Cubbit DS3
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- trialCubbit DS3 Cloud
Storagefree tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05
- self-hosted, last resortCubbit DS3 Composer
Storageverdict fails-identityfree tieridentity institutionno cardphonelimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
Cubbit DS3 Cloud
Storage- Free allowance
- Test-drive 1 TB of Cubbit DS3 Cloud in a demo environment for 30 days; no credit card required
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota1 TB for 30 days on the trial
- Evidence
- documented24 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | Test-drive 1 TB of Cubbit DS3 Cloud in a demo environment for 30 days; no credit card required unit TB; metered on stored-bytes; a one-time 30-day trial, not a recurring allowance. The paid price is a single flat rate per TB a month quoted through partners; no figure is published. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Minimum chargeable object size 256KB: a smaller file is counted and billed as 256KB. Paid pricing is a flat rate per TB a month set by partner quote. |
| Binding | volume-quota the free path is a single 1 TB trial that ends after 30 days; after it every byte is on a partner-quoted price |
| Identity | email The trial sign-up at console.trial.cubbit.eu is self-service ('Sign up now and get started right away for free') and the pricing page states 'No credit card required' for the trial. The DS3 Cloud agreement linked from the sign-up page requires an account associated with a valid e-mail address, and the DS3 console quickstart has the user set a password and confirm the address through an emailed link. unverified: the sign-up form's own fields did not render through any reader, so a further required field is not excluded. Paid DS3 Cloud is sold through partners after a call or a form. |
| Egress | a single flat rate per TB/month with no extra fees: no charges for egress, deletion, bucket replication, or API calls free allowance: unlimited: egress is not charged |
| Per-object cap | Maximum object size 5 TiB; multipart parts of 5 MiB to 5 GiB, 10,000 parts per upload (5497558138880 bytes) |
| Retention | data uploaded during the free trial is permanently deleted when the trial expires (30 days) |
| Interface | s3-compatible ready-to-use, S3-compatible cloud object storage; data stored in partners' data centres in the EU or the UK in the selected regions |
| Tooling | S3 clients and SDKs: the vendor documents the AWS CLI and multipart upload; rclone's s3 backend |
| Composes with | An S3 origin with no egress or API charge; the 30-day 1 TB trial is a test environment, and recurring capacity is bought through a partner quote. |
| Reliability | no throttle, suspension or data-loss event is stated on the pages read; the trial is a demo environment |
| Notes | S3-compatible object storage: confirmed. unverified: the paid price per TB a month is set by partner quote and not published. DS3 Composer, the vendor's software-defined product with a 3 TB free tier, is a separate offer and not this hosted trial: its software is managed by Cubbit or self-hosted, and it stores data on nodes the user runs. |
| Evidence note | documented the trial, the fee rule, the object cap and the minimum chargeable size are quoted from Cubbit's own pages read on 2026-10-30; the paid price is not published and the read path is unprobed. |
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Evidence 24
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-30 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | the free path is a 1 TB, 30-day trial in a demo environment |
| 2026-10-30 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | the trial asks for no credit card |
| 2026-10-30 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | pricing is a flat rate per TB a month with no egress, deletion, replication or API charge |
| 2026-10-30 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | the paid DS3 Cloud price is quoted through partners |
| 2026-10-30 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | DS3 Cloud is hosted S3-compatible object storage with no hardware to manage |
| 2026-10-30 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | data is stored in partner data centres in the EU or the UK |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.cubbit.io/guides/multipart-upload | the largest object is 5 TiB |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.cubbit.io/guides/resource-metrics | objects under 256KB are billed as 256KB |
| 2026-10-30 | console.trial.cubbit.eu/signup?mkt=true | the trial sign-up is self-service and free |
| 2026-10-31 | cubbit.io/legal/ds3-terms-of-service | data uploaded during the free trial is permanently deleted when the trial expires |
| 2026-10-31 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | the free path of DS3 Cloud is a 1 TB trial in a demo environment that lasts 30 days |
| 2026-10-31 | cubbit.io/legal/ds3-terms-of-service | the account stays active after the trial data is deleted |
| 2026-10-31 | cubbit.io/legal/ds3-terms-of-service | a DS3 Cloud account is registered against a valid e-mail address |
| 2026-10-31 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | DS3 Composer is software, managed or self-hosted, and a different offer from hosted DS3 Cloud |
| 2026-10-31 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | the DS3 Cloud trial asks for no credit card |
