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Bilibili video upload
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- Free allowance
- 8 GB per video reported for most accounts; some accounts higher (third-party guide, not vendor docs)
- Verdict
- fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap8 GB/file
- Evidence
- inferred2 sources; reasoned from other evidence
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-21checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-21
| Free tier | 8 GB per video reported for most accounts; some accounts higher (third-party guide, not vendor docs) unit GB; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-object-cap (binding) 8 GB/file source
- write-gated review gate source
- write-gated review rejects arbitrary data, so it is a video host, not storage source
8 GB/file; mandatory transcode (never byte-exact); content review gate; account must be phone-verified; playback URLs are signed and expire |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | free playback CDN, but segment/m3u8 delivery with Referer and anti-leech checks — not a plain file GET |
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| Per-object cap | 8 GB/file (8000000000 bytes) |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest rest |
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| Tooling | open upload API documented in Chinese (POST /arcopen/fn/archive/video/init, chunked upload above 100 MB); bilibili-API-collect and multiple uploader CLIs exist |
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| Composes with | 8 GB x unlimited videos x N verified accounts; 20 TiB = 2,560 uploads. Realistically the biggest single-file social quota found, but each video must pass transcode + review |
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| Reliability | transcoding destroys the bytes and review rejects arbitrary data, so it is a video host, not storage; CDN URLs are time-signed |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-object-cap 8 GB
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Evidence 2
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "8 GB per video reported for most accounts; some accounts higher (third-party guide, not vendor docs)","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