WebStreamr (public instances)
- Free allowance
- None any more. The addon was archived upstream and both public instances now serve a retirement page: the ElfHosted instance states 'The developer has archived Webstreamr, and in consultation, we've retired the hosted public instance donated to Hayd'; the Hayd instance serves the title...
- Verdict
- deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
- Cost
- no price statedsee Price below
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- checked 2026-10-23checked 2026-10-23 (live)
| Free tier | None any more. The addon was archived upstream and both public instances now serve a retirement page: the ElfHosted instance states 'The developer has archived Webstreamr, and in consultation, we've retired the hosted public instance donated to Hayd'; the Hayd instance serves the title 'Webstreamr is deprecated'. unit none; metered on none; The retirement pages return HTTP 200 with no redirect, so any check that trusts status codes scores this as alive. |
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| Price | USD 0 |
| Limits |
The limit that killed it was not traffic but maintenance: the upstream developer archived the project and the sponsor withdrew the instance. |
| Binding | none No constraint applies: the service returns a retirement notice for every path, which is a total failure rather than a quota. |
| Identity | anonymous Nothing to register - there is nothing left to register for. |
| Egress | Never reached: the addon served no streams. Historically it returned HTTP URLs from streaming sites, which play without a debrid account at the source site's bitrate. free allowance: none |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: stream descriptors |
| Interface | rest Stremio addon protocol. Both /manifest.json and /stream/movie/tt1254207.json returned the same 24,382-byte HTML retirement page. |
| Tooling | self-hosting the archived source remains possible, but that needs a machine - which is the one thing a user does not have. |
| Composes with | It was the only free hosted addon found that needed no debrid key at all, so its death removes the no-key HTTP branch of the free floor. |
| Notes | This is the finding that decides the free floor: the no-debrid-key branch is gone, so every surviving free front end needs either a debrid key or a local streaming server. |
| Evidence note | documented Both the manifest and a stream call were fetched; each returned the retirement HTML. A dated search result also pointed at the ElfHosted retirement page. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-23 | webstreamr.hayd.uk/manifest.json | HTTP 200, 24,382 bytes of HTML titled 'Webstreamr is deprecated' where a JSON manifest was expected |
| 2026-10-23 | webstreamr.hayd.uk/stream/movie/tt1254207.json | the identical 24,382-byte retirement page for a stream request |
| 2026-10-23 | webstreamr-is-deprecated.elfhosted.com/ | part of the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-10-23 | gitlab.com/webstreamr | third-party/upstream confirmation in the project description: 'Stremio add-on which provides HTTP URLs from streaming websites. HTTP streams have limitations. For a better experience, I'd advise using a Debrid service' |
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| retirement pages | ["https://webstreamr-is-deprecated.elfhosted.com/","https://webstreamr.hayd.uk/"] |
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| upstream | https://github.com/webstreamr/webstreamr (archived), https://gitlab.com/webstreamr |