- Free allowance
- "Free $0 / forever 3 peers - 4 IPv6 - 2 Mbps", and "Personal tiers: unlimited data transfer - IPv6 reachable - cancel anytime".
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 0.99/month
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-ip-shaping2 Mbps per peer on the free tier
- 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 $0 / forever 3 peers - 4 IPv6 - 2 Mbps", and "Personal tiers: unlimited data transfer - IPv6 reachable - cancel anytime". unit unlimited; metered on none |
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| Price | USD 0 for the free tier (3 peers, IPv6 only, 2 Mbps); paid from USD 0.99 per month, IPv4 tiers priced only by their USD 29 setup and USD 3 provisioning fees on the page read |
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| Limits | - per-ip-shaping (binding) 2 Mbps per peer on the free tier source
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| Binding | per-ip-shaping The free tier's 2 Mbps is below the 3.24 Mbit/s that 1 TiB/month needs, so a single peer tops out near 0.65 TB in 30 days (2e6 bits per second times 2,592,000 seconds over 8). Paid tiers are speed-tiered up to 100 Mbps on Launch and unlimited on bytes. |
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| Identity | anonymous Free peers are provisioned through an RFC 8628 device code with no email: "without a browser, email, or human-in-the-loop steps". Payment, where required, is PayPal or Bitcoin via Lightning. |
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| Egress | "Every tier ships with unlimited data transfer. You pay for a public IP and speed - not for gigabytes." and "We never charge you for data - ever. Our tiers are speed-limited, not data-capped." The free tier's speed is the cap: 2 Mbps.; ingress: tcp+udp free allowance: none published |
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| Interface | cli, rest REST API with an OpenAPI spec, plus an installer and a Docker network plugin. |
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| Tooling | one-line agent install for Docker; REST API; systemd or Docker Desktop |
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| Composes with | The strongest composition: a free-tier VM runs the agent and gets a real address with no config file, and the API makes provisioning scriptable. |
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| Reliability | Outbound port 25 is blocked at the relay on all tiers; free peers share a relay with other customers, and isolation starts at Pulse. |
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| Notes | The surprising row: genuinely unlimited bytes at USD 0, with no email, and the free tier still cannot carry 1 TiB/month because of the 2 Mbps ceiling. The 2 Mbps is a per-peer rate, not a per-account cap: the pricing page attaches the rate to each peer ("each peer gets its own rate limit at the plan's throughput tier"), so a single service on one address gets 2 Mbps. Unlimited data is real and only speed is sold: two independent sentences on the same page say so, and a published customer claim reports 14 TB in a month. The free tier is IPv6-only: the FAQ names Free among the IPv6-only plans. Monthly prices for the IPv4 tiers (Pulse and up) are not in the page HTML, so the paid IPv4 path is priced only by its setup fees here. |
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| Evidence note | documented The free plan card, the unlimited-data claim, the IPv6-only rule and the API path are first-party. A measured throughput test at 2 Mbps would confirm the ceiling; the monthly figure here is arithmetic from the stated rate, not a measurement. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- price USD 0.99 / month
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