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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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What specific do you find expensive with Pinata?

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I've also felt this, for smaller/hobby projects, $20/month in perpetuity is just too much if your project isn't generating income

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Is it the file count limit or the 1GB storage that you feel hampers hobby projects?

personally, i think paying for storage makes sense, then leaning on the ipfs protocol to point to IPFS files

then if i want to configure a third party gateway, i can (ipfs.henrypye.xyz for example)

i would rather leave all my IPFS files as ipfs:// so the person interacting with them can decide which gateway to use

You can do that! That’s the beauty of IPFS. We even have some tutorials on how to run your own gateway.

depends on the project, both potentially. examples of things I've tried to do:

- personal image gallery on my website, probably more likely to hit the 1gb limit first
- small time NFT platform where people can create free open editions, assuming < 100 users but may hit either limit pretty quickly