Pixeldrain
pixeldrain.com · 5 records in Storage · JSON
Records 5
- caveatPixeldrain
Storagefree tieridentity institution?card?limit retention-clampedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
- paidpixeldrain pro / prepaid
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-19
- fails: quotapixeldrain (as a transport-tier finding)
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
- deadipfs / arweave / filecoin pinning as the hidden upstream
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedchecked 2026-10-21
- deadpixeldrain.com
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedchecked 2026-10-21
Pixeldrain
StorageSibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
storage/pixeldrainsays institution, storage/pixeldrain-2 says email - verdict:
storage/pixeldrainsays qualifies-with-caveat, storage/pixeldrain-2 says fails-quota
- Free allowance
- Free plan: storage 'No limit' for regular uploads (2 TB limit only on the paid filesystem product).
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedexpire 60 days
- 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 | Free plan: storage 'No limit' for regular uploads (2 TB limit only on the paid filesystem product). Pro: no limit; Prepaid: EUR 4/TB/month metered. unit TB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Free uploads require an API key (anonymous server-side PUT returned 401 authentication_required). 6 GB/day/IP download cap; 1 MiB/s throttle and 3 concurrent downloads after that. Files expire 60 days after last download; a download only counts if >10% of the file was transferred in one request, and the timer only updates once per 24h. Hotlinking not supported on free. |
| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | Free egress capped at 6 GB/day per IP address (sliding 24h window, IP-bound even when logged in); over the cap the speed drops to 1 MiB/s and max 3 concurrent downloads. Pro: 4 TB per 30 days. Prepaid: EUR 1/TB metered. So free egress is metered, not unusable — 6 GB/day x N IPs. price per tb: EUR 1/TB |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | Files expire 60 days after last download; a download only counts if >10% of the file was transferred in one request, and the timer only updates once per 24h (60 days) |
| Interface | rest, rclone rest |
| Tooling | Full REST API at /api with HTTP Basic (api key as password). rclone has no official backend; the API is simple enough that wrappers abound (Atlas electron/downloads/hosts/pixeldrain.js). PUT https://pixeldrain.com/api/file/ with -u :APIKEY. |
| Composes with | API keys are free and per-account, but the real multiplier is IP: the 6 GB/day download cap is per IP, so egress scales with egress IPs (proxies/CF Workers) not accounts. Storage itself is 'No limit' on free, which is the interesting half. |
| Reliability | Operator states plainly that free-plan 'unlimited' is not for storage: 'If you are (ab)using pixeldrain for free storage, you should not be surprised when the rules change at some point and all your stuff suddenly disappears.' The 6 GB/day free cap and 10%-of-file rule make this a poor serving tier unless fronted by something that fans out across IPs. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | pixeldrain.com/ | pricing table: Free 'Storage: No limit'; 'Egress transfer limit - 6 GB per day ... linked to your IP address'; 'When the download limit is exceeded the download speed is reduced to 1 MiB/s. You can have at most three concurrent downloads' |
| 2026-10-21 | pixeldrain.com/about | 'Files will be removed if they have not been accessed for 60 days ... This only happens when someone downloads more than 10% of the whole file in a single request' |
| 2026-10-21 | pixeldrain.com/api | 'All methods which create, modify or delete a resource require an API key'; base URL /api, Basic auth |
| 2026-10-21 | pixeldrain.com/api/file/ | probe: PUT (no key) -> 401 {"success":false,"value":"authentication_required"} |
Unknown values 3
- 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
pixeldrain pro / prepaid
Storage- Free allowance
- Prepaid storage is genuinely €4/TB/mo but egress is metered at €1/TB with NO free download allowance on the filesystem — 'Downloads from the filesystem are charged at €1 / TB for prepaid.'…
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported6 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-19checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-11-19
| Free tier | Prepaid storage is genuinely €4/TB/mo but egress is metered at €1/TB with NO free download allowance on the filesystem — 'Downloads from the filesystem are charged at €1 / TB for prepaid.'… unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | Prepaid filesystem downloads are charged at EUR 1 per TB with no cap stated; Patreon plans have a monthly transfer limit instead; the free filesystem download limit is 6 GB per day. |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
| Evidence note | reported reported: the page read on 2026-11-03 is https://docs.pixeldrain.com/filesystem/, which states that the filesystem is open to accounts with a paid subscription (Patreon or Prepaid), that prepaid storage is charged at €4 per TB per month, that prepaid filesystem downloads are charged at €1 / TB (Patreon plans have a monthly limit), and that the filesystem allows up to 6 GB of downloads per day against 5 GB per day for regular files, with speed limited to 1 MiB/s beyond it. The page therefore states a daily download allowance, which free_tier.stated and reliability_note deny, so the rung stays reported. |
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Evidence 6
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | docs.pixeldrain.com/filesystem/ | the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-10-21 | www.patreon.com/pixeldrain/join | cited as the basis of the rejection: Prepaid storage is genuinely €4/TB/mo but egress is metered at €1/TB with NO free download allowance on the filesystem — 'Downloads from the filesystem are charged at €1 / TB for prepaid.' A |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.pixeldrain.com/filesystem/ | prepaid filesystem egress is priced at EUR 1 per TB |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.pixeldrain.com/filesystem/ | free filesystem download limit |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.pixeldrain.com/filesystem/ | prepaid storage price |
| 2026-11-04 | docs.pixeldrain.com/filesystem/ | prepaid filesystem downloads are charged at EUR 1 per TB |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "egress","why": "Prepaid storage is genuinely €4/TB/mo but egress is metered at €1/TB with NO free download allowance on the filesystem — 'Downloads from the filesystem are charged at €1 / TB for prepaid.'…","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 6
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- 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
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
storage/pixeldrainsays institution, storage/pixeldrain-2 says email - verdict:
storage/pixeldrainsays qualifies-with-caveat, storage/pixeldrain-2 says fails-quota
- Free allowance
- Re-checked because rclone has a native
pixeldrainbackend and the free tier says storage 'No limit'. - Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- 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 | Re-checked because rclone has a native pixeldrain backend and the free tier says storage 'No limit'. But free egress is 6 GB/day per IP, files expire 60 days after last download…unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | pixeldrain.com/ | Re-checked because rclone has a native pixeldrain backend and the free tier says storage 'No limit'. But free egress is 6 GB/day per IP, files expire 60 days after last download, hotlink |
| 2026-10-21 | rclone.org/pixeldrain/ | cited as the basis of the rejection: Re-checked because rclone has a native pixeldrain backend and the free tier says storage 'No limit'. But free egress is 6 GB/day per IP, files expire 60 days after last download, hotlink |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "retention","why": "Re-checked because rclone has a native `pixeldrain` backend and the free tier says storage 'No limit'. But free egress is 6 GB/day per IP, files expire 60 days after last download…","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- 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
pixeldrain.com
Storage- Free allowance
- Anonymous uploads are gone: PUT /api/file/{name} returns HTTP 401 authentication_required ('Please provide an API key in the password field of HTTP Basic Access Authentication').
- Verdict
- deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- checked 2026-10-21checked 2026-10-21 (inherited)
| Free tier | Anonymous uploads are gone: PUT /api/file/{name} returns HTTP 401 authentication_required ('Please provide an API key in the password field of HTTP Basic Access Authentication'). The file… unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | pixeldrain.com/api/file/probe.bin | the text of Free tier, above |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "dead-service","why": "Anonymous uploads are gone: PUT /api/file/{name} returns HTTP 401 authentication_required ('Please provide an API key in the password field of HTTP Basic Access Authentication'). The file…","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- 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