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DVC remotes (S3 / WebDAV / SSH / HTTP / Drive) pointed at free backends
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- Free allowance
- N/A — DVC ships no storage; the remote is whatever free store you configure.
- Verdict
- self-hosted, last resortverdict qualifies-with-caveat: usable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | N/A — DVC ships no storage; the remote is whatever free store you configure. Free-tier bytes = the backing store's bytes. Supports Amazon S3 + S3-compatible (MinIO etc. via endpointurl), Azure Blob, GCS, Google Drive, Aliyun OSS, SSH/SFTP, HDFS/WebHDFS, HTTP, WebDAV.unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | Inherited. The HTTP remote is read-only and can sit behind any CDN, which is the only path where DVC itself doesn't add egress cost. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | s3, git, cli part of the text of Free tier, above |
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| Tooling | dvc CLI + dvcfilesystem (fsspec). dvc remote add s3://bucket && dvc remote modify myremote endpointurl https://s3.hf.co/<ns> works. Native read-only Git-LFS support means dvc get/dvc import can pull straight from a Hugging Face repo without installing git-lfs. |
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| Composes with | One repo, many remotes (dvc remote add x N), plus dvc push -r <remote> to pick. Any S3-compatible free endpoint multiplies: HF buckets, IA's IAS3, MinIO on a free VM, an Oracle/Cloudflare-adjacent free tier. DVC's content-addressed cache means the same 20 TiB corpus can be pushed to N stores and only the missing blobs transfer. |
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| Reliability | DVC is an ML-tooling project (treeverse); remote support quality varies by backend. S3-compatible endpoints need endpointurl + often use_ssl/path-style tweaks. Reliability is effectively the backend's. |
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Evidence 3
Unknown values 4
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