VK Video (video hosting as bulk store)
- Free allowance
- Up to 256 GB per single uploaded file; no per-account total published on the page read
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap256 GB per single upload
- 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 | up to 256 GB per single uploaded file; no per-account total published on the page read unit GB; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
256 GB single file; video must be a real playable video container (arbitrary bytes only survive if 'original file download' is enabled by the uploader); retrieval goes through the player/extractor path |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | free to viewers — playback is served from VK's own streaming CDN, no per-GB charge to the uploader |
| Per-object cap | 256 GB per single upload (256000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | unknown wrapper-only |
| Tooling | yt-dlp VK extractor (yt_dlp/extractor/vk.py) for retrieval; VK API video.save / video upload for pushing files |
| Composes with | per-record, not per-account: 256 GB per upload x unlimited videos on one account. Shards by file, so it multiplies without new identities. |
| Reliability | Uploaded media may be transcoded; non-video payloads die on transcode; VK periodically changes the playback protocol and breaks yt-dlp (yt-dlp issues 16070/11715 track exactly this churn), and content can be removed for complaints. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | vk.com/press/new-video | 'Видео ВКонтакте теперь поддерживает загрузку «тяжёлых» файлов размером до 256 Гбайт' |
| 2026-10-21 | github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/yt_dlp/extractor/vk.py | maintained VK extractor (working retrieval client) |
| 2026-10-21 | github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16070 | '[VK Video] supposedly updated protocol inhibits downloads' (retrieval breaks periodically) |
Unknown values 4
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: 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