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Estonia e-Residency
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- Free allowance
- None. The programme issues a digital identity card + DigiDoc software and the right to run an EU company; it confers no storage allocation of any kind.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- national-idno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | None. The programme issues a digital identity card + DigiDoc software and the right to run an EU company; it confers no storage allocation of any kind. unit none; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | national-id national-id |
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| Egress | n/a. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown Digital signature / authentication (X-Road, DigiDoc). Not a storage API. |
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| Tooling | DigiDoc client; no object store. |
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| Composes with | n/a. |
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| Reliability | genuinely open to non-residents (that is its purpose) and would solve the identity problem for EU services generally, but carries no storage — recorded here because it is the canonical 'does e-residency come with storage' question and the answer is no. |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | www.e-resident.gov.ee/become-an-e-resident/ | the four steps are: apply online, wait for approval and card delivery, pick up card in person ('bring with you your ID'), set up card with DigiDoc. No storage, hosting or cloud component anywhere in the process. |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "identity","why": "None. The programme issues a digital identity card + DigiDoc software and the right to run an EU company; it confers no storage allocation of any kind.","retry_when": "if the registration gate opens to a foreign individual","first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 5
- interface: the access interface was not established
- 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