Storage Billing

Personal uploads: each user gets 1 GB of free storage. Organisation library: the organisation gets 1 GB free in total (shared across the org), billed from the organisation wallet. Beyond those allowances, storage costs accrue daily from the appropriate user or organisation wallet (see below). When a public resource is saved by multiple parties, the cost is automatically shared.

How storage billing works

Free Storage Tier

1 GB included per user, at no cost

Every user account includes 1 GB of free upload storage. This covers typical usage — documents, images, small videos, and course materials — without any token cost.

1 GB included for the organisation (shared)

Files attributed to the organisation library (organisation wallet) share one 1 GB free allowance for the whole organisation — not 1 GB per member.

Uploads blocked (not deleted) when over the free tier

If you exceed 1 GB and have no token balance to cover storage costs, new uploads are blocked. Existing files are never deleted — they remain accessible. Once you top up your token balance, uploads are unblocked immediately.

BEYOND THE FREE TIER

Storage beyond your free allowance (1 GB per user, or 1 GB total for the organisation) is charged at ~4 tokens per GB per month (0.04€/GB/month)

How Billing Works

Daily

Billing cycle

Runs at 3 am UTC via scheduled job

1/30th

Daily cost fraction

Monthly cost ÷ 30 days charged each day

≥ 1

Token flush threshold

Micro-costs accumulate until 1 full token

Micro-cent accumulation

Small files accrue costs in fractions of a token. These micro-amounts are tracked in an accumulator per wallet and only converted into a token transaction once the total reaches 1 token (0.01€). This prevents a flood of tiny transactions for every small file.

Smart Bill Splitting

ikigize doesn't penalise uploaders when their public resources benefit others. Storage costs are shared fairly across every entity that saves a resource to their library.

PUBLIC RESOURCE — COST IS SPLIT

File: 500 MB
Daily cost: ~0.067 tokens split across all library holders

Uploader (user wallet)

¼ of cost

Course owner wallet

¼ of cost

Campus owner wallet

¼ of cost

Org owner wallet

¼ of cost

Each share is debited from the owning user or organisation wallet (not a separate “course wallet” or “campus wallet”).

PRIVATE RESOURCE — UPLOADER PAYS ALL

Private files are only visible to the uploader. Because no other party benefits, the full daily storage cost is charged to the uploader's wallet.

OWNER WALLET SETTLEMENT

Each portion of a public resource's storage cost is settled against a user or organisation wallet — whoever owns the campus, course, session, or task library that holds the share. There is no separate wallet per campus or course.

  • Private files— full cost to the uploader's user wallet.
  • Public shares— each library holder's portion debits the owner wallet for that entity (uploader, course owner, campus owner, or organisation as applicable).

The free tier

  • User uploads: the first 1 GB of files billed to your user wallet is free — no tokens required.
  • Organisation library: the first 1 GB of storage attributed to the organisation wallet is free for the organisation as a whole (not per member).

Once you exceed the relevant free allowance, additional storage accrues a small daily charge based on how much space your files occupy beyond that tier.

Rate: ~4 tokens per GB per month beyond the applicable free allowance
Billing: Daily at 3:00 am UTC (1/30th of the monthly rate per day)

Daily billing cycle

Storage is not charged in one lump sum. Instead, the platform runs a billing cycle once per day and deducts a micro-amount — 1/30th of the monthly rate — for each GB over the free tier. This means costs accumulate gradually and your balance is always an accurate snapshot of your actual usage.

If a bill amounts to less than one full token in a given day, the fractional cost is tracked and rolls over until it accumulates to a full token.

Cost-splitting for public resources

When a resource is made public and saved to a course, campus, or organisation library, the storage cost share for each “holder” is calculated — for example ¼ each when all four contexts apply:

Share attributed toCharged to
Original uploaderThe uploader’s user wallet
Course libraryThe owning user or organisation wallet for that course
Campus libraryThe owning user or organisation wallet for that campus
Organisation libraryThe owning organisation’s wallet

Campuses, courses, sessions, and tasks do not have their own wallets. Each share is billed to whoever owns that entity.

If only some parties hold the resource, the cost is divided equally among those who do. A private file is charged entirely to the uploader’s user wallet.

This means that popular public resources become progressively cheaper per holder — the more widely a resource is adopted, the lower the individual cost.

Upload blocking

If the wallet that must pay cannot cover pending storage costs, future uploads may be temporarily blocked where required. To restore upload access, purchase additional tokens, receive an allocation, or free up storage by deleting files.

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