-encodes and resizes anything ov...
• Google Photos Library API (append-only upload) fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  No quota of its own — but every item uploaded counts against the user's Google Account storage at original quality. 200 MB max per photo, 20 GB max per video.
• Google Play Books (personal upload library) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  Up to 1,000 uploaded files per Google account (2 GB max per file per the Partner Center spec; the consumer uploader historically enforced 100 MB). 1,000 x 2 ...
• google sites (new sites) as free hosting/storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Sites and all embedded content count toward the owner's Drive storage — it is not an exempt surface. No independent quota exists.
• Google Vertex AI Model Garden — custom model import fails: quotacardcardR
  No hosting quota because there is no hosting: 'You must store your model artifacts in a Cloud Storage bucket, where the bucket's region matches the locationa...
• gopher / gemini capsule hosting (gemcities, tilde.team, sdf) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Quotas are in megabytes: gemcities gives 50 MB per capsule and exists only for gemtext; tilde.team enforces 1 GB soft / 3 GB hard per user; SDF sells extra d...
• gpt4all / jan / lm studio / weights.gg (the 'desktop llm app' hubs) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  All four are distribution front-ends, not storage: gpt4all.io 301s to nomic.ai/gpt4all and its model catalogue is a static JSON in a GitHub repo (gpt4all-cha...
• grass (as a purchasable egress or storage path) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Pays contributors in points converted to token/USDC; publishes no per-GB rate and no consumer product to buy. Stage 2 rewards closed 8 June 2026 and the clai...
• greenhost fails: quotaemail?card?R
  VPS-shaped: €6.95 for 2 vCPU/4 GB/40 GB disk/10 TB traffic. The 10 TB traffic allowance is generous but 40 GB of disk makes it irrelevant as storage.
• grey-market residential proxies / donated bandwidth as an egress source fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Looked for it and did not find it. What exists instead is the reverse case: hosts lose capacity to consumer-connection and datacentre proxy fleets (catbox st...
• groq files api fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Batch-only purpose, .jsonl only, 100 MB max file. No general-purpose storage class.
• groups.io free (1 gb, and files is premium-only) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Basic plans: 1 GB. Worse, the storage is unreachable on a new free group: "Restriction: This feature is available only in Premium groups, Enterprise groups, ...
• guifi.net (as a storage provider) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A Catalan community telecommunications network built on shared infrastructure and social economy - the offering is connectivity and a commons, not storage. T...
• gumlet fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free plan is 60 storage minutes of video (not GB) with 100 GB bandwidth/month — a transcode-and-deliver product, not storage; API access starts on the $6/mo ...
• Gumlet (free plan) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  60 storage minutes of video, not bytes. No meaningful free image allowance — this is a video-first CDN.
• hackage (haskell) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  No documented size limit and no documented quota — could not establish any number from the upload page, the FAQ, or the server source (the upload handler has...
• HAL (Hyper Articles en Ligne, CCSD / CNRS) fails: quotainstitution?card?Rper-object-cap
  200 MB maximum per file in the deposit UI, plus a 5 GB per-account FTP staging space that is provisional only: 'pour une durée provisoire pouvant aller jusqu...
• halalcloud / 6盘 / 清真云 (2dland.cn) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Surfaced via the OpenList halalcloud driver as a live-looking free drive with an OAuth client_id/secret flow. The provider's own landing page now says: 'Pr...
• hastebin.com (toptal) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  API now requires a GitHub-issued access token, one token per user, 100 req/min, and content expires in 30 days even when authenticated (7 days otherwise). No...
• hasura cloud (ddn) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  DDN Free is a control-plane/API tier — it exposes GraphQL over a database he already pays for. It provides no storage of its own; the storage limit is whatev...
• hathitrust fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No individual ingest at all: content can only be contributed by member libraries. Explicit: 'We are unable to work with individuals at this time to add digit...
• herihericloud (againsturb/herihericloud) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Marketed as '无限存储 + 不限速，支持 WebDAV' and it is a genuinely good client — but its substrate is 蓝奏云 (classic Lanzou), already in E-E6. It adds WebDAV/MCP/OpenWRT...
• hetzner server auction as a per-tb play fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The auction page renders prices client-side and returned only marketing copy; more importantly the auction inventory is bursty and the SX-line fixed price (S...
• Hetzner Storage Box BX11 — 1 TB, €3.20/mo (price floor, no free tier) fails: quotacardcardRper-object-capdisagrees
  BX11 = 1 TB at €3.20/month excl. VAT (€0.0051/hr). Ladder: BX21 5 TB €10.90, BX31 10 TB €20.80, BX41 20 TB €40.60. Zero setup fee on every tier. No free tier...
• Hex fails: quotacardcardR
  Community (free): small compute only — 2 GB / 4 GB / 8 GB RAM profiles at $0/hr. No storage allocation published; there is no user-writable persistent disk, ...
• hex.pm (elixir/erlang) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  8 MB compressed / 64 MB uncompressed for packages and docs combined. Also requires a curated package name and does review. Far too small to shard meaningfully.
• Heyzine fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  Free Basic: 5 flipbooks, unlimited pages, 1 GB storage, 1 user, no watermark, API access included.
• hf-mirror.com / hf-mirror.net (Hugging Face mirror — read-only proxy) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  None of its own — it is a transparent reverse proxy.
• Hi168 (上海海文) — S3-compatible object storage fails: quotanational-idno cardRper-ip-shaping
  500 GB on registration, 1 TB after real-name verification (实名). Forum dealers advertised it as '免费领取1T超大对象存储' in Jan 2026; by 2026-01-19 nodeloc reported '新用...
• hippius hub (hub.hippius.com / registry.hippius.com) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The most interesting-looking find that fails on both counts. It indexes 11,452 public models and 1,741 containers and is pullable with docker/oras — exactly ...
• homebrew taps fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A tap is just a GitHub git repo of formulae; storage is GitHub's (2 GB push / repo recommended limits), and bottles live in GHCR or on the project's own host...
• honeygain (as an egress source) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Supply-side only; no buyer-facing proxy endpoint. Pays $0.10/GB (10 GB = $1) with a $20 payout minimum, and its own published usage example implies 50-67 GB/...
• horizonpush (lupuszr/horizon) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Self-described 'Experimental & Work in Progress ... Expect breaking changes, incomplete features, and evolving APIs'. It is a thin iroh-blobs front end whose...
• host europe (hosteurope.de) storage server fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No storage-server product line reachable. /Server/Storage-Server/ returned HTTP 422 through the reader and an empty body direct; the only published documents...
• HostBrr StorageBox (Germany / USA) fails: quotaemailno cardRwrite-gated USD 1.31/TB-mo
  500 GB – 16 TB
• hostdare hdd vps fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The HDD line maxes at 900 GB and the best $/GB is HDD8 (900 GB, 8 TB transfer) at $151.99/yr = $14.07/TB/mo. Nothing ≥1 TB exists, and the 'DEAL50' recurring...
• hostens storage vps fails: quotaemail?card?R
  OpenVZ containers on 12x4TB RAID, priced at $21/mo for 1 TB = $21/TB — and since May 2026 all VPS are capped at 75 MB/s I/O and 300 IOPS. The I/O cap alone d...
• hostloc (hostloc.com) — as a source fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The Chinese low-end forum is effectively closed. NodeSeek threads from ~157 days ago are titled 'hostloc倒了' and 'hostloc"剧终"了吗？下午开始无法登录了'; the site now serve...
• hostsailor fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Site renders entirely client-side; /seedbox.html returned only the section headings ('features', 'products', 'testimonials') with no plan data, and the homep...
• Huawei Cloud OBS — free packages fails: quotacard?cardRdisagrees
  Time-limited new-user packages only: OBS Single-AZ 100 GB for 12 months (regions CN-Hong Kong, AP-Bangkok, AP-Singapore, AF-Johannesburg) per the package lis...
• Hugging Face Spaces (disk check only) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  50 GB of disk per Space — but per HF's own docs the Space disk is NOT persistent. Persistent storage is the separate Storage Buckets product.
• hugging face spaces disk (as persistent storage) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  50 GB sounds like a finding until you read the second sentence: 'This disk space is ephemeral'. Anything written to a Space is lost on restart, and creating ...
• hugging face storage buckets (re-check only — not a discovery) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Recorded per the brief's instruction to re-verify HF numbers, not to claim it. The 2026 shape is materially different from the brief's entry: Free is 'Best-e...
• humble bundle (software bundles) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No storage. The software bundle page describes only pay-what-you-want game/dev/creative bundles; there is no storage or hosting category and no per-TB product.
• HydroShare (CUAHSI) fails: quotaemailno cardRwrite-gated
  20 GB automatic on account creation, with an increase process that is explicitly designed to succeed: 'if needed, request reasonable quota increase … all rea...
• HyperAI (hyper.ai) — free CPU workspace + storage fails: quotaemailno cardR
  Free tier storage is 'Free 20 GB + Extra 50 GB, totaling 70 GB' — but the 70 GB is explicitly a Pro benefit ('Upgrade to HyperAI Pro, Unlock More Benefits .....
• hypercore / dat / holepunch fails: quotaemail?card?R
  P2P replication primitives, not a host. Holepunch ships Hypercore and the Keet app; data lives on peers' disks with no pinning service, no HTTP gateway, and ...
• hyperswarm / hyperdht blind relay as free bulk infrastructure fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Blind relay exists — any willing peer forwards ciphertext when both sides are behind randomized NAT — but there is no operated free relay fleet to draw on; `...
• i.stack.imgur.com (legacy se host) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  still 302-redirects to i.sstatic.net but is no longer an upload target; agents that test the old host will mis-read a redirect as success
• ibm aspera on cloud fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Trial only and small: 30 days OR 50 GB of transfer volume, whichever comes first, and package sending to external users is disabled during the trial. FASP's ...
• IBM Cloud Container Registry (free plan) fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-ip-shaping
  500 MB storage and 5 GB pull traffic per month: 'Amount of storage for images | 500 MB | Unlimited', 'Pull traffic | 5 GB per month | Unlimited' (Free vs Sta...
• ibm cloud object storage lite plan as a storage tier fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The Lite plan is always-free and never expires, but the published storage allowance belongs to the Standard plan Free Tier (5 GB for 12 months). No Lite stor...
• IBM Cloud Object Storage — Standard plan Free Tier fails: quotacard?cardRretention-clamped
  5 GB/month of Smart Tier storage, 2,000 Class A + 20,000 Class B requests, 10 GB/month retrieval, 5 GB/month egress — for 12 months. The separate Lite plan (...
• icos carbon portal fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Download requires login and acceptance of a data licence; content is a fixed set of atmospheric/ecosystem variables from registered stations. Not a deposit t...
• idigbio fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Media hosting is being deleted. 'All images and media will be permanently deleted' and portal media access terminates 31 August 2026; the site has already be...
• idoud (idoud.cc) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  mydearniko/idoud markets 'absolutely free, unlimited cloud storage' with a Go CLI and a curl-pipe installer, but both the site and the install host are down ...
• idrive personal 20 tb fails: quotaemail?card?R
  $29.99/mo for 20 TB = $1.50/TB/mo, the cheapest headline in several 2026 price roundups — but it is backup software, not a storage endpoint: no rclone backen...
• ImageKit (free plan) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  3 GB DAM storage, fixed.
• Imgur (anonymous + account uploads) fails: quotaanonymousno cardR
  50 MB per non-animated image, 200 MB per GIF/video; 'no upload limit per account'; 50 images/hour
• imgur as byte-exact storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  PNG >5 MB converted to JPEG, >1 MB anonymous images lossily compressed, 50 uploads/hour. Good CDN, useless for data
• iNaturalist fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  No per-account quota published or enforced (395,436,915 observations live at time of probe). But per-object: 20 MB/file upload cap, AND every image is re-enc...
• India DigiLocker fails: quotanational-idno cardRper-object-cap
  1 GB per account for citizen-uploaded documents (was 100 MB at launch).
• InfiniCLOUD (formerly TeraCLOUD) fails: quotaemail?card?Rretention-clamped
  20 GB free account; referral bonus up to 1,000 GB for the referrer (+5 GB once for the referee). No file size limit
• infinityfree fails: quotaemail?card?R
  5 GB disk, free forever, PHP/MySQL — a real free host but two orders of magnitude short, and web-root only.
• infosec.exchange — Mastodon with a 1.35 GiB per-file upload limit (highest single-object cap found anywhere in the fediverse) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  Per-account storage is UNLIMITED (stock Mastodon has no per-user media quota at all — media_attachment has only a per-file size validator, no account-level c...
• inspire-hep fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Metadata and literature index only — it hosts no files at all, so there is no storage to gain regardless of quota. Its whole content model is records pointin...
• Internxt 100 TB lifetime (StackSocial) fails: quotaemailno cardR USD 0.77/TB-mo
  StackSocial: 2 TB $129.99 · 5 TB $229.99 · 10 TB $359.99 · 50 TB $699.99 · 100 TB $999.99. Internxt's own site quotes higher (5 TB €585).
• Internxt — 100 TB lifetime via StackSocial fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  100 TB lifetime, $974.97 (suggested $9,900, 90% off) on StackSocial. Vendor's own direct tiers are 1 TB / 2 TB / 5 TB / 10 TB.
• InterServer Storage Cloud Compute — 1 TB slices at $3/mo, recurring 'buy 1 get 2 free months' fails: quotacardcardR
  1 TB SATA per slice at $3.00/TB/month, stackable up to multi-TB (32 TB ladder). 2 GB RAM, 1 core, 30 GB SSD boot per slice, 2 TB transfer.
• ioc.exchange — Mastodon, 1.32 GiB video / 80 MB image, open registration fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  Unlimited per-account; per-file video_size_limit=1419430400 (1.32 GiB), image_size_limit=83886080 (80 MiB).
