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- Free allowance
- No vendor page found; user reports cluster at 2-10 MB per image
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- inferred2 sources; reasoned from other evidence
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-21checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-21
| Free tier | no vendor page found; user reports cluster at 2-10 MB per image unit MB; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | free CDN (pic1.zhimg.com etc.) but with Referer checks on hotlink |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown wrapper-only |
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| Tooling | no public API; zhihu-oauth projects are abandoned. Web editor only |
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| Composes with | unverified — per-image cap too small and per-account behaviour too opaque to model |
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| Reliability | no usable vendor documentation exists for the cap; images are stripped from answers that get moderated. Treat as unusable |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | www.zhihu.com/en/answer/1983511455 | user reports: 'a picture that is less than 10MB can't be uploaded'; 'ensuring it is less than 2MB' |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | not published |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "no vendor page found; user reports cluster at 2-10 MB per image","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 5
- interface: the access interface was not established
- 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