{"rid":"egress/steadip-anchor","card":{"rid":"egress/steadip-anchor","eid":"steadip","topic":"egress","slug":"steadip-anchor","provider":"SteadIP Anchor","url":"https://blog.steadip.com/2026/08/14/introducing-steadip-anchor-your-own-dedicated-ipv4-for-29-99-year/","domain":"steadip.com","category":"dedicated IPv4 over WireGuard","tier":"anchor","verdict":"paid-only","vorder":3,"grp":"paid","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":"cli","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":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":2.5,"summary":"The free SteadIP tier is HTTP and HTTPS only, so it does not answer test: \"Free users get a random subdomain\" and \"SteadIP focuses on HTTP and HTTPS first\". ...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":2},"record":{"topic":"egress","slug":"steadip-anchor","provider":"SteadIP Anchor","url":"https://blog.steadip.com/2026/08/14/introducing-steadip-anchor-your-own-dedicated-ipv4-for-29-99-year/","category":"dedicated IPv4 over WireGuard","tier":"anchor","free_tier":{"stated":"The free SteadIP tier is HTTP and HTTPS only, so it does not answer test: \"Free users get a random subdomain\" and \"SteadIP focuses on HTTP and HTTPS first\". The IPv4 product is paid: \"$29.99 USD per dedicated IPv4 address, billed annually.\"","unit":"none","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://steadip.com/","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":""},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://blog.steadip.com/2026/08/14/introducing-steadip-anchor-your-own-dedicated-ipv4-for-29-99-year/","notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://blog.steadip.com/2026/08/14/introducing-steadip-anchor-your-own-dedicated-ipv4-for-29-99-year/","notes":""},"egress":{"terms":"No transfer allowance and no fair-use figure are published in the announcement, the product explainer or the homepage. The plan is priced per address per year only.; ingress: tcp+udp","metered":false,"free_allowance":"none published","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://blog.steadip.com/2026/08/14/introducing-steadip-anchor-your-own-dedicated-ipv4-for-29-99-year/"},"interface":["cli"],"interface_detail":"Config file plus a customer panel for ports and an optional hostname.","tooling":"wg-quick; an optional hostname under steadip.com","chaining":"Pairs with the vendor's own free HTTP tunnel: one address for raw TCP and UDP, one hostname for the website.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"unpublished","source":"https://blog.steadip.com/2026/08/14/introducing-steadip-anchor-your-own-dedicated-ipv4-for-29-99-year/"}],"limits_note":"","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"Nothing published fails at 1 TiB/month except an unknown volume policy, so the honest answer is that the wall is undocumented. At USD 29.99 per year for a whole IPv4 the price is not the wall.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"A SteadIP account plus a paid annual add-on; the site sells a separate \"Verified\" tier at USD 19.99 per year, which suggests verification is a paid product rather than an identity check. The signup form was not read.","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"Nothing published on throttling, bans or drop behaviour; the free HTTP tier and the paid Anchor product share a vendor whose main product is an frp-based tunnel.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Price, the config file and both inbound modes are first-party. Two gaps: which mode the Anchor add-on includes, and any volume figure. A support question would close both.","evidence":[{"url":"https://blog.steadip.com/2026/08/14/introducing-steadip-anchor-your-own-dedicated-ipv4-for-29-99-year/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"USD 29.99 per year per dedicated IPv4, about USD 2.50 per month; the address is assigned to the account rather than shared"},{"url":"https://blog.steadip.com/2026/02/16/steadip-dedicated-public-ipv4-over-wireguard-port-forwarding-or-true-11-nat/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"WireGuard config supplied by the vendor; Starter forwards selected ports, Pro and Business offer 1:1 NAT for all ports"},{"url":"https://steadip.com/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the free tier is HTTP and HTTPS with a random subdomain; the paid tunnel tier is USD 19.99 per year"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 29.99 per year per dedicated IPv4 (about USD 2.50 per month)","notes":"Cheapest whole IPv4 found at USD 29.99 per year, and the only one whose free tier is honestly HTTP-only rather than an IPv6 substitute. Which inbound mode the Anchor add-on gets is not stated, and that decides whether every port is open or a few are forwarded. The steadip.com/anchor page returned a broker refusal on two attempts, so the blog announcement is the source.","extras":{"wg_path":"native-conf","wg_detail":"\"We provide a WireGuard config. You import it on a router, server, VM, or even a desktop.\" Inbound is either selected ports or all of them: \"Port forwarding: forward only the ports you want\" or \"Forward all ports (1:1 NAT): true full inbound reachability (all ports)\".","ingress":"tcp+udp","volume_tib_month":null,"volume_stated":"No transfer allowance and no fair-use figure are published in the announcement, the product explainer or the homepage. The plan is priced per address per year only.","bytes_transit":"yes","transit_note":"The vendor's gateway carries the address and terminates the tunnel; the client's ISP only sees outbound."}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":2.5,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":2.5,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}