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Lighthouse (Filecoin/IPFS pinning)
lighthouse.storage/pricingAcademicstorage/lighthouseJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- Filecoin plans, Free: 'Total Storage: 5 GB' (IPFS + Filecoin).
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Filecoin plans, Free: 'Total Storage: 5 GB' (IPFS + Filecoin). Walrus plans, Free: 'Total Storage: 100 MB'. Next tier is $12/month for 500 GB. unit GB; 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 | not stated on the pricing page; gateway is ipfs-gw-style and historically unmetered, but there is no published allowance to quote. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest, rclone rest |
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| Tooling | IPFS pinning API + Filecoin deals; SDKs exist. No rclone backend. |
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| Composes with | 5 GB x unlimited free accounts, each requiring an API key; the jump from 5 GB free to 500 GB at $12 means the free tier is deliberately a demo, not a base to multiply. |
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| Reliability | Free plan omits encryption, IPNS and migration support that paid plans have, and the Walrus sub-product free tier is only 100 MB. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | lighthouse.storage/pricing | 'Free ... Total Storage: 5 GB, IPFS: Yes, Filecoin: Yes'; 'Walrus ... Free ... Total Storage: 100 MB' |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "Filecoin plans, Free: 'Total Storage: 5 GB' (IPFS + Filecoin). Walrus plans, Free: 'Total Storage: 100 MB'. Next tier is $12/month for 500 GB.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 5
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- 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
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read