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Das bedeutet, dass Ihr tatsächlich verbrauchter Traffic ignoriert wird. Außerdem gilt für Sie kein Traffic-Rabatt' - a free user pays each file in advance from the balance and gets none of the 33% or 50% host discounts.","metered":true,"free_allowance":"only what the Free MB balance holds","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://high-way.me/help/counting/"},"interface":["rest","webdav","ftp"],"interface_detail":"A JSON API at high-way.me/api/ (an /api/hoster endpoint returns the live host list with per-host discount factors), plus WebDAV and FTP for content the user owns.","endpoint":"https://high-way.me/api/","tooling":"Documented API through a public Postman collection, JDownloader and pyLoad integrations, WebDAV/FTP/SFTP access, a Windows tool and an Android TV app.","chaining":"A free balance is useful only for a handful of named hosts, and the balance itself comes from community activity rather than from an allowance; it is a way to test the service, not a way to move a terabyte.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"free downloads are paid in advance from the Free MB balance, with no host discount","source":"https://high-way.me/help/counting/"},{"kind":"pull-count","value":"usenet with 5 connections, and only active from a 5,000 Free MB balance","source":"https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/"},{"kind":"write-gated","value":"registration is vetted: 'Unsere Plattform steht nur überprüften Nutzern zur Verfügung ... Die Prüfung einer Registrierung beträgt wenige Stunden'","source":"https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/"}],"limits_note":"Forum registration is a prerequisite for every other service: 'Die Anmeldung bei unserer Diskussionsplattform (dem Forum) ist Grundvoraussetzung zur Nutzung aller anderen von uns angebotenen Dienstleistungen'.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"There is no free traffic allowance at all - the tier runs on a prepaid balance - so the byte counter is the constraint before any host or concurrency rule.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"E-mail registration followed by manual review, which the vendor says takes a few hours and exists because 'gut hundert Forenspammer pro Tag' try to register. A forum account is required for every service.","country":null},"reliability_note":"A vetting queue stands between a new user and the service; free downloads get no host discount and no refund of unused traffic; the vendor opens registrations only in windows.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Free-tier composition, host names, usenet connection count and the vetting rule all come from the vendor's tariff page read today. The size of a Free MB is defined in the terms as 1,000 KB, so the balance is a decimal byte count.","evidence":[{"url":"https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Free, ab € 0 dauerhaft', 'nur 5 Filehoster', 'Usenet mit 5 Verbindungen', 'nur mit Free MB-Guthaben', and the host names in the footnote"},{"url":"https://high-way.me/help/counting/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"free users pay each file in advance and receive no traffic discount; premium users are charged only for what they used"},{"url":"https://high-way.me/help/terms","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"forum registration is a prerequisite for all services, and HIGHWAY sells decimal kilobytes (1,000 bytes to the KB)"},{"url":"https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Unsere Plattform steht nur überprüften Nutzern zur Verfügung', registrations open, review takes a few hours"}],"verdict":"fails-quota","verified_at":"2026-10-23T01:57:49.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"EUR 0 with no included traffic; consumption is charged to a prepaid Free MB balance","notes":"It is kept as its own record because its honest ceiling is zero bytes rather than a small number.","extras":{"filehosters":5,"usenet_connections":5,"torrent":"no on the free tariff; the torrent downloader is a Premium feature","language":"German only"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:pull-count","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[2].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":0,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"EUR","usd":0,"fx_date":"2026-10-23","parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"debrid/high-way-free","other":"debrid/high-way-premium","field":"verdict","a":"fails-quota","b":"qualifies-with-caveat","detail":null},{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"debrid/high-way-free","other":"debrid/high-way-unlimited","field":"verdict","a":"fails-quota","b":"qualifies-with-caveat","detail":null}]}