{"rid":"debrid/elfhosted-personal-media-stack","card":{"rid":"debrid/elfhosted-personal-media-stack","eid":"elfhosted","topic":"debrid","slug":"elfhosted-personal-media-stack","provider":"ElfHosted - Personal Media Stack","url":"https://store.elfhosted.com/product-category/personal-stacks/personal-media-stacks/","domain":"elfhosted.com","category":"managed media server plus *arr automation, hosted (no client hardware)","tier":"personal-media-stack (Zurgling USD 24 to Nazgul USD 199)","verdict":"paid-only","vorder":3,"grp":"paid","confidence":"documented","binding":"none","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:28:11.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-24","stale_on":"2026-11-23","n_evidence":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"No free tier. The cheapest listed media stack is 'Zurgling - Personal Media Streamer [2xHD / 1x4K, contended, manual] USD 24.00 / month'; Starter (USD 29) an...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":0},"record":{"topic":"debrid","slug":"elfhosted-personal-media-stack","provider":"ElfHosted - Personal Media Stack","url":"https://store.elfhosted.com/product-category/personal-stacks/personal-media-stacks/","category":"managed media server plus *arr automation, hosted (no client hardware)","tier":"personal-media-stack (Zurgling USD 24 to Nazgul USD 199)","free_tier":{"stated":"No free tier. The cheapest listed media stack is 'Zurgling - Personal Media Streamer [2xHD / 1x4K, contended, manual] USD 24.00 / month'; Starter (USD 29) and JellyGoblin (USD 24) both render 'Sold out' on the category page. The storefront advertises '7-day trials for $1' site-wide, but the Hobbit product page carries only 'Billing term Monthly' and no trial line, so a trial on a stack is not confirmed.","unit":"none","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://store.elfhosted.com/product-category/personal-stacks/personal-media-stacks/","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":"The home page says 'Build a Personal Stack ... From $19/m'; the only USD 19 item in the personal-stacks range is Tubeling, a YouTube archiver, so the real media-stack floor is USD 24."},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable: the vendor sells apps and streams, not stored objects. 'Library storage: via your chosen provider - not stored on ElfHosted'","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://store.elfhosted.com/product/hobbit/","notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable to ElfHosted: media is held by the debrid or Usenet account the client brings, so retention is that provider's policy, not the host's","days":null,"source_url":"https://store.elfhosted.com/product/hobbit/","notes":""},"egress":{"terms":"No byte allowance is published anywhere in the stack range. What is sold instead is concurrent playback: '4xHD or 2x4K' on Hobbit, 2xHD/1x4K on Zurgling, 8xHD/4x4K on Ranger, 16xHD/8x4K on Halfling. 'No storage limits ... you're never paying us for terabytes.'","metered":false,"free_allowance":"none published","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://store.elfhosted.com/product/hobbit/"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"Plex, Emby, Jellyfin or Remux as the player; each exposes its own HTTP API. Radarr/Sonarr, Prowlarr, Seerr and Rclone are provisioned alongside. SSO through the ElfHosted account and HTTPS on a vendor subdomain.","tooling":"nothing to install: the stack is provisioned at checkout from three dropdowns (media player, automation, storage provider). No rclone mount, no Docker, no VPS, no reverse proxy. The client still needs its own debrid or Usenet account except where a TorBox or NzbDAV variation bundles one.","chaining":"The hosted replacement for Zurg + Rclone + Plex on a home box: debrid/Usenet holds the bytes, ElfHosted runs the *arr half, and the client watches through Plex/Jellyfin apps from any device.","limits":[],"limits_note":"Concurrent-stream caps are the real ceiling and the seven-kind vocabulary has no name for them: 2xHD/1x4K (Zurgling, Starter), 4xHD/2x4K (Hobbit, JellyGoblin Pro), 8xHD/4x4K (Ranger), 16xHD/8x4K (Halfling, Nazgul, the last on dedicated hardware). 'Hardware transcoding up to 1080p' on Hobbit. Remux variation is 'Direct play only'.","binding":"none","binding_note":"Nothing in the vocabulary fails at 1 TiB/month because the host carries no bytes: the library sits in the client's debrid account, and the constraint sold is stream count plus tier capacity, which the vocabulary cannot name. The thing that actually fails is availability, not a counter: two of the nine stack products were 'Sold out' on the read date.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"A paid order: ElfHosted account plus a payment method. No identity document. Plex and Emby variations add their own requirement downstream - 'remote streaming requires a PlexPass' or 'Emby Premiere' - while the Jellyfin and Remux variations need no extra subscription.","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"Capacity is spot-sold and disappears: Starter and JellyGoblin showed 'Sold out' on the category page. Switching media player, automation or storage provider later 'requires reprovisioning that part of the stack'. One review-tracked tier range, no published uptime figure.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Nine product cards priced on one category page plus the full Hobbit product page read today. A purchase would raise it to measured; nothing was bought, so lead times, provisioning failures and actual stream quality are untested.","evidence":[{"url":"https://store.elfhosted.com/product-category/personal-stacks/personal-media-stacks/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the nine tiers and their prices: Zurgling USD 24, JellyGoblin USD 24, Starter USD 29, Hobbit USD 39, JellyGoblin Pro USD 39, Ranger USD 59, Halfling USD 109, Nazgul USD 199, Tubeling USD 19; and the 'Sold out' state on Starter and JellyGoblin"},{"url":"https://store.elfhosted.com/product/hobbit/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the variation set (Plex/Emby/Jellyfin/Remux; Radarr-Sonarr/Seerrbridge/AIOStreams; RealDebrid/TorBox/Debridge/NzbDAV), 'No storage limits', 'Library storage: via your chosen provider', PlexPass for remote streaming and none for Jellyfin, 'Billing term Monthly' with no trial line"},{"url":"https://store.elfhosted.com/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the storefront claim 'From $19/m' for a personal stack and '7-day trials for $1'"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:28:11.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"This is the only hosted product found that sells the *arr half without selling storage, so its price is comparable to nothing in the storage topic: USD 24 buys 2 concurrent streams and the app stack, and 0 TB. Candidates considered for the same job and rejected as more expensive: Ranger (USD 59) and above; EZ-Homelab's bundle (USD 29, Plex+Jellyfin+8 apps) is the nearer competitor and is recorded separately.","extras":{"tier_table_usd_month":"Zurgling 24, JellyGoblin 24, Starter 29, Hobbit 39, JellyGoblin Pro 39, Ranger 59, Halfling 109, Nazgul 199","stream_capacity":"Zurgling/Starter/JellyGoblin 2xHD-1x4K; Hobbit/JellyGoblin Pro 4xHD-2x4K; Ranger 8xHD-4x4K; Halfling/Nazgul 16xHD-8x4K","bundled_accounts":"TorBox variations include a TorBox Essential account; NzbDAV variations include a Usenet/NNTP account; RealDebrid variation is BYO","billing_terms":"Hobbit: monthly only. Add-on products: 3/6/12-month terms at 5/10/20 percent off"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}