| 2026-10-31 | docs.cubbit.io/getting-started/quickstart | DS3 console registration is confirmed through a link sent to the e-mail address |
| 2026-10-31 | console.trial.cubbit.eu/signup?mkt=true | the trial sign-up is self-service and free |
| 2026-10-31 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | pricing is a flat rate per TB a month with no egress, deletion, replication or API charge |
| 2026-10-31 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | DS3 Cloud is hosted S3-compatible object storage with no storage nodes to manage |
| 2026-10-31 | docs.cubbit.io/guides/multipart-upload | the largest object is 5 TiB |
| 2026-10-31 | docs.cubbit.io/guides/resource-metrics | objects under 256KB are billed as 256KB |
| 2026-11-04 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | the trial is 1 TB for 30 days in a demo environment |
| 2026-11-04 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | the trial asks for no credit card |
| 2026-11-04 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | no egress, deletion, replication or API charge |
Cubbit DS3 Composer
Storage- Free allowance
- Up to 3 TB of DS3 Composer free tier access at 0 EUR, no credit card required; the storage itself sits on nodes the user supplies
- Verdict
- self-hosted, last resortverdict fails-identity: the identity required is not reachable without it. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, phone required
- Binding limit
- write-gatedentry through a form asking for a work email, company name and an organisation-size answer; the documentation calls access invite-only
- Evidence
- documented43 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 | Up to 3 TB of DS3 Composer free tier access at 0 EUR, no credit card required; the storage itself sits on nodes the user supplies unit TB; metered on unstated; a licence for software, not capacity that Cubbit hosts: the pricing FAQ licenses Composer on raw installed capacity, and every stored byte uses disks the user provides. unverified: whether the 3 TB is counted on raw or usable capacity. Above the free tier the rate is EUR 4.99 per TB per month for 3 to 10 TB, discounted above 10 TB. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Licensing counts raw installed capacity (pricing FAQ). A Swarm starts from three servers (marketplace listing, trade report) and each disk needs 1 CPU thread and 1 GB of RAM; the vendor positions Composer from 200 TB upward. |
| Binding | write-gated the free tier is entered through a form that asks for a work email and a company name and the documentation describes access as invite-only; the 3 TB is also a licence on machines the user must supply |
| Identity | institution The free-tier form asks for a work email, first name, last name, company name and country, then a required yes or no on whether the organisation uses more than 50 TB, with an optional phone number; no credit card is asked. The documentation says DS3 Composer is invite-only, with an emailed invitation to a pre-generated account, and that page was last updated on 22 February 2024. unverified: whether Cubbit approves an entry whose company is not a registered business; the form was read and not submitted. |
| Egress | Cubbit charges no egress, deletion, bucket replication or API fee under its flat per-TB rate; the Cubbit-run public gateway's egress is free for now and may change; bandwidth of the user's own nodes and gateways is the user's own free allowance: no Cubbit egress charge stated |
| Per-object cap | unverified: no Composer page states an object-size limit |
| Retention | unverified: no Cubbit page states a duration or an expiry for the 3 TB free tier |
| Interface | s3-compatible S3-compatible API exposed by a DS3 Gateway: a public gateway per tenant that Cubbit runs, or a private gateway the user installs on a Kubernetes cluster |
| Tooling | A hosted S3 offer from Cubbit is the separate DS3 Cloud record; this record is the software. The user installs and runs one Cubbit storage agent per disk on Linux machines (1 CPU thread and 1 GB of RAM per disk) registered as nodes in a Swarm, on a rented or free machine; the Coordinator control plane is Cubbit-managed (composer.cubbit.eu) or a licensed self-hosted install; S3 access goes through a Cubbit-run public gateway or a private gateway the user installs on a Kubernetes cluster. Clients: AWS CLI and other S3 clients. |
| Composes with | A hosted S3 origin from Cubbit is the DS3 Cloud record (1 TB, 30-day trial); this record gives no hosted capacity. Its 3 TB licence is only useful on disks the user rents or already has, three servers at least per the marketplace listing, so it chains with capacity from other records and adds no storage of its own. |
| Reliability | no throttle, suspension or data-loss event is stated on the pages read; licence expiry and grace terms are in the customer contract, which is not public. unverified: what a Swarm does when the free-tier licence ends. |
| Notes | A separate offer from storage/cubbit-ds3-cloud, the hosted S3 trial. self_hosted is true: the 3 TB free tier licenses software, every stored byte sits on storage nodes the user installs and runs, and the Cubbit-run Coordinator is a control plane that holds no user data. Third-party listings call the free tier a free trial; no Cubbit page states a duration for it. |
| Evidence note | documented every fact is quoted from Cubbit pages read on 2026-11-03; the free-tier form was read and not submitted, so the approval rule and the free tier's duration are not published and stay unverified. |
