galaxyproject.org/eu/storage/Cloud VMcompute/galaxy-europeJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- "On the European Galaxy server every user has a 250 GB quota.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotathe page states that at the limit no new jobs start.
- Evidence
- documented7 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | "On the European Galaxy server every user has a 250 GB quota. This means you can use 250 GB of storage for free." The storage is funded by the de.NBI cloud and the University of Freiburg compute centre, which held 4 PB of user data as of January 2025, and the page states the quota form for extra storage has been discontinued because storage "has become increasingly scarce and expensive". unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; perpetual-open-registration |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) the page states that at the limit no new jobs start. source
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| Identity | email not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | rest REST API (Galaxy API), documented: the API documentation is at /api/docs or /api/redoc under the server base URL; the web interface is the other way in. |
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| Tooling | BioBlend, the Python library for the Galaxy API (also blend4php, blend4j and a TypeScript schema); the REST API directly otherwise. |
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| Composes with | Two independent Galaxy servers give two independent 250 GB quotas, because they are funded by different institutions and share no account system, so the pair composes to 500 GB of free storage for the same one email address and the same tool wrappers. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Recorded separately from Galaxy Main because the operator, the funder and the storage policy differ, and because the withdrawn quota form is a fact that applies only here. The compute behind the EU server is not quantified on the pages read, so vcpu and memory are null rather than copied from the US figures, which are TACC and Jetstream and do not describe this machine. A reader should treat 250 GB as long-term storage and note that short-term scratch storage and bring-your-own storage are offered as the route for larger jobs, which is what the page tells users to use instead of a quota increase. |
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Evidence 7
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| facets | {"class": "open-science-platform","free_tier_kind": "perpetual-open-registration","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}} |
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Unknown values 5
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
galaxyproject.org/main/Cloud VMcompute/galaxy-mainJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- "The main Galaxy site at https://usegalaxy.org [...] has been available since 2007 for anyone to analyze their data free of charge." "Anyone can use the public servers, with or without an account" and registration is "email, password, user name and go".
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota250 GB of stored data per account is the wall that stops work: reaching it halts new jobs until data is purged, and the 6-concurrent-job cap and the 36 to 48 hour walltime sit behind it.
- Evidence
- documented8 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | "The main Galaxy site at https://usegalaxy.org [...] has been available since 2007 for anyone to analyze their data free of charge." "Anyone can use the public servers, with or without an account" and registration is "email, password, user name and go". A registered account gets 250 GB of storage and 6 concurrent jobs; an unregistered one gets 5 GB and 1 job. The hardware is not Galaxy's own: most jobs take 1 core and 8 GB on the dedicated Galaxy cluster at TACC, multi-core tools take 6 cores and 30 GB there or 10 cores and 30 GB on Jetstream m1.xlarge, and assembly jobs are routed to PSC Bridges (240 GB to 960 GB of memory, 5 to 20 cores, 24 to 96 hours) or TACC Stampede2 SKX (48 cores, 192 GB, 48 hours). unit hours; metered on wall-clock; perpetual-open-registration |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 250 GB of stored data per account is the wall that stops work: reaching it halts new jobs until data is purged, and the 6-concurrent-job cap and the 36 to 48 hour walltime sit behind it. source
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| Identity | email not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | rest REST API (Galaxy API), documented: the API documentation is at /api/docs or /api/redoc under the server base URL; the web interface is the other way in. |
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| Tooling | BioBlend, the Python library for the Galaxy API (also blend4php, blend4j and a TypeScript schema); the REST API directly otherwise. |
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| Composes with | This is the strongest composition: an email account reaches TACC, Jetstream and PSC Bridges hardware that every other route in this record gates behind a US institutional appointment, and the qualification is that you reach it through Galaxy tool wrappers rather than a shell, so a workload must be expressible as Galaxy tools or a packaged tool in a workflow. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The reachable identity is the point. Every other record fails on institution; Galaxy Main, Galaxy Europe and the Australian and African servers each issue an account to an email address, and the server operators are separate institutions carrying separate hardware allocations, so the capacity is genuinely multi-institutional while the identity is one address. Galaxy is not a general-purpose VM: no root, no arbitrary binaries unless uploaded as a tool, no inbound network, so it is the wrong shape for a server and the right shape for a batch analysis. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- volume-quota 250 GB
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Evidence 8
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | galaxyproject.org/main/ | "this site has been available since 2007 for anyone to analyze their data free of charge"; "Anyone can use the public servers, with or without an account", quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | galaxyproject.org/main/ | "It is sustained by Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) hardware using allocation generously provided by the CyVerse project", quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | galaxyproject.org/main/ | quota table: 250GB registered and 5GB unregistered, 6 concurrent jobs registered and 1 unregistered, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | galaxyproject.org/main/ | compute resource table: Jetstream 36 hour walltime, 10 cores, 30 GB; TACC Stampede2 SKX 48 hour walltime, 48 cores, 192 GB; PSC Bridges 240 GB to 960 GB and 5 to 20 cores, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | galaxyproject.org/support/account-quotas/ | "each registered account is granted 250 GB of quota space" at Galaxy Main, quoted |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/api_doc.html | every Galaxy server exposes a REST API documented at its /api/docs path |
| 2026-11-04 | docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/api_doc.html | the Galaxy REST API documentation lives under each server base URL |
| 2026-11-04 | bioblend.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ | BioBlend is the documented Python client for the Galaxy API |
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| facets | {"class": "open-science-platform","free_tier_kind": "perpetual-open-registration","shape": {"vcpu": 10,"ram_gib": 30,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}} |
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Unknown values 5
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer