{"rid":"debrid/high-way","card":{"rid":"debrid/high-way","eid":"high-way","topic":"debrid","slug":"high-way","provider":"High-Way (HIGHWAY)","url":"https://high-way.me/threads/highway-api.201/","domain":"high-way.me","category":"multi-hoster / debrid (German market, traffic-metered packages)","tier":"premium","verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"documented","binding":"volume-quota","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","egress_metered":1,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:22:02.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-24","stale_on":"2026-11-23","n_evidence":23,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"A free tier exists and is funded by forum activity: '€ 0 dauerhaft' with 'nur mit Free MB-Guthaben' (only with free-MB credit), and free users unlock premium...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":2},"record":{"topic":"debrid","slug":"high-way","provider":"High-Way (HIGHWAY)","url":"https://high-way.me/threads/highway-api.201/","category":"multi-hoster / debrid (German market, traffic-metered packages)","tier":"premium","free_tier":{"stated":"A free tier exists and is funded by forum activity: '€ 0 dauerhaft' with 'nur mit Free MB-Guthaben' (only with free-MB credit), and free users unlock premium hosters only from 5,000 free MB.","unit":"GB","metered_on":"downloaded-bytes","source_url":"https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":"Free users are charged the whole file size in advance; premium users are charged actual bytes times a per-host factor."},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"Not published; the metered unit is the download itself, and a free download is charged at full size before it starts.","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://high-way.me/help/counting/"},"retention":{"stated":"Traffic expires with the package: unused volume is lost unless the free 'Keep' option moves it into a new package of the same tier before expiry.","days":null,"source_url":"https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/"},"egress":{"terms":"Every download spends package traffic at a per-host factor: 'Premiumnutzern wird nur der tatsächlich verbrauchte Traffic multipliziert mit den Faktoren ... berechnet', so one host can cost 33%, 50% or 100% of its size and another more than 100%.","metered":true,"free_allowance":"free-MB credit earned on the forum, plus a monthly volume bought with the package","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://high-way.me/help/counting/"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"A documented JSON endpoint at https://high-way.me/load.php?json&link=... plus login and traffic calls; the API is German-language and the error text is inside an 'error' tag.","endpoint":"https://high-way.me/load.php","tooling":"JDownloader and a community API wrapper; no rclone backend found; the site is German-only","chaining":"A German-language market with its own hoster contracts; the only service here that bills by host-specific multipliers, so its per-terabyte cost depends on which hosts the client uses.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"traffic is bought in packages (Premium from 3.99 EUR/month, Unlimited from 5.99 EUR/month) and every download debits it at a per-host factor","source":"https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/"},{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"error code 4 'Du führst zu viele gleichzeitige Downloads aus' is a per-account concurrency refusal","source":"https://high-way.me/threads/highway-api.201/"},{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"per-hoster ceilings: error 14 'Dein hosterspezifisches Traffic-Limit wurde erreicht' and error 15 'Dein hosterspezifisches Request Traffic-Limit wurde erreicht' (after 15, only already-requested links may still be downloaded)","source":"https://high-way.me/threads/highway-api.201/"},{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"none published. The only class-shaped evidence is a 2020 German review, 'Registrations with Server-IPs werden scheinbar grundsätzlich abgelehnt' (registrations from server addresses are apparently refused as a rule), which describes a registration gate and is five years old","source":"https://mymultihoster.org/alldebrid-com-review-07-2020/"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"sold in traffic packages","source":"https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"250 GB / 500 GB / 750 GB / 1 TB per 30 days at EUR 5.99 / 7.50 / 9.00 / 