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OneDrive vs Pantry

OneDrive

OneDrive's API, served through Microsoft Graph, lets applications read, write, and share files and folders in a user's personal or organizational OneDrive. A live GET against the real gateway, graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive, returned a 401 without a token, reconfirming OAuth 2.0 auth over HTTPS, and a follow-up OPTIONS preflight returned Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, resolving cors from unknown to yes. Personal Microsoft accounts get 5GB free, with paid Microsoft 365 subscriptions raising the storage cap substantially.

Pantry

Pantry is a free JSON storage service for small projects and prototypes: each Pantry is a namespaced bucket identified by an ID in the URL path, holding arbitrary JSON "baskets" read and written over a plain REST API. A live GET and OPTIONS preflight with an Origin header against the real host, getpantry.cloud/apiv1/pantry/, both returned Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, reconfirming cors as yes; no API key is required (the Pantry ID itself is the access credential), and HTTPS was reconfirmed. The service is entirely free with no paid tier.

OneDrivePantry
AuthenticationOAuthNone
Pricingfreemiumfree
FormatsJSONJSON
CORSyesyes
HTTPSYesYes

Pantry needs no API key, while OneDrive requires OAuth — pick Pantry to start without signup.

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