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beehiiv (free plan) — 500 MB per podcast episode, newsletter attachment host
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- Free allowance
- Free plan is "Free forever" with unlimited email sends (pricing page).
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-capmaximum file size for a single podcast episode upload is 500 MB
- Evidence
- documented6 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 | Free plan is "Free forever" with unlimited email sends (pricing page). Per-file: "The maximum file size for a single podcast episode upload is 500 MB." File blocks in posts allow attachments; images must be under 5 MB. unit unlimited; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-object-cap (binding) maximum file size for a single podcast episode upload is 500 MB source
per-object-cap 500 MB podcast audio, 5 MB images, 1 MB fonts. Email body itself is capped at Gmail's 102 KB clipping threshold, so the attachment is the only real payload path. No published aggregate byte quota on free. |
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| Identity | email (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | CDN-served post media; no egress billing on the free plan. |
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| Per-object cap | maximum file size for a single podcast episode upload is 500 MB (500000000 bytes) |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest, rclone rest |
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| Tooling | REST API exists (beehiiv API + Zapier integration, v3 app). No rclone backend. |
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| Composes with | Episodes are per-show; multiple shows × multiple publications per account. But 500 MB × episodes is a podcasting quota, not a blob store, and the free plan's real limit is subscriber count (2,500), not bytes. |
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| Reliability | Media re-encoding risk must be assumed for audio/video paths; original-byte retrieval is not documented. Treat as CDN surface, not storage. |
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| Evidence note | documented Re-read on 2026-11-03 from vendor pages: https://www.beehiiv.com/support/article/41323776364823 (500 MB maximum for a single podcast episode upload) and https://www.beehiiv.com/pricing (Free includes up to 2,500 subscribers; every plan includes unlimited email sends). The per-object cap that binds the verdict cites a vendor capture; the image, font and email-clipping limits stay unverified. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-object-cap 500 MB
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Evidence 6
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "Free plan is \"Free forever\" with unlimited email sends (pricing page). Per-file: \"The maximum file size for a single podcast episode upload is 500 MB.\" File blocks in posts allow attachments; images must be under 5 MB.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 3
- per object cap notes: 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