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wormhole.appP2Pstorage/wormholeJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- Up to 10 GB per send.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymous?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-capper-object-cap: 5 GB
- 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 | Up to 10 GB per send. Only the first 5 GB is actually stored server-side; anything above 5 GB is PEER-TO-PEER and requires the sender's tab to stay open. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped Retention: 24 hours source
- retention-clamped deleted from the server after 24 hours source
- per-object-cap (binding) per-object-cap: 5 GB source
per-object-cap: 5 GB stored / 10 GB total via P2P. Retention: 24 hours hard ('Files are permanently deleted from the server after 24 hours'). Client-side AES-128-GCM. |
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| Identity | anonymous (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | free while it exists; P2P above 5 GB routes around their egress entirely. |
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| Per-object cap | per-object-cap: 5 GB (5000000000 bytes) |
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| Retention | Retention: 24 hours hard ('Files are permanently deleted from the server after 24 hours') (1 days) |
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| Interface | unknown none |
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| Tooling | No public API. Only the crypto layer is open source (github.com/webtorrent/wormhole-crypto). |
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| Composes with | 5 GB stored x 24 hours. Nothing compounds — files are permanently deleted after 24 hours and the service has no account model. |
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| Reliability | The 24-hour hard delete plus P2P-above-5GB means the service has no durable component at all. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- retention-clamped 24 hours
- retention-clamped 24 hours
- per-object-cap 5 GB
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | wormhole.app/faq | 'For files up to 5 GB, Wormhole stores your files on our servers for 24 hours. For files larger than 5 GB, Wormhole uses peer-to-peer transfer' |
| 2026-10-21 | wormhole.app/faq | part of the text of Limits, above |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "Up to 10 GB per send. Only the first 5 GB is actually stored server-side; anything above 5 GB is PEER-TO-PEER and requires the sender's tab to stay open.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 3
- 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