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Free allowance: 3 GB per free personal account.
Verdict: fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
Cost: free tier
Identity: anonymous?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
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	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 large amount of storage (>100GB), you'll need to contact sales.' Team plan is 50 GB. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Identity	anonymous (inferred, not read) not published
Egress	Free and unmetered for public packages. CDN-fronted (Cloudflare). conda-forge serves multi-GB packages anonymously with no auth.
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	rest rest
Tooling	anaconda-client (`anaconda upload`, `anaconda copy`, `anaconda remove`); REST at api.anaconda.org; conda itself is the client for download. Public channel listing is anonymous JSON.
Composes with	Multiply by free orgs/accounts: 3 GB personal, 10 GB default cap, 50 GB Team. Even chained aggressively this is the smallest unit in the field — 10 TiB would need ~340 personal accounts at 3 GB. Not worth the operational cost against npm's 200 MB x unlimited.
Reliability	Hard-limit enforcement is a real upload block, not a warning, and Anaconda's own forum answer routes anyone above 10 GB to sales. Storage ceiling is the smallest of the registries and there is no anonymous-way around it.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1

Evidence 3

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	forum.anaconda.com/t/anaconda-packages-storage-size-limits/9	'the personal storage limit is only 3GB'; staff reply: 'You'll hit a hard limit at 10 GB with the default storage settings. If you need a large amount of storage (>100GB), you'll need to contact sales'
2026-10-21	continuumio-docs.readthedocs-hosted.com/anacondaorg/faq/	'The free plan allows you to search for, create and host public packages, and provides up to 3 GB storage space'
2026-10-21	api.anaconda.org/package/conda-forge/numpy	probe: GET -> 200, 3,868 files, 25.6 GB total for one package name (shows the platform itself carries far more than the free-tier limit — the limit is per publisher account, not per package)

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dead end	`{"failure_class": "quota","why": "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 large amount of storage (>100GB), you'll need to contact sales.' Team plan is 50 GB.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}`

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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