• ionos free vps trial (30 days) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The 'free VPS' is a money-back guarantee on a paid contract, and the disk is the problem: the trial-matching tier is 'VPS S+ … 1 vCore, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe'...
• IONOS HiDrive (retail) fails: quotacardcardR USD 7/TB-mo
  100 GB / 250 GB / 1 TB / 2 TB on the public ladder
• ipfs / libp2p circuit relay v2 as a data path fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Protocol defaults are 2 min and 128 KB per direction, deliberately sized for hole-punching (DCUtR), not transfer. Kubo ships these defaults and the docs say ...
• ipfs / shipyard (the 'ipfs-like service' the client half-remembers) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The IPFS pinning lane is closing, not opening — and free IPFS pinning was already excluded at <=6 GB in earlier waves. iroh's own blog frames Mainline+blake3...
• ipfs.family (ipfs on robinhood chain) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  First 100 MB free, and the free tier is explicitly a 12-month pin ('Paid Free tier - 12 mo', 'Kept until Oct 8, 2027'). Per-GB payment on-chain after that. T...
• ipums fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Extract API returns 403 without a key and the product is pre-registered microdata extracts, not user uploads. No deposit path exists.
• iroh-dns-server (as a hosted third-party service) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The n0-computer/iroh-dns-server GitHub repo is archived (last push 2024-04-24) and carries no description. The functionality moved into the main iroh repo, a...
• iroh-live fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Media livestreaming over iroh (134 stars). Live media is a stream fan-out problem, not a stored-object problem; nothing is retained.
• iroh-n0des (crate) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The old standalone rendezvous/discovery crate for 'p2p quic connections dialed by public key'. Superseded by the iroh 1.x address-lookup/pkarr path; repo REA...
• Irys (devnet bundler) fails: quotainstitution?card?Rretention-clampeddisagrees
  Devnet uploads are paid with free faucet tokens; 'Devnet ... data retention lasting approximately 60 days before deletion'. Mainnet has no free allowance — s...
• irys (ex-bundlr) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Permanent on-chain storage priced by the protocol in IRYS tokens; docs describe a fee market and price-stabilisation mechanism, not a free tier. Uploads requ...
• Issuu fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free Basic plan (since 2025-05-29): 5 published documents max, each capped at 50 MB and 10 pages.
• Item Metadata API (MDAPI) as free key-value/JSON store fails: quotainstitution?card?R
  No per-item metadata size is published; unlimited items x one JSON doc each, transaction-safe, free.
• jetbrains student pack fails: quotaemail?card?R
  IDE licences only — no storage product of any kind. Nothing to place bytes in.
• JFrog Artifactory Cloud — free tier (historically 2 GB) fails: quotacardcardR
  2 GB total storage + 10 GB/month data transfer on the legacy 'JFrog Free' cloud subscription. That tier is no longer generally available: JFrog's own blog no...
• Jira Cloud Free fails: quotaemail?card?R
  2 GB storage on Free, 250 GB Standard, unlimited Premium
• jitpack fails: quotaemail?card?R
  250 MB repo cap; artifacts are derived and can be rebuilt/evicted, so it is a build service, not durable storage.
• JitPack (jitpack.io) - build-on-demand Maven from git fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  Bounded by the size of the git repo it builds from, not by a storage quota: a build fails with 'Git error. Max repo size 250MB exceeded'. JitPack builds any ...
• jsr (deno/typescript) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  20 MB per package tarball, 20 MB sum of all files, 20 MB per individual file; plus scope quotas (3 scopes/account, 100 packages/scope, 20 new packages/week)....
• juicefs community edition as an n-bucket pool fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A single JuiceFS volume binds to exactly ONE object-storage endpoint; multi-bucket/multi-provider backend has been an open feature request since 2021-04-23 a...
• Jumpshare Basic fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free plan is metered by *upload count*, not bytes: 25 uploads and 60 seconds of recording. No storage figure is published.
• justbeamit fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not storage of any kind — pure P2P with a 10-minute link. 'JustBeamIt does not upload any data until the recipient starts the transfer' and the link 'will ex...
• kaggle notebooks as a server fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No inbound networking and no port exposure — Kaggle notebooks cannot listen for HTTP. The storage story (20 GB /kaggle/working + 200 GB datasets) is real, th...
• kakao mybox (mybox.kakao.com) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Origin DNS fails from this network; cannot verify any quota. Kakao's corporate site only describes KakaoTalk, not a storage product with a free tier.
• KakaoTalk Channel / AlimTalk (Kakao Business) fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  No storage quota. Kakao's message API takes an IMAGE URL that you host yourself; it does not accept a binary upload and store it for you.
• kakaotalk channel as a media host fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Same inversion as Viber — image supplied as an external URL, no upload/store endpoint anywhere in the channel API.
• kartaview (openstreetcam, grab) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Read API is closed to unauthenticated clients: GET /2.0/photo/?itemsPerPage=2 returns HTTP 200 with the body {"apiCode":400,"apiMessage":"Restricted access...
• Katfile fails: quotacardcardR
  No free storage quota published; premium advertises 'Download files up to 200 GB' and bandwidth blocks up to 18 TB.
• kdrive (infomaniak) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  THE textbook geo-fenced signup. The free offer is limited to a published 37-country list (CH, FR, BE, LU, DE, IT, AT, ES, PT, MC, AU, CA, CL, KR, DK, EE, US,...
• kernel.org fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not evaluated as a storage option: it is the Linux kernel's own infrastructure, access by maintainer invitation only, and there is no general-purpose upload ...
• knb (knowledge network for biocomplexity) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  5 GB free per user — two orders of magnitude short.
• Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB, NCEAS / UC Santa Barbara) fails: quotainstitution?card?Rper-object-cap
  5 GB free per user ('Store up to 5GB of data for free'), with DOIs for permanent publication. Well under the 500 GB bar and with no per-record-unlimited esca...
• knowledgeowl fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Advertises 'Unlimited file limits' and 200 MB per file, but every tier is 'Try it Free for 30 Days' followed by $100/month minimum. The unlimited claim is re...
• Ko-fi Shop fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  Free: 25 GB total asset storage, 2 GB per shop item. Standard/Gold: 200 GB total, 5 GB per item.
• kohakuhub (hub.kohaku-lab.org) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Self-hosted SOFTWARE, not a service — 'a self-hosted, open-source alternative to HuggingFace Hub ... Keep your models and datasets on your own infrastructure...
• Koofr (Suitcase XL+ 500 GB / 5 TB 5XXL) fails: quotaemailno cardR USD 2.67/TB-mo
  Briefcase 10/25/100 GB at EUR 0.5/1/2 per mo; Suitcase 250 GB EUR 4, 500 GB EUR 7, 1 TB EUR 10; Crate 2.5 TB EUR 20, 5 TB EUR 35; 10 TB+ on request
• koofr lifetime (>1 tb) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The StackSocial lifetime SKU is 1 TB only, at $159.99-$199.99. No 5 TB or 10 TB lifetime SKU exists on StackSocial, and Koofr's own Crate tiers are subscript...
• koyeb — free starter plan fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Their own post: 'The Starter plan will soon be removed and new users will instead need to subscribe to the Pro, Scal
• KrakenFiles fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  Marketed as 'unlimit drive'; free registered users get unlimited file count with a 500 MB per-file ceiling for private files. No numeric total quota published.
• krakenfiles.com fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Upload backend is unreachable: the uploader posts to https://hs6.krakencloud.net/_uploader/gallery/upload, which fails to connect on :443 (21 s). The front p...
• kts24 — 1 tb storage vps free for 3 months (ceph beta) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Exactly the shape we want (1 TB, 3 months, no card) but from March 2022 on a 'new ceph based storage vps series' that never launched publicly — the offer ask...
• kufile (kufile.com) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Domain is for sale on HugeDomains for $2,595. The service does not exist; any list naming KuFile as a Chinese host is at least a year stale.
• lakefs fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Self-hosted data-versioning over an existing object store — it versions data, it does not store any. Zero free bytes; it is a layer above whatever S3 you alr...
• langsmith datasets/traces as storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free Developer plan is 5,000 base traces/month with 14-day base-trace retention, 1 seat, 1 workspace. Storage is billed as traces, not bytes, and the retenti...
• Lemmy + pict-rs — per-instance image store, no per-user quota fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  No per-user quota in Lemmy's own schema — the bound is pict-rs (the separate Rust image server) and the instance's disk. Upload is gated per-instance by the ...
• lemmy.world / lemmy.ml / sh.itjust.works / feddit.org as open upload target fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The big Lemmy instances either require an application to register (lemmy.world: registration_mode='RequireApplication') or do not publish an upload size in t...
• letbox storage kvm fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Correct product, wrong availability and wrong price. The LA storage store shows every rung 'Out of Stock', and the 1 TB rung is $6.75 for 8 TB of transfer. I...
• lex.st free 150 gb storage box fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Below the 500 GB floor AND the domain is down — /, /storagebox/ and /storagebox/signup/ all return HTTP 530 (Cloudflare, origin unreachable). The LET thread ...
• Lex.st — 150 GB free storage box 'for the life of the service' fails: quotaemailno cardR
  150 GB HDD RAID-6 (NVMe cached), 1000 GB bandwidth, 2 domains, jailed SSH, DirectAdmin, Salt Lake City — free permanently.
• lfs.gg fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Markets 'Unlimited Git LFS bandwidth for GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket' but is paid per 100 GB/month with only the first 10 GB free, and is 'currently invite...
• libp2p circuit-v2 public relays fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Default relay limits are signalling-grade, not transport-grade: 128 KiB of data and 2 minutes per relayed connection. Fine for hole-punching, useless for bytes.
• library of congress 'by the people' (crowd.loc.gov) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Transcription and review only. Volunteers create and review transcriptions of LOC-held pages; no file is accepted and nothing is stored on the volunteer's be...
• library of congress / chronicling america / ndnp fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not a deposit surface for individuals. LoC acquires through NDNP state-partner awards and its own collections; there is no open upload endpoint, no account s...
• Lighthouse (Filecoin/IPFS pinning) fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  Filecoin plans, Free: 'Total Storage: 5 GB' (IPFS + Filecoin). Walrus plans, Free: 'Total Storage: 100 MB'. Next tier is $12/month for 500 GB.
• Lightning AI (Lightning Studios persistent storage) fails: quotaemailno cardR
  No GB figure published. The free tier is framed entirely in GPU hours ('Start on the free tier with 80* free GPU hours'), one Studio free 24/7 with a forced ...
• lightnode 'storage vps' line fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Marketed as a storage product but every rung ships 50 GB of NVMe regardless of price. There is no big-disk SKU at all — the largest is 50 GB for $52.70/mo. F...
• line messaging api content fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Auto-deleted after an undisclosed period, no listing endpoint, token-only access. Cannot be addressed as storage even short-term.
• LINE Messaging API — message content endpoint fails: quotanational-idno cardR
  No storage quota is offered at all. Content is a delivery mechanism, not a store.
• linkbox (linkbox.to) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Has a genuine merged rclone backend (PR #7055, read+write, API token from /admin/account) but the free allowance is tens of GB and the API takes the auth tok...
• linode / akamai cloud — managed container registry fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No managed registry product exists. Akamai's own docs route users to self-hosting Harbor or running a private Docker registry on paid Compute + paid Object S...
• lis (riffcc/lis) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  FUSE filesystem over iroh described as 'Life is short, but data should live forever' — exactly the shape wanted, but the README exposes only put/list/get/mou...
• litterbox (catbox temporary) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Explicitly temporary — expiry is chosen at upload (1h/12h/1d/3d/7d max). Not storage by construction; only useful as an ephemeral hand-off.
• litterbox.catbox.moe (temporary) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Upload API is broken: POST to /resources/internals/api.php returns HTTP 500 (a full 69 KB HTML error page) for every time= value, with or without browser UA/...
• Load Network — Load S3 (LS3) fails: quotaemailno cardR USD 11900/TB-mo
  No free tier found. $0.003/GB/month (~$3/TB/month) with a permanent-storage alternative at $11.9/GB one-time. S3 1:1 compatible.
• Loom (Atlassian) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free Starter: up to 25 recordings per person, 5 minutes per video, 50 members. Not a storage quota — a recording-count quota.
• loom / vidyard free tiers fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Both cap by recording COUNT and clip LENGTH rather than bytes (Loom 25 videos x 5 min; Vidyard 5/month, 25-slot library). Ceiling is a few hundred MB per acc...
• lunaris cdn fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Real service, real API (Bearer token, multipart, SHA-256 verified) but the free tier is 100 GB total / 5 GB per file, which is one-fifth of the filter and ca...
• M-Lab (host a measurement site) fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  contribute servers, not consume storage; host-managed deployment onboarding is 'almost entirely automated' for 'any reasonably modern, high-performance, and ...
• Mage.space uploads fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  100 MB per upload, 30-day life. No account-level storage allowance is offered.
• mail.bg fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Signup collects a mandatory recovery phone ('Телефон за възстановяване на парола: *', marked required) plus gender and date of birth, and then does not activ...
• mail.com free (65 gb — but read-gated behind premium) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The 65 GB is real and the largest free mailbox found: "mail.com offers you up to 65 GB of email storage". But the read/write path is closed on the free tier:...
• Mail.ru Cloud fails: quotaany-phoneno cardphoneRdisagrees
  8 GB free, now a single pool shared between Почта and Облако
• Mail.ru Cloud (Облако Mail) + Mail Space fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  8 GB free per account; 1 TB only as a paid Mail Space plan (1 560 RUB first year, 3 000 RUB/yr after)
• Mail.ru Cloud / Облако Mail (VK) — 1 TB with free public-link download fails: quotaemailno cardRdisagrees USD 18.89/TB-mo
  1 TB plan. Landing promo (2026-10-15 to 2026-11-19): first year ₽1,560, from the second year ₽3,000 («Цена за первый год — 1 560 ₽, со второго года — 3 000 ₽...
