Cheaper Pinata Alternative / NFT & Web3 Storage / IPFS File Pinning

Making IPFS accessible inarguably involves File Pinning Services, but with major file pinning services increasing prices & becoming overwhelmingly volatile - we don’t think it’s accessible anymore.

To solve this, our team launched Dolpin - the newest file pinning service built on IPFS committed to providing accessible service to the Web3 pioneers of tomorrow. This means: We want a stable platform that can offer you consistent cheap pricing packages for individual & enterprise usecase.

Please check out our Open Beta Here - We are actively looking for willing users to participate and provide us with feedback in our journey of making Web3 Storage Accessible.

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Thanks for sharing and welcome to the forum Abir :wave:

Have you looked into exposing the IPFS Pinning Service API. This would make it easier to onboard users on to Dolpin and could also kubo (formerly go-ipfs) users directly pin content to Dolpin.

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Worth checking out IPFS.NINJA — it launched recently and directly addresses the pricing problem described here.

Pricing: free tier (1 GB, 500 files, 1 private gateway), $5/month for 10 GB / 50K files / 5 gateways + IPNS, $29/month for 100 GB. No bandwidth overage fees on any plan.

The feature that stands out for NFT workflows is signed upload tokens — generate a short-lived scoped token server-side and users upload directly to IPFS from the frontend without ever touching your API key. Cuts out the backend proxy entirely.

Private dedicated gateways (your own *.gw.ipfs.ninja subdomain) are included on all plans including free.