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5.basecamp-help.com/article/1144-basecamp-for-freestorage/basecamp-for-freeJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- 1 GB of file storage, 1 project and 3 users on the permanent free plan; additional storage and public sharing links are not available on the free plan
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota1 GB of file storage on the free plan
- Evidence
- documented7 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | 1 GB of file storage, 1 project and 3 users on the permanent free plan; additional storage and public sharing links are not available on the free plan unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 1 GB of file storage on the free plan source
additional storage is not available on the free plan; the largest paid plan, Pro Unlimited, holds 1000 GB (1 TB) at $199/mo billed annually |
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| Binding | volume-quota the free plan holds 1 GB of file storage and additional storage is not an option on it |
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| Identity | email the free plan asks for no credit card; other sign-up fields: unverified: behind a sign-up |
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| Egress | not recorded |
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| Interface | rest REST API: create an attachment, then create an upload in a project vault |
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| Tooling | vendor REST API (bc3-api): POST /attachments.json uploads a file, then an upload is created under a project vault; the free plan has 1 project |
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| Composes with | not recorded |
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| Reliability | free plan: 1 GB of file storage; additional storage is not available on the free plan |
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| Notes | 1 GB of file storage, 1 project and 3 users on the free plan; public sharing links and additional storage are not available on the free plan |
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| Evidence note | documented Re-read on 2026-11-03 from vendor pages: https://5.basecamp-help.com/article/1144-basecamp-for-free (1 GB of file storage; additional storage not available; permanent free plan, no credit card), https://basecamp.com/pricing (Pro Unlimited 1000 GB at $199/mo billed annually), https://github.com/basecamp/bc3-api/blob/master/sections/attachments.md and https://github.com/basecamp/bc3-api/blob/master/sections/uploads.md (upload endpoints). Every field that decides the verdict cites a vendor capture. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- volume-quota 1 GB
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Evidence 7
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "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.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 5
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field