{"rid":"debrid/mediafusion-elfhosted","card":{"rid":"debrid/mediafusion-elfhosted","eid":"elfhosted","topic":"debrid","slug":"mediafusion-elfhosted","provider":"MediaFusion (ElfHosted public instance)","url":"https://mediafusion.elfhosted.com/","domain":"elfhosted.com","category":"hosted Stremio addon, universal torrent/debrid scrapers with live-TV and catalog resources","tier":"public instance","verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"documented","binding":"request-rate","identity_kind":"anonymous","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"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":"Free and accountless, but the public instance answered an anonymous stream request with a single placeholder stream titled 'MediaFusion public rate-limit exc...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":1},"record":{"topic":"debrid","slug":"mediafusion-elfhosted","provider":"MediaFusion (ElfHosted public instance)","url":"https://mediafusion.elfhosted.com/","category":"hosted Stremio addon, universal torrent/debrid scrapers with live-TV and catalog resources","tier":"public instance","free_tier":{"stated":"Free and accountless, but the public instance answered an anonymous stream request with a single placeholder stream titled 'MediaFusion public rate-limit exceeded 🐢'. The manifest itself claims 'configurationRequired: false'.","unit":"requests","metered_on":"request-count","source_url":"https://mediafusion.elfhosted.com/stream/movie/tt1254207.json","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":"The rate limit is enforced per caller and silently replaces results with one link to a video explaining the limit (https://elfhosted.com/assets/public-rate-limit-exceeded.mp4)."},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable: stream descriptors, not objects","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://mediafusion.elfhosted.com/manifest.json","notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable: the public instance stores nothing for the caller","days":null,"source_url":"https://mediafusion.elfhosted.com/manifest.json","notes":""},"egress":{"terms":"Not metered; no bandwidth figure published. Playback is direct from the debrid provider or the source site, not proxied on the free instance.","metered":false,"free_allowance":"not published","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://mediafusion.elfhosted.com/"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"Stremio addon protocol: resources include catalog, stream (types movie, series, tv, events; idPrefixes tt, tmdb:, tvdb:, mal:, mf, dl) and meta. Contact address published as abuse@elfhosted.com.","tooling":"no install; add the manifest URL to Stremio. Requires the client's own debrid key for cached playback, and a MediaFlow proxy for household-wide sharing on the paid tier.","chaining":"The broadest scraper of the free hosted addons found - it carries catalogs and live events, not just streams - so it can stand alone as a Stremio front end without AIOStreams in front of it.","limits":[{"kind":"request-rate","value":"per-caller public rate limit, enforced; the number is not published and the over-limit response is a single placeholder stream","source":"https://mediafusion.elfhosted.com/stream/movie/tt1254207.json"}],"limits_note":"Because the over-limit response is a well-formed 200 with one stream, a client cannot tell a throttled instance from an empty result except by reading the title text.","binding":"request-rate","binding_note":null,"identity_cost":{"kind":"anonymous","detail":"Nothing to install the addon. A debrid account is required for cached playback.","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"Throttling is the normal state, not an error: the first anonymous call returned the rate-limit placeholder. The vendor sells a private instance as the fix.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Manifest fetched (669 bytes, HTTP 200) and a stream call made and read. Not measured: a configured instance with a debrid key, and whether the public limit resets hourly or daily. Downgraded from measured: no probe record with status, bytes and digest exists.","evidence":[{"url":"https://mediafusion.elfhosted.com/manifest.json","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"HTTP 200, 669 bytes: id 'stremio.addons.mediafusion|elfhosted', name 'MediaFusion | ElfHosted', resources catalog/stream/meta/events, contactEmail abuse@elfhosted.com"},{"url":"https://mediafusion.elfhosted.com/stream/movie/tt1254207.json","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"HTTP 200 with exactly one stream: name '[🐢] MediaFusion', title 'MediaFusion public rate-limit exceeded 🐢', url https://elfhosted.com/assets/public-rate-limit-exceeded.mp4"},{"url":"https://store.elfhosted.com/product/mediafusion-mediaflowproxy/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the paid escape: 'Your own private MediaFusion addon for Stremio, bundled with a MediaFlow Proxy so the whole household can stream from one debrid account', USD 9.00 / month"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:28:11.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 0","notes":"This is the clearest evidence found that a free hosted endpoint can be alive and useless at the same time: HTTP 200, valid JSON, schema-correct streams, zero content. Any measurement that only checked status or manifest would have scored it as working.","extras":{"endpoint":"https://mediafusion.elfhosted.com","rate_limit_video":"https://elfhosted.com/assets/public-rate-limit-exceeded.mp4","paid_upgrade":"https://store.elfhosted.com/product/mediafusion/ and /product/mediafusion-mediaflowproxy/, USD 9/month"}},"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:request-rate","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":0,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":0,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.binding_note","withheld"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}