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steam friends chat file transfer
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- Free allowance
- Chat uploads are capped at 2048 MB (2GB) of temporary cloud storage over a rolling period of 60 days (user-reported)
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- volume-quota2048 MB (2GB) of chat uploads over a rolling period of 60 days (user-reported)
- Evidence
- reported5 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-19checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-11-19
| Free tier | chat uploads are capped at 2048 MB (2GB) of temporary cloud storage over a rolling period of 60 days (user-reported) unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 2048 MB (2GB) of chat uploads over a rolling period of 60 days (user-reported) source
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| Binding | volume-quota a user-reported rolling 60-day cap of 2048 MB on chat uploads; no first-party statement was found |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not recorded |
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| Per-object cap | about 30 MB per file (reported by one forum user on 2 Nov 2024) |
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| Retention | chat uploads count against the cap for about 60 days and then drop off (user-reported) |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Tooling | files are pasted or uploaded in the Steam client chat window; a public link and an API: unverified: not stated in the captured threads |
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| Composes with | not recorded |
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| Reliability | chat uploads are capped at 2048 MB (2GB) over a rolling period of 60 days (user-reported) |
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| Notes | user-reported limit: 2048 MB (2GB) of chat uploads over a rolling period of 60 days; the per-file cap is in per_object_cap; no first-party statement was found |
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| Evidence note | reported re-read on 2026-11-03: two Steam Client Beta forum threads on steamcommunity.com (the URLs of its 2026-11-03 evidence rows); both are user posts, so the 2048 MB rolling 60-day cap and the 30 MB per-file figure are user-reported and no first-party page states them |
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Evidence 5
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "~30 MB per file ceiling reported in the Steam Client Beta forum; P2P-ish, no public link, no API. Useless as storage.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- 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