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fails: quotamaven central as bulk storage
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
fails: quotaMaven Central (Sonatype Central Portal) - post-2026 publishing limits
Storagefree tieridentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05

maven central as bulk storage

Storage

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Free allowance: Still no total-storage cap, but 2026 monthly per-organization publishing thresholds (~78 MB release size at p90, ~1.8 GB at p99) plus a commercial-nature gate from 2026-10-01 make sustained
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: reported1 source; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05

Free tier	Still no total-storage cap, but 2026 monthly per-organization publishing thresholds (~78 MB release size at p90, ~1.8 GB at p99) plus a commercial-nature gate from 2026-10-01 make sustained unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	not recorded
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded

Evidence 1

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	central.sonatype.org/publish/maven-central-publishing-limits	the text of Free tier, above

More fields 1

dead end	`{"failure_class": "quota","why": "Still no total-storage cap, but 2026 monthly per-organization publishing thresholds (~78 MB release size at p90, ~1.8 GB at p99) plus a commercial-nature gate from 2026-10-01 make sustained","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}`

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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

Maven Central (Sonatype Central Portal) - post-2026 publishing limits

Storage

central.sonatype.orgRegistrystorage/maven-central-post-2026-publishing-limitsJSON compare report an error

Free allowance: Maven Central introduced hard monthly publishing limits per organization in 2026.
Verdict: fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
Cost: free tier
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
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	Maven Central introduced hard monthly publishing limits per organization in 2026. Three independent metrics: file count, release size, release count, evaluated as hard thresholds against the current calendar month, with a 30-day grace period on first breach (resets after 2 consecutive below-limit months). Thresholds are set near the top-10% of publishers; the published distribution table gives 90th percentile = 1,167 files / 78 MB release size / 7 releases per month, 99th = 17,724 / 1,808 MB / 50. Separately, from 2026-10-01, any artifact with a 'commercial nature' requires a paid Publisher Pro subscription regardless of volume. unit objects; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	Free and effectively unmetered for consumers - repo1.maven.org is a heavyweight CDN. Publishing is what is metered, not download.
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	Three independent metrics: file count, release size, release count, evaluated as hard thresholds against the current calendar month, with a 30-day grace period on first breach (resets after 2 consecutive below-limit months) (30 days)
Interface	rest, rclone rest
Tooling	`mvn deploy` / central-publishing-maven-plugin, `gradle` publishing, `curl` to the Central Portal API, and plain HTTPS Maven-layout GETs from repo1.maven.org. No rclone backend.
Composes with	unlimited namespaces/group-ids x unlimited organizations x (monthly release-size threshold, ~78 MB at p90, ~1.8 GB at p99). Multiplying by many free organizations multiplies the account surface, not the rate, and every org has the same monthly reset.
Reliability	The 2026 change is the important signal for the whole niche: the largest free package registry concluded that '10% of namespaces accounted for more than 88% of all files published' and moved to hard monthly thresholds plus a commercial-use gate. Any plan that treats a public registry as a bulk blob store is now rate-limited at ~GB/month/org, not capped at a total. The exact thresholds table and the commercial-nature gate are new.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1

Evidence 4

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	central.sonatype.org/publish/maven-central-publishing-limits	'These limits are evaluated as hard thresholds against an organization's usage during the current calendar month'; percentile table (p90: 1,167 files / 78 MB / 7 releases; p99: 17,724 / 1,808 MB / 50)
2026-10-21	source not published	same page - '30-day grace period rather than immediate enforcement'; 'Commercial-nature artifacts require Maven Central Publisher Pro from October 1, 2026'
2026-10-21	source not published	same page - 'Public artifacts already published to Maven Central remain available for download.'
2026-10-21	repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/jetbrains/kotlin/kotlin-compiler/	probe: GET -> 200, 60,219,212 bytes, application/java-archive

More fields 1

dead end {"failure_class": "quota","why": "Maven Central introduced hard monthly publishing limits per organization in 2026. Three independent metrics: file count, release size, release count, evaluated as hard thresholds against the current calendar month, with a 30-day grace period on first breach (resets after 2 consecutive below-limit months). Thresholds are set near the top-10% of publishers; the published distribution table gives 90th percentile = 1,167 files / 78 MB release size / 7 releases per month, 99th = 17,724 / 1,808 MB / 50. Separately, from 2026-10-01, any artifact with a 'commercial nature' requires a paid Publisher Pro subscription regardless of volume.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}

dead end	{"failure_class": "quota","why": "Maven Central introduced hard monthly publishing limits per organization in 2026. Three independent metrics: file count, release size, release count, evaluated as hard thresholds against the current calendar month, with a 30-day grace period on first breach (resets after 2 consecutive below-limit months). Thresholds are set near the top-10% of publishers; the published distribution table gives 90th percentile = 1,167 files / 78 MB release size / 7 releases per month, 99th = 17,724 / 1,808 MB / 50. Separately, from 2026-10-01, any artifact with a 'commercial nature' requires a paid Publisher Pro subscription regardless of volume.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}

Unknown values 3

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