Git LFS
- Free allowance
- Free: 10 GiB storage AND 10 GiB bandwidth per month; per-file 2 GB on Free/Pro, 4 GB Team, 5 GB Enterprise.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap2 GB per file
- 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 | Free: 10 GiB storage AND 10 GiB bandwidth per month; per-file 2 GB on Free/Pro, 4 GB Team, 5 GB Enterprise. unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
10 GiB storage, 10 GiB/month bandwidth, 2 GB per file on Free; 300 req/min unauthenticated LFS API, 3000 authenticated. |
| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | not published free allowance: 10 GiB per month |
| Per-object cap | 2 GB per file (2000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest, git rest |
| Tooling | git-lfs client, batch API at /info/lfs/objects/batch (probed: 200). |
| Composes with | 10 GiB x unlimited accounts is the only path, and each account needs a payment method to go beyond — without one, LFS is disabled until the next month. |
| Reliability | Exceeding free bandwidth without a payment method disables Git LFS entirely until the next month — a hard stop, not a throttle. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/git-lfs | table: 'GitHub Free | 10 GiB | 10 GiB' (Bandwidth | Storage); 'Git LFS support is disabled on your account until the next month' |
| 2026-10-21 | docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/managing- | 'GitHub Free | 2 GB' max file size |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: POST github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs.git/info/lfs/objects/batch -> 200, per-object error 404 'Object does not exist on the server' (anonymous batch endpoint is live) |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "egress","why": "Free: 10 GiB storage AND 10 GiB bandwidth per month; per-file 2 GB on Free/Pro, 4 GB Team, 5 GB Enterprise.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- per object cap notes: 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