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PacketStream (buy side)
packetstream.io/pricingContributed bandwidth metered consumer connection proxystorage/packetstreamJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- $1.00/GB, $50 minimum purchase, balance never expires
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-ip-shaping1 TiB/day
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | $1.00/GB, $50 minimum purchase, balance never expires unit GB; metered on unstated |
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| Price | $1024/TB (egress) |
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| Limits | - per-ip-shaping (binding) 1 TiB/day source
1 TiB/day = 30,720 GB/month x $1.00 = $30,720/month. Fails by roughly two orders of magnitude against any real storage budget. The $1/GB is the floor of the market, not an anomaly. |
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| Identity | card card |
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| Egress | metered at the gateway: 'you are metered at the gateway for exactly what you send'. No free allowance. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | s3, rclone HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 proxy |
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| Tooling | curl -x, requests, any S3/rclone HTTP proxy config |
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| Composes with | the cheapest published per-GB consumer-connection rate found ($1.00/GB), and the only vendor that publishes both sides - pays contributors $0.10/GB and sells at $1.00/GB |
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| Reliability | Consumer-connection exits, same automated-traffic-filter and churn issues as Proxyrack; payouts to contributors carry a 3% cashout fee. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-ip-shaping 1 TiB / day
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | packetstream.io/pricing | '$1 per GB. No subscription.'; 'Buy $50 of bandwidth and use it over a year'; 'nothing expires, and you are metered at the gateway for exactly what you send' |
| 2026-10-21 | proxypicker.com/what-your-wifi-is-worth/ | 'PacketStream is the only app that publishes both sides of the deal: it pays $0.10/GB and sells at $1.00/GB. That's a 10x markup'; median entry price across 10 consumer-connection proxy providers is $4.50/GB |
More fields 2
| dead end | {"failure_class": "retention","why": "$1.00/GB, $50 minimum purchase, balance never expires","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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| price verbatim | $1024/TB (egress) |
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Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read