Copernicus
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- caveatCopernicus Climate Data Store (CDS) API
Debridfree tieridentity emailno cardevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-23
- fails: quotacopernicus cds / ads
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotaCopernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE / ESA DIAS) - 12 TB/month of free READ, zero writable storage
Storagefree tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-18
- fails: quotawekeo drive (copernicus dias file hosting)
Storagefree tieridentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-14
- Free allowance
- Free data, account required: 'If you do not have an account yet, please register ...
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | Free data, account required: 'If you do not have an account yet, please register ... Once logged in, copy the code displayed below to the file $HOME/.cdsapirc' with url https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api and a personal access token. unit unlimited; metered on none; No price, no byte allowance and no quota is published on the API setup page. |
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| Price | USD 0 |
| Limits |
The real gate is identity: registration plus a token plus, per dataset, a licence acceptance. The token is a credential and was not created here, so no retrieval was attempted. |
| Binding | none Nothing in the seven-kind vocabulary fails at 1 TiB/month that could be measured here; the gate that does fail is identity, which the vocabulary carries in identity_cost rather than in limits. |
| Identity | email A CDS account (email registration) plus a personal access token copied into .cdsapirc, plus a licence acceptance per dataset. No card and no institution. |
| Egress | Free. The token is identity, not payment. free allowance: no byte allowance published |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: a retrieval request returns a packaged file (NetCDF, GRIB or ZIP) built from the requested variable, area and period |
| Retention | the archive is the product: ERA5 and the other datasets are reissued, not deleted, and a retrieval result is held for a limited period before it must be re-requested |
| Interface | rest, cli HTTPS API at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api with the cdsapi python client; the token goes in $HOME/.cdsapirc. Process listing at /api/retrieve/v1/processes. endpoint: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api |
| Tooling | cdsapi (pip install 'cdsapi>=0.7.7') is the vendor's own client; curl can drive the same endpoints with the PRIVATE-TOKEN header. |
| Composes with | The only free ERA5-class reanalysis source; pair it with a compute sandbox because a full reanalysis pull is tens of GB and needs processing where it lands. |
| Reliability | Retrievals are queued and can take minutes to hours at peak; a client must poll a request id rather than expect a stream. No rate was measured because no token exists here. |
| Notes | Caveat is the account and the queue, not the price. This is the clearest example of a resource that is free but not anonymous: the bytes cost nothing and the token is mandatory. |
| Evidence note | documented The setup page was read and the process listing answered anonymously, which proves the service is live but not that a retrieval works. A retrieval with a real token would move this to measured. |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | cds.climate.copernicus.eu/how-to-api | account registration, personal access token in $HOME/.cdsapirc, cdsapi>=0.7.7, url https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api |
| 2026-10-23 | probe: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/retrieve/v1/processes | 200 with 25,713 bytes of JSON to an anonymous client - the process catalogue is public even though retrieval is not |
More fields 3
| auth | personal access token in ~/.cdsapirc |
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| client | cdsapi>=0.7.7 |
| process list bytes | 25713 |
copernicus cds / ads
Storage- Free allowance
- Retrieval-only by design: a queue-based API (
cdsapi) that materialises requested slices. - 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
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Retrieval-only by design: a queue-based API (cdsapi) that materialises requested slices. There is no user deposit path, so it cannot store a user's data — it is a data source, not…unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | cds.climate.copernicus.eu/how-to-api | Retrieval-only by design: a queue-based API (cdsapi) that materialises requested slices. There is no user deposit path, so it cannot store a user's data — it is a data source, not stor |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "Retrieval-only by design: a queue-based API (`cdsapi`) that materialises requested slices. There is no user deposit path, so it cannot store a user's data — it is a data source, not…","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: 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
Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE / ESA DIAS) - 12 TB/month of free READ, zero writable storage
Storage- Free allowance
- 12 TB per rolling 30 days of download via S3/OData/STAC for a Copernicus General User, 20 MB/s per connection, 4 concurrent connections, 2,000 requests/min, empty-account registration.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota12 TB of downloads per rolling 30 days
- Evidence
- reported12 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-18checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-11-18