12.00; 3 / 6 / 9 / 12 TB per year at EUR 47.99 / 64.99 / 75.00 / 110.00; 250 GB to 4 TB with no expiry at EUR 10.00 to 120.00","source":"https://high-way.me/choosep.php"},{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"unused traffic expires with the package term; 'ohne Ablauf' packages lose 10% of the original volume a month after 24 months of non-use","source":"https://high-way.me/help/terms"},{"kind":"write-gated","value":"vetted registration with a manual review that the vendor says takes a few hours, plus a forum account as a prerequisite","source":"https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"250 GB / 500 GB / 750 GB per month, or 250 GB / 500 GB / 750 GB / 1 TB / 4 TB without expiry","source":"https://high-way.me/choosep.php"},{"kind":"write-gated","value":"registration is reviewed by hand: 'Die Prufung einer Registrierung betragt wenige Stunden'","source":"https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"traffic bought in advance and drawn down; 4 TB for EUR 120","source":"https://high-way.me/choosep.php"},{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"10% of original traffic per month after 12 idle months, from month 24","source":"https://high-way.me/help/terms"},{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"per-host 24-hour traffic factor, published on the Status page","source":"https://high-way.me/help/terms"},{"kind":"write-gated","value":"registration is reviewed before access","source":"https://high-way.me/"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"traffic sold in packages: 250 GB for 1 month at EUR 5.99; 1 TB with no expiry at EUR 32.50","source":"https://high-way.me/choosep.php"},{"kind":"write-gated","value":"registration is manually reviewed: 'Die Prüfung einer Registrierung beträgt wenige Stunden'","source":"https://high-way.me/pages/status"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"traffic purchased in GB packages, charged per host at a 33%-100% factor","source":"https://high-way.me/help/counting/"}],"limits_note":"The concurrency refusal (code 4, 'Du führst zu viele gleichzeitige Downloads aus') has no exact kind in the seven-value vocabulary; it is filed under per-ip-shaping as the nearest, and it is an account-level count rather than an address-level one. The site also reserves the right to change running contracts with a forum announcement, and to add captchas against automation: 'HIGHWAY ist berechtigt, Maßnahmen gegen automatisierte oder massenhafte Mechanismen ... zu errichten, die zwangsweise auch die Bedienungsleichtigkeit der Kunden einschränken (z.B. Captchas).'","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"Bytes are the product being sold, so a 1 TiB/month client spends the package long before any concurrency or per-host ceiling; the per-host factor makes the effective price depend on host mix.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"Forum account with email; payment by the methods the forum lists, including Amazon coupon and Paysafecard, with the 'KEEP' keyword typed into the payment reference to move traffic. No phone or document in the pages read.","country":null},"reliability_note":"Every download debits package traffic at a host factor and a free download is charged in full before it starts; a Cloudhoster blocking HIGHWAY's account or server IPs is an expected event the terms describe; the API's German error strings are the only diagnostic.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The complete error-code table, the traffic accounting and the tariff structure are the vendor's own pages. The API thread is from 2015 with later changelog edits, so the code list is old but is the vendor's only published one; nothing was probed.","evidence":[{"url":"https://high-way.me/threads/highway-api.201/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"The full error table in German: 1 wrong username or password; 2 log in again; 3 not enough (premium) traffic; 4 too many simultaneous downloads; 5 premium package expired; 6 no or invalid link; 8 temporary error, retry in a few minutes; 9 file not found; 10 hoster not supported or not for free users; 11 hoster under maintenance or unreachable; 12 site under maintenance; 13 password required or wrong; 14 hoster-specific traffic limit reached; 15 hoster-specific request traffic limit reached; 16 general error, contact support. Example payload {\"code\":\"10\",\"error\":\"Der Hoster wird nicht unterstuetzt\"}."