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DSpace 7+ platform class (MIT, UCT, demo.dspace.org and ~3,485 registered sites)

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Free allowance: NO QUOTA CONCEPT AT ALL.
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: reported6 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05

Free tier	NO QUOTA CONCEPT AT ALL. The string 'quota' does not appear once in DSpace's 2,125-line dspace.cfg; the only two hits repo-wide are a Solr query-parser class and a discovery.cfg comment. There is no per-user, per-collection or per-installation storage limit in the software. The only byte constraint is a per-request multipart limit. unit unlimited; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Limits	per-object-cap 512 MB/file source per-object-cap 512 MB/file in DSpace 7+ (spring.servlet.multipart.max-file-size = 512MB, max-request-size = 512MB). DSpace 6 and below used upload.max, which accepts -1 for 'no limit'.
Identity	institution institution
Egress	Cloudflare-fronted.
Per-object cap	512 MB/file (512000000 bytes)
Retention	not stated
Interface	rest, cli REST (/server/api), OAI-PMH, SWORD
Tooling	curl / dspace CLI / OAI-PMH harvesters
Composes with	Unbounded by construction — but every instance's write path is affiliation-gated in practice, and the registry is dominated by pre-7 installs with no REST API at all.
Reliability	60 of 60 sampled registry sites returned no /server/api/info, i.e. they are DSpace 6 or earlier and expose no modern REST API — the registry is a lagging indicator of what is programmatically usable.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1 per-object-cap 512 MB

Evidence 6

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	raw.githubusercontent.com/DSpace/DSpace/main/dspace-server-w	'spring.servlet.multipart.max-file-size = 512MB' and 'max-request-size = 512MB'
2026-10-21	raw.githubusercontent.com/DSpace/DSpace/main/dspace/config/d	2,125 lines, zero occurrences of 'quota'
2026-10-21	api.github.com/search/code?q=quota+repo:DSpace/DSpace	total_count 2, both unrelated (dspace-api/.../core/Utils.java, dspace/config/modules/discovery.cfg)
2026-10-21	demo.dspace.org/server/api	'DSpace 10.2-SNAPSHOT', REST root present
2026-10-21	demo.dspace.org/server/api/eperson/registrations	POST — 403 'Invalid CSRF token.' (endpoint exists and is CSRF-guarded, so self-registration is a deployment toggle)
2026-10-21	dspace.org/registry/	'Displaying 1 - 100 of 3,485', 35 pages

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dead end {"failure_class": "quota","why": "NO QUOTA CONCEPT AT ALL. The string 'quota' does not appear once in DSpace's 2,125-line dspace.cfg; the only two hits repo-wide are a Solr query-parser class and a discovery.cfg comment. There is no per-user, per-collection or per-installation storage limit in the software. The only byte constraint is a per-request multipart limit.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}

dead end	`{"failure_class": "quota","why": "NO QUOTA CONCEPT AT ALL. The string 'quota' does not appear once in DSpace's 2,125-line dspace.cfg; the only two hits repo-wide are a Solr query-parser class and a discovery.cfg comment. There is no per-user, per-collection or per-installation storage limit in the software. The only byte constraint is a per-request multipart limit.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}`

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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