Rentry.co
rentry.coAnonymous dumpstorage/rentry-coJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- 200,000 characters per entry (hard, enforced at API), unlimited entries, no account required.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymous?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- write-gatedapplication and stated in the 400 error, so silent truncation does not happen — writes fail
- Evidence
- reported11 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-18checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-11-18
| Free tier | 200,000 characters per entry (hard, enforced at API), unlimited entries, no account required. Entries kept 'forever' unless they break rules. unit unlimited; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate roughly 10 anonymous creations per minute per IP (429 status when exceeded) source
- write-gated (binding) application and stated in the 400 error, so silent truncation does not happen — writes fail source
200,000 chars per entry; custom URL 2-100 chars; edit_code required to modify; no per-account quota and no per-IP cap observed (8 rapid anonymous POSTs all returned 200); URL squatting reclaimed after 12 months idle. |
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| Identity | anonymous (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | free direct GET, no metering; behind Cloudflare so it is CDN-cacheable at the edge. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | Entries are kept forever unless they break the rules, in which case they might be deleted, or the owner deletes them. |
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| Interface | rest, cli rest |
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| Tooling | Official Python client github.com/radude/rentry (593 stars) + pip package 'rentry'; single-file CLI with zero dependencies. |
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| Composes with | unlimited anonymous entries x 200,000 chars (~150 KB of base64 binary after the 4/3 encoder penalty). To reach 500 GB you would need ~3.5M entries, so this is a control-plane / manifest store, not a data tier — unless an unlimited free identity source is added, and even then the operator's storage is the ceiling. |
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| Reliability | Anonymous creation is limited per IP to roughly 10 per minute (429); the per-entry text ceiling is enforced by the application and a write above it fails with a 400. Bulk write volume at the creation limit is the untested risk. |
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| Evidence note | reported pages captured 2026-11-03: https://github.com/radude/rentry, https://rentry.co/what, https://rentry.co/user-account/membership; the per-IP creation limit rests on a third-party client README, so the rung stays reported |
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Evidence 11
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | rentry.co/what | '200000 characters for text field', 'Your entries will be kept forever' |
| 2026-10-21 | rentry.co/api/new | probe: POST with form fields url/edit_code/text -> {"status":"200","url":"https://rentry.co/n7f74b9t","edit_code":"..."}; page then contained the probe string |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: POST with 293,336 chars -> {"status": "400", "errors": "Ensure text field has at most 200000 characters (it has 293336)."} |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: 8 sequential anonymous creations -> 200 x8, no rate limit |
| 2026-11-03 | github.com/radude/rentry | entries are created anonymously, limited per IP |
| 2026-11-03 | github.com/radude/rentry | the documented per-IP creation limit is about 10 per minute |
| 2026-11-03 | github.com/radude/rentry | the limit is stated in the API reference |
| 2026-11-03 | rentry.co/what | retention is unbounded unless the rules are broken |
| 2026-11-03 | github.com/radude/rentry | the creation limit is about 10 per minute per IP |
| 2026-11-03 | rentry.co/user-account/membership | an optional account is created from an email address; the membership price is behind this sign-in |
| 2026-11-03 | rentry.co/what | the per-entry limit is 200000 characters and entries are kept forever |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "200,000 characters per entry (hard, enforced at API), unlimited entries, no account required. Entries kept 'forever' unless they break rules.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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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