},{"url":"https://high-way.me/help/counting/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Sind Sie Free-User, wird jede Datei die Sie herunterladen im Voraus bezahlt'; 'Als Premium-User wird immer nur so viel Traffic berechnet, wie tatsächlich verbraucht wurde'; multi-chunk downloads can over-count a few MB per file."},{"url":"https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"Free '€ 0 dauerhaft' with free-MB credit only; Premium from €3.99/month; Unlimited from €5.99/month with 'Usenet ohne Trafficanrechnung'; free users unlock premium hosters from 5,000 free MB; the Keep option moves unused traffic."},{"url":"https://high-way.me/help/terms","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"Downtime longer than 6 hours is compensated by credit; Cloudhosters may block HIGHWAY's accounts or server IPs and HIGHWAY will seek replacement; conditions can change immediately with a forum announcement, including for running contracts; captchas may be introduced against automation."},{"url":"https://high-way.me/help/terms","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"Its single reference to server addresses is the reverse case: cloud hosters 'können ... auch die IP-Adressen unserer Server' block."},{"url":"https://high-way.me/help/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Unsere Plattform steht nur überprüften Nutzern zur Verfügung. Zur Zeit sind die Registrierungen geöffnet. Die Prüfung einer Registrierung beträgt wenige Stunden.' The help index lists eleven articles and none is about VPNs, proxies or server addresses."},{"url":"https://high-way.me/help/accountsharing/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"Account sharing is invited, not restricted: 'Wenn Sie Account-Sharing betreiben wollen, empfehlen wir Ihnen dringend, das im Download-Center im Tab \"Usenet\" hinterlegte Passwort weiterzugeben - und nicht Ihr Forenpasswort'. The sharing constraint that binds elsewhere is lifted here."},{"url":"https://mymultihoster.org/alldebrid-com-review-07-2020/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Registrations with Server-IPs werden scheinbar grundsätzlich abgelehnt' - a 2020 third-party review describing a registration gate, not a download rule. Reported, undated in effect, superseded by nothing read today."},{"url":"https://high-way.me/choosep.php","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"The full grid, read live: ohne Ablauf 250 GB EUR 10.00, 500 GB EUR 19.00, 750 GB EUR 26.00, 1 TB EUR 32.50, 4 TB EUR 120.00; 1 Monat 250 GB EUR 5.99, 500 GB EUR 7.50, 750 GB EUR 9.00, 1 TB EUR 12.00; 1 Quartal 750 GB EUR 15.99, 1.5 TB EUR 19.99, 2.25 TB EUR 24.95, 3 TB EUR 32.00; 1 Semester 1.5 TB EUR 29.99, 3 TB EUR 34.99, 4.5 TB EUR 45.00, 6 TB EUR 60.00; 1 Jahr 3 TB EUR 47.99, 6 TB EUR 64.99, 9 TB EUR 75.00, 12 TB EUR 110.00; 2 Jahre 6 TB EUR 95.99, 12 TB EUR 129.99, 18 TB EUR 150.00, 24 TB EUR 200.00."},{"url":"https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Unsere Plattform steht nur ueberprueften Nutzern zur Verfuegung ... Die Pruefung einer Registrierung betraegt wenige Stunden'; the free tariff carries five filehosters and usenet at 5 connections, and only against a Free MB balance."},{"url":"https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Free, ab EUR 0', 'Premium, ab mtl. EUR 3,99', 'UNLIMITED, ab mtl. EUR 5,99' and the free tier's five-hoster list"},{"url":"https://high-way.me/choosep.php","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the byte packages: 250 GB/month EUR 5.99, 750 GB/quarter EUR 15.99, 1.5 TB/semester EUR 29.99, 3 TB/year EUR 47.99, 6 TB/2 years EUR 95.99, and no-expiry 250 GB EUR 10.00 up to 4 TB EUR 120.00"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20241005082737/https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/","date":"2024-10-05","proved":"that the capture contains the tab headings 'Free Premium Unlimited Volumen Pakete ohne Ablaufdatum' and no price at all, which is why the history is unread"},{"url":"https://high-way.me/choosep.php","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"Volumen-Pakete 'ohne Ablauf': 250 GB EUR 10.00, 500 GB EUR 19.00, 750 GB EUR 26.00, 1 TB EUR 32.50, 4 TB EUR 120.00; term packages from EUR 5.99 per month"},{"url":"https://high-way.me/help/terms","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Bei Verträgen über Pakete ohne Ablauf... die länger als 12 Monate nicht verwendet wurden... ab dem vierundzwanzigsten Monat monatlich 10 %... mindestens aber 5 GB und höchstens 20 GB'; 'Spätestens enden diese Pakete am 19. Januar 2038 um 03:14:07 UTC'"},{"url":"https://high-way.me/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"reviewed registration ('Unsere Plattform steht nur überprüften Nutzern zur Verfügung'), and that the platform is a forum plus multihoster"},{"url":"https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Free, ab € 0 dauerhaft' with only 5 Filehoster, 'Premium, ab mtl. € 3,99' and 'UNLIMITED, ab mtl. € 5,99'; usenet and torrent downloaders; WebDAV/FTP/SFTP streaming"},{"url":"https://high-way.me/choosep.php","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the traffic packages and their prices: 250 GB / 1 month EUR 5.99, 1 TB no-expiry EUR 32.50, 4 TB EUR 120.00, 1 year 3 TB EUR 47.99"},{"url":"https://multio.ch/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"a third-party German comparison repeats the same entry prices (Premium ab 3,99 €/Monat, Unlimited ab 5,99 €/Monat) and lists usenet, torrent cloud and TV recorder as the differentiators"},{"url":"probe:https://high-way.me/help/counting/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the per-host factor rule ('33% oder 50% ... zu 1/3 bzw. 1/2') and that free users pay full size with no discount"},{"url":"probe:https://high-way.me/pages/status","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"login wall: 'Unsere Plattform steht nur überprüften Nutzern zur Verfügung' and 'Die Prüfung einer Registrierung beträgt wenige Stunden'"},{"url":"probe:https://high-way.me/threads/highway-api.201/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"an API thread exists (148013 bytes) with error codes such as 'Der Hoster wird nicht unterstuetzt'"},{"url":"probe:https://high-way.me/pages/tarife","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"no public tariff page: HTTP 404"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:22:02.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"Candidates for the first failure: traffic exhaustion (error 3), the per-host traffic ceiling (14/15), or a hoster blocking HIGHWAY (code 11). Error 3 is the one a 1 TiB/month client meets; the per-host ceiling is the one a single large release meets. The API documentation is a 2015 forum post; it is the vendor's own and the only one published, and the last changelog entry read is from 2016. This record corrects the ip-class lane's classification. Its table lists High-Way under 'server IPs at registration (reported)' and gives the verdict fails-egress, and its own prose then says High-Way 'gates the registration instead of the download' - which is the refusal of a class at signup, not a download-time class rule. The headline claim 'the other six refuse the class' counts High-Way as one of the six. Its own documentation refuses nothing; the gate is manual vetting, which is an identity constraint. The records that already existed each priced one line of this page and neither normalised TB to TiB, so the EUR 12.00 30-day rate and the EUR 32.50 no-expiry rate were both being compared against per-TiB figures from other lanes and each was 10% better than it is. This record carries the whole grid and the TiB normalisation. The floor is the annual 9 TB package, not the 30-day 1 TB one: EUR 8.33 per TB-month against EUR 12.00 is a 31% cut for a 12-month commitment, and the 12 TB annual (EUR 110) is worse per byte than the 9 TB annual (EUR 75), which is the one non-monotonic rung in the ladder. The 'ab' prices are floors, not prices: EUR 3.99 buys the smallest Premium package and the tariff the client would actually need is the byte package. The best price per TB and the only one whose currency does not rot, at the cost of a reviewed registration and a German-only contract. Fetched files are still not stored. Abandonment condition: if the 2038 sunset is brought forward, the indefinite claim shrinks. The cheapest-looking number on the page is the wrong one: EUR 3.99 buys the plan, not traffic, and every downloaded byte is charged again through a package. At the client's 1 TiB/month the effective price is EUR 16-32.50 per TB, which is the highest per-byte price and the reason it is not the cheapest monthly option despite the lowest headline. Free MB can be bought, so the 'free' tier is a credit scheme, not an allowance. Ranked here on mechanism rather than numbers: the factor system is real and documented, but nothing about the caps is observable without an approved account.","extras":{"failure_angle":"traffic exhaustion at a host multiplier","strongest_signal":"error code 3, 'Es ist nicht genügend (Premium-)Traffic vorhanden'","account_states":"3 no traffic; 5 premium expired; 1/2 credential and session; 4 too many simultaneous downloads; 14/15 hoster ceilings; 11 hoster