Odysee / LBRY
- Free allowance
- No storage quota at all.
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap16 GB per file
- 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 quota at all. 16 GB per file via the Odysee uploader (4 GB from the plain lbry.com web form). Unlimited claims. Storage cost is a one-time LBC claim deposit, minimum 0.0001 LBC. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
16 GB per file is the real ceiling; no per-day upload cap documented. Every publish needs an LBC deposit, so a large library costs a real (small) crypto balance up front and must be re-staked to keep claims alive. |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | Free. Files are content-addressed blobs served by the LBRY DHT/reflectors and by Odysee's CDN; retrieval by hash is not metered. |
| Per-object cap | 16 GB per file (16000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest rest |
| Tooling | yt-dlp lbry extractor (verified present). Odysee JSON-RPC at api.na-backend.odysee.com (resolve, claim_search). LBRY Desktop hosts blobs locally under lbrynet/blob. |
| Composes with | Unlimited claims per channel x unlimited channels x unlimited accounts. Because the object is a plain blob, there is no video-duration ceiling to fight — the only cap is 16 GB/file, so capacity = unlimited files x 16 GB. |
| Reliability | This is the only candidate here that stores the original bytes, but the platform is visibly decaying in 2026 — community 'collapse watch' posts and a Sept 2026 outage report; LBRY Inc. wound down. Treat as a live archive with a short expected half-life. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | help.odysee.tv/category-uploading/category-fileuploads/files | 'Odysee uploads are restricted to 16 GB' |
| 2026-10-21 | lbry.com/faq/how-to-publish | 'you can also publish files up to 4 GB from the web at Odysee.com'; 'a minimum of 0.0001 LBC deposit' |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: POST api.na-backend.odysee.com claim_search -> value.source = {hash, sd_hash, size: 205035588, media_type: video/mp4} — the claim points at one content-addressed blob, not a set of renditions |
| 2026-10-21 | help.odysee.tv/category-blockchain/overview/ | 'the file isn't actually being uploaded to Odysee. It's being uploaded to the LBRY network' |
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