{"rid":"egress/nodemesh","card":{"rid":"egress/nodemesh","eid":"nodemesh","topic":"egress","slug":"nodemesh","provider":"NodeMesh","url":"https://nodemesh.app/games/minecraft-bedrock","domain":"nodemesh.app","category":"game server control plane with a UDP traffic relay","tier":"free","verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"documented","binding":"none","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-23","stale_on":"2026-11-22","n_evidence":6,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"One host - your own PC - is free with no time limit, for as many game servers as your hardware can run: the web panel and console, the config editor, the mod...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":3},"record":{"topic":"egress","slug":"nodemesh","provider":"NodeMesh","url":"https://nodemesh.app/games/minecraft-bedrock","category":"game server control plane with a UDP traffic relay","tier":"free","free_tier":{"stated":"One host - your own PC - is free with no time limit, for as many game servers as your hardware can run: the web panel and console, the config editor, the mod manager, auto-restart on crash and the traffic relay.","unit":"mixed","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://nodemesh.app/games/minecraft-bedrock","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":""},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://nodemesh.app/games/minecraft-bedrock","notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://nodemesh.app/games/minecraft-bedrock","notes":""},"egress":{"terms":"No byte allowance is published anywhere read: 'Your first BYOH node is completely free - no time limits, no credit card, all features included.'; ingress: tcp+udp","metered":false,"free_allowance":"none published","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://nodemesh.app/games/minecraft-bedrock"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"An agent binary plus a web panel; the pages read describe no public API and no tunnel-only command.","tooling":"nodemesh agent (sudo install script on Linux), web panel, console; no standalone tunnel CLI is documented","chaining":"The agent is the only thing that must run, so it fits a free Linux VM; the game server itself is installed by the platform.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"no byte allowance published for the traffic proxy","source":"https://nodemesh.app/docs"}],"limits_note":"","binding":"none","binding_note":"Nothing published caps 1 TiB/month, so the volume test can be neither failed nor passed from documents. The named constraint is the one the vendor states instead of a quota: the relay is 'Not DDoS protection', and in relay mode 'The game sees every player as one local address, so IP bans don't work.'","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"A signup with a verified email: 'Create a free account', and crash alerts go to 'your verified email'.","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"Relay mode collapses every player to one local address, so per-player IP bans stop working; the vendor says the relay is not DDoS protection; a node that goes offline pauses its servers and disconnects players.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Running the agent and pushing a counted volume through the proxy would show whether an unpublished cap or throttle exists, and a probe record would make this measured.","evidence":[{"url":"https://nodemesh.app/games/minecraft-bedrock","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Bedrock uses UDP on port 19132 (IPv4) and 19133 (IPv6). The relay forwards them to your PC, so you make no changes to your router.'"},{"url":"https://nodemesh.app/docs","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'TCP and UDP both supported' under Traffic Proxy, and 'Included free with your first BYOH node'"},{"url":"https://nodemesh.app/docs","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"In relay mode: 'The game sees every player as one local address, so IP bans don't work.' and 'Not DDoS protection.'"},{"url":"https://nodemesh.app/pricing","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Your first BYOH node is completely free - no time limits, no credit card, all features included.' and 'This is free forever - not just during beta.'"},{"url":"https://nodemesh.app/pricing","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"Extra nodes 'cost 5 NMC/month each', so the free unit is one node rather than a byte count"},{"url":"https://nodemesh.app/docs","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"The agent install is 'curl -sSL https://install.nodemesh.app | sudo sh', and the origin must be Linux: 'It needs a Linux host'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 0 for the first node","notes":"Beta, stated on the page: 'you can create this server today, but we have not run it on our own hardware yet'. The free unit is one host, so a second machine needs credits. The relay is documented for game servers; the site does not offer a generic arbitrary-UDP port, so whether a non-game UDP listener works behind it is unstated.","extras":{"wg_path":"inside-udp","wg_detail":"No WireGuard mode of its own; the relay is documented as carrying UDP, so a WireGuard datagram to the proxy address is the same path. 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