down; 12 site maintenance","cache_miss":"no cache-status field in the documented API; the service resolves a link on demand","host_removal":"code 10 'Der Hoster wird nicht unterstützt'; the terms say a host that blocks HIGHWAY's accounts will be replaced where commercially justified","simultaneous_use":"No multi-IP rule on the pages read. The concurrency refusal is error code 4, 'Du führst zu viele gleichzeitige Downloads aus', counted per account.","class_rule_quoted":"none published","accepts_bare_cloud_ip":"not refused by any published clause; untested","accepts_listed_cloud_ip":"not applicable, no list","sanctioned_routes":["none needed for the class","registration vetting cannot be bypassed"],"measured_by":"documented absence in the terms and the help index; the 2020 registration observation is reported","price_history":[{"date":"2026-10-23","price":"EUR 5.99 / 250 GB / month","plan":"Premium, 250 GB monthly package","source_url":"https://high-way.me/choosep.php"},{"date":"2026-10-23","price":"EUR 47.99 / 3 TB / 12 months","plan":"Premium, 250 GB/month annual","source_url":"https://high-way.me/choosep.php"},{"date":"2026-10-23","price":"EUR 75.00 / 9 TB / 12 months","plan":"Premium, 750 GB/month annual","source_url":"https://high-way.me/choosep.php"},{"date":"2026-10-23","price":"EUR 120.00 / 4 TB no expiry","plan":"Premium volume block","source_url":"https://high-way.me/choosep.php"},{"date":"2026-10-23","price":"EUR 3.99 / month (from)","plan":"Premium floor","source_url":"https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/"},{"date":"2026-10-23","price":"EUR 5.99 / month (from)","plan":"UNLIMITED floor","source_url":"https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/"}],"price_history_status":"unread","price_history_note":"Captures exist for 2023-11-17, 2024-10-05 and 2025-10-11 but none contains a price body; the tariff table is rendered client-side and the replay renders empty too. This is a capture-method failure, not evidence of no change.","change_36m":"unknown","currency":"EUR","usenet":true,"per_tb_month_eur":8.33,"retention_map":{"volume_package":{"stated":"no expiry; 10%/month erosion after 12 idle months from month 24","days":null,"source_url":"https://high-way.me/help/terms"},"hard_sunset":{"stated":"every such package ends 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z","days":4106,"source_url":"https://high-way.me/help/terms"},"fetched_files":{"stated":"proxy, not stored","days":0,"source_url":"https://high-way.me/help/terms"}},"account_deletion":{"stated":"account deleted on request from either side; no inactivity deletion published","days":null,"source_url":"https://high-way.me/help/terms"},"reactivation":"the package is still there; unused traffic remains until the package is used or 2038","storage_model":"traffic package, no file storage; a TV archive recording exists as a revocable free extra","sunset_days_note":"4106 days is 2026-10-23 to 2038-01-19, computed, not published","host_matrix":{"published_daily_caps":false,"source":"https://high-way.me/pages/status","cap_endpoint":"members-only 'Dienststatus' tab","hosts_listed":0,"rows":[]},"matrix_ref":"matrix.md","factor_rule":"33% or 50% of actual bytes charged on discounted hosts; 100% for free users"}},"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":"$.limits[10].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":4,"unit":"TB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[11].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[12].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[13].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[14].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":250,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[15].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[16].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[2].value","kind":"limit:per-object-cap","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[3].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[4].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[5].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":250,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[6].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[7].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[8].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":250,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[9].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.limits[4].value","partly-held"],["$.notes","partly-held"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}