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India DigiLocker
www.digilocker.gov.in/Gov citizen walletstorage/india-digilockerJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- 1 GB per account for citizen-uploaded documents (was 100 MB at launch).
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- national-idno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap10 MB/file
- 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 | 1 GB per account for citizen-uploaded documents (was 100 MB at launch). unit GB; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-object-cap (binding) 10 MB/file source
per-object-cap 10 MB/file, per-account 1 GB. identity_cost is the hard stop: Aadhaar number + OTP to the Aadhaar-linked Indian mobile. A non-resident without an Aadhaar-linked +91 number cannot register at all. |
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| Identity | national-id national-id |
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| Egress | not applicable — documents are private to the account holder and to requesting agencies via consent; there is no public/anonymous retrieval URL. That alone disqualifies it as a serving or archive tier. |
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| Per-object cap | 10 MB/file (10000000 bytes) |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown No public upload API. Partner agencies integrate via DigiLocker APIs; individuals use the app/web UI only. |
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| Tooling | none for bulk; UI-only for citizens. |
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| Composes with | none — private namespace, consent-gated sharing, no direct link model. |
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| Reliability | ISO 27001 state service, very reliable, but 1 GB total and no public URLs mean it fails two of the four filters simultaneously. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-object-cap 10 MB
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiLocker | 'It also provides 1 GB storage space to each account to upload scanned copies of legacy documents'; 'Users need to possess an Aadhaar number... identity is verified using a one-time password (OTP) sent to the linked mobile number'; 'Individual files are limited to 10 MB.' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.digilocker.gov.in/web/about | live, official NeGD/MeitY operator page (no consumer quota or API published there) |
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| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "1 GB per account for citizen-uploaded documents (was 100 MB at launch).","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: 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