DataONE Hosted
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Records 2
- paidDataONE Hosted Repository (TACC / UC Santa Barbara)USD 1285/month
Storageidentity emailcard?limit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
- fails: quotadataone
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- Free allowance
- None: the only tier with storage, the Hosted Repository, is priced at ~$1285.14 /mo, billed annually.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 1285/monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- emailcard unknown, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota1 TB repository capacity, expandable in 1 TB increments
- Evidence
- documented17 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 | none: the only tier with storage, the Hosted Repository, is priced at ~$1285.14 /mo, billed annually. DataONE Member and DataONE Plus are listed as Free with no stated byte allowance. unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | ~$1285.14 per month, billed annually, for one Hosted Repository; the price of each further 1 TB increment is unverified: not published. |
| Limits |
Paid: ~$1,285.14/month billed annually. DataONE Member and DataONE Plus tiers are free but provide no storage of your own - Member is for repositories you already run, Plus is a portal/FAIR-reporting layer ('upload any file format' refers to portal ingestion, not a byte grant). |
| Binding | volume-quota capacity is sold per repository in 1 TB increments at a fixed monthly price, so the bill rises with stored volume |
| Identity | email The Hosted Repository request form requires an e-mail address and DataONE follows up to set the repository up; the payment method for the annual billing is not published. |
| Egress | Not separately metered; included in the subscription. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest rest |
| Tooling | Metacat + MetacatUI (open source, self-hostable); DataONE Member Node REST API for programmatic deposit and read. |
| Composes with | Per repository, so multiple repositories = multiple subscriptions at the same list price. Useful mainly as the market price for what the free programmes give away. |
| Reliability | All data and metadata are replicated to two geographically independent data centers in California and Tennessee. |
| Notes | 1 TB repository capacity, 'Grow your 1 TB repository capacity based on your storage needs in 1 TB increments', replicated to two geographic regions (California and Tennessee), custom DOI prefix and custom domain. |
| Evidence note | documented the vendor pages of the 2026-11-03 evidence rows were read and captured (https://www.dataone.org/services/, https://www.dataone.org/hosted-repo/, https://www.dataone.org/jointhenetwork/); every field that decides the verdict cites one of those captures |
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Evidence 17
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.dataone.org/services/ | 'Hosted Repository ... ~$1285.14 /mo, billed annually' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.dataone.org/hosted-repo/ | 'Grow your 1 TB repository capacity based on your storage needs in 1 TB increments'; replicas in California and Tennessee |
| 2026-10-21 | www.dataone.org/jointhenetwork/ | 'Joining our network as a member repository is free' (free = catalogue membership, not bytes) |
| 2026-11-03 | www.dataone.org/services/ | the Hosted Repository is priced at about $1285.14 per month billed annually |
| 2026-11-03 | www.dataone.org/services/ | storage is only in the priced tier |
| 2026-11-03 | www.dataone.org/services/ | no free byte allowance |
| 2026-11-03 | www.dataone.org/services/ | price of the Hosted Repository tier |
| 2026-11-03 | www.dataone.org/hosted-repo/ | capacity is a repository volume, not a per-object cap |
| 2026-11-03 | www.dataone.org/hosted-repo/ | capacity unit |
| 2026-11-03 | www.dataone.org/hosted-repo/ | the limit row is a volume quota |
| 2026-11-03 | www.dataone.org/hosted-repo/ | volume-priced capacity |
| 2026-11-03 | www.dataone.org/services/ | the offer is a priced subscription with no free byte allowance |
| 2026-11-03 | www.dataone.org/hosted-repo/ | the Hosted Repository request form requires an e-mail address |
| 2026-11-03 | www.dataone.org/services/ | a contact form leads to set-up |
| 2026-11-03 | www.dataone.org/hosted-repo/ | two-region replication |
| 2026-11-03 | www.dataone.org/jointhenetwork/ | membership is free and carries no storage |
| 2026-11-03 | www.dataone.org/services/ | the free portal needs no card; storage is only in the Hosted Repository tier |
More fields 2
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "1 TB repository capacity, 'Grow your 1 TB repository capacity based on your storage needs in 1 TB increments', replicated to two geographic regions (California and Tennessee), custom DOI prefix and custom domain.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
|---|---|
| price verbatim | $1,285.14 per TB per month (~$15,421/TB/year) - the ceiling of this market |
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
dataone
Storage- Free allowance
- It is a federation of member nodes, not a depositor.
- 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
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | It is a federation of member nodes, not a depositor. The Coordinating Node answers (cn.dataone.org/cn/v2/node -> 200 XML) but there is no general deposit endpoint; you must go through a… 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 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | cn.dataone.org/cn/v2/node | the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-10-21 | www.dataone.org/use-data/ | cited as the basis of the rejection: It is a federation of member nodes, not a depositor. The Coordinating Node answers (cn.dataone.org/cn/v2/node -> 200 XML) but there is no general deposit endpoint; you must go through a memb |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "It is a federation of member nodes, not a depositor. The Coordinating Node answers (cn.dataone.org/cn/v2/node -> 200 XML) but there is no general deposit endpoint; you must go through a…","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