- Free allowance
- Eligible active accounts can contribute USD 12.50 with a /64 transport prefix or USD 20 with a /80 transport prefix for an additional routed /48.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedrequests are reviewed by the 6Project team, typically 1-24 hours, before a tunnel is provisioned; review 1 to 24 hours, up to 72 at peak
- Evidence
- reported7 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-07checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-07
| Free tier | Eligible active accounts can contribute USD 12.50 with a /64 transport prefix or USD 20 with a /80 transport prefix for an additional routed /48. unit mixed; metered on unstated |
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| Price | USD 0 |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) requests are reviewed by the 6Project team, typically 1-24 hours, before a tunnel is provisioned source
- retention-clamped prefixes are issued with annual validity and must be renewed before expiry, with only a short grace period source
- write-gated (binding) review 1 to 24 hours, up to 72 at peak source
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| Binding | write-gated A person reviews each request before anything is provisioned, so that gate is reached before any byte is transferred and it is what fails first at 1 TiB/month. Renewal is the second gate: a prefix that is not renewed annually is removed after a short grace period. |
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| Identity | email 'IPv6 tunnel requests must be submitted through the official form. Review time is typically 1-24 hours. Accurate contact details and technical information are required for provisioning.' |
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| Egress | no traffic allowance is published on the home, request or policy page; ingress: tcp+udp free allowance: none published |
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| Interface | cli 'A user chooses a tunnel type, selects the preferred PoP, provides the technical information needed for provisioning' |
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| Tooling | OpenVPN, wireguard-tools, or a plain 6in4/GRE/IPIP interface |
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| Composes with | the review gate makes it a slow path to the same result a self-service broker gives in a minute; it is worth it only for the /48 or for the BGP option. |
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| Reliability | 'The tunnel broker operates on a best-effort basis with no guaranteed SLA'; abuse can lead to throttling, suspension or removal. |
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| Notes | The two third-party lists disagree with each other and with the policy page on what is free: tunnelbroker.services says a /64 costs EUR 11.50/year, handwiki says a::/128 costs EUR 1.50 once and a /80 EUR 5.50 once, and the policy page speaks of /64 and /80 accounts as things that already exist when a /48 is bought. A free routed prefix is therefore not established. AS208753, PoPs in Milan, Frankfurt, Vienna, Bradford, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Wuhan. The routed /48 is USD 12.50 with a /64 transport or USD 20 with a /80, and adds 365 days to the account. The homepage read returned a server-rendered SEO fallback, not the React application; the policies page carried the substance. Re-read 2026-10-23: BGP is available at most locations, and the policies page carries the same sentence as the homepage. |
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| Evidence note | reported the transports and the review gate are documented from 6project's own policy page; the prefix a free account actually receives, and its price, are not stated by the vendor and come from two third-party lists that disagree. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- write-gated 24 hours
- write-gated 24 hours
- price USD 0
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