Dev pays $249/month to host arXiv dataset mirror, opens donations to cover costs
secemp9 · x · 2026-09-20
Developer secemp revealed the real costs of mirroring the arXiv dataset: $249/month on Hugging Face hosting plus $626 in AWS egress fees. arXiv's official S3 buckets turned out to be incomplete, so he had to fill gaps using GCS and web scraping. He has opened a donation page accepting Stripe payments and crypto across multiple chains to cover the costs.
Related event: Full arXiv mirror lands on Hugging Face: 3.14M papers, 16TB(8 posts)→
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