Shadow Drive (Blade, France)
- Free allowance
- 20 GB free; Basic 200 GB at EUR 2.99/month; Premium 2 TB at EUR 6.99/month.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap20 GB per upload on every tier including 2 TB
- Evidence
- reported13 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-19checked 2026-11-04 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-19
| Free tier | 20 GB free; Basic 200 GB at EUR 2.99/month; Premium 2 TB at EUR 6.99/month. Every tier carries the same 'Upload up to 20 GB' line unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Binding | per-object-cap Either number alone stops it; the cap is the one that would still bind at 2 TB. |
| Identity | card a card, and a billing address in one of twelve countries: France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Spain |
| Egress | Not metered in the offer table |
| Per-object cap | 20 GB per upload on every plan, including the 2 TB one (20000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | Until deleted. No retention clock published |
| Interface | webdav, rest, rclone |
| Tooling | rclone webdav against /remote.php/webdav/, which answers 401 with a Basic realm of 'Shadow Drive'. Standard Nextcloud clients |
| Composes with | The cheapest Enterprise-build Nextcloud in Europe at EUR 2.99 for 200 GB, so it is a candidate small shard. The 20 GB per-file cap is uniform across tiers and does not scale, which stops it being an archive target |
| Reliability | Signup is geo-fenced to twelve countries. Encryption at rest is still listed as not implemented. The price rose from EUR 4.99 to EUR 6.99 for 2 TB since the 2024 announcement while press coverage still quotes the old figure |
| Notes | The free 20 GB is real and it is the same Enterprise build as the paid tiers, so it works as a cheap test endpoint. It fails as capacity on size, and it fails on a per-file cap that never improves. |
| Evidence note | reported What would raise it is a live re-read of the offers page, because this provider has already moved its price once. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 13
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | shadow.tech/eu/drive/offers/ | 'Free 20 GB ... Upload up to 20 GB', 'Basic 200 GB ... 2.99 EUR/month', 'Premium 2 TB ... 6.99 EUR/month', all three with the same 20 GB upload line, and 'Shadow Drive is already available in 12 countries: France, UK, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Spain' |
| 2026-10-21 | drive.shadow.tech/status.php | HTTP 200, version 27.1.11.4, versionstring '27.1.11 Enterprise', productname Nextcloud |
| 2026-10-21 | drive.shadow.tech/remote.php/dav/ | OPTIONS returned HTTP 401 with WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Shadow Drive" |
| 2026-11-03 | shadow.tech/eu/drive/offers/ | the Basic plan is a 200 GB offer |
| 2026-11-03 | shadow.tech/eu/drive/offers/ | the Premium plan is a 2 TB offer |
| 2026-11-03 | shadow.tech/eu/drive/offers/ | the Basic plan button reads Subscribe at 2.99 per month |
| 2026-11-03 | shadow.tech/eu/drive/offers/ | the Premium plan button reads Subscribe at 6.99 per month |
| 2026-11-03 | shadow.tech/eu/drive/ | the product page offers 20 GB free for life |
| 2026-11-03 | shadow.tech/eu/drive/offers/ | the FAQ lists the twelve countries where Shadow Drive can be subscribed |
| 2026-11-03 | shadow.tech/eu/drive/offers/ | the FAQ still says encryption at rest is being worked on |
| 2026-11-03 | probe: https://drive.shadow.tech/status.php | the drive host answers the Nextcloud 27.1.11.4 status JSON, installed and not in maintenance |
| 2026-11-03 | probe: https://drive.shadow.tech/remote.php/dav/ | the WebDAV endpoint answers a SabreDAV NotAuthenticated error, a live auth-gated WebDAV server |
| 2026-11-03 | shadow.tech/eu/drive/offers/ | every plan on the offers page carries the Upload up to 20 GB line |
More fields 5
| access mode | registration-gated |
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| free tier exists | yes |
| geo fenced countries | 12 |
| per file cap bytes derived | 20000000000 |
| nextcloud version | 27.1.11 Enterprise |