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Dedicated Public IPv4 (nSolo): 'Included (2^0=1)' on Pro and 'Ask (2^0=1)' on Plus. Monthly Data Cap: '50 GB | 5...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":2},"record":{"topic":"egress","slug":"nekotopia-nsolo","provider":"Nekotopia nSolo","url":"https://nekotopia.io/sponsor.html","category":"community mesh with dedicated public IPv4","tier":"basic","free_tier":{"stated":"Encrypted WireGuard Mesh: Yes on every tier. Dedicated Public IPv4 (nSolo): 'Included (2^0=1)' on Pro and 'Ask (2^0=1)' on Plus. 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The 1 TB rung that would pass the test is behind a human decision, and nSolo, the thing that makes a service inbound, is behind the same decision.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"Basic is obtained by 'Verify your email'. The rungs above it are not bought: 'Plus and Pro are switched on after a chat with the maintainer.'","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"early access run by one person; every rung above Basic depends on that person's availability; the wiki is the only operational documentation and the member pages require a session.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The tier table is documented. Whether an nSolo address forwards UDP is not stated anywhere read, so a UDP probe would move that field from inferred to measured.","evidence":[{"url":"https://nekotopia.io/sponsor.html","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the tier table: data caps, peak bandwidth, nSolo availability, and how each rung is obtained"},{"url":"https://nekotopia.io/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Nothing is reachable from the internet until you publish a port, take an nSolo address, or announce an nColo prefix.'"},{"url":"https://nekotopia.io/funding-model.html","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'A dedicated public IPv4 mapped straight to one machine via bidirectional NAT. Reachable from the internet', and 'Basic is on for everyone; Plus and Pro are switched on after a chat with the maintainer.'"},{"url":"https://wiki.nekotopia.io/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Nekotopia is in early access and free to use right now.' and the exposure ladder from private mesh to fully routed"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 0 during early access","notes":"The free tier is mesh-only: Basic has no Internet Outbound Egress at all ('-' in that row), so a new account cannot serve anything inbound until a rung is granted. nSolo is bidirectional NAT on one machine from 193.143.16.0/23 BYOIP, London only. UDP is inferred, not stated: the vendor says 'run services reachable from the internet' with no protocol restriction, and a NAT'd public IPv4 forwards whatever the port mapping says. The 1 TiB figure appears only as 1 TB on Pro, which is 0.909 TiB. All member documentation is behind a login, so the port-publishing detail and the 1 TB terms could not be read.","extras":{"wg_path":"native-conf","wg_detail":"'Torus is our ring of hubs, linked by WireGuard' and 'Torus VPN configuration and downloads' on the member login. 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