ASUS WebStorage
- Free allowance
- 5 GB on the plan listed as Free Trial, priced 'Lifetime Free'; paid Lite 100 GB, Pro 1 TB, Enterprise 5 TB
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap5 GB is the free tier total, which is the cap in practice
- Evidence
- reported10 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-19checked 2026-11-04 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-19
| Free tier | 5 GB on the plan listed as Free Trial, priced 'Lifetime Free'; paid Lite 100 GB, Pro 1 TB, Enterprise 5 TB unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits | |
| Binding | per-object-cap 5 GB free, and the API is metered by a paid-tier entitlement, so there is no free programmatic path at any capacity. |
| Identity | email an email address |
| Egress | Not published; FTP is offered on paid tiers with a bandwidth limit |
| Per-object cap | Not published |
| Retention | Not published |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | reverse-engineered. A draft rclone backend, pull request 6808, whose description states 'API is not publicly available. Protocol and API were discovered with official Linux client.', was opened 2023-03-06 and closed unmerged on 2026-02-26; it is in no release |
| Composes with | Had the rclone backend landed this would be a clean one-line remote. It did not: the pull request was closed unmerged on 2026-02-26, and rclone's maintainer required someone to commit to maintaining a backend whose API is not public |
| Reliability | The draft rclone backend was closed unmerged on 2026-02-26 and the API is not public. Do not plan on it |
| Notes | Both a quota failure and a tooling failure, recorded as fails-quota because the quota is the first thing a reader checks. The API being a paid-tier entitlement is the part that would surprise a reader who assumed the draft rclone backend implied free access. |
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Evidence 10
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | service.asuswebstorage.com/store/?bp=_t | plan table Free Trial 5 GB, Lite 100 GB, Pro 1 TB, Enterprise 5 TB, and 'API Function: Pro 10 million per month' |
| 2026-10-21 | github.com/rclone/rclone/pull/6808 | 'API is not publicly available. Protocol and API were discovered with official Linux client', state Draft since 2023-03-06 |
| 2026-10-21 | probe: https://www.asuswebstorage.com/navigate/price/ | HTTP 404 with a 774-byte body, so that path is dead and the live price page is service.asuswebstorage.com/store/ |
| 2026-11-03 | service.asuswebstorage.com/store/?bp=_t | the Free Trial column is priced Lifetime Free; its storage row is 5GB |
| 2026-11-03 | github.com/rclone/rclone/pull/6808 | the rclone maintainer closed the pull request on 2026-02-26 |
| 2026-11-03 | github.com/rclone/rclone/pull/6808 | rclone's condition for merging a backend with no public API |
| 2026-11-03 | service.asuswebstorage.com/service/ | the first-party service page offers 5 GB free for an account number, password and email address |
| 2026-11-03 | service.asuswebstorage.com/store/?bp=_t | API calls are a Pro and Enterprise entitlement, 10 million and 50 million per month |
| 2026-11-03 | service.asuswebstorage.com/store/?bp=_t | plan storage: Free Trial 5GB, Lite 100GB, Pro 1TB, Enterprise 5TB |
| 2026-11-03 | probe: https://www.asuswebstorage.com/navigate/price/ | the old price path still answers HTTP 404 with a 774-byte body |
More fields 3
| access mode | registration-gated |
|---|---|
| rclone backend | PR 6808, closed unmerged on 2026-02-26, not in any release |
| api included free | no |
Unknown values 2
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- interface: the access interface was not established