Mixcloud — Basic tier (unlimited drafts)
- Free allowance
- 10 published shows (>15 min) + 10 published tracks (<=15 min).
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap4 GB ceiling
- 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 | 10 published shows (>15 min) + 10 published tracks (<=15 min). But: 'there's currently no limit to the number of uploads you can have in your drafts' — drafts are uploaded, stored, and private. That is the actual finding: published storage is capped at 20 items, unpublished storage is uncapped. unit objects; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
4 GB max per show file; shows must be >15 min, tracks <=15 min (so the 4 GB ceiling only applies to long files); 10 published shows + 10 published tracks; RSS-fed podcasts also count toward the 10-show cap ('only the 10 most recent shows will display'). |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | Free streaming for listeners; no egress charge to the creator, but drafts are not publicly downloadable at all, so 'egress' is the wrong axis — a draft has no delivery surface. |
| Per-object cap | 4 GB ceiling (4000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rclone wrapper-only |
| Tooling | No public API. Desktop-only upload for tracks ('only available through the desktop platform and not the Mixcloud app'); shows upload from web. No rclone backend, no client library found. |
| Composes with | Unlimited drafts x 4 GB per show x N free accounts. Whether drafts are garbage-collected is not stated — the FAQ only says previous uploads are not deleted when you exceed the publish cap, which is a different promise from 'drafts are kept forever'. |
| Reliability | Mixcloud is a streaming platform: shows are transcoded for playback and there is no original-file download link on Basic. Drafts are inaccessible to anyone but the uploader, which means they are storage but not retrieval — a draft is only recoverable by publishing it, and publishing consumes one of the 10 slots. |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | help.mixcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/6617808567708-FAQ-Publis | 'Creators on the basic tier can have a total of 10 published shows (over 15 minutes long), and 10 published tracks'; 'we won't delete your previous uploads, and there's currently no limit to the number of uploads you can have in your drafts' |
| 2026-10-21 | help.mixcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005918580-How-do-I-up | 'Choose a file over 15 minutes in length (max 4GB)'; 'Lossless and lossy formats are supported ... WAV, AIFF, FLAC or AAC, OGG, M4A, MP2, MP3 and WMA' |
Unknown values 3
- 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