Account Limits

Figshare.com accounts (i.e. free accounts) have the following limits for sharing scholarly content:

• storage quota: 20GB
• max individual file size: 20GB
• max number of collections: 100
• max number of projects: 100
• max number of items: 500
• max number of files per item: 500
• max number of folders per item: determined by the file limit
• max number of collaborators on project: 100
• max number of authors per item or collection: 100
• max number of item versions: 50

If you have more than 500 files that you need to include in an item, please create an archive (or archives) for the files (e.g. zip file). Please be in touch if you have questions about these limits.

Storage and files size information

All figshare.com accounts are provided with 20GB of private storage and are able to upload individual files up to 20GB. For institutional users, your private space limit is dependent on your institution, please contact your institutional admins if you require more space. Figshare for institutions also offers larger file size uploads up to 5TB.

If you would like to publish outputs larger than 20GB (up to many TBs) or files larger than 20GB (up to 5TB), please consider Figshare plus, our Figshare repository for FAIR-ly sharing big datasets that allows for more storage, larger files, additional metadata and license options, and expert support. There is a one-time cost associated with Figshare+ to cover the cost of storing the data persistently ad infinitum. Find out more about Figshare plus or get in touch at review@figshare.com with the storage amount needed and we will find the best way to support your data sharing.

It is important to know that Amazon S3 has a limit of 5TB per file. This is a hard limit that we cannot surpass.