{"rid":"debrid/torbox-essential","card":{"rid":"debrid/torbox-essential","eid":"torbox","topic":"debrid","slug":"torbox-essential","provider":"TorBox","url":"https://torbox.app/pricing","domain":"torbox.app","category":"debrid link generator with torrent and usenet backends","tier":"essential","verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"documented","binding":"per-object-cap","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":200000000000,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T01:57:49.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-24","stale_on":"2026-11-23","n_evidence":6,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":3,"summary":"No free allowance on this plan; it is the US$3/month entry tier. The free plan is a separate record.","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":0},"record":{"topic":"debrid","slug":"torbox-essential","provider":"TorBox","url":"https://torbox.app/pricing","category":"debrid link generator with torrent and usenet backends","tier":"essential","free_tier":{"stated":"No free allowance on this plan; it is the US$3/month entry tier. The free plan is a separate record.","unit":"none","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://torbox.app/pricing","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":""},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"200 GB per download","bytes":200000000000,"source_url":"https://torbox.app/pricing","notes":"The API error table gives the same limit as 214748364800 bytes, which is 200 GiB; the pricing page says 200GB. The GiB reading is the larger of the two, so 200 GB is the conservative figure."},"retention":{"stated":"300 GB of permanent storage (AirLock) plus 24-hour seeding time","days":null,"source_url":"https://torbox.app/pricing","notes":"Seeding stops after 24 hours; the file stays cached and downloadable."},"egress":{"terms":"'Unlimited Downloads' on the plan, subject to the terms' fair-use clause and the three active slots. No byte allowance is published for the month.","metered":false,"free_allowance":"unlimited downloads, three concurrent","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://torbox.app/pricing"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"REST API with a bearer API key; the vendor documents 300 requests a minute per token with separate hourly caps on uncached torrent, usenet and web-download creation.","endpoint":"https://api.torbox.app/v1/api/","tooling":"Documented API, Postman collection, third-party media-server integrations. Torrents, magnets, NZB and web downloads share one API surface.","chaining":"The cheapest paid tier that removes the free plan's download counter; it is the tier to test usenet against because it does not exist on Free, but the support article says usenet starts at Pro, so the client would be paying for torrents alone here.","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"200 GB per download","source":"https://torbox.app/pricing"},{"kind":"pull-count","value":"three active downloads or seeds at a time; extra items queue","source":"https://support.torbox.app/en/articles/9836418-account-restrictions"},{"kind":"request-rate","value":"300 requests per minute per API token; 60 per hour for uncached torrent creation","source":"https://api-docs.torbox.app/"},{"kind":"pull-count","value":"3 active downloads at once; further additions queue; the global maximum is 10 slots","source":"https://support.torbox.app/en/articles/9836418-account-restrictions"},{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"200 GB per torrent","source":"https://support.torbox.app/en/articles/9836418-account-restrictions"}],"limits_note":"Any download showing no progress for two days is removed automatically, and the maximum active-slot count across all plans is 10.","binding":"per-object-cap","binding_note":"Downloads are unlimited, so the monthly total does not bind; what fails is a single object over 200 GB. A 1 TiB month made of 200 GB items is fine on this plan, and a 1 TiB single torrent is not.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"E-mail account plus a card or voucher at checkout.","country":null},"reliability_note":"Usenet is not on this plan according to the vendor's support article even though the pricing page's feature column lists it for every tier; treat usenet as Pro-only. The terms allow throttling and key rotation on suspected sharing.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Plan limits from the pricing page; the usenet conflict is resolved conservatively against the plan's own feature column. Confirming it needs a purchase.","evidence":[{"url":"https://torbox.app/pricing","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'$3/mo', '3 Concurrent Slots', 'Unlimited Downloads', '200GB Max Per Download Size', '1Gbps Speed', '24 Hour Seeding Time', '300GB Permanent Storage'"},{"url":"https://support.torbox.app/en/articles/9836418-account-restrictions","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"Essential: '3 Active downloads', '200GB max torrent size', 'Access to web downloads', 'No access to Usenet downloads'"},{"url":"https://api-docs.torbox.app/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"300/min per token, 60/hour for uncached torrent creation, and the per-plan download-size error table giving 214748364800 bytes for Essential"},{"url":"https://torbox.app/pricing","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"ESSENTIAL $3/mo with 3 concurrent slots"},{"url":"https://support.torbox.app/en/articles/9836418-account-restrictions","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"Essential: '3 Active downloads', '200GB max torrent size', 'Unlimited monthly downloads', 'Access to web downloads', no Usenet"},{"url":"https://support.torbox.app/en/articles/15417147-torbox-airlock","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Essential: 300GB' Airlock and the 30-day inactivity deletion for normal files"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-23T01:57:49.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 3.00 per 30 days, flat","notes":"Two vendor pages disagree on usenet for this tier and the record keeps the smaller claim. The 2025 promotional listings for annual plans imply an annual list price near US$33 (US$23.10 at 30% off), but the pricing page read today shows monthly billing only, so no annual figure is recorded. The price that actually answers the 20 GiB question: USD 3 buys a 200 GB single-torrent ceiling and 300 GB of permanent storage. At 1 TiB a month it costs 3 dollars; the same terabyte on Seedr Basic costs 7.95 and on put.io 9.99.","extras":{"usenet":"no, per the support article (the pricing page lists it for all tiers)","torrent":"yes","storage_gb":300,"annual_plan":"exists; list price not shown on the page read, promo implies about USD 33","airlock_gb":300,"seeding_stated":"not stated for Essential; Standard is 2 weeks, Pro is 30 days"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-object-cap","num":200,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:pull-count","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[2].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":300,"unit":"requests","per":"minute","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[3].value","kind":"limit:pull-count","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[4].value","kind":"limit:per-object-cap","num":200,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":3,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":3,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"debrid/torbox-essential","other":"debrid/torbox-free","field":"verdict","a":"qualifies-with-caveat","b":"fails-quota","detail":null},{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"debrid/torbox-essential","other":"debrid/torbox-free","field":"identity_kind","a":"card","b":"email","detail":null},{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"debrid/torbox-essential","other":"debrid/torbox-pro","field":"verdict","a":"qualifies-with-caveat","b":"qualifies","detail":null}]}