• makerworld (bambu lab) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Model files capped around 250-500 MB total per design and 150-200 MB per print profile; 3MF/STL pipeline only.
• manitu (manitu.de) root servers fails: quotaemail?card?R
  VAT for 2× 2 TB SSD SATA = €16.81/TB, with a €500 setup fee. No high-capacity HDD storage product. Not a storage p
• mapilio fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The API host is down: api.mapilio.com returns HTTP 502 Bad Gateway (a Heroku-style error page). It is named in OSM community threads as a KartaView/Mapillary...
• mastodon /about/more as a limit source fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The brief's suggested read path no longer works: Mastodon 4.x serves /about/more as a client-rendered SPA, so the 'Upload limit' string is not in the HTML. Z...
• mastodonapp.uk / mstdn.social / mastodon.social and the stock-Mastodon mass — 100 MiB per object, unlimited per account fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  Per-account UNLIMITED. Per-file: 103809024 bytes = 99 MiB (video), 16 MiB image on almost every stock instance. mastodonapp.uk raises the IMAGE cap to 99 MiB...
• MASV fails: quotainstitutionno cardRretention-clamped
  15 GB of free transfer every month plus 5 days of free storage per package. Credit card with a $10 pre-authorisation required at signup.
• materials cloud archive fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  InvenioRDM node with a hard login wall before any upload; publishing is tied to a Materials Cloud workflow rather than open deposit.
• Matrix media repository (matrix.org homeserver) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-ip-shaping
  Free plan: 10 MB maximum per attachment, 100 MB of attachments per 24 hours, up to 500 MB per 28 days. Premium: 100 MB per attachment, 1 GB/24h, 5 GB/28d. Ac...
• Matrix.org homeserver (media repository) fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  Free plan: 10 MB max per attachment, 100 MB per 24 h, capped at 500 MB per 28 days. Premium: 100 MB per attachment, 1 GB/24 h up to 5 GB/28 days. Accounts no...
• matrixhub (matrixhub.ai) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Same class, explicitly so: 'an open-source, self-hosted AI model registry ... a drop-in private replacement for Hugging Face, purpose-built to accelerate vLL...
• mattermost cloud free fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The free cloud tier is deprecated - Mattermost now steers free users to self-hosted Entry. Self-hosted 'unlimited storage' just means you buy the disk, which...
• Maven Central (Sonatype Central Portal / Central Publisher) fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  No total storage quota, but as of 2026 a *monthly publishing quota per organization* on three metrics, with thresholds set at the ~90th percentile: 1,167 fil...
• Maven Central (Sonatype Central Portal) - post-2026 publishing limits fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Maven Central introduced hard monthly *publishing* limits per organization in 2026. Three independent metrics: file count, release size, release count, evalu...
• maven central as bulk storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Still no total-storage cap, but 2026 monthly per-organization publishing thresholds (~78 MB release size at p90, ~1.8 GB at p99) plus a commercial-nature gat...
• maverick1983/google-drive-service-account 45 tb recipe (the reference case fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The arithmetic (30 projects x 100 SAs x 15 GB = 45 TB) is no longer executable: service accounts report storageQuota limit '0' and every upload returns 403 s...
• mcp.gd — MCP-native object storage for agents fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap USD 5/TB-mo
  Free: 10 GB storage, 10 GB/month traffic, 100 MB web upload. Paid Starter $5/mo: 100 GB storage, 100 GB/mo traffic, 10 GB web upload. Marketing claims 'up to...
• mcr (mcr.microsoft.com) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Microsoft's public registry is pull-only for anonymous users - you cannot push, so it is not usable as the client's storage. Kept here only to confirm it was...
• MediaFire fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap USD 8.33/TB-mo
  10 GB free, up to 50 GB with bonuses. 4 GB per file free. Pro 1 TB, 30% off.
• MediaFire Pro 1 TB fails: quotacardcardRper-object-cap USD 29.15/TB-mo
  Pro 1 TB; Ultra 100 GB (tier naming is inverted on the page)
• Medium image hosting fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  25 MB per image, images only
• Mega4up fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  Free registered: 183 GB storage, 3,000 Mb per file, download volume Unlimited; files deleted 150 days after last download
• Mendeley Data (Elsevier) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  10 GB per dataset, free, unlimited datasets per account ('you can split your datasets into small sizes'; 'we can reference datasets within datasets'). Instit...
• metered / xirsys / turnix free turn quotas fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Recorded as a candidate above but they fail the ≥500 GB filter by two orders of magnitude: 20 GB, 500 MB and 10 GB per month against a 500 GB/day serving wor...
• mexashare fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Every provider in the read walk failed with dial-failed / 502; origin unreachable. Cannot verify limits.
• microsoft 365 e5 developer sandbox fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Cut from 1 TB/user to 10 GB/user OneDrive plus a 300 GB pooled tenant cap; setup now requires a linked Azure billing account, and that requirement cannot be ...
• microsoft 365 e5 developer subscription (the '25 x 1 tb' myth) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Widely cited as 25 TB. The current FAQ caps developer tenants at 300 GB pooled storage and 10 GB OneDrive per user, with the Developer SKU contributing 0 GB ...
• Microsoft Azure Free Account — Blob Storage fails: quotacardcardR
  5 GB LRS hot block blob with 20,000 read + 10,000 write operations, 'Free for your first 12 months'. Not in the always-free list.
• microsoft fabric trial / onelake fails: quotaemail?card?R
  1 TB but 60 days only; after expiry non-Power BI items go inactive and content is retained just 7 days. Great API surface (DFS + Blob), wrong duration for a ...
• microsoft mcr / registry.k8s.io (read-only public mirrors) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Anonymous pulls work (MCR returns 200 at /v2/), but both are read-only mirrors of vendor images — no push, no account, no writable namespace.
• microsoft mcr / registry.k8s.io / icr.io / docker.elastic.co / registry.ope fails: quotaemail?card?R
  All are read-only or reject auth-less writes. Probed anonymously: mcr.microsoft.com and registry.opensuse.org answer /v2/ with 200 but an anonymous POST blob...
• Microsoft Teams (free / personal) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  5 GB free per person for files in Teams for personal use; images/videos explicitly do not count and have no storage limit; files land in the 'Microsoft Teams...
• microsoft teams essentials / m365 business paid tiers fails: quotaemail?card?R
  10 GB per user (Essentials) or 1 TB per user (Business) but they are paid products - a trial at best. Only the Developer Program sandbox is actually free, an...
• microsoft teams free (5 gb) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Files are stored in OneDrive and share the same 5 GB consumer quota - not an additional pool. The 'images/videos have no storage limit' line is a possible sm...
• minecraft realms fails: quotaemail?card?R
  10 GB of manual-save storage on Realms Plus, 5 GB on Realms Core, and both are paid subscriptions. One world per Realm.
• minio gateway (s3/gcs/azure/hdfs) as a pooling layer fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Removed, not merely deprecated: 'MinIO Gateway will be removed by June 1st, 2022 from the MinIO repository'. There is a documented migration path away from i...
• minio saas / zenko / garage as paid object storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  These are self-hosted software, not storage services — there is no per-TB price because there is no storage included. MinIO and Garage are software you run o...
• miro education / nonprofit plans fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Education plan gives 'Unlimited active boards' but uploads are capped at 'maximum file size is 30 MB, maximum image resolution is 32 MP, maximum dimensions i...
• misskey.art — 5 GiB per user, 250 MiB per object fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  5120 MB = 5 GiB per user; maxFileSize 250 MiB.
• misskey.flowers — Misskey (hanami fork), 12 GB per user fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  12288 MB = 12 GiB per user; maxFileSize 250 MiB.
• misskey.io — 10 GiB drive, 500 MiB per object (largest per-object cap in the family) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  10240 MB = 10 GiB per user; maxFileSize 524288000 bytes = 500 MiB per object.
• misskey.pm — 9.8 GB per user fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  10024 MB ≈ 9.8 GiB per user; maxFileSize 250 MiB.
• misskey.social — 50 mb drive fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Live and open, but driveCapacityMb=50 and maxFileSize=16 MB. Two orders of magnitude too small to matter; listed to show the family's low end and that 'Missk...
• mk.absturztau.be — Sharkey, 50 GB drive per user fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  50000 MB = 50 GB per user drive; maxFileSize 262144000 bytes (250 MiB) per object.
• model zoo (modelzoo.co) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A curated index, not a host: every entry is an outbound link to the original author's repo or site. No upload, no storage, no quota.
• molab (marimo cloud) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  'Notebooks get a limited amount of persistent storage' — size deliberately undisclosed; 'Cached files are subject to limitations on file size and persistence...
• MongoDB Atlas (M0 / Free cluster) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  512 MB data storage per free cluster (0.5 GB, uncompressed BSON + indexes); one free cluster per project; 250 projects per Atlas user and 250 per organization
• mongodb atlas free cluster (m0) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Hard 512 MB, not configurable: 'you are over your space quota, using 513 MB of 512 MB'. Three orders of magnitude short.
• Moonshot / Kimi API Files fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  10 GiB total storage per organization (default); 1,000 files; 100 MB per file
• morejust store (morejust.store) fails: quotaemail?card?R
• MorphoSource fails: quotainstitutionno cardRwrite-gated
  'MorphoSource is able to subsidize or support free contribution of data for most users with 100GB or less.' 100 GB–1 TB is case-by-case (may be fully free); ...
• moveit / serv-u / filecatalyst / progress ws_ftp fails: quotaemail?card?R
  All four are now Progress/Ipswitch enterprise MFT products sold by quote or per-server licence. None of them advertise a free hosted tier; they are the incum...
• multi-cloud manager guis (multcloud, and air cluster's own docs) as stripin fails: quotaemail?card?R
  They are transfer/copy schedulers between clouds, not capacity pools. MultCloud's own framing of the user request is telling — it answers 'how do I merge my ...
• MyAirBridge fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  20 GiB per transfer free, no registration required; storage ('save to storage') is a paid-plan feature.
• mydevil.net (poland) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Advertised as a Polish hosting bargain with «Transfer miesięczny bez limitu», but the plans are web-hosting SKUs (MD1-MD4: 25/50/100/200 GB SSD/NVMe), not pe...
• myminifactory fails: quotaemail?card?R
  100 MB/file for a plain Designer, 500 MB with a Store subscription; the 5 GB 'Archive Mode' is staff-granted (write-gated) and capped at 25 archives = 125 GB.
• myQNAPcloud Storage fails: quotaemailno cardR USD 4.99/TB-mo
  16 GB free with any QNAP ID, no trial period, no file-size minimum. Paid starts $0.99/month; 1 TB was $4.99/month during beta.
• n0 hosted blob pinning / storage service fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Does not exist. n0 sells coordination (relays, metrics, diagnostics) and never bytes at rest. Checked the pricing table, the hosting page, the services dashb...
• nairr pilot (us) as a storage route fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Twelve-month compute/model awards for AI research; eligibility is 'US-based researchers and educators from US-based institutions' with an institutional email...
• nakama / heroic cloud storage engine fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Storage objects are jsonb rows in Postgres — 'theoretically store up to 255 megabytes' but Heroic Labs explicitly advises against it ('we don't guarantee it ...
• nara citizen archivist fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Same shape as By the People: 'transcribe historical documents, tag archival photographs, or share comments'. Contribution is annotation to NARA's own records...
• naranja.tech fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Named in the brief, checked, no storage product. All lines are NVMe 30-120 GB; the generous part is transfer (5-20 TB), not disk.
• nasa veda data store (as a deposit target) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  the process needs a veda-data pull req
• natro xcloud / turhost (turkey) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Turkey's cloud-VPS market prices by RAM and vCPU with disk attached, never by the terabyte, and the per-TB cost of the disk you do get is not competitive: Na...
• ncar glade (campaign / work / scratch) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Campaign Storage is the only large tier and it is allocation-request-gated for university projects.
• NCI Gadi /g/data (Australia) — 110+ PB persistent parallel filesystem, allocation-gated fails: quotainstitutionno cardRwrite-gated
  Infrastructure is huge — '/g/data4-7 | 110+ PB | Persistent Storage', 'Massdata | 70+ PB' — but there is no free self-service quota: bytes come from the meri...
• nekojarashi (nekojarashi.com) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No longer a consumer storage product at all. The site is now a B2B video-transcoding company (product page: 'High Performance Cloud Transcoder'; latest news ...
• neon fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Read-only observatory API (verified live) serving instrument data from fixed sites. No ingest endpoint for outside data.
• Neon (Object Storage + Postgres) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  5 GB object storage per project + 1 GB Postgres per project (20 GB account total); 100 projects on Free
• Neptune.ai fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  No storage allowance published, and the pricing page I fetched contained no GB figure at all — the metered dimensions are experiment/run counts and seats. Ar...
• netcup 'storage server' product line fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The product page exists and advertises '1 GB storage space for less than 0.007 Euro per month including VAT, traffic and RAID level' (= ~€7.17/TB) but publis...
• netcup Storage Space / Local Block Storage fails: quotaemailno cardR USD 13.77/TB-mo
  Tariff A 250 GB / B 500 GB / C 1 TB inclusive, expandable per GB
• nft.storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Already known to the swarm: the Classic free upload service was decommissioned 2024-06-30. The surviving site sells 'a small one-time fee' per NFT collection...
