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- Free allowance
- Unlimited/indefinite storage for free accounts; no published total-byte cap.
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- 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 | Unlimited/indefinite storage for free accounts; no published total-byte cap. Third-party trackers consistently report 'unlimited storage, permanent hosting'. unit unlimited; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | Free, unmetered direct links on i.ibb.co. No bandwidth quota published, no hotlink restriction. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | Unlimited/indefinite storage for free accounts; no published total-byte cap |
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| Interface | rest rest |
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| Tooling | Official API v1 at api.imgbb.com — POST multipart or GET with base64/URL, single 'key' param. ShareX, PicGo and Flameshot all ship ImgBB destinations. |
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| Composes with | Unlimited free accounts, each with its own API key. Each upload returns a delete_url, so per-file turnover is scriptable. |
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| Reliability | No re-compression documented and large JPEGs survive byte-for-byte. No inactivity deletion. Long Cache-Control (10y) means deletions propagate slowly. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | api.imgbb.com/ | 'image (required) A binary file, base64 data, or an image URL (up to 32 MB)' |
| 2026-10-21 | imgbb.com/ | '32 MB limit. Direct image links, BBCode, and HTML thumbnails.' |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: HEAD i.ibb.co/20z1mhT/0004-016.jpg -> 200, Content-Length 125707, image/jpeg — matches the 125.7 KB the site records for the original, i.e. no re-encode; Expires 2037 |
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