Walrus Console

walrus.xyz · 2 records in Storage · JSON

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fails: quotaWalrus
Storageno free tieridentity card?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
fails: quotaWalrus Console (Walrus Foundation, Oct 2026 launch)
Storagefree tieridentity emailno cardevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05

Storage

Free allowance: No free tier on the network itself: $0.023/GB/month, billed on encoded size, which is 'about 4.5x the original blob plus a fixed 64 MB of per-blob metadata'.
Verdict: fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
Cost: no price stated
Identity: card?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: noneno named constraint binds
Evidence: reported2 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05

Free tier	No free tier on the network itself: $0.023/GB/month, billed on encoded size, which is 'about 4.5x the original blob plus a fixed 64 MB of per-blob metadata'. Lighthouse resells Walrus with a 100 MB free plan. unit GB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Identity	card (inferred, not read) not published
Egress	No published free egress allowance; reads are served by Walrus storage nodes and aggregators. Cost is denominated in WAL + SUI gas per operation, so there is no 'free' path at all.
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	rest, cli rest
Tooling	walrus CLI, TypeScript SDK, HTTP aggregator/publisher endpoints; Lighthouse wraps it as an IPFS-compatible layer.
Composes with	none — paid per GB-month with a 4.5x encoding tax. 500 GB of real data costs like 2.3 TB of billing.
Reliability	The 64 MB per-blob metadata overhead is brutal for a data-science corpus of many small files: the docs' own worked example has 6 MB of 10 KiB files costing like 38.4 GB. Quilt batching mitigates but does not remove it.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 0

Evidence 2

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	docs.wal.app/docs/system-overview/storage-costs	'fixed, USD-denominated storage cost of $0.023/GB/month'; 'The encoded size is about 4.5x the original blob plus a fixed 64 MB of per-blob metadata'
2026-10-21	www.lighthouse.storage/pricing	Walrus Free plan 'Total Storage: 100 MB'

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dead end	`{"failure_class": "paid","why": "No free tier on the network itself: $0.023/GB/month, billed on encoded size, which is 'about 4.5x the original blob plus a fixed 64 MB of per-blob metadata'. Lighthouse resells Walrus with a 100 MB free plan.","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

Storage

Free allowance: 5 GB free. Launched 2026-10-07 with 'Get started today with 5GB free'.
Verdict: fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
Cost: free tier
Identity: emailno card, no phone
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	5 GB free. Launched 2026-10-07 with 'Get started today with 5GB free'. No larger free tier is published. unit GB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Identity	email email
Egress	Reads via the Console API/MCP; the underlying Walrus network serves blobs from storage nodes. No egress meter published.
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	One week old at time of research. Storage is leased time, so 'free 5 GB' and 'kept forever' are not the same claim.
Interface	rest rest
Tooling	Genuinely good for an agent workflow: API keys plus an MCP server that plugs into Claude Code, Codex and Cursor; 'Agent Storage Loop' SDK for batched small writes with durability confirmation. Encrypted by default, per-file on-chain fingerprint.
Composes with	The paid path is buying WAL and paying per epoch (storage is leased in time units, not bytes-forever) — so cost scales with retention period × size, which is the opposite of an archive.
Reliability	One week old at time of research. Storage is leased time, so 'free 5 GB' and 'kept forever' are not the same claim.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1

Evidence 1

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	walrus.xyz/blog/introducing-walrus-console/	opened: 'Get started today with 5GB free'; published 07 Oct 2026; 'Every file gets a cryptographic fingerprint recorded onchain'; MCP integration with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor; 'encryption and renewals in one place' (note: renewals).

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dead end	`{"failure_class": "quota","why": "5 GB free. Launched 2026-10-07 with 'Get started today with 5GB free'. No larger free tier is published.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}`

Unknown values 3

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