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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

IPFS Cluster is a distributed application that orchestrates pinsets across a swarm of IPFS daemons, allocating, replicating and tracking a global pinset among multiple peers. It ships as a cluster service daemon, a CLI client (ipfs-cluster-ctl), and a follower peer application (ipfs-cluster-follow).

Use cases

• replicate pins across multiple IPFS nodes for redundancy
• manage a shared global pinset across a cluster of IPFS daemons
• run a distributed pinning service like nft.storage or web3.storage
• balance pin allocation across peers by free storage and region
• track and retry pinning of millions of CIDs asynchronously
• run a follower peer to contribute storage to a public cluster

When to choose

• you operate multiple IPFS daemons and need automated pin replication and tracking
• you need a decentralized, conflict-free pinset with no central server
• you want a REST API and CLI to manage pins at scale

When to avoid

• you run a single IPFS node and just need basic pinning
• you need general-purpose file storage without IPFS
• you want a managed pinning service without operating infrastructure

Facets

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