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- Free allowance
- No free tier: the Cold Archive class is billed from the first GiB at USD 0.0000027 per GiB-hour (about USD 0.001971 per GiB-month), with no capacity cap stated; a 180-day minimum storage duration is billed and data retrieval costs USD 0.01062 per GiB
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented9 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (inherited); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | No free tier: the Cold Archive class is billed from the first GiB at USD 0.0000027 per GiB-hour (about USD 0.001971 per GiB-month), with no capacity cap stated; a 180-day minimum storage duration is billed and data retrieval costs USD 0.01062 per GiB unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | card an email address validated by a one-time code, the country of tax residence, and a valid payment method on the account before the first Public Cloud project; Visa, Mastercard and Maestro cards are accepted, and PayPal and a prepaid account are offered as payment methods |
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| Egress | External ingoing and outgoing traffic free and API requests free; an object is read back only after a restore, billed at USD 0.01062 per GiB retrieved, and the restored copy is billed in the Standard class while it stays accessible |
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| Interface | s3-compatible S3-compatible API, reachable only from the Paris 3-AZ region (EU-WEST-PAR) |
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| Tooling | not recorded |
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| Reliability | Tape-backed class with a 99.9% availability SLA and eleven nines of durability; a restore takes from a few minutes to several hours up to a terabyte and at most 48 hours for hundreds of terabytes |
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| Notes | USD 1.84 per TB per month (USD 0.001971 per GiB-month x 931.32 GiB per TB) and USD 9.89 per TB retrieved (USD 0.01062 per GiB); a 180-day minimum storage duration is billed per object |
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| Evidence note | documented documented: the international price list, the storage classes page, the Object Storage technical limits page, the account-creation guide and the free-trial page were read and quoted on 2026-10-30; a read timed from a bucket would make it measured |
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Evidence 9
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "USD 1.84 per TB-month (USD 0.001971 per GiB-month x 931.32 GiB per TB); retrieval is USD 0.01062 per GiB, USD 9.89 per TB, plus a 180-day minimum storage duration, and a restore takes hours","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 5
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field