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DICE / EUDAT cost-free storage call (the EU's funded-storage instrument)
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- Free allowance
- Not published as a number — DICE is a funding instrument, not a product.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- inferred2 sources; reasoned from other evidence
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-21checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-21
| Free tier | Not published as a number — DICE is a funding instrument, not a product. It buys you 'personal drive storage' up to long-term preservation, priced by negotiation with whoever provides it. The EC put over EUR 6 million into Virtual Access to make it free for new users. What that buys in TB is determined per request. unit TB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | institution institution |
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| Egress | Free at the point of use — paid by the EC grant, not the user. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest rest |
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| Tooling | Whatever the chosen provider offers; services are ordered through the EOSC Portal (marketplace.eosc-portal.eu) by selecting a service and submitting an order flagged as a DICE request. No uniform API. |
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| Composes with | Basic requests ('personal workspace') are granted same-day on registration alone; Standard (2–10 working days) and Customised (negotiated) tiers scale into archives. The multiplier is service requests, each of which is separately approved. |
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| Reliability | The page still advertises the call but dates itself to a funding period that ended in 2023. Treat as a lead to re-check with the EUDAT helpdesk, not as an available quota. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | www.eudat.eu/news/submit-your-request-for-cost-free-dice-dat | opened: 'Any individual, or research entity located within the EU Member States or Associated Countries is eligible to access the DICE services free of charge'; 'over six million Euros … to offer free data storage facilities … until June 2023'; 'Basic service requests are satisfied immediately after request … it needs just an account registration — for example, an individual user requesting a personal workspace'; 'Created on: Mar 2, 2021 Last updated: Nov 2, 2023'. |
| 2026-10-21 | www.dice-eosc.eu/call-service-requests | 504 on the first attempt; the EUDAT copy of the same call was readable, so the content is confirmed but the canonical URL is flaky. |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "Not published as a number — DICE is a funding instrument, not a product. It buys you 'personal drive storage' up to long-term preservation, priced by negotiation with whoever provides it. The EC put over EUR 6 million into Virtual Access to make it free for new users. What that buys in TB is determined per request.","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