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Browsing programmatic IPFS solutions...

Pretty fed up with the steep pricing curve that Pinata offers
NFT.storage is great, however their API is under maintenance
web3.storage looks great so far

Are there any other solutions out there that are worth investigating?

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Specifically being on a lower rate for hobby usage and then being slammed with huge charges when usage / storage rises...and if using a pinata gateway it makes moving away very difficult...so kind of cornered into paying ~$500 per/month while migrating all pinata gateways away from pinata

What specific do you find expensive with Pinata?

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the accessibility of IPFS & the fact that i understand it...it's straightforward to upload and pin a file which is useful during development of something.

for long-term, reliable storage that isn't going to change and that i know i'll want to access again, i would use Arweave.

a bit of a tangent, but why do you prefer IPFS over Arweave (or do you)? Trying to decide on a distributed storage mechanism myself. Seems like if you can trust Arweave to continue existing, the one-time cost of upload is so much better than a subscription.

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