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- Free allowance
- 20 GB per attached video (official FAQ post: 'Вы можете прикреплять к постам видео размером до 20 ГБ').
- Verdict
- fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-capper-object-cap 20 GB
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 20 GB per attached video (official FAQ post: 'Вы можете прикреплять к постам видео размером до 20 ГБ'). Community reports the effective limit was cut to 1 GB at one point (2025-07 post: 'Бусти ограничили ... до 1 ГИГА'). unit GB; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-object-cap (binding) per-object-cap 20 GB source
per-object-cap 20 GB, video only. Video is re-encoded for the internal player (their own announcement of the 'Внутренний видеоплеер'), so originals are not what gets served. |
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| Identity | email email |
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| Egress | Subscriber-gated; no public CDN link. |
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| Per-object cap | per-object-cap 20 GB (20000000000 bytes) |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown Web + a reverse-engineered API (community downloaders exist: ath31st/boosty_downloader). |
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| Tooling | Unofficial API clients only. |
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| Composes with | 20 GB is attractive but only for video, and video is transcoded — so the ingest number does not translate into storage of arbitrary bytes. |
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| Reliability | Re-encodes at ingest. Limit has been reduced unilaterally at least once, which is a retention-clamp risk. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-object-cap 20 GB
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Evidence 4
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "20 GB per attached video (official FAQ post: 'Вы можете прикреплять к постам видео размером до 20 ГБ'). Community reports the effective limit was cut to 1 GB at one point (2025-07 post: 'Бусти ограничили ... до 1 ГИГА').","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- interface: the access interface was not established
- 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