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- Free allowance
- 5 GB free for open-source projects: 'Users have a free 5 GB limit for open source projects and 20 Cachix Deploy agents.' Paid tiers start at 50 GiB.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 5 GB free for open-source projects: 'Users have a free 5 GB limit for open source projects and 20 Cachix Deploy agents.' Paid tiers start at 50 GiB. unit GB; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | Unlimited bandwidth even on the paid Starter tier ('Unlimited bandwidth', 'CloudFlare CDN caching'); free tier inherits the CF-backed delivery. Free egress is genuinely not the constraint here. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest, rclone, cli rest |
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| Tooling | cachix CLI (push/use), Nix --substituters, and the standard Nix binary-cache HTTP protocol (narinfo/nar). No rclone backend but the nar protocol is scriptable. |
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| Composes with | one cache per account, 5 GB free; unlimited free accounts x 5 GB. Because a Nix cache is content-addressed and deduplicated, identical NARs are only stored once per cache - so multiplication is by account, not by file. |
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| Reliability | Clean, documented, Cloudflare-fronted, unlimited bandwidth - the 5 GB is the only issue, and it is 100x short of the workload. Any Nix-cache-based plan is account-farming at 5 GB/account. |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | www.cachix.org/pricing | 'Users have a free 5 GB limit for open source projects and 20 Cachix Deploy agents'; '50 GiB of storage / Unlimited bandwidth / CloudFlare CDN caching' on Starter |
| 2026-10-21 | cachix.org/api/v1/cache/nixpkgs | probe: GET -> 200, 241 bytes (cache endpoint live, anonymous) |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "5 GB free for open-source projects: 'Users have a free 5 GB limit for open source projects and 20 Cachix Deploy agents.' Paid tiers start at 50 GiB.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: 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
www.cachix.org/pricingstorage/cachix-2JSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- 5 GB free for open source.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented3 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 | 5 GB free for open source. Cloudflare egress is genuinely unlimited, but 5 GB is the cap. unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | Unlimited bandwidth on the Starter, Standard and Pro plans, served through the CloudFlare CDN; egress is not capped or priced. |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Tooling | not recorded |
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| Evidence note | documented the verdict rests on the vendor pricing page, read on 2026-11-03: it quotes the free 5 GB limit for open source projects and the unlimited bandwidth line of the paid plans |
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Evidence 3
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "egress","why": "5 GB free for open source. Cloudflare egress is genuinely unlimited, but 5 GB is the cap.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 6
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- 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
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field