Payhip
- Free allowance
- Explicit, from their own page: 'No, we have no storage or bandwidth limits.
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap5GB per file
- Evidence
- reported5 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Explicit, from their own page: 'No, we have no storage or bandwidth limits. We only have a 5GB per file limit.' Help centre repeats: 'Payhip supports a maximum file size of 5GB per digital product.' unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
per-object-cap 5 GB — the only limit they publish. Extension blocklist is a hard gate on ingress: EXE, ISO, DMG, VBS, SCR refused unless inside a ZIP. No aggregate quota. |
| Identity | email a first name, last name, email address and password on the free-account form. No card is asked for: the help centre adds card details only to upgrade a paid plan. No phone field is on the form. |
| Egress | No bandwidth limit stated (their words: 'no storage or bandwidth limits'). Free plan is 'Free Forever' with a 5% transaction fee — no monthly fee, so an unpriced/cheap product costs ~nothing. |
| Per-object cap | 5GB per file (5000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest, cli Web upload. REST API + webhooks on paid plans; the digital-product upload itself is form-based. |
| Tooling | curl/browser; no first-class CLI. |
| Composes with | 5 GB/file x unlimited files per product x unlimited products = unbounded account. Every listing is a shard with its own 5 GB ceiling — the cleanest 'shard into 5 GB pieces' target found. |
| Reliability | Serving path is fine; the operational risk is that a 'digital product' must be a listed product, and free products still sit behind a checkout page. Buyer link is emailed, not a stable public URL — so it is an archive/delivery tier, not a hot-link CDN. |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | payhip.com/features/sell-digital-downloads | not published |
| 2026-10-21 | help.payhip.com/article/375-cannot-upload-file-or-image | 5GB per digital product; EXE/ISO/DMG/VBS/SCR blocked unless zipped |
| 2026-10-21 | payhip.com/pricing | 'Free Forever' + 5% transaction fee, no monthly fee |
| 2026-11-01 | payhip.com/auth/register | the free-account form asks for a first name, last name, email address and password only |
| 2026-11-01 | payhip.com/features/sell-digital-downloads | the no-storage-limit statement and the 5 GB per-file ceiling are unchanged |
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