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Only relayed bytes hit the operator, hence the per-connection rate limit rather than a byte quota.","identity_cost":{"kind":"anonymous","detail":"anonymous","country":null},"reliability_note":"'The exact rate limits aren't published today, as they get tuned as needed' and 'Do not rely on it for production workloads' — the free tier is explicitly capacity-unstable by design.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://docs.iroh.computer/about/faq","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'In practice, roughly 9 out of 10 connections go direct; the relay is only a fallback'; relays are stateless and cannot read traffic (QUIC/TLS 1.3)"},{"url":"https://docs.iroh.computer/relays/rate-limiting","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'The exact rate limits aren't published today, as they get tuned as needed ... applied per connection'; 'Do not rely on it for production workloads'"},{"url":"https://www.iroh.computer/pricing","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"Free: 'Rate limited' / 'Variable'; Pro $19/mo: 10,000 connections, shared relays, 5 MB/s; Dedicated $199/mo/region: unlimited"},{"url":"https://docs.iroh.computer/iroh-services/relays/shared","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'100 GB of relay egress per month, then $0.09/GB'; 'A 5 MB/s rate limit'"},{"url":"https://www.iroh.computer/blog/shared-relays","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"worked example: 2,000 users x 10 GB/mo; 'if 98% of the traffic could travel directly ... only the remaining 2% (400 GB) would pass through'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"No storage. 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