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support.microsoft.com/en-us/teams/free/troubleshoot/where-isMessagingstorage/microsoft-teamsJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
Sibling records disagree:
- Free allowance
- 5 GB free per person for files in Teams; images/videos explicitly do not count and have no storage limit; files land in the 'Microsoft Teams Chat Files' folder in the user's OneDrive.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 5 GB free per person for files in Teams; images/videos explicitly do not count and have no storage limit; files land in the 'Microsoft Teams Chat Files' folder in the user's OneDrive. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | Unmetered; share links resolve to OneDrive direct URLs. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest, graph, rclone rest |
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| Tooling | Graph API chatMessageHostedContent + driveItem; no rclone backend for Teams specifically (use the onedrive remote pointing at the Chat Files folder) |
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| Composes with | Effectively OneDrive consumer's 5 GB wearing a different hat - Teams free files ARE OneDrive files, so this is not a second quota. The one genuine loophole claim on the page is 'Images and videos are not saved on OneDrive and don't have a storage limit' - unverified whether that means arbitrary files can be smuggled as media. |
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| Reliability | Leaving a community does not revoke other members' access; deleting the 5 GB block blocks attaches but not history. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 2
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "5 GB free per person for files in Teams; images/videos explicitly do not count and have no storage limit; files land in the 'Microsoft Teams Chat Files' folder in the user's OneDrive.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- 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