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- Free allowance
- 5 GB per researcher per year free, then a one-off €4.50/GB (~$4,900/TB).
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 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. unit GB; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email email — explicitly open: 'Anyone from science, engineering and design can use 4TU.ResearchData to upload and publish their research data and software' and 'I am not affiliated with one of the 4TU's, can I deposit my data? Anyone ... can upload'. The identity gate is genuinely zero; the quota gate is what kills it. |
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| Egress | free |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest REST, OAI-PMH |
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| Tooling | part of the text of Interface, above |
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| Reliability | pricing is per-GB one-off, so cost scales linearly with volume — no bulk escape. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 3
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "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.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read