Gofile
- Free allowance
- No storage figure at all on the free tier — free accounts get temporary storage with a 10,000-content cap per account ('Free accounts are capped at 10,000 stored contents'); free traffic allowance is '100 GB traffic / 30 days'
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- retention-clampeddeleted after 10 days
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | no storage figure at all on the free tier — free accounts get temporary storage with a 10,000-content cap per account ('Free accounts are capped at 10,000 stored contents'); free traffic allowance is '100 GB traffic / 30 days' unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
content is deleted after 10 days of inactivity unless it keeps being downloaded; past the storage period content may be moved to cold storage and importing it back requires Premium; most API endpoints (listing, direct links) return error-notPremium; 'Repeatedly exceeding rate limits may result in automatic IP bans' |
| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | free plan: '100 GB traffic / 30 days'; 'We never throttle bandwidth' but traffic over the allowance restricts download functionality. Premium removes caps entirely |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | 30 days' | content is deleted after 10 days of inactivity unless it keeps being downloaded; past the storage period content may be moved to cold storage and importing it back requires Premium; most API endpoints (listing, direct links) return error-notPremium; 'Repeatedly exceeding rate limits may result in automatic IP bans' (30 days) |
| Interface | rest, rclone rest |
| Tooling | REST API at api.gofile.io (documented, CORS, per-endpoint rate limits); rclone backend 'gofile' (Tier 1) but its docs warn 'if you wish to connect rclone to Gofile you will need a premium account'; guest account creation is a single unauthenticated POST |
| Composes with | unlimited guest accounts created by API call (no email, no human-verification step) x 10,000 files each — probe-verified; each guest account also brings its own 100 GB/30-day traffic bucket, so fetch load can be sharded by account |
| Reliability | 10-day inactivity expiry plus cold-storage migration makes it storage-with-a-TTL, not a drive; content-count cap (10k) bites hard on many-small-file datasets |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | gofile.io/faq | 'Content is kept for 10 days of inactivity', 'Content past its storage period may be moved to cold storage', free traffic counted per IP |
| 2026-10-21 | gofile.io/api | 'Free accounts are capped at 10,000 stored contents', error-limits/error-notPremium statuses, rate limits per IP and per account |
| 2026-10-21 | api.gofile.io/accounts | probe: POST (no auth) -> {"status":"ok","data":{"tier":"guest","token":"DtZGU7IXTjUXIor2UTCc8LwVuuELs1e7"}} (unlimited anonymous identities, one HTTP call each) |
| 2026-10-21 | store4.gofile.io/contents/uploadfile | probe: POST (no token) -> 200, file stored, downloadPage https://gofile.io/d/nxWCc29o; later GET api.gofile.io/contents/nxWCc29o with the guest token -> {"status":"error-notPremium"} |
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