• Nhost fails: quotaemail?card?R
  1 GB storage + 1 GB database on Starter (free); 1 project
• nintendo switch online save data cloud fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Advertises 'no limit to the amount of storage space' but binds it to 'only one save data file per software title for each Nintendo Account', and the only cli...
• NIRD Data Lake (Sigma2, Norway) — S3 object storage, 10 TB single-object support, 100M objects/bucket fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-capdisagrees
  No fixed per-project byte number published — quota is set per project by the Resource Allocation Committee (RFK) in TiB on NIRD Data Peak and/or Data Lake se...
• nird data lake / data peak as a free tier (sigma2, norway) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Not free — this is the single most important correction in this dossier. The User Contribution Model v2.2 charges 470 NOK per TB/year for NIRD Data Lake and ...
• Nitroflare fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  Free: 'You can upload up to 10 GB files, for free!'. No free total-storage figure published anywhere on the site.
• njalla fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not a storage product. Largest published disk on the VPS line is 30 GB; storage-only tier does not exist on the site. Privacy-brand pricing, not capacity pri...
• no s3/s3-compatible endpoint at any of the three best-value providers fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Probed for and did not find one: Hetzner publishes no S3 gateway for Storage Box (SFTP/rsync/WebDAV/SMB only), PulsedMedia exposes no object API (SFTP/rsync/...
• nodeseek direct read (nodeseek.com) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Cloudflare/geo wall plus a hard IPv6 block: every fetch redirects to warning.nodeseek.com/ipv6-is-disabled and returns a 29-word apology page with HTTP 200 —...
• NOMAD (NOMAD Central / nomad-lab.eu) fails: quotaemailno cardR
  32 GiB maximum per project, and at most 10 unpublished projects per user. Both are config knobs (process.max_upload_size, services.upload_limit) rather than ...
• Nostr relays + NIP-94/NIP-96 file metadata — index only, not bytes fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  Zero bytes. NIP-94 is a *metadata* event: url, m (mime), size, dim, i (torrent infohash), thumb. The relay stores the JSON pointer, the file live...
• nostr relays as a byte store (including base64-in-event tricks) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  NIP-94 is metadata only, and the relay event size ceiling (~64 KB) caps any inline payload at roughly 48 KB after base64 expansion. Chainable as an index for...
• Nostr relays as blob transport (event path, not Blossom) fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  no storage quota, but a hard per-event size ceiling that is the real limit. Probed NIP-11 limitation.max_message_length: relay.damus.io 1,000,000 bytes; rela...
• notabug fails: quotaemail?card?R
  DOWN, and down for our exact reason. The homepage reads: 'Due to relentless AI scrapers notabug.org is currently down. We are attempting to come up with a so...
• notion (free workspace as file store) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  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...
• nsf access / open storage network (as an individual route) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Round 2 recorded OSN as 1-50 TB via ACCESS. ACCESS has since tightened under NSF Important Notice No. 149 (2025-07-10): 'If you are based outside of the U.S....
• NYC Mesh fails: quotaemailno cardR
  a network connection plus the ability to host services on it; no storage quota because there is no storage product
• Observable fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free plan: 'File attachments 1 GB / mo.'
• OneDrive consumer (Microsoft account) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  5 GB free per Microsoft account; paid tiers 100 GB / 1 TB / 2 TB.
• onedrive consumer 5 gb fails: quotaemail?card?R
  5 GB per Microsoft account, 2,000 accounts would be needed for 10 TB - not trivially repeatable, and no documented bulk-signup path.
• Open Context (archaeology / cultural heritage data publisher) fails: quotainstitution?card?R
  No published byte cap — 'Essentially, we provide publication services for the vast bulk of media that typically cannot fit into a conventional book or articl...
• open heritage 3d (cyark + hes + usf) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Fully consortium-gated and mediated through Dropbox: 'Once the data is packaged it can be uploaded via a Dropbox request link assigned by the Open Heritage A...
• open library fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not a file store: the only user upload is cover images capped at 30 MB, and bulk book import requires a privileged account via the JSON import API. Records p...
• openaire graph fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not a repository — its dumps are published *onto* Zenodo (community 'openaire-research-graph'), i.e. it consumes the same 50 GB/record budget everyone else d...
• OpenBayes (openbayes.com) — Chinese GPU cloud with per-tier workspace storage fails: quotaemailno cardphoneRper-object-cap
  Free/entry tier attaches 50 GB of workspace storage; the upper tiers attach 200 GB. Additional storage is priced at 0.5 CNY/GB/month — i.e. storage is a mete...
• opendal as a ready-made free-tier pool fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Two separate misconceptions to kill. (1) compfs is not 'composed filesystem over services' — its source is a compio-based local-filesystem backend. (2) R...
• opendata.swiss fails: quotaemail?card?R
  the platform is operated by the Federal Statistical Office / cantonal offices and admits Swiss federal, cantonal and commun
• opendoar v2 (v2.sherpa.ac.uk) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Jisc now blocks automated access at the edge. Returns a 'Jisc - Error 403 / Web page blocked' HTML page regardless of query parameters, including format=json...
• OpenDrive fails: quotacardcardRper-object-cap
  5 GB free (100 MB max file size, 1 GB/day bandwidth); 'Unlimited' storage/bandwidth/file-size starts at $12.95/month
• openml fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Unreachable for the entire session from this network — openml.org, www.openml.org, api.openml.org and docs.openml.org all timed out at TCP connect (21 s, 4 a...
• openml (200 gb per dataset) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Every attempt failed at the network layer: the API timed out (curl 28, port 443,
• OpenStreetMap GPS traces (openstreetmap.org/traces) fails: quotaemailno cardR
  No published per-user quota and no quota endpoint; storage is GPX-only and appended to the OSM rails DB + a trace store. Effectively unlimited in count, tiny...
• oracle cloud $300 / 30-day free trial fails: quotaemail?card?R
  30 days only, and it is a trap for this workload: during the trial you may store unlimited data against credits, but 'If you are using more than the 20-GB li...
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry (OCIR) fails: quotaanonymousno cardR
  No registry fee at all, and storage is billed at raw Object Storage rates: 'Oracle does not charge separately for the service. Users pay only for the associa...
• osdf / pelican platform as a free origin fails: quotaemail?card?R
  You can federate your own data by running a Pelican origin, but that means YOU supply the storage, the certificate and the host — the platform is a distribut...
• osf registrations (as a quota multiplier) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Registrations archive OSF Storage plus add-ons but are capped at 5 GB across all storage being registered, and you can no longer create Registrations from Pr...
• oshi.at fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Domain has been dropped and is now on a domain auction ('Bid on the domain oshi.at now / nicsell'). Also had an untrusted TLS chain (SEC_E_UNTRUSTED_ROOT). P...
• outline fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Cloud is trial-only: $10/mo minimum, and 'your first 30 days are free. Once this trial period elapses your knowledge base becomes read-only'. The only unlimi...
• Outlook.com (free) — 15 GB mail quota, 150 MiB SMTP SIZE fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  15 GB mail storage, explicitly separate from the 5 GB OneDrive allowance: "You get 15 GB of free Outlook.com email storage which is separate from your Micros...
• oversubscription as a stable strategy (sell 10 tb, provision 1 tb) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  It exists but it is not the lever people think, because the hosts already limit the thing that would break it. gofile caps free accounts at 10,000 contents a...
• OVHcloud Managed Private Registry (Harbor) fails: quotacardcardRper-ip-shaping
  No free tier — three paid plans: 'S | 200 GiB | $0.027/hour | ~$19.71/month', 'M | 600 GiB | $0.0613/hour | ~$44.749/month', 'L | 5 TiB | $0.291/hour | ~$212...
• ovhcloud object storage cold archive fails: quotaemail?card?R
  $2.02/TB/mo — genuinely near the floor — but retrieval is $0.01062/GiB (~$10.87/TB) plus a 180-day minimum storage duration, and restoration takes hours. Fin...
• Oxen.ai (Oxen Hub — dataset versioning for ML) fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  Explorer (free forever): 50 GB data storage + 50 GB data transfer, unlimited public repos with unlimited collaborators, 5 private repos (max 3 collaborators)...
• Packagecloud.io — Free plan fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-ip-shaping
  2 GB storage + 10 GB bandwidth per month, unlimited repositories and unlimited CI/CD minutes. Private repositories are no longer usable on the free plan (res...
• packagist (php/composer) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  It is an index, not a store. /about states packages are described by composer.json in 'your package's git/svn/.. repository' — Packagist hosts metadata only ...
• PacketStream (buy side) fails: quotacardcardRper-ip-shaping USD 1024/TB-mo
  $1.00/GB, $50 minimum purchase, balance never expires
• pairdrop fails: quotaemail?card?R
  WebRTC device-to-device only; the server is a signalling relay and only carries bytes as a TURN fallback. There is no object store, therefore no quota to mul...
• Paperspace Gradient (DigitalOcean) fails: quotacard?cardR
  Free tier: '5GB storage', basic instances, free GPU, public projects.
• paste.gg fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  10 MiB total per paste, 5 MiB per file. Anonymous pastes expire after 7 days; signed-in pastes can be permanent. Built on Cloudflare Workers.
• paste.rs fails: quotaanonymousno cardR
  393,216 bytes per paste (measured). 373,336 chars -> 201 Created; 426,668 chars -> 206 Partial Content with 393,216 bytes stored.
• pastebin.com fails: quotaemail?card?R
  512 KB per paste (10 MB only on paid PRO), guests limited to 10 new pastes per 24h and cannot create private pastes, plus human-verification step-triggering ...
• pastes.io fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free tier is 1 MB of text per paste and 100 MB total storage when signed in; Pro ($1.50/mo) is only 10 GB. Storage tier is smaller than a single 4K film.
• pawns.app / traffmonetizer / repocket fails: quotaemail?card?R
  None of the three publishes a consumer pay rate on any public page - the rate is only visible inside the dashboard after signing up, so no bottom-up arithmet...
• pcloud lifetime fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Priced as a consumer photo product, not bulk storage: €1499 for 10 TB = €150/TB one-time, roughly 4x Drime's $36/TB lifetime and 15x Internxt's $10/TB. Encry...
• pCloud Transfer fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  5 GB per transfer, no registration; 200 MB per single file via the web uploader.
• pCloud — lifetime plans (direct) fails: quotaemailno cardRdisagrees
  500 GB $219, 2 TB $499, 10 TB $1,499 one-time. Live as of 2026-10-17 per price audit; AppSumo listing sold out.
• pdfcoffee / dokumen.pub / idoc.pub (unlimited-PDF dump network) fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  "Upload as much as you need! Unlimited volume of uploaded files" — no document count or account quota; dokument.pub FAQ caps a single PDF at 200 MB and state...
• peer2profit fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Official site unreachable (connection closed, twice, on 2 Oct 2026). Third-party research places it at $0.28/GB residential feeding AstroProxy at $7.60/GB, b...
• peking university open research data platform (opendata.pku.edu.cn) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A Harvard-Dataverse fork ('基于哈佛大学 Dataverse 框架二次开发') with a real deposit flow, but the API and handbook both return 403 to a foreign client and the platform ...
• perforce p4 (helix core) free edition fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The '20 users / 1 TB' figure does not exist on Perforce's pages. Current free tier is 'up to 5 users and 20 workspaces' with no storage allowance at all — it...
• photobucket fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The 2017 third-party-hosting ransom is over but the product is now 'Groupsy' and no longer a free image host: the free plan is signup-only, capped at 3 group...
• photon (realtime / pun / fusion / chat) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No storage product at all. The free tier is 100 CCU for Fusion/Quantum and traffic allowances measured in GB of message relay; there is no bucket, file API o...
• pinata 402 / account-free ipfs fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not a free tier at all — it is x402 pay-per-upload with no account. Every upload is paid in crypto; nothing is free.
• pinecast — free (demo) plan fails: quotaemail?card?R
  48 MB per episode and only the ten most recent episodes per podcast stay available. Free forever with unlimited uploads, but the ten-episode visibility windo...
• pixeldrain (as a transport-tier finding) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Re-checked because rclone has a native pixeldrain backend and the free tier says storage 'No limit'. But free egress is 6 GB/day *per IP*, files expire 60 ...
• pixelfed flagship (pixelfed.social, pixelfed.art) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Both returned Cloudflare 521 (origin unreachable) on every probe across the session. The software works and pixelfed.de/pixelfed.au answered normally, but th...
• pixelfed.de — Pixelfed, 15 MB per object, unlimited per account fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  Per-account unlimited (Pixelfed has no per-user storage counter). Per-file image_size_limit = video_size_limit = 15360000 bytes (14.6 MiB); 12 attachments pe...
• Pixeltable Cloud fails: quotaemailno cardR
  50 GB Media Store per organization on the free tier, explicitly a HARD limit ('50 GB Media Store per organization (hard limit)'), plus 10 GB database storage...
• Playbook — 100 GB free (300-asset cap) fails: quotaemailno cardRwrite-gated
  Free: '100GB included' OR 300 total assets, whichever comes first. API 1K calls/month. Paid Pro $10/mo/member = 2 TB + 1 TB per added member up to 10 TB.
• playstation app captures library fails: quotaemail?card?R
  PS5 auto-upload goes to a private per-account library in the PS App with no public URL, no documented quota, no documented retention, and no API at all. Web-...
• playstation plus cloud storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  200 GB total (100 GB PS5 + 100 GB PS4, plus a 1,000-file cap on PS4 saves) and it is a paid subscription, not a free tier. No API — console UI only.
• Podbean — Basic Free plan fails: quotacountry-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-cap
  5 hours / 500 MB TOTAL, not monthly: 'Total storage: 5 hours (500MB). Note: Storage does not reset monthly.' Help centre adds: 'The total file size should no...
