Home / Storage
Zulip Cloud Free
zulip.com/plans/Messagingstorage/zulip-cloud-freeJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- 5 GB total file storage per organization on Cloud Free — not per user.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap10 MB per file; 1 GB per file
- 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 | 5 GB total file storage per organization on Cloud Free — not per user. Standard/Plus are 5 GB/25 GB per user. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|
| Price | none stated |
|---|
| Limits | - per-object-cap (binding) 10 MB per file source
- per-object-cap (binding) 1 GB per file source
10 MB per file on Free (1 GB per file only on paid plans); 10,000 messages of searchable history on Free; large uploads 'may fail to upload using this API endpoint due to network limitations'. |
|---|
| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
|---|
| Egress | Free and unmetered; files served from the realm's upload host. |
|---|
| Per-object cap | 10 MB per file (10000000 bytes) |
|---|
| Retention | not stated |
|---|
| Interface | rest rest |
|---|
| Tooling | Zulip REST API POST /api/v1/user_uploads (multipart) and the returned uri fetches directly. Python client zulip, plus zulip-terminal for humans. |
|---|
| Composes with | Orgs are free and self-serve, but each org is a separate Zulip Cloud realm — the multiplier is N orgs x 5 GB, i.e. exactly the 'trivially repeatable at scale' case. Not unlimited. |
|---|
| Reliability | Stable, no expiry on attachments. The 5 GB org cap is a hard wall — uploads start failing rather than degrading. |
|---|
| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-object-cap 10 MB
- per-object-cap 1 GB
|
|---|
Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|
| 2026-10-21 | zulip.com/help/share-and-upload-files | 'The Zulip Cloud Free plan includes a total of 5 GB of file storage. Each uploaded file can be up to 10 MB.' |
| 2026-10-21 | zulip.com/plans/ | 'File storage up to 5 GB total' (Free); '5 GB per user' (Standard); '25 GB per user' (Plus) |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "5 GB total file storage per organization on Cloud Free — not per user. Standard/Plus are 5 GB/25 GB per user.","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
- 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