HIGHWAY
high-way.me · Debrid · 4 records · JSON
- High-Way (HIGHWAY) Debridcaveatemailno cardDvolume-quota
- HIGHWAY (high-way.me) Debridcaveatemailno cardDvolume-quotadisagrees
- HIGHWAY (high-way.me) Debridcaveatemailno cardDvolume-quotadisagrees
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High-Way (HIGHWAY) Debrid
caveatemailno cardDvolume-quota
| Free tier | A free tier exists and is funded by forum activity: '€ 0 dauerhaft' with 'nur mit Free MB-Guthaben' (only with free-MB