Sia host
sia.tech · 2 records in Storage · JSON
Records 2
- deadskynet / siastream
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedchecked 2026-10-21
- self-hosted, last resortSia host (hostd) - supply side / the arbitrage test
Storageverdict fails-quotaidentity anonymousno cardevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
skynet / siastream
Storage- Free allowance
- Skynet is gone as a free product; Sia's current offering is the 50 GB hosted Sia Storage account recorded above.
- 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 | Skynet is gone as a free product; Sia's current offering is the 50 GB hosted Sia Storage account recorded above. The Skynet guides that still rank describe a discontinued portal model. 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 | docs.sia.tech/store-your-data/using-sia-storage.md | the text of Free tier, above |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "dead-service","why": "Skynet is gone as a free product; Sia's current offering is the 50 GB hosted Sia Storage account recorded above. The Skynet guides that still rank describe a discontinued portal model.","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
- Free allowance
- You set your own price; network median is $1.17/TB/month storage and $2.25/TB download (siascan), $1.30 KS/TB/month
- Verdict
- self-hosted, last resortverdict fails-quota: the free allowance is too small to matter. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- 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 | you set your own price; network median is $1.17/TB/month storage and $2.25/TB download (siascan), $1.30 KS/TB/month unit TB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | anonymous anonymous |
| Egress | you are PAID for egress ($2.25/TB median) rather than charged price per tb: $2.25/TB |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | cli hostd daemon (Docker/Linux/macOS/Windows), open ports, Siacoin wallet |
| Tooling | hostd desktop app v0.46.1, hostd CLI, siascan for competitor pricing |
| Composes with | earn SC, buy storage with SC on the same network - the only place where the earn and spend currencies actually match |
| Reliability | Lose the data or fail a proof and the collateral is burned; a single drive failure is a total loss for that contract. |
Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | siascan.com/ | 'Median storage price $1.17/TB/month'; 'Median download price $2.25/TB'; 530 active hosts, 2.19 PB used of 7.12 PB |
| 2026-10-21 | docs.sia.tech/store-your-data/about-renting.md | 'Network pricing averages around $3 per terabyte per month, including 3x redundancy' |
| 2026-10-21 | docs.sia.tech/provide-storage/about-hosting-on-sia | 'set your collateral to around 2-3x your base storage price ... if you've priced your storage at 50 SC/TB, you should set your collateral at 100-150 SC/TB' |
| 2026-10-21 | sia.tech/provide-storage | 'Lose the data, or fail to prove you still have it, and you lose the collateral you put up'; 'Open ports - Renters connect to your host directly ... forwarding hostd's ports' |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "you set your own price; network median is $1.17/TB/month storage and $2.25/TB download (siascan), $1.30 KS/TB/month","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