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Global Socket (gsocket)
www.gsocket.io/TCP tunnel software with a public relayegress/gsocketJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- Global Socket allows two workstations on different private networks to communicate with each other.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-ip-shapingNo quota is published, so an unpublished tolerance on a volunteer relay is what fails at 1 TiB/month. TCP only: a WireGuard peer cannot be reached through it.
- Evidence
- documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | Global Socket allows two workstations on different private networks to communicate with each other. Through firewalls and through NAT - like there is no firewall. unit unlimited; metered on none |
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| Price | USD 0 |
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| Limits | - per-ip-shaping (binding) No quota is published, so an unpublished tolerance on a volunteer relay is what fails at 1 TiB/month. TCP only: a WireGuard peer cannot be reached through it. source
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| Identity | anonymous a shared secret string is the only credential: 'gsocket -s ExampleSecretChangeMe /usr/sbin/sshd -D'. |
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| Egress | No byte, port or time limit is published on the project page; the relay is volunteer-run and carries no price.; ingress: tcp free allowance: none published |
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| Interface | cli gsocket CLI. |
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| Tooling | gsocket binary (C). |
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| Composes with | TCP ingress for a VM without a card. |
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| Reliability | Shared secret, no account: anyone holding the secret reaches the service, and the relay operator can see connection metadata. |
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| Notes | A free public relay with no account and end-to-end encryption, carrying TCP only. Closest thing here to a no-identity TCP ingress, which is why it is worth a measurement even though it is not UDP. |
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| Evidence note | documented No allowance is published at all, so the free relay is a lead rather than a measured number. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-ip-shaping 1 TiB / month
- price USD 0
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-23 | www.gsocket.io/ | 'two workstations on different private networks to communicate'; SSH example over the relay; 'SRP-AES-256-CBC-SHA-End2End' |
More fields 4
| wg path | none |
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| ingress | tcp |
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| volume stated | No byte, port or time limit is published on the project page; the relay is volunteer-run and carries no price. |
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| bytes transit | yes |
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Unknown values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer