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- Free allowance
- 393,216 bytes per paste (measured).
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymous?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 393,216 bytes per paste (measured). 373,336 chars -> 201 Created; 426,668 chars -> 206 Partial Content with 393,216 bytes stored. unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | anonymous (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | free direct GET, plain text, no metering. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest rest |
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| Tooling | curl --data-binary @file https://paste.rs/ returns the URL on stdout; DELETE /<id> works; documented shell function for .bashrc. No wrapper ecosystem needed. |
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| Composes with | unlimited pastes x 384 KiB. 1 TiB = ~2.7M pastes. Only useful if an encoder pipeline is allowed to fan out aggressively; otherwise a control-plane store. |
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| Reliability | Silent truncation: it returns 206 Partial Content rather than an error, so a naive client will believe the full object was stored. Docs also state pasting is heavily rate limited. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | paste.rs/ | 'If the response is 206 (PARTIAL), then the paste exceeded the server's maximum upload size ... Pasting is heavily rate limited' |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: POST 373,336 bytes -> 201; POST 426,668 bytes -> 206; GET the 206 result -> 393,216 bytes stored |
| 2026-10-21 | paste.rs/<id> | probe: POST 5,000-byte payload -> 201 (round trip confirmed with matching body) |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "393,216 bytes per paste (measured). 373,336 chars -> 201 Created; 426,668 chars -> 206 Partial Content with 393,216 bytes stored.","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