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- Free allowance
- Free random subdomain over SSH, no account
- Verdict
- fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-ip-shaping4,128,768 of 104,857,600 bytes in 180 s on a 100 MiB object, and 1,027,916 of 1,048,576 in 90 s on a 1 MiB object
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; 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 | free random subdomain over SSH, no account unit unlimited; metered on wall-clock |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-ip-shaping (binding) 4,128,768 of 104,857,600 bytes in 180 s on a 100 MiB object, and 1,027,916 of 1,048,576 in 90 s on a 1 MiB object
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| Binding | per-ip-shaping two objects of different sizes hit the same ~23 KB/s aggregate ceiling, so it is shaping. |
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| Identity | anonymous the nokey@ ssh target needs no account |
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| Egress | speed-limited with no published value; measured 11.4 KiB/s, about 0.98 GiB/day |
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| Per-object cap | not applicable: a stream |
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| Retention | the subdomain rotates per session |
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| Interface | ssh ssh -R 80:127.0.0.1:PORT nokey@localhost.run |
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| Tooling | OpenSSH |
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| Composes with | composes with nothing: at 11.4 KiB/s a request/response API is usable and no bulk transfer is. |
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| Reliability | the free hostname is a random <hex>.lhr.life subdomain that changes every session |
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| Notes | The measurement makes it fails-egress: 11.4 KiB/s is 0.98 GiB/day, 0.1% of one day's workload. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-ip-shaping 100 MiB
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | probe: https://2ea044f1475bd0.lhr.life/blob100m.bin | 200 with 4,128,768 of 104,857,600 bytes in 180 s, then the client timeout |
| 2026-10-22 | probe: https://2ea044f1475bd0.lhr.life/blob1m.bin | 200 with 1,027,916 of 1,048,576 bytes in 90 s, then the client timeout |
| 2026-10-22 | probe: https://2ea044f1475bd0.lhr.life/small.txt | 200, 3 bytes in 1.75 s: the control path works |
| 2026-10-23 | localhost.run/docs/ | 'Put a locally running HTTP, HTTPS or TLS app on the internet' and 'no account setup is needed for free domains' |
More fields 4
| stale after days | 180 |
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| bytes transit | yes |
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| transit note | the tunnel carries the origin's bytes, at a measured 11.4 KiB/s |
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| wg path | none |
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