{"license":"CC-BY-4.0","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"ChainChoice (https://chainchoice.io)","category":"decentralised_storage","evidenceReadAt":"2026-10-22","generatedAt":"2026-11-12","criteria":[{"id":"verifiedCostPerTbYear","label":"Verified cost per TB-year (normalised)","weight":30},{"id":"durabilityEnforceability","label":"Durability: contractual or aspirational","weight":30},{"id":"retrievalEconomics","label":"Retrieval cost and read path","weight":20},{"id":"exitAndContinuityRisk","label":"What happens when you stop paying (or they do)","weight":20}],"providers":{"arweave":{"verifiedCostPerTbYear":{"s":3,"q":"\"winc\":\"14359224052662\" | \"usd\":85.481072667244","u":"https://payment.ardrive.io/v1/rates","d":"2026-10-22"},"durabilityEnforceability":{"s":4,"q":"Your fee, based on 200 years of storage for 20 replicas, goes mostly into a fund that slowly pays miners in AR tokens to maintain data. 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