Home / Storage
Storacha (successor to web3.storage)
storacha.networkP2Pstorage/storachaJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- No longer offered — the developer upload and IPFS service was shut down.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | No longer offered — the developer upload and IPFS service was shut down. Was 5 GB free at launch (2025-05); the old web3.storage 1 TB free plan did not survive into Storacha. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|
| Price | none stated |
|---|
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
|---|
| Egress | N/A — service closed. w3s.link, the Storacha/web3.storage gateway, now 301-redirects to dweb.link, which returns 429 with Retry-After: 900. |
|---|
| Per-object cap | not stated |
|---|
| Retention | not stated |
|---|
| Interface | rest, cli rest |
|---|
| Tooling | Previously @storacha/client, UCAN-based; CLI 'w3'. Repos remain but the hosted service is gone. |
|---|
| Composes with | none — dead. |
|---|
| Reliability | Data-loss event, not a throttle: the team joined Filecoin Foundation and the upload service shut down. The successor for the same shape is Fil One (S3, 1 TB free for 30 days = trial) and Filecoin Onchain Cloud / Filecoin Pin (paid per TiB). |
|---|
| Parsed numbers | |
|---|
Evidence 3
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "dead-service","why": "No longer offered — the developer upload and IPFS service was shut down. Was 5 GB free at launch (2025-05); the old web3.storage 1 TB free plan did not survive into Storacha.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
|---|
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