Filebin

filebin.net · 2 records in Storage · JSON

Records 2

fails: quotaFilebin
Storagefree tieridentity anonymous?card?limit retention-clampedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
fails: quotafilebin.net
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05

Storage

Free allowance: No account; per-bin, no published byte cap; bins expire 6 days after creation
Verdict: fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
Cost: free tier
Identity: anonymous?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: retention-clampedexpire 6 days; retention from bin creation ('deleted automatically 6 days
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	no account; per-bin, no published byte cap; bins expire 6 days after creation unit mixed; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Limits	retention-clamped (binding) expire 6 days source retention-clamped (binding) retention from bin creation ('deleted automatically 6 days source 6-day retention from bin creation ('deleted automatically 6 days from now' on the create page). Bin is created implicitly by the first PUT.
Identity	anonymous (inferred, not read) not published
Egress	unmetered; downloads redirect to a signed S3 URL (Backblaze-style hel1-dc4)
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	no account; per-bin, no published byte cap; bins expire 6 days after creation (6 days)
Interface	rest rest
Tooling	plain HTTP PUT — 'curl -X PUT --data-binary @file -H "filename: probe.bin" https://filebin.net/<bin>/probe.bin'. Open source (github.com/espebra/filebin2, BSD-3) so it can be self-hosted.
Composes with	unlimited distinct bin IDs, each with its own 6-day clock — 'N bins x 6 days' is the only multiplication, and nothing survives week 2.
Reliability	IMPORTANT INVERSION: a real browser UA (Mozilla/...) gets a 5399-byte 'are you sure / proceed to download' interstitial at HTTP 200; curl's default UA gets the real bytes. Automation works better than a browser here — the opposite of the usual trap. Any client that sets a browser UA (rclone, most HTTP libs, headless Chrome) will silently receive HTML instead of the file.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1

Evidence 3

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	filebin.net/	'deleted automatically 6 days from now', no-registration flow
2026-10-21	source not published	probe: PUT /<bin>/probe.bin -> 201 (32768 B, md5 echoed); GET with curl UA -> 200 / 32768 B / sha256 match; GET with Mozilla UA -> 200 / 5399 B HTML
2026-10-21	filebin.net/about	version v1.3.1, source github.com/espebra/filebin2

More fields 2

dead end	`{"failure_class": "retention","why": "no account; per-bin, no published byte cap; bins expire 6 days after creation","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}`
probe reported	PUT https://filebin.net/e1probe1792600137/probe.bin -> 201, JSON echoes bytes:32768 + md5. GET same URL with curl's default UA -> 200, 32768 B, sha256 MATCH, 302 through to storage.filebin.net signed URL (X-Amz-Expires=900).

Unknown values 3

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

Storage

Free allowance: Hard 6-day automatic deletion of every bin, and bins require approval before downloads are allowed.
Verdict: fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
Cost: not stated
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: noneno named constraint binds
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	Hard 6-day automatic deletion of every bin, and bins require approval before downloads are allowed. No persistence path at any price. unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	not recorded
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded

Evidence 2

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	filebin.net/	the text of Free tier, above
2026-10-21	filebin.net/faq	cited as the basis of the rejection: Hard 6-day automatic deletion of every bin, and bins require approval before downloads are allowed. No persistence path at any price.

More fields 1

dead end	`{"failure_class": "write-gated","why": "Hard 6-day automatic deletion of every bin, and bins require approval before downloads are allowed. No persistence path at any price.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}`

Unknown values 7