• Poe bot knowledge bases fails: quotaemailno cardRretention-clamped
  5 GB or 30 million characters per knowledge base, combined across all sources of one bot. One knowledge base per bot.
• polarbackup (precedent, not a candidate) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Named precedent the client should know about: a lifetime-deal cloud backup brand whose users report loss of data and service. Recorded only to calibrate how ...
• powder (platform for open wireless data-driven experimental research) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A city-scale wireless/5G testbed (shuttles, indoor over-the-air lab, ORAN stack). The resource is radios and mobility, not disk; there is no multi-TB storage...
• printful fails: quotaemail?card?R
  200 MB per print file, max 20,000x20,000 px, PNG/JPG only, and PDF is explicitly prohibited on every print method. The REST API is excellent and completely i...
• printify fails: quotaemail?card?R
  JPEG/PNG up to 100 MB, SVG up to 20 MB. 413 Request Entity Too Large is the documented failure mode on the API.
• prism drive (alleged thunderdrive rebrand) — $49 / 2 tb lifetime fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  STILL BEING SOLD, DO NOT BUY. prismdrive.com/lifetime-pricing/ currently offers 2 TB for $49 one-time. Widely reported as a rebrand of ThunderDrive, which co...
• PrivateBin public instance network fails: quotaanonymousno cardR
  10 MB per document by default (sizelimit = 10000000 in upstream conf.sample.php); ~30+ listed public instances, some with file upload enabled. No account, no...
• Proton Drive fails: quotaemail?card?R
  5 GB free (starts at 2 GB, +3 GB welcome checklist within 30 days)
• proton drive paid fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Fails quota. Tiers top out where the client starts: Drive Plus 200 GB, Proton Unlimited 500 GB + VPN. No 2 TB+ consumer SKU published, no lifetime plan, no W...
• prototype fund (germany) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Residency-gated rather than nationality-gated: 'Wohnsitz und steuerpflichtig in Deutschland' / 'You're a German resident, self-employed and paying German tax...
• pub.dev (dart/flutter) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  'Keep package size within limits. We recommend less than 100 MB after gzip compression and less than 256 MB uncompressed.' Also 'Publishing is forever' (a pe...
• pulsedmedia free seedbox (50 gib / 30 days) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  50 GiB and terminates at day 30; all slots taken ('Available: 0'). The provider itself calls it 'a blatant marketing gimmick'. Fails the quota floor by 10x a...
• PulsedMedia Storage Boxes — 4 TB at €8.99/mo + a genuinely free 50 GiB/30-day box fails: quotaemailno cardRper-ip-shaping
  Storage Boxes from 4 TB (€8.99/mo, RAID5) to 32 TB. Separately, a FREE 30-day seedbox: 50 GiB storage, 250 MB RAM, 200 GiB torrent traffic, SSH + SFTP + Dock...
• Pumble (free plan) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRdisagrees
  10 GB of file storage for the whole workspace on Free
• pumble free fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  10 GB per workspace, hard stop — 'at the limit you must delete files before uploading more'. Already recorded by another agent; confirmed here as a wall.
• Puter (puter.com / Puter.js) — user-pays cloud storage fails: quotacardcardRper-object-cap
  Free tier shown on puter.com as '25 MB Storage' (the 100 GB / 500 GB / 2 TB figures on that page are the paid tiers — verified by reading the raw HTML, not t...
• quicknode ipfs fails: quotaemail?card?R
  IPFS is not in the free tier at all. The Free trial plan lists 'Streams, Webhooks' only; IPFS appears first on the $49/mo Build tier. It is an add-on to a pa...
• quora fails: quotaemail?card?R
• racknerd fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  On the named list, checked, and there is no storage VPS product. The whole KVM line is RAID-10 SSD with 30-75 GB disks; the cheapest 20 GB plan is $21.99/yr....
• RADAR (FIZ Karlsruhe) fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  Paid institutional service, no free self-serve tier. Targeted at institutions and research groups buying a data-publication contract, not at individuals stor...
• radar4kit (kit) — 600 gb per dataset, but kit-members only fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The best per-dataset number I found in the whole CERN-adjacent family — 600 GB per dataset, with WebDAV and a REST API for large uploads — but access is gate...
• radicle fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not a storage provider and structurally cannot become one: it is a peer-to-peer forge where 'repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized mann...
• radicle (+ public seed nodes) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  P2P, no hosted storage quota to spend — capacity is whatever seeders choose to hold. Public nodes run restrictive policies; the team node lists a 'Restrictiv...
• Radicle Garden (hosted seed) + permissionless public seeds fails: quotaemail?card?R
  5 GB of storage to start with on a Garden subscription ('talk to us if you need more'); public permissionless seed nodes self-configure their own limit, e.g....
• railway — volumes on the free plan fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free plan is a $1/month credit, and volumes are 0.5 GB on Free with 1 volume per project: 'Free and Trial plans: 0.5GB'. Volumes are a block device mounted i...
• Rapidgator fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  Free: 5 GB upload per file, no storage allowance published; files kept 30 days from last download. Premium sells storage explicitly as a metered block: 6 TB ...
• rapidseedbox fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Cheapest plan $19/mo for 1.2 TB = ~$15.83/TB/mo, 5x the floor. Unlimited traffic but priced as a premium managed service.
• raysync fails: quotaemail?card?R
  7-day free trial only; paid tiers are where 'Unlimited' storage appears. No perpetual free capacity.
• rclone as a github client fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No GitHub/Gist/Releases backend exists — verified by listing rclone's backend directory (alias, archive, azureblob, b2, ... s3, sftp, webdav, yandex, zoho; n...
• rclone imap backend (the missing tooling) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The wrapper that would make this whole niche rclone-addressable does not exist yet. PR #9071 (2025-12-30) was closed unmerged; PR #9208 (2026-02-23) is still...
• read the docs community fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free for public OSS docs, but no published output-size quota; build limits are 30 min / 7 GB RAM and builds are per-version with default-version-only retenti...
• recherche data gouv (france) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Deposit must go into the institutional space of the establishment a contributor belongs to; the 'generic space' exists only for French institutions lacking t...
• redbubble fails: quotaemail?card?R
  300 MB cap, JPEG/PNG only, TIFF and PDF explicitly broken — and no retrieval path for the original; designs are resampled onto product templates.
• reddit as a file host fails: quotaemail?card?R
  images and video only — there is no arbitrary-file attachment in the Reddit composer or API, so datasets cannot be stored at all regardless of the 20 MB figure
• Redis Cloud (free tier) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  30 MB single database, free forever
• redis cloud (redis.io) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free tier is 30 MB single DB — three orders of magnitude below the 500 GB bar, one database per account, no multiplication path.
• registrish (jpetazzo) and static-container-registry fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not a provider — a trick for serving a read-only registry off static hosting. Interesting as an amplifier (point it at a free static host to get registry-sha...
• render — persistent disks and free web services fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Persistent disks are paid-only: 'You can attach a persistent disk to a paid Render web service'. Free web services have an ephemeral filesystem — 'any change...
• Rentry.co fails: quotainstitutionno cardRwrite-gated
  200,000 characters per entry (hard, enforced at API), unlimited entries, no account required. Entries kept 'forever' unless they break rules.
• replicate (model hosting) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Output files are ephemeral by design: 'output files are automatically deleted after an hour' for API-created predictions, and replicate.delivery URLs 'expire...
• Replicate (r8.im + Files API) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-capdisagrees
  documented behaviour is expiry, not quota. r8.im is a private-ish OCI registry for cog models.
• replicate files as storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  100 MiB per file, and prediction inputs/outputs are auto-deleted after one hour on the API path. The files API objects are described by the SDK as write-only...
• researchgate — data upload as storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not a data repository and never was. Per-file limits are tiny and the platform is a publication-profile site: forum answers document an 80 MB document cap an...
• reshare / uk data service fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Submissions are tied to ESRC grant holders and UK Data Service registration; grant metadata is pulled from UKRI Gateway to Research, so the deposit is anchor...
• retelit object storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not an independent provider — it is Wasabi's Milan region rebranded and resold (Wasabi case study + press release about the Milan region). No public price pa...
• revolt/stoat public instance as bulk storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  20 MB per file with no paid tier and no public way to raise it, and the public instance runs signup human-verification step. 1 TiB = 52,000 files. Only self-...
• ringcentral team messaging fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Seat-licensed UCaaS with a trial, not a free tier; auth-only reads; no published storage allowance.
• RIPE Atlas (host a probe or anchor) fails: quotaemailno cardRwrite-gated
  no storage; hosting earns credits spendable on custom measurements
• roar (roar.eprints.org) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Cloudflare 522/403 on the raw endpoints. rawlist.txt (the one machine-readable dump) times out at 22 s; /view/software/dspace.html returns a 7 KB Cloudflare ...
• roboflow (free tier) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Datasets are 'Uncapped; On-demand' in size, which looks like a win, but the free tier meters storage through a credit system (10 credits/month) and every ope...
• rodare (hzdr) — 100 gb/dataset, institution-scoped fails: quotaemail?card?R
  50 GB per file and 100 GB per dataset is a genuinely useful number and above Zenodo's default, but it is HZDR's repository for HZDR research output, and the ...
• sa->my-drive-shared-folder 16 gb ceiling (common alternative route that silently c fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Sharing a My Drive folder with a service account does not give it the owner's quota; uploads fail at 16,106,127,360 bytes with storageQuotaExceeded regardles...
• sakura vps nfs (jp) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  ¥26,400/mo for 3,200 GB = ¥8.25/GB = $52.25/TB. The most expensive per-TB option checked. Japanese-only signup and billing.
• sbercloud / cloud.ru free tier, selectel free tier fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Both are commercial IaaS with no meaningful perpetual free object storage. Cloud.ru's /free page returned nothing extractable and Selectel is a paid-from-zer...
• sbercloud / sberdisk fails: quotaemail?card?R
  SberCloud was rebranded into Cloud.ru (docs.sbercloud.ru now serves Cloud.ru Evolution docs), so it is the same 15 GB free tier, not a second provider. The c...
• sberdisk / gitverse (sber) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Both authenticate through Sber ID, which is phone+SMS ('Введите свой номер телефона... или отсканируйте QR-код в приложении Сбербанк Онлайн'), and GitVerse's...
• scielo data (data.scielo.org) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Bunny Shield challenge on every route including the API
• Scramble Cloud Premium 6 TB lifetime (StackSocial) fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap USD 0.29/TB-mo
  2 TB €129.95 once · 6 TB €279.95 once (official site). StackSocial carries 2/6/12/20 TB SKUs at $59.95 / $139.95 / — / $349.95.
• seaart (seaart.ai) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Model metadata is readable anonymously (POST /api/v1/model/detail returns a full JSON object with model_ver_info_v2, file_id, hashs) but there is no anonymou...
• seaart ai fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Renders as an app shell; the /pricing and /models pages returned only nav chrome and generator marketing with no storage or upload-limit numbers. Same class ...
• seaweedfs cloud tier as an n-free-provider pool fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Cloud Tier moves *whole 1 GB volume .dat files* to ONE configured remote provider; it is a hot/warm tiering mechanism, and the chunk files it writes 'are not...
• seedbox.ch trialbox fails: quotaemail?card?R
  48-hour trial, 15 GB: 'Try a real managed seedbox free for 48 hours — no credit card. 15 GB'. Fails on both capacity and duration.
• Seedr — free tier fails: quotacardcardR
  Free tier exists but is deliberately unspecified: 'You can try Seedr for free, with a low storage limit.' Paid tiers start at Basic $7.95/mo for 50 GB. No fr...
• seeweb cloud object storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  EUR 27.00/TB/month for the base 1 TB with 1 TB outbound included, and extra traffic is EUR 11.50/TB — 6.8x Datalix for the same bytes. Italian enterprise pos...
• self-hosted gitea/forgejo as a route around the quota fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Gitea and Forgejo default every package limit to -1 (no limit): LIMIT_TOTAL_OWNER_SIZE -1, LIMIT_SIZE_GENERIC -1, LIMIT_SIZE_CONTAINER -1; Forgejo quota.ENAB...
• Send Anywhere fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  Free: 1:1 real-time transfer up to 50 GB; LINK creation capped at 10 GB. Lite $5.99/mo raises download data to 200 GB.
• send.skylerszijjarto.com (250 gib/file) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The single most generous row in the public Send-instance table — 250 GiB per file, 7 days, 10,000 downloads — returned Cloudflare 530 when probed. The bigges...
• Sendbird Chat (free plan) fails: quotacountry-phoneno cardphoneR
  Pricing page advertises 'Message storage: Unlimited' on the free tier — a number that is immediately contradicted by the retention row on the same page.
• sendbird free plan 'unlimited message storage' fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Unlimited is a rate allowance; retention is 6 months and the same pricing page says so twice. Extended retention is the paid upsell.
• sendblob.app fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Browser-to-browser is not actually P2P today: 'Browsers cannot open direct QUIC/TCP connections, so traffic is relayed through public iroh relays ... no rela...
• SendGB fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  5 GB per transfer, no account, unlimited number of transfers (no monthly 10-transfer cap). Retention size-dependent, up to 90 days for small files. Paid one-...
• sendgb 'unlimited transfers' fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Real (no monthly transfer cap) but useless here: 5 GB per transfer, ≤90 day retention, and the provider explicitly has no API. Highest transfer-count ratio, ...
• ServaRica — 'Unlimited Expanding Storage' (500 GB + 1 GB/day, $5/mo) fails: quotaemailno cardRper-ip-shaping
  Shrimp 1: 500 GB base + 1 GB/day automatic growth, $5/mo — i.e. it crosses 1 TB at ~day 500 and 1.87 TB at 4 years, on a fixed price. Shrimp 2: 500 GB + 2 GB...
