Using Aeterna
Storage & billing
Every account starts with 2 GB free. After that you buy storage by the gigabyte, once — there is no subscription.
Your storage balance
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Free | 2 GB for every account. |
| Buy more | $5 per GB, in whole gigabytes, paid by card. |
| Uploads | Each upload uses exactly the space the stored file takes. |
| Remaining | Free + bought − used. Shown in MB on your dashboard and on the Upload page. |
Storage you buy never expires, and a stored file is never charged again. This is the one-time cost of keeping it permanently.
Buying storage
Choose how much
On the dashboard or the Upload page, enter a number of gigabytes in the Storage panel. If your selected files don't fit, it is already filled in with what you need.Pay
Click Buy. Checkout opens in a new tab, so the files you picked on the Upload page stay selected.Come back
Return to the Aeterna tab. Your balance updates on its own once the payment clears — usually within seconds. If it hasn't yet, use the refresh button next to it.
How uploads are charged
- Space is reserved before the upload starts. If it doesn't fit, the upload doesn't start and nothing is charged.
- Encrypted files use a few hundred bytes more than the original, for the encryption header.
- Uploading the same file again after a failure is not charged a second time.
- Two uploads started at the same moment can never both use the same last megabytes.
Monthly plans
The Creator and DAO / Team monthly plans on the pricing page are coming soon. Today, storage is the free 2 GB plus gigabytes bought as you need them.Next: keeping files private with encryption.