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- Free allowance
- Anonymous forever $0 - No account required - Random ephemeral hostname - 1 active tunnel - 512 MiB per tunnel.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota5 GB bandwidth / month
- Evidence
- documented2 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 | Anonymous forever $0 - No account required - Random ephemeral hostname - 1 active tunnel - 512 MiB per tunnel. Registered Free forever - 1 reserved hostname - 3 API tokens - 2 active tunnels - 5 GB bandwidth / month. unit GB; metered on downloaded-bytes |
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| Price | USD 0 |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 5 GB bandwidth / month source
- per-object-cap 512 MiB per tunnel on Anonymous source
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| Binding | volume-quota At 1 TiB/month the 5 GB monthly allowance is exhausted in under two days (0.0045 TiB), and the free allowance is a hard stop, not a throttle. |
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| Identity | anonymous No account required for basic usage. The vendor writes: no account required, random ephemeral hostname. Reserving a hostname is free but needs a login. |
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| Egress | 5 GB bandwidth / month on Registered Free; 512 MiB per tunnel on Anonymous.; ingress: http-only free allowance: 5 GB bandwidth / month on Registered Free; 512 MiB per tunnel on Anonymous. |
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| Interface | cli brew install tunnel-to/tunnelto/tunnelto; tunnelto 3000. |
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| Tooling | brew install tunnel-to/tunnelto/tunnelto, then tunnelto 3000. |
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| Composes with | Sits in front of a free VM as a webhook or demo endpoint; no transport for WireGuard. |
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| Reliability | Anonymous hostnames are ephemeral and change per run; the free tier is metered and stops at the allowance. |
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| Notes | Launched 2026-05-28 on Hacker News and listed on Product Hunt. HTTP-only by construction, so it cannot pass the UDP ingress test regardless of quota. |
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| Evidence note | documented A measured run would confirm whether the 5 GB counts ingress, egress or both; the page does not say. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- volume-quota 5 GB
- per-object-cap 512 MiB
- price USD 0
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-23 | tunnel.to/pricing | Anonymous tier is $0 with 512 MiB per tunnel and no account; Registered Free is 5 GB bandwidth per month with 2 active tunnels; the paid tier is $36/year for 50 GB. |
| 2026-05-28 | news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309288 | Launch post: lightweight relay-based tunnel service, CLI-first, public relay nodes in North America and Europe, no account required for basic usage. |
More fields 7
| wg path | none |
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| wg detail | The relay speaks HTTPS, SSE and WebSocket only. The homepage describes outbound connections with no firewall ports, and no UDP or raw TCP listener is offered. |
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| ingress | http-only |
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| volume tib month | 0.0045 |
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| volume stated | 5 GB bandwidth / month on Registered Free; 512 MiB per tunnel on Anonymous. |
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| bytes transit | yes |
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| transit note | The vendor relay carries the bytes over wss://tor1.tunnel.to. |
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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