# Is there a size limit for dataset hosting

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/is-there-a-size-limit-for-dataset-hosting/14861>\
**Category:** 🤗Datasets\
**Created:** [February 18, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/is-there-a-size-limit-for-dataset-hosting/14861 "2022-02-18T13:03:53Z")\
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Yes unlike GitHub (😇😉) we do not have a limitation on LFS-stored file sizes on the HuggingFace hub.

However for ease of use and download speeds, we do advise users to chunk their large files into blobs of at most 20GB (or even 5GB if possible)

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