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Box for Nonprofits — donated Starter (10 perpetual licences)
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- Free allowance
- Box Starter, free for nonprofits via TechSoup validation: 'Secure file collaboration, storage and native e-signatures for up to 10 users | 100 GB of storage | 2 GB file upload'.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap2 GB per upload
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Box Starter, free for nonprofits via TechSoup validation: 'Secure file collaboration, storage and native e-signatures for up to 10 users | 100 GB of storage | 2 GB file upload'. TechSoup confirms 'donations of up to 10 perpetual licenses for Box Starter Edition'. 100 GB shared per org. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-object-cap (binding) 2 GB per upload source
per-object-cap 2 GB per upload. request-rate: Box API per-app throttling. retention: 'perpetual licenses' — no expiry, which is unusual and worth noting. |
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| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | No egress meter on Box downloads documented on the nonprofit page. |
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| Per-object cap | 2 GB per upload (2000000000 bytes) |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest, rclone rest |
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| Tooling | rclone backend 'box' (Tier 1, server-side copy); Box Content API. |
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| Composes with | 100 GB x one nonprofit org, with 10 perpetual seats sharing that 100 GB — not 100 GB per seat. Paid Business/Enterprise are 50% off, which is a discount not a grant, so this does not reach 500 GB free. |
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| Reliability | Stable and perpetual, but 100 GB aggregate is an order of magnitude. Only interesting as an egress-free front for a small hot set. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-object-cap 2 GB
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | www.box.org/use-box/nonprofit | 'Starter ... up to 10 users | 100 GB of storage | 2 GB file upload ... Free' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.techsoup.org/box | 'donations of up to 10 perpetual licenses for Box Starter Edition or ... 50 percent discount' |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: GET www.box.org/use-box/nonprofit -> 403 on first attempt but full plan table extracted; GET www.techsoup.org/box -> 200 |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "Box Starter, free for nonprofits via TechSoup validation: 'Secure file collaboration, storage and native e-signatures for up to 10 users | 100 GB of storage | 2 GB file upload'. TechSoup confirms 'donations of up to 10 perpetual licenses for Box Starter Edition'. 100 GB shared per org.","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