zrok
zrok.io · 2 records in Egress and tunnels, Storage · JSON
Records 2
- fails: egresszrok (netfoundry public instance)
Storageidentity email?card?evidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
- fails: quotazrok (hosted)
Egress and tunnelsfree tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-23
- Free allowance
- Free plan is bandwidth-metered at 5 GB/day over a rolling 24-hour window, with 50 share backends.
- Verdict
- fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented6 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | Free plan is bandwidth-metered at 5 GB/day over a rolling 24-hour window, with 50 share backends. It is a tunnelling service, so all traffic transits their edge. unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | Free plan: 5 GB per day over a rolling 24-hour window; past it running shares are disabled and new shares are refused until usage falls under the limit. |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
| Evidence note | documented pages read on 2026-11-03: zrok.io/pricing/ (Free plan: 5 Daily GB, 50 Share Backends (Ephemeral or Reserved)) and netfoundry.io/docs/zrok/myzrok/service-limits (running shares are disabled and new shares are refused when the daily bandwidth is exceeded, until bandwidth falls below the 24-hour limit; Bandwidth limits are based on a rolling 24-hour window.). The identity cost was not read on a vendor page and stays as recorded. |
Evidence 6
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | zrok.io/pricing/ | the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-10-21 | www.globalnerdy.com/2026/09/22/can-you-use-zroks-free-hosted | cited as the basis of the rejection: Free plan is bandwidth-metered at 5 GB/day over a rolling 24-hour window, with 50 share backends. It is a tunnelling service, so all traffic transits their edge. |
| 2026-11-03 | zrok.io/pricing/ | Free plan bandwidth is 5 GB per day |
| 2026-11-03 | netfoundry.io/docs/zrok/myzrok/service-limits | exceeding the daily bandwidth disables shares |
| 2026-11-03 | netfoundry.io/docs/zrok/myzrok/service-limits | the daily limit is measured over a rolling 24-hour window |
| 2026-11-03 | zrok.io/pricing/ | the Free plan lists 50 Share Backends (Ephemeral or Reserved) |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "egress","why": "Free plan is bandwidth-metered at 5 GB/day over a rolling 24-hour window, with 50 share backends. It is a tunnelling service, so all traffic transits their edge.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 6
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field
zrok (hosted)
Egress and tunnels- Free allowance
- 5 GB/day, 25 environments, 50 share backends, 50 private access frontends
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota5 GB per rolling 24 hours; on crossing it the running shares are disabled and new shares refused until the window falls back below the limit
- 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 | 5 GB/day, 25 environments, 50 share backends, 50 private access frontends unit GB; metered on downloaded-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
the allowance is a byte volume over a period, which none of the six kinds names; the number is in egress.free_allowance and binding names per-ip-shaping as the nearest kind |
| Binding | volume-quota 5 GB per rolling 24 hours is 150 GB in 30 days, or 0.136 TiB, so the daily byte window bands the month at about 7.3 times below 1 TiB. Crossing it disables running shares and refuses new ones until the window falls back, which is a hard stop rather than a throttle. Two request-rate caps sit underneath and would bind first for a request-heavy workload. |
| Identity | email a zrok account; no card required |
| Egress | metered at 5 GB/day, which is 0.5% of one day's workload free allowance: 5 GB per rolling 24 hours |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: a rolling daily allowance rather than a per-object cap |
| Retention | 5 GB per rolling 24 hours; shares are restricted on exceed |
| Interface | cli zrok share public against the hosted controller |
| Tooling | part of the text of Interface, above |
| Composes with | composes with an origin and no domain, and the daily allowance is what stops it. The self-hosted build is the same software without the controller's journal. |
| Reliability | The limits agent has twice failed to release a limit once usage fell: a 2024 discourse thread and a 2026 repository commit both describe an account staying limited until the journal entry was cleared by hand. |
| Notes | It is on the page in the raw HTML, so it is documented. A 2024 forum answer says 10 GB per 24 hours, which the pricing page contradicts; the page is the owner. The record listed no limits and its binding_note complained that the vocabulary had no kind for a byte volume over a period, which it now does. It also omitted the two request-rate caps and what actually happens on crossing the daily allowance. Replaces the note that said the vocabulary could not name this constraint, and states the monthly product of a daily allowance. A known failure mode of the limiter matters more than the warning page for a client running at the edge of the allowance. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | zrok.io/pricing/ | '5 Daily GB' in the Free column of the rendered HTML; the Markdown extraction drops it |
| 2026-10-23 | netfoundry.io/docs/zrok/concepts/private-shares/ | 'udpTunnel: Forwards raw UDP traffic to a target server' and the private-share access rule |
| 2026-10-23 | netfoundry.io/docs/zrok/concepts/backend-modes/ | 'zrok supports HTTP-based backends and raw TCP/UDP backends' |
| 2026-10-23 | zrok.io/pricing/ | the free tier is 25 environments and 50 share backends; the 5 GB/day figure is no longer on the pricing page |
More fields 4
| stale after days | 180 |
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| bytes transit | yes |
| transit note | the hosted controller relays the share's bytes, which is what the 5 GB daily counter counts |
| wg path | none |