archive.today
- Free allowance
- No account and no key stated; a 429 was the answer to the first followed request
- Verdict
- deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate429 on the first followed request; no published allowance
- Evidence
- measured3 sources; a live request was made and its output kept
- Freshness
- checked 2026-10-22checked 2026-10-22 (live)
| Free tier | no account and no key stated; a 429 was the answer to the first followed request unit requests; metered on request-count; the allowance is not published anywhere reachable |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
an unpublished allowance is worse than a small one: there is no threshold to design against |
| Identity | anonymous no account was asked for |
| Egress | not applicable: it answers HTML |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a capture |
| Retention | captures are kept indefinitely, which is the service's purpose |
| Interface | rest an HTML route, /newest/<url>; no JSON API |
| Tooling | none published |
| Composes with | Nothing chains to it: the only programmatic route answers a challenge |
| Reliability | 429 with a 59,077-byte challenge page on the first followed request |
| Notes | The 2035 timestamp in the redirect is the finding worth keeping: a caller that trusts the redirect records a capture that does not exist. Three routes, three refusals, so the class is closed for programmatic use. |
| Evidence note | measured no page read |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | archive.ph/newest/https://example.com | 302 to https://archive.ph/20351231145959/http://example.com/, a timestamp in 2035, so the redirect names no real capture |
| 2026-10-22 | archive.ph/newest/https://example.com | 429 with 59,077 bytes when the redirect was followed |
| 2026-10-22 | archive.today/ | 301 with a zero byte body |