• servdiscount (servdiscount.com) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Storage-server page returned HTTP 504; the English product page rendered a table header with zero rows (JS-hydrated pricing). No price obtainable. Aggregator...
• several-accounts multiplication of big-cloud free tiers fails: quotaemail?card?R
  One account per person, and usage aggregates across accounts: Oracle 'One Oracle Cloud Free Trial or Always Free account is permitted per person'; AWS aggreg...
• Shade fails: quotaemail?card?R
  20 GB free account (stated in rclone's own backend docs)
• shade (shade.inc) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Enterprise 'AI cloud NAS' at $29.75-35 per seat/month for 500 GB active storage per seat. Has both a native rclone backend and an S3 API at s3.shade.inc, so ...
• shakker ai (shakker.ai) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Site is broken/bot-walled for reads: GET www.shakker.ai/models -> 500 Internal Server Error with x-robots-tag: noindex; /modelinfo/1 -> 500. Wayback capture ...
• sharefile (progress) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  14-day trial only. Paid plans start at $16.50/user/month with a 3-user minimum and 1 TB of account storage per license — enterprise-sized, not free.
• sharkey.world — 100 mb drive fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Live, open, 250 MiB objects — but only 100 MB of drive per user. Seven uploads and you are done.
• shutterfly fails: quotaemail?card?R
  'Unlimited' photo storage, but it is conditioned on a purchase at least once every 18 months and is web/app-only with no API, WebDAV or rclone backend — fail...
• Sia host (hostd) - supply side / the arbitrage test fails: quotaanonymousno cardR
  you set your own price; network median is $1.17/TB/month storage and $2.25/TB download (siascan), $1.30 KS/TB/month
• Sia Storage (hosted indexer, sia.storage) fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-ip-shaping
  50 GB free — 'The free plan includes 50 GB of storage, up to 3 connected apps, and transfer speeds up to 524 Mbps — with no Siacoin to buy and no server to r...
• simplecast / transistor / captivate / libsyn — unlimited storage, no free t fails: quotaemail?card?R
  All four advertise genuinely unlimited (!) audio storage or uploads, and Transistor and Captivate even leave a properly made MP3 untouched on the way through...
• singapore nscc (aspire 2a / apollo) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Applications must be verified by the host institution's research office before prioritisation. Project storage is a quota inside an approved project, not a g...
• Sirv (free plan) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  0.5 GB storage.
• sketchfab fails: quotaemail?card?R
  100 MB per model on Basic (50 MB per the features page); 10 uploads/month although downloadable models do not count. Ingest is a 3D mesh+texture pipeline, so...
• Sketchfab (3D model hosting, Epic Games) fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  Free 'basic' plan is 10 uploads/month with a per-model cap that the two official pages disagree on: /features says 50 MB for Free / 200 MB Pro / 500 MB Premi...
• skybox (1024skybox.com) / jollify fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Both advertise '1 TB free'. SkyBox's landing page is a fake-product mockup ('12M+ Happy Users', a fabricated dashboard screenshot showing '640 GB used of 1 T...
• slab fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free plan caps attachments at 10 MB and the API (the only programmatic route) is 'only available to customers on the Business or Enterprise plan'. 10 MB x 90...
• Slack (free plan) fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  5 GB per free workspace (hard cap), 1 GB max per file, plus a 90-day visibility window and permanent deletion of anything over one year old
• slack/discord-as-storage wrapper ecosystem (slackfs, slack-parrotbot, file- fails: quotaemail?card?R
  These repos all solve the wrong problem: they archive, clean up or mount Slack - none of them removes the 5 GB cap or the 1-year deletion. slackfs is a FUSE ...
• slickdeals as a discovery channel fails: quotaemail?card?R
  It only re-lists StackSocial and pCloud first-party promos — it adds no provider the StackSocial search did not already surface, and its useful hits are expi...
• small institutional inveniordm instances (tu wien, kth, taltech, tu graz, b fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Every one I probed publishes no numeric per-record quota, hosts no large objects, and is sized for text/metadata rather than bulk data. Record counts are in ...
• Smash (fromsmash.com) — Free web tier fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  No file size limit and no limit on number of transfers on the free web tier; no account required. Transfers above 2 GB are queued behind paid traffic.
• smithsonian open access / 3d.si.edu fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Read-only. The Open Access corpus (2.8M 2D images + ~2,346 3D assets as of the FAQ) is downloadable and CC0, but there is no contributor upload path at all —...
• snowflake trial ($400 / 30 days) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Thirty days then suspension. Storage is billed from the credit balance, so $400 buys a few TB-months at most and then the account is suspended rather than do...
• society6 fails: quotaemail?card?R
  150 MB limit, JPG/PNG only, print-resolution pipeline.
• Socrata / Tyler Data & Insights — 'Community Content' on US city portals fails: quotaemailno cardR
  No file storage at all. Community Users may create filtered views and visualisations of EXISTING public datasets; there is no upload of new bytes.
• softpedia / majorgeeks / filehorse / snapfiles / lo4d / alternativeto (soft fails: quotaemail?card?R
  This whole sub-class is a mirage. None of them is a storage provider: they are catalogues that either link out to the vendor or proxy a vendor URL. Softpedia...
• software heritage deposit (swh-deposit, the push api) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Upload capped at 100 MiB documented / 200 MiB default in config, and requires HTTP Basic auth - anonymous POST to deposit.softwareheritage.org/1/<collection>...
• Solana account rent as raw storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No free tier — storage is a refundable rent-exempt deposit: 10 MiB account costs 53,268,311,040 lamports (~53.27 SOL) to create, reclaimed only on close.
• solcloud (solana p2p) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Landing page only; storage is explicitly paid per-upload in SOL ('Pay small fees in SOL tokens to store your memories'). No free quota stated anywhere on the...
• soundcloud — basic (free) plan fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Only 2 hours of total upload time (not per month — lifetime), which at 128 kbps is ~110 MB of audio for the entire account. 4 GB per file and 24 h per track ...
• sourcehut (sr.ht) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No published quota, but the resource guidance is 'aim to have repos no larger than the Linux kernel git repo, which is 6 GiB' and 'Don't store lots of large ...
• sourcehut (sr.ht) git fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No Git LFS support at all — the project's own guidance is 'aim to have repos no larger than the Linux kernel git repo, which is 6 GiB' and 'Don't store lots ...
• spareband / busyproxy / meowbyte / earnbear (2026 entrants) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  All four are pre-launch or invite-only supply-side apps: Spareband is waitlist-only with payouts explicitly not open yet; BusyProxy requires phone verificati...
• Spice.ai Cloud (Community Edition) fails: quotaemailno cardR
  No storage quota published, because the product is not storage. The free Community edition is the self-hosted OSS runtime under Apache 2.0 with community-onl...
• Stack Exchange image host (i.sstatic.net, ex-i.stack.imgur.com) fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  2 MiB per image, no per-account total; unlimited images per post
• statically (cdn.statically.io) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Silently truncates every response. HTTP 200 with a correct Content-Length header for the *full* object but a body cut at 16,384 / 31,232 / 65,536 bytes depen...
• steam friends chat file transfer fails: quotaemail?card?R
  ~30 MB per file ceiling reported in the Steam Client Beta forum; P2P-ish, no public link, no API. Useless as storage.
• steam workshop fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Hard ceiling far below the client's unit size, plus a paid gate: uploads need a Steamworks partner app ($100 Steam Direct fee per product) and the ISteamUGC ...
• Stoat (formerly Revolt) + Autumn file service fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-capdisagrees
  20 MB per file, no subscription: 'Custom emojis, a 20MB file upload limit and a server-specific profile picture with no subscription required.' No published ...
• stock rclone telegram backend fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Does not exist. rclone's own tracker has the request closed unimplemented (issue #6975, 'Telegram Backend'; issue #5829 '[backend] add Telegram'). The only w...
• storadera fails: quotaemail?card?R
  €7.95/TB/mo with a hard fair-use rule that equals the storage: 'The allowed download amount equals to your stored amount.' That is 1× storage/month, i.e. pre...
• storage boy (storageboy.com / .net / .jp) and okuriba.jp/.com — aggregator fails: quotaemail?card?R
  STORAGE BOY is advertised in a live Japanese aggregator as '登録不要、容量無制限' with 1 GB per file and 7-day retention, but the domain no longer resolves on any TLD ...
• storage.to fails: quotacardcardRper-object-cap
  No permanent free storage: anonymous 100 GB upload / 24h per visitor token (500 GB / 24h per IP), free-account token = unlimited upload bandwidth and no dail...
• Storj storage node operator (supply side) fails: quotaemailno cardR
  paid $1.35/TB/month stored + $1.00/TB egress (cut from $1.50/$2.00 on 1 Sep 2026, an 18% total reduction). Paid in USDC on Ethereum, not STORJ.
• storyblok (starter free) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free space caps at 2,000 assets and 100 GB traffic/month with no additional traffic purchasable on Starter. 2,000 x 500 MB max is a theoretical 1 TB but the ...
• strada fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Real iroh-shaped product (remote editing off somebody else's hard drive, 'upload nothing', 7 TB of source media over home internet per their case study) but ...
• strato hidrive as a recurring free-1tb play fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The February Valentine's promo is real and recurs annually, but it has already been consumed and it is a one-shot trial, not a channel. The 2026 window opene...
• Stream Chat (GetStream) free/Maker plan fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  No free storage allowance stated as a byte figure on the storage page; instead 'Stream applies fair-usage limits to storage, bandwidth, and API calls on ever...
• stream chat free plan as bulk storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Fair-usage storage ceiling with per-GB overage; converting free into an invoice is a fail, not a qualification.
• Streamable fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  250 MB per file, 10 minutes per video on the free plan. No storage pool — the unit is the individual clip.
• streamable (as a durable store) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Listed as a candidate for completeness but the 90-day auto-deletion is disqualifying on its own — a storage target that erases content on a timer is not stor...
• Streamlit Community Cloud fails: quotaemail?card?R
  'Storage: No minimum, 50GB maximum' per app — but the filesystem is the build container, not durable storage.
• streamlit community cloud as storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Listed as a candidate for the serving angle only. The 50 GB 'storage' maximum is the container's disk ceiling, not an allocation: files written at runtime ar...
• surf spider / data archive as a free self-service tier fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Tape archive access is requested through SURF's servicedesk and is institution- and application-gated (the free route is the NWO Small Compute application, w...
• surge.sh as a bulk archive (naive) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  450 MB / 10,100 files per project and every publish is a full gzipped-tarball replace, so a 450 MB project costs 450 MB of upload per change. Only viable if ...
• swisstransfer 30-day option fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The 30-day selection is not a 30-day retention. Files are deleted at 15 days unless the sender clicks an extension email on day 12, and the offer closes 3 da...
• Sync.com fails: quotaemail?card?R
  5 GB free, permanent; referral top-ups.
• Systemfreaks — S3-compatible object storage, 250 GB free during beta (coupon STRBETA) fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  250 GB free during beta, 'and bandwidth is free'. Post-beta: $0.0050/GB storage ($5/TB/mo) with 1 TB bandwidth included then $1.00/TB.
• Tableland fails: quotaemailno cardR
  500,000 rows and 24 columns per table. That is the entire quota — it is a SQL-over-SQLite network, not an object store. Byte capacity is implied by row conte...
• tableland — see candidate entry (fails-quota) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  500k rows / 24 columns per table. Their own docs tell you to put large media on IPFS and store the CID. A pointer store cannot hold 500 GB.
• TACC Corral (US) — 5 TB free per PI, $60/TB/year beyond fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  'The first 5TB of storage for each PI, on one project, is available to researchers at all UT System institutions at no cost. For storage needs larger than 5T...
• techsoup as a storage provider fails: quotaemail?card?R
  TechSoup is the *validation gateway* (NGO database token) for Box, Microsoft and others, not a storage provider itself. The Microsoft product catalogue now s...
• telegram cloud bot api alone (api.telegram.org) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Hard 20 MB download ceiling via getFile and 50 MB multipart upload. getFile links also expire: 'It is guaranteed that the link will be valid for at least 1 h...
• telethon and pyrogram as the client stack fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Both upstream libraries are ARCHIVED — Telethon read-only since 2026-02-21, Pyrogram since 2024-12-23. Patch-level breakage will not be fixed. Build on TDLib...
• temp.sh fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-capdisagrees
  no account; 4 GB per file, 3-day retention
• temp.sh / uguu.se / litterbox / tmpfiles.org (transfer.sh lineage) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  All are short-TTL transfer services, not storage: temp.sh 4 GB but 3-day expiry; uguu.se 128 MiB and 3 hours; Litterbox 1 GB but 1 hour-3 days; tmpfiles.org ...
• tensorart (tensor.art) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  api.tensor.art returns HTTP 405 with a JSON body {"code":200
• termbin.com fails: quotaanonymousno cardR
  approx. 1 MB per paste, no account, no count limit. Measured: 1,000,000 bytes stored and retrievable; 2,400,000 bytes -> connection reset.
• test_collection as a staging area fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Explicitly temporary: 'Items uploaded to the test collection will be removed in approximately 30 days.' Not storage — it is a trial bucket.
• the 'self-hosted hf clone' search class itself (github: hangar, arkon, open fails: quotaemail?card?R
  A whole class worth flagging so nobody re-searches it: GitHub repo search for 'model hub self-hosted' / 'huggingface alternative' returns almost exclusively ...
• the good cloud / hosting.de / hosting.fr / arkdisk / webo.cloud / cloudys.j fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Every one of them tops out at 1-8 GB free. hosting.de and hosting.fr both have a 'Free 1 GB' tier and then jump to 100 GB at EUR 4.90/mo. The Good Cloud is 2...
