# Filecoin Onchain

> filecoin.cloud | Storage; 2 records: free tier, limits, identity cost and evidence.

HTML https://fshy.ajam.dev/p/filecoin/ | JSON https://fshy.ajam.dev/api/v1/entity/filecoin.json | how to read a record: https://fshy.ajam.dev/llms-full.txt

## Filecoin Onchain Cloud (FWSS / Filecoin Pay)

- `storage/filecoin-onchain-cloud` | qualifies-with-caveat | evidence reported | binding per-ip-shaping | category contributed storage - on-chain paid deals
- needs card yes, phone no, ID no, institution no | verified 2026-10-21 (inherited) | stale on 2026-11-05
- url https://docs.filecoin.cloud/cookbooks/payments-and-storage/
- price $2.50/TiB storage + up to $14/TiB egress | parsed USD 2.27/TB-mo
- free tier: $2.50/TiB/month per copy, plus $0.12 per data-set/month proving fee. 20 TiB = $50/mo per copy; two copies = $100/mo | unit: TiB | metered on: unstated | read on: 2026-10-21 | source: [1]
- per-object cap: not stated | source: [1] | note: not stated
- retention: not stated | source: [1] | note: not stated
- egress: CDN egress 'up to $14/TiB (about $0.014/GiB) downloaded' via Filecoin Beam, about half that from cache. 1 TiB/day = 30 TiB/mo = up to $420/mo | metered: yes | free allowance: 30 TiB per month
- identity: card | detail: card
- interface: unknown
- limits:
  - per-ip-shaping (binding): 1 TiB/day [1]
- limits note: Storage at $2.50/TiB is genuinely competitive, but total cost of ownership for a user is dominated by egress: $420/mo of CDN to serve 1 TiB/day on top of $100/mo of storage = $520/mo. Also gated on holding USDFC (a stablecoin) and a refundable ~$0.50 lifecycle reserve per data set; each add-pieces call costs $0.008 + $0.003/piece, which is punitive for a 20 TiB corpus of many small objects.
- interface detail: Synapse SDK; FWSS (Filecoin Warm Storage Service); Filecoin Pay streaming payments
- tooling: synapse-sdk, USDFC deposits, lotus/curio on the provider side
- reliability: Requires a funded stablecoin wallet; deals are 30-day-epoch denominated and stream payments continuously.
- notes: the same as the free tier
- extras:
  - price_verbatim: $2.50/TiB storage + up to $14/TiB egress
- evidence:
  - [1] 2026-10-21: pricing table: 'Storage $2.50/TiB/month per copy'; 'Proving Service $0.12/data set/month'; 'CDN egress up to $14/TiB (≈ $0.014/GiB) downloaded'; 'Add pieces $0.008 + $0.003 per piece'
  - [1] 2026-10-21: 'No CDN ~0.50 USDFC (lifecycle reserve lockup)' minimum to create a data set
  - [2] 2026-10-21: verified deals required allocator approval and DataCap (now historical)
- sources:
  - [1] https://docs.filecoin.cloud/cookbooks/payments-and-storage/
  - [2] https://docs.filecoin.io/provide-storage/filecoin-deals/verified-deals

## filecoin pin (pin.filecoin.cloud)

- `storage/filecoin-pin` | fails-quota | evidence reported | binding none | category rejected-provider
- identity a placeholder: card and phone unknown | verified 2026-10-21 (inherited) | stale on 2026-11-05
- url https://pin.filecoin.cloud/
- free tier: The public demo is Calibration testnet only: 'data isn't permanent and infrastructure resets regularly', and the UI caps uploads at 200 MB. Mainnet use runs through Filecoin Onchain Cloud… | unit: none | metered on: none | read on: 2026-10-21 | source: [1]
- per-object cap: not recorded | source: [1] | note: not recorded
- retention: not recorded | source: [1]
- egress: not recorded | metered: no
- identity: email
- interface: unknown
- tooling: not recorded
- composes with: the same as tooling
- reliability: the same as the free tier
- notes: the same as the free tier
- extras:
  - dead_end.failure_class: quota
  - dead_end.why: The public demo is Calibration testnet only: 'data isn't permanent and infrastructure resets regularly', and the UI caps uploads at 200 MB. Mainnet use runs through Filecoin Onchain Cloud…
  - dead_end.first_recorded: 2026-10-21
- evidence:
  - [1] 2026-10-21: The public demo is Calibration testnet only: 'data isn't permanent and infrastructure resets regularly', and the UI caps uploads at 200 MB. Mainnet use runs through Filecoin Onchain Cloud…
- sources:
  - [1] https://pin.filecoin.cloud/