| Free tier | 12 TB per rolling 30 days of download via S3/OData/STAC for a Copernicus General User, 20 MB/s per connection, 4 concurrent connections, 2,000 requests/min, empty-account registration. After the transfer limit is hit, bandwidth drops to 1 MB/s and 1 concurrent connection until the 30-day total falls back under the limit. Data Workspace adds 0.1 TB/month of deferred-access transfer and 25 processed products/month. JupyterLab gives 10 GB of persistent scratch, 30-day idle expiry. unit TB; metered on downloaded-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Read-only EO products. No user-owned bucket: the S3 endpoint serves the mission archive. Registration is open to anyone with an email and is self-service. |
| Binding | volume-quota downloads are metered per account over a rolling 30 days; above 12 TB the rate drops to 1 MB/s and 1 connection, which is about 0.086 TB per day |
| Identity | email registration form (required fields not itemised on the page) with email verification |
| Egress | The whole quota IS egress - this is the largest free read allowance found anywhere in the programme, but there is no general-purpose bucket to write to. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | s3, cli part of the text of Free tier, above |
| Tooling | S3 credentials self-service from the user panel against eodata.dataspace.copernicus.eu; openEO API (10,000 credits/month, temporary boost); Sentinel Hub APIs (10,000 requests/month); s3cmd/boto3 documented. |
| Composes with | Per account, and the 30-day rolling window means 12 TB/month sustained without cycling accounts. Creodias resells the same platform with paid extensions. |
| Reliability | CloudFerro-operated for ESA; the 1 MB/s throttle after the cap is a hard cliff, not a soft degrade. |
| Evidence note | reported the vendor pages of the 2026-11-03 evidence rows were read and captured (https://documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/Quotas.html, https://documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/Registration.html); a field that decides the verdict is not cited by those captures, so the rung stays reported |
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Evidence 12
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/Quotas.html | 'Monthly transfer limit (TB) (IAD) 12'; 'After reaching this monthly transfer limit, the maximum bandwidth drops to 1MB/s and the number of concurrent connections drops to 1' |
| 2026-10-21 | documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/Quotas.html | 'Number of concurrent connections limit (IAD) 4'; 'Bandwidth limit per connection (MB/s) 20'; openEO 'Credits per month 10 000' |
| 2026-10-21 | documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/Applications/JupyterHu | 'Each JupyterLab instance includes 10GB of storage... preserved to 30 days from the last login' |
| 2026-10-21 | forum.dataspace.copernicus.eu/t/update-increased-monthly-tra | 6 TB -> 12 TB increase confirmed |
| 2026-11-03 | documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/Quotas.html | a Copernicus General User has a monthly transfer limit of 12 TB on S3, OData and STAC |
| 2026-11-03 | documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/Quotas.html | the transfer limit is metered on downloaded volume over a rolling 30 days per account |
| 2026-11-03 | documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/Quotas.html | above the limit the rate drops to 1 MB/s and 1 connection |
| 2026-11-03 | documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/Registration.html | registration is a form followed by an email verification |
| 2026-11-03 | documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/Quotas.html | part of the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-11-03 | documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/Quotas.html | part of the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-11-03 | documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/Quotas.html | above the monthly limit the bandwidth drops to 1 MB/s and 1 connection |
| 2026-11-03 | documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/Quotas.html | downloads are summed per user account over the last 30 days |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "egress","why": "12 TB per rolling 30 days of download via S3/OData/STAC for a Copernicus General User, 20 MB/s per connection, 4 concurrent connections, 2,000 requests/min, empty-account registration. After the transfer limit is hit, bandwidth drops to 1 MB/s and 1 concurrent connection until the 30-day total falls back under the limit. Data Workspace adds 0.1 TB/month of deferred-access transfer and 25 processed products/month. JupyterLab gives 10 GB of persistent scratch, 30-day idle expiry.","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
- Free allowance
- WEkEO Drive: up to 8 GB of free space for datasets and notebooks, free after sign-up; no period is stated.
- 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
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-14checked 2026-10-30 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-14
| Free tier | WEkEO Drive: up to 8 GB of free space for datasets and notebooks, free after sign-up; no period is stated. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | wekeo.copernicus.eu/wekeo-drive | not published |
| 2026-10-30 | wekeo.copernicus.eu/wekeo-drive | WEkEO Drive offers up to 8 GB of free space |
| 2026-10-30 | wekeo.copernicus.eu/wekeo-drive | WEkEO Drive is free after sign-up |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": null,"retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: 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