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Evidence 43
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | the pricing page offers a DS3 Composer free tier of 3 TB |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | DS3 Composer is free up to 3 TB |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | from 3 to 10 TB the Composer rate is EUR 4.99 per TB per month |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | the Composer free tier asks for no credit card |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | the only duration on the pricing page, 30 days, is attached to the hosted DS3 Cloud demo; the Composer free tier carries none |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | part of the text of Limits, above |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | Composer is software, a separate offer from hosted DS3 Cloud, with a managed or a self-hosted control plane |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | the storage nodes are set up by the user on machines the user chooses |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | a storage node is a Linux machine running Cubbit's agents |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | the data is stored on infrastructure the user chooses |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/pricing | the flat rate carries no egress, deletion, replication or API charge |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/lp/ai | the free tier is priced 0 EUR for up to 3 TB |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/lp/ai | the free tier is the entry of a scale of prices, stated with no duration |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/lp/ai | the next step is EUR 4.99 per TB per month |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/ds3-composer-trial | the free-tier form asks for a work email |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/ds3-composer-trial | the free-tier form requires a company name |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/ds3-composer-trial | the free-tier form requires an answer on organisation size |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/ds3-composer-trial | a phone number field is on the form, not marked required |
| 2026-11-03 | www.cubbit.io/ds3-composer-trial | this form is the entry to the 3 TB free tier |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/getting-started/how-to-signup-to-ds3 | the documentation describes DS3 Composer access as invite-only |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/getting-started/how-to-signup-to-ds3 | access is by an emailed invitation to a pre-generated account |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/getting-started/how-to-signup-to-ds3 | the invite-only page was last updated on 22 February 2024 |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/getting-started/what-is-ds3-composer | the Coordinator can be run by Cubbit |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/getting-started/what-is-ds3-composer | the Coordinator can instead be installed by the user under licence |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/getting-started/what-is-ds3-composer | the managed Coordinator is at composer.cubbit.eu |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/getting-started/what-is-ds3-composer | the user connects the storage nodes to the Coordinator |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/coordinator/what-is-the-coordinator | the Cubbit-run Coordinator holds no user data |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/swarms/hardware | each storage disk runs one Cubbit storage agent |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/swarms/hardware | part of the text of Limits, above |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/swarms/hardware | each disk needs 1 GB of RAM |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/gateway/what-is-a-ds3-gateway | the gateway exposes the S3-compatible API |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/gateway/what-is-a-ds3-gateway | the AWS CLI is a listed client of the gateway |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/gateway/what-is-a-ds3-gateway | the per-tenant public gateway is run by Cubbit |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/gateway/what-is-a-ds3-gateway | a private gateway runs in the user's infrastructure |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/gateway/what-is-a-ds3-gateway | egress through the Cubbit-run public gateway is free for now and may change |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/composer/gateway/how-to-install | a private gateway needs a Kubernetes cluster |
| 2026-11-03 | help.cubbit.io/pricing-faqs | Composer is licensed on raw capacity |
| 2026-11-03 | help.cubbit.io/pricing-faqs | the licence counts total installed storage |
| 2026-11-03 | help.cubbit.io/pricing-faqs | part of the text of Reliability, above |
| 2026-11-03 | www.scaleway.com/en/marketplace/catalog/cubbit/ | part of the text of Limits, above |
| 2026-11-03 | www.scaleway.com/en/marketplace/catalog/cubbit/ | the marketplace listing labels the free tier a free trial and states no duration |
| 2026-11-03 | www.computerweekly.com/news/366560314/Cubbit-DS3-Composer-br | a trade report gives three nodes as the minimum deployment |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.cubbit.io/guides/multipart-upload | the DS3 multipart-upload page lists a 5 TiB object maximum for Cubbit's S3 gateway |