• the.hosting (ex-pq.hosting) storage vps fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Flexible-capacity storage at '€0.04 per 1 GB' = €40/TB = $44.94/TB/mo. Ten to twenty times the floor. This is where the PQ Hosting lead actually lands — the ...
• thingiverse fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No published limit but uploads stall/fail on large files with no progress indicator — unreliable rather than capped.
• thirdweb Storage fails: quotacardcardR
  1 GB included free; 1 GB–1 TB at $0.05/GB/month; 1–10 TB at $0.04; 10 TB+ at $0.03.
• threadless artist shops fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Minimum 2000x2000 px, print-file templates; no arbitrary-file path and no storage figure — it is a merch shop, not a host.
• thunderdrive fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Collapsed, and its customer base was reportedly migrated/rebranded into Prism Drive. Documented as a pattern of deceptive offers, with lost data and no support.
• Time4VPS Storage VPS fails: quotacardcardRper-ip-shaping USD 4.67/TB-mo
  0.25 TB (256 GB) / 0.5 TB / 1 TB / 8 TB. Lithuania, Vilnius. SATA HDD.
• timeweb cloud s3 (russia) fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  The 'Unlimited' storage tier is 639 ₽/mo and immediately reveals itself: «В тариф включено 250 ГБ. Свыше лимита — 4 ₽/ГБ» — 250 GB included, then ₽4/GB, so '...
• tmpfiles.org fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  no account; 100 MB per file
• transfer.archivete.am fails: quotaanonymousno cardR
  no account; no published per-file cap (transfer.sh successor, same DutchCoders codebase)
• transfer.it (mega) as a paid capacity route fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Transfer.it has no paid tier of its own — it is a sharing front end that requires MEGA storage: 'You can only share files that you have uploaded to MEGA.' It...
• Transfer.zip fails: quotacardcardRper-object-cap
  Quick Transfers are free and have NO file-size limit, but they are ephemeral P2P: 'deleted automatically when either party closes the transfer window'. Persi...
• transferit-py's 10-year expiry fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The library advertises MAX_EXPIRY_SECONDS = 10 years and will happily send e=315360000, but the bt7 server clamps to 90 days. Verified across five requested ...
• TransferNow fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  5 GB per transfer, no sign-up, 7 days, and the free plan is explicitly labelled 'No storage'. Premium €6/mo = 250 GB/transfer, 365 days, 1 TB storage. A sepa...
• TransferXL fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  Free with account: 5 GB max transfer size, 10 GB daily / 300 GB monthly transfer allowance. Paid plans reach 100–200 GB per transfer.
• transloadit fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free 'Community' is 5 GB of processing per month, 0.5 GB per file, watermarked output images and trimmed A/V — it is a transcoding pipeline with a hard stop ...
• travis ci artifacts fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The artifacts addon uploads to YOUR OWN S3 bucket — you supply ARTIFACTS_KEY/ARTIFACTS_SECRET/ARTIFACTS_BUCKET. Travis provides no storage at all; it is a BY...
• tresorit fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Personal Lite is 50 GB with a 2 GB max file size and 2 GB link sharing — under the 500 GB floor. Bus
• Tresorit Basic fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  3 GB free, permanent (not a trial), zero-knowledge encrypted.
• trove (national library of australia) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Anubis proof-of-work wall on /about/contribute, and structurally Trove is a discovery layer over member-collection metadata plus newspaper OCR — not an uploa...
• tumblr fails: quotaemail?card?R
  photo posts only, re-encoded and resized; help centre has moved to a new knowledge-base structure and none of the image pages state a byte limit. Legacy API ...
• Turso fails: quotaemail?card?R
  5 GB total storage, 100 databases on Free
• tuxis fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Sells VPS and private cloud, storage priced per GB of SSD as an add-on to compute: from €13/mo for 20 GB. No per-TB bulk storage product exists to compare.
• Twilio Programmable Messaging — Media subresource fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No quota — media is retained indefinitely. The docs say Twilio 'retains the stored media until you delete the related Media subresource instance', i.e. reten...
• Twist (Doist) Free plan fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  5 GB of file storage per team on Free; unlimited on Twist Unlimited. 100 MB per attachment.
• Twist (free plan) fails: quotaemailno cardR
  5 GB storage on Free (unlimited on Twist Unlimited); 100 MB per attachment
• typesense cloud fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The 'free tier' is a one-time 720 hours (30 days) of compute plus 10 GB of bandwidth, consumed once for the lifetime of the account — a trial in disguise, no...
• Uguu fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  no account; 128 MiB max upload
• uk ai research resource (airr / isambard-ai, dawn) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Compute-only calls and the applicant must be a UKRI-eligible organisation. Storage is never the allocation unit.
• ukr.net mail fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Fixed-country dial code on the registration form: the phone field is pre-set to '+380' with the note 'На цей номер ми надішлемо код підтвердження' (we will s...
• uldl.sh fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  250 MB free storage per name, 4.5 MB max per file, unlimited uploads/day. No account needed — the 'username' in the URL is claimed on first POST.
• Uloz.to Disk (ULTRA 25 TB) fails: quotaemailno cardR USD 1.28/TB-mo
  PREMIUM 3 TB $6.50/mo · MAX 12 TB $16/mo · ULTRA 25 TB $32/mo · ULTIMATE 50 TB $64/mo
• ulož.to free tier fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The rclone forum's canonical 'free drive' lost its appeal: free storage cut from 20 GB to ~1 GB (needs a bank card). Tracked as a live migration event by rcl...
• Ultralytics HUB / Ultralytics Platform fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  Free: 100 GB storage, 10 GB per dataset upload, unlimited number of datasets and models. Pro ($29/seat/mo): 500 GB storage, 20 GB per upload. Enterprise: unl...
• unity asset manager org storage (unity personal) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Explicitly a hard cap: 'The plan has a non-extensible cap of 10 GB of storage ... At any given time, the total size of the assets that are currently stored i...
• unity cloud save (the cloud save product, not ccd) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  5 GiB/month stored on the free tier, with 1M writes and 1M reads per month. Two orders of magnitude under the 500 GB bar before any chaining.
• uploadcare fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  Free plan is 10 GB storage / 25 GB traffic / 5,000 operations per month, 1 GB max file, 'Personal use only' — two orders of magnitude short on all three axes...
• Uploadcare (free plan) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-capdisagrees
  1 GB storage, 1,000 operations/month, 5 GB/month traffic. Their pricing page lists operations and file-size caps rather than a storage number; 1 GB is the do...
• uploader.jp / getuploader.com (アップローダーレンタル) fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  10 GB total per account: 100 MB per file, 1,000 MB per uploader, 10 uploaders per account = 10 GB. Free, and the terms state '当サイトが金銭を要求することは一切ありません'.
• uppy companion fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not a provider — it is a self-hosted OAuth bridge that pulls files from the user's own Drive/Dropbox/Instagram into your upload target. Zero storage of its o...
• Upstash (Redis / Vector / QStash) fails: quotaanonymousno cardRretention-clamped
  Redis Free: 250 MB max data, 10 GB bandwidth/month, 1 database. Vector Free: 1 GB total data, 200M vectors x dims. QStash Free: 1,000 messages/day, 50 GB ban...
• Upstash Redis fails: quotaanonymousno cardRretention-clamped
  250 MB max data size on Free; 500K commands per month; 10 GB bandwidth/month
• Upstash Vector fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  1 GB total data+metadata on Free; 10K daily queries; 200M vectors x dimensions
• usenet / nntp free providers fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No free binary provider with usable retention exists. The only genuinely free, posting-allowed server found (Eternal September) is text-only, explicitly 'no ...
• usgs / noaa ncei fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Both are read-only public data services (verified live: waterservices.usgs.gov returns real JSON). NOAA's NCEI 'data' endpoints 301-redirect to AWS Open Data...
• Val Town fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free plan blob storage: '10mb on the free plan and 1gb on pro'. Pro is the ceiling, so there is no free path to bulk.
• val town — blob storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Blob storage counts against total Val Town storage, which is tiny: 'Blob-stored data counts towards your total Val Town storage – 10mb on the free plan and 1...
• vc subsidy / loss-leader venture money fails: quotaemail?card?R
  None of the seven has institutional funding. pixeldrain is one person plus Patreon; catbox is 'Catbox LLC... it's just me!'; gofile is a SASU ('simplified jo...
• Veilid fails: quotaanonymousno cardRwrite-gated
  no quota and no account — 'All Veilid applications running veilid-core are nodes, and they are all equal in the eyes of the network. No nodes are special. No...
• Vercel Blob (Hobby plan) fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-capdisagrees
  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...
• Vercel Deployment Storage / artifact store (Hobby, 30-day TTL) fails: quotaemail?card?Rretention-clamped
  10 GB of Deployment Storage per Hobby team, and that pool is what every retained deployment output draws from. This is the clearest example in the whole slot...
• vercel edge config / global config fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Renamed to Global Config, and the Free limits are absurd for storage: 'Maximum store size / 1 MB' and 'Maximum number of stores (total) / 1' on Hobby. One me...
• vercel hobby (static deployments) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  100 MB max static upload per deployment on Hobby, and since Apr 29 2026 Hobby deployment retention is capped at 30 days ('Deployments outside your retention ...
• viber business as a media host fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Inverted API: Viber consumes your public image URL, it never produces one. 1-3 MB cap on your file.
• Viber Business Messages / REST Bot API fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No storage quota — same inversion as Kakao: you pass a picture URL, Viber fetches it. Max image 1 MB on iOS, 3 MB on Android, thumbnail 100 KB.
• Vidyard (Free) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free: 5 recorded videos per month, 25 videos in the library at once, 30 minutes max length. AI video generation capped separately.
• virmach storage / cloud storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Cheap headline ($3/mo for 250 GB) that inverts at scale: $10/TB at 500 GB, and the STORAGE-1T rung on the live page shows 'OR $4.80 PER YEAR', which is a cle...
• vk cloud 'memory' style consumer storage (мтс вторая память etc.) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Consumer phone-backup subscriptions: 8 GB free, then 60-500 RUB/mo for 80 GB-1.5 TB. Paid, small, and app-only.
• volcengine ark files api (doubao) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Server-side clamped retention: minimum 1 day, maximum 30 days, default 7 days. 512 MB per file on managed storage. Cannot hold anything.
• Walrus fails: quotacardcardR
  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...
• Walrus Console (Walrus Foundation, Oct 2026 launch) fails: quotaemailno cardR
  5 GB free. Launched 2026-10-07 with 'Get started today with 5GB free'. No larger free tier is published.
• walrus mainnet (public upload) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No keyless publisher exists and none is planned: 'Walrus has no public unauthenticated publisher on Mainnet. There are no plans to create one.' Every store s...
• wayback cdx server as storage fails: quotaemail?card?R
  It is an index over captures, not a blob store. Useful only as a free listing/manifest source for items you already uploaded (1.7s-38s per query in probes).
• Wayback Machine — Save Page Now 2 (capture API) fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  No storage quota; the cap is per-object at 2GB ('Max resource size = 2GB') and 100,000 captures/day for authenticated users (4,000/day anonymous in the 2022 ...
• wayback replay as a general bulk store (upload-by-url) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  You can only capture what a URL already serves, so it is a second copy, not primary storage; and item-file URLs under archive.org/download/<item>/<file> are ...
• web werks (in) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Named in the brief, checked, and it publishes no pricing at all. The storage page is enterprise marketing prose with no SKU, no rate card and no order path —...
• Weights & Biases / CoreWeave Forge (academic free tier) fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  Free plan: 5 GB/month of storage. Pro: 100 GB/month. 'Free forever for academic research' tier: 200 GB of cloud storage, unlimited tracked hours, up to 25 GB...
• wekeo (copernicus dias) free tier fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free account gives 'up to 20 GB of storage in your home directory' on JupyterHub. The larger Innovation Lab tier is a competitive call, not a quota.
• wekeo drive (copernicus dias file hosting) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  8 GB of free space - three orders of magnitude short of the 500 GB floor, and it is a file-sharing front end for notebooks rather than object storage.
• Wellcome Trust - storage as a claimable grant cost fails: quotainstitutionno cardRdisagrees
  No byte quota - 'large-scale data storage' is an allowable service charge, plus a 'Data management and sharing plan costs' line.
• wellcome trust, alfred p. sloan, gordon and betty moore, nsf supplements (a fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
  All four fund organisations, not people. Wellcome pays 'large-scale data storage' only as a service charge on a grant held by an administering organisation. ...
• WeTransfer fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  Free: 3 GB per transfer AND 10 transfers per rolling 30-day window (a pool, not per-send). Links live up to 3 days. Starter 10 transfers/300 GB. Ultimate unl...
• whatsapp cloud api media as archive fails: quotaemail?card?R
  30-day hard deletion plus 5-minute media URLs; the bytes are unrecoverable on day 31. Any 'WhatsApp as free storage' claim found in the wild is wrong about t...
• WhatsApp Cloud API — Media (upload / media_id) fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  Per-file caps only, no storage quota: documents 100 MB, images 5 MB, video 16 MB, audio 16 MB, stickers 500 KB (as listed on the reference page). Files persi...
• wikidot fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free account is 5 sites x 300 MB = 1.5 GB total, 25 MB per file. The 'unlimited' Community Site tier exists but is application-gated ('most popular, high-qua...
• wisemodel (wisemodel.cn) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Reads are Chinese-market and mostly login-gated for the interesting parts: /models -> 200, but every model detail page I opened returned 504 through the read...
• wistia free fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free plan has a fixed storage allowance it will not let you exceed ('Free plans do not have the ability to purchase additional storage, and cannot exceed the...
• Wormhole fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  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.
• x0.at (filehost2, x0.at / 0x0 family) fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  1024 MiB per file, no account, no per-account cap — unlimited uploads. Retention 3 to 100 days, scaled by file size via MIN_AGE + (MAX_AGE - MIN_AGE) * (1 - ...
• x02.me fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Free plan is 5 GB with 200 MB/file (80 MB anonymous) and 250 uploads/day. Clean REST API and an MCP server, unlimited free accounts, but 5 GB units and a 200...
• xata fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Explicitly no free tier. Xata Cloud is a 14-day trial then $0.012/hr compute + $0.28/GB/mo storage. The open-source engine is Apache 2.0 (self-host only, no ...
• xbox network captures fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Policy since 2023-10-01 deletes captures stored on the Xbox network after 90 days. Explicitly a TTL cache, not storage; the intended destination is your own ...
• XBOX services Title Storage fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  Trusted Platform: 256 MB per player (Managed Partners) / 64 MB per player (Creators Program). Universal Platform: 64 MB per player. Global: 256 MB. No total-...
• xeno-canto (bird sound archive) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Both the API and every documentation page sit behind an Anubis proof-of-work wall. /api/3/recordings without a key returns 401 asking for a key parameter...
• Xirsys free (Developer plan) fails: quotaemailno cardRper-ip-shaping
  500 MB monthly TURN bandwidth on the free Developer plan, capped bandwidth, single geographic region after a 30-day all-region trial. STUN unlimited.
• xirsys free turn fails: quotaemail?card?R
  500 MB/month, single region after 30 days. 16 MB/day — a sandbox, not a transport.
• xirvik fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Entry shared plan is $14.95 for ~100 GB HDD — roughly $150/TB/mo. Team tier $124.95 for 4 TB ($31/TB). Nowhere near the floor despite 'unlimited traffic'.
• xserver drive (xserver.ne.jp) — the one japanese 'unlimited' that isn't fails: quotaemail?card?R
  2 GB free with a 100 MB per-file cap, verified by a Japanese developer who actually ran rclone against it. It is technically excellent (WebDAV works on the f...
• Yahoo Mail (free) — 20 GB, down from 1 TB fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap
  Yahoo's own help, read live: "Yahoo Mail incluye actualmente 20 GB de almacenamiento gratuito con cada cuenta" = 20 GB free per account. Plans: 100 GB, 1 TB;...
• Yandex 'unlimited photo storage' (auto-upload) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  unlimited photos/videos, but only with an active paid Yandex 360 plan; free accounts have those files counted against the 5 GB
• yandex cloud object storage free tier fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Only 1 GB of standard storage, 10 000 PUT and 100 000 GET per month free — two orders of magnitude below the filter, and the initial grant is a time-boxed tr...
• Yandex Disk (+ Yandex 360) fails: quotaemail?card?Rretention-clamped
  5 GB free per account (shared with Yandex Mail attachments); paid 200 GB-2 TB from 319-699 RUB/mo
• yandex disk / yandex photos fails: quotaemail?card?R
  5 GB free. The 'unlimited' photo auto-upload is gated behind Yandex 360 paid plans and is not available on free.
• Yandex Disk free tier (post-2026-06 change) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  5 GB by default for users without a plan: 'По умолчанию пользователям без тарифа доступно 5 ГБ места в хранилище'. Photo/video 'unlimited' auto-upload is a p...
• Yandex Mail — 5 GB pooled with Disk, 1 GB attachment fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  Yandex's own docs: "By default, users without a plan get 5 GB of storage space." Mail and Disk now share one pool: "Emails and attachments in Yandex Mail now...
• z-library fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Uploader is a catalogue, not storage: 50 books per web upload before you must request FTP access, registration required, and every file is deduped against th...
• zalo cloud (cloud.zalo.me) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  DNS does not resolve. Zalo's cloud offering exists only as 'Zalo Business Solutions' (zalo.solutions), an enterprise customer-service platform — there is no ...
• zazzle fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Uploads fail above ~3-4 MB in practice with no error message; 'no limits to the number of images' but each is tiny.
• zeronet fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Not a storage provider: a BitTorrent-based P2P site distribution tool with no hosting, no quota, no SLA, and no seeding guarantee beyond whoever is online. R...
• ZeroTier free (Personal) fails: quotaemailno cardR
  10 devices, 1 network, non-commercial use. Vendor table effective 20 Oct 2026: 'Personal | Free | 10 | Not available'.
• zerotier free as a storage mesh fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Cut to 10 devices / 1 network, non-commercial, and the self-hostable controller was removed from the default open-source build. Cannot host a shard farm.
• zhipu bigmodel files fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Batch purpose capped at 100 MB/file and 1,000 files; file-extract capped at 50 MB. Content download only supported for batch type. Well below the floor.
• zilliz cloud / milvus (free tier) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The free tier is denominated in Capacity Units (compute), not bytes, and the product stores embeddings rather than arbitrary objects. No blob/object API, no ...
• Zoho Mail Free — 5 GB/user, up to 25 users via referral, live IMAP fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  Zoho's own help: "Each user is allocated 5 GB of storage under the free plan." Headcount: free plan is 5 users in select regions, expandable — press release ...
• zoho wiki / readthedocs / tettra fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Zoho Wiki is free for 3 users but publishes no storage number anywhere in its FAQ; ReadTheDocs Community is free for open-source and publishes no storage quo...
• Zoho WorkDrive fails: quotainstitutionno cardR
  5 GB free forever on the Individual plan
• zoho workplace free edition fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The free edition's WorkDrive team-storage number could not be pinned down on the pricing page (the 100 GB / 10 GB-per-user figures are the paid tiers). Not r...
• zoolz lifetime fails: quotaemail?card?R
  No lifetime product survives on the pricing page. zoolz.com/pricing/ now shows only Monthly/Yearly toggles with a '30% Off Yearly Plans' banner — no one-time...
• zoom team chat files fails: quotaemail?card?R
  download_token scoping and plan-dependent retention make anonymous serving implausible. Left recorded so nobody re-runs the same failed fetches.
• Zooniverse (Panoptes) fails: quotaemailno cardRwrite-gated
  Stores contributor *classifications*, not contributor *uploads* — and the upload side is capped at 10,000 subjects per user. Zooniverse Help, Lab Policies, v...
• Zulip Cloud Free fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
  5 GB total file storage per organization on Cloud Free — not per user. Standard/Plus are 5 GB/25 GB per user.
• zulip self-hosted free / community fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Self-hosted means the disk is yours to pay for. The only interesting artifact is the S3 upload backend, which points at a bucket you already pay for.
• zus / blimp (0chain) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The free-ish path requires you to contribute hardware — 'Launch a node ... as little as 4 vCPU and a single 100 GB attached disk' — so it is rent-seeking cap...
• Úschovna (uschovna.cz) fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  Anonymous transfer: 30 GB per shipment, free, 14 days, 30 downloads per recipient. Paid (40 CZK): 50 GB, 90 days, unlimited downloads. Registered 'úschovna+'...
• Облако Mail.ru (VK) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  8 GB free: 'Сколько в Облаке бесплатного места — 8 ГБ'. The historic 100 GB-for-beta-testers grant was cancelled in Nov 2024; accounts drop to 8 GB after 6 m...
• データ便 / DataDeliver (dd.datadeliver.net) fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
  Free tier: 5 GB per transfer (registered, free), 2 GB per transfer (Light, no registration). '1回の転送容量' is 無制限 only on the 330/550-yen business plan. The site...
• 中国电信魔盘 mopan (mopan) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Has a dedicated OpenList driver (mopan, reverse-engineered, with an explicit provider warning 'This network disk may store your password in clear text'), s...
• 分秒帧 MediaTrack (app.mediatrack.cn) fails: quotaany-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-cap
  Free personal plan: 10 GB storage, 5 members per project, 1 GB per single file (secondary source says 2 GB free). Paid: 100 GB / 300 GB / 1 TB / 2 TB / 3 TB ...
• 华为云空间 Huawei Cloud Space fails: quotaany-phoneno cardphoneR
  About 5 GB free; ~¥6/month for more. Device-backup oriented.
• 坚果云 Nutstore (jianguoyun.com) fails: quotaemailno cardRper-object-cap
  Traffic-based, not capacity-based: '每位免费用户每月最多可上传1GB的文件，可下载3GB的文件'. Space grows with what you upload and is bounded by the traffic allowance, so effective fr...
• 文叔叔 WenShuShu (wenshushu.cn) fails: quotaany-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-cap
  40 GB free drive space. Own site: '免费提供网络硬盘空间 40GB'. Per-file: 5 GB ('单个文件最大可达5GB'). No login needed to send; login needed to keep.
• 模力方舟 / moark (formerly Gitee AI) — model & dataset hub fails: quotaemailno cardphoneRper-object-cap
  Not published. Gitee's help centre documents the AI-model hosting flow (models are stored as LFS files inside a Gitee-style repo and the UI annotates each wi...
• 永硕e盘 ysepan (ys168.com) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Looks like a free space-based drive from the outside; it is actually space-purchased ('按空间购买'), with small capacity and small per-file limits. Registration i...
• 移动云空间 ecpan (ecpan.cn) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Listed by netdisk-fast-download and qaiu's parser as a resolvable drive (ec), and it does accept share links, but the product is enterprise SaaS with a tri...
• 联想乐云 LeCloud (lecloud.lenovo.com) fails: quotaemailno cardR
  5 GB base. '新注册账号有5GB云空间，如您在注册后7日内完成新人任务可以免费获赠1个月黄金会员扩容空间200GB'. Membership adds 20 GB per tier via sign-in activities.
• 联通云盘 / 沃盘 WoPan (pan.wo.cn, China Unicom) fails: quotacountry-phoneno cardphoneR
  60 GB free — raised from 10 GB by a 2025-09-01→15 promotion that was made permanent ('免费用户存储空间 由10GB 提升至60GB，空间长期有效'). Site tagline '不限速'. Non-Unicom numbers...
• 腾讯微云 Tencent Weiyun fails: quotaany-phoneno cardphoneR
  About 10 GB free; paid ~¥10/month. Massively downgraded from the 10 TB free era.
• 豆包云盘 Doubao Drive (ByteDance; storage provided by 北京飞书科技) fails: quotacountry-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-cap
  Contractual language is deliberately unquantified: '豆包通过云盘功能向普通账号提供一定额度的免费云存储空间'. Reported reality: legacy users 100 GB, new users 10 GB, API reports 5 TB bu...
• 货摊网 (huotan) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  Small Chinese digital-goods stall platform; PayPal + Alipay + WeChat, buyer/seller docs exist but no published file-size or storage number was findable — unq...
• 超星云盘 Chaoxing Cloud (pan-yz.chaoxing.com) + 超星小组盘 fails: quotanational-idno cardRper-object-cap
  100 GB free per account (was 150 GB before a reduction; one vendor page still advertises '为每个用户提供150G的初始容量空间'). Per-file: 1 GB on web, up to 15 GB via the de...
• 파일노리 / 싸다파일 / 빅파일 / 온디스크 / 위디스크 / 파일마루 / 파일구리 (korean webhard category) fails: quotaemail?card?R
  The whole 웹하드 category is a **download-credit** business, not a storage business. Every one of these gives new sign-ups free *download coupons and points*, n...
• BitChute fails: quotainstitutionno cardIper-object-cap
  No published total cap; free-tier per-file upload limit reported around 2 GB, higher for paid members (membership page advertises 'Higher Upload Limits' with...
• BowlRoll (bowlroll.net) fails: quotaanonymousno cardI
  Not published on any page reachable without login; the front page now opens with a funding appeal ('BowlRollでは、継続的な運用のため資金面でのご支援が必要です') asking users to suppo...
• Crust Network DSM fails: quotacardcardI
  storage orders placed on-chain, each held for six months; the top four nodes submitting proofs share that file's reward
• datos.gob.es (Spain) fails: quotaemailno cardI
  Not machine-readable from here — CKAN action API returns 403 behind the WAF; the public catalogue is harvested from ministry and regional nodes.
• DoodStream fails: quotaemail?card?I
  'Unlimited Storage' (marketing claim on the homepage).
• ggdriive.com fails: quotaanonymousno cardI
  20 GB free; 'ILIMITADO PRO' marketed as unlimited (paid)
• GitGud (gitgud.io) - GitLab instance fails: quotaemail?card?I
  unverified: blocked by challenge. The origin returned HTTP 403 through the fetch proxy (x-web-origin-status: 403) on every attempt, and the reader returned e...
• Hippius Arion (Bittensor subnet on iroh) fails: quotaemailno cardI
  Paid storage product (Hippius sells S3-compatible storage, Drive, Hub). No free tier published on the pages opened.
• opencolorado.org (regional CKAN, US) fails: quotaemailno cardIper-object-cap
  Historic operator statement: 100 GB total platform storage, individual uploads up to 50 MB, with the explicit goal of 'supporting data uploads which will mak...
• SpaceByte Cloud (India) — ₹150/TB/mo claimed, the lowest credible-looking number outside China and the least verifiable fails: quotaemailno cardI USD 1.19/TB-mo
  Starter 50 GB ₹20/mo; Freelancer 100 GB ₹35/mo; 500 GB ₹100/mo; Studio Pro 1 TB ₹150/mo (or ₹1,650/yr); 25 GB free forever. Enterprise pooled storage on requ...
• VikingFile fails: quotaanonymousno cardI
  Tagline: 'Share large files anonymously. Unlimited storage. No mail required. No speed limit. No size limit.' No numeric quota page found.
• Zhihu image hosting fails: quotaemail?card?I
  no vendor page found; user reports cluster at 2-10 MB per image
• Zoom Team Chat — files API fails: quotaemail?card?I
  No storage quota obtained. Zoom's chat-files docs were not readable through any allowed path (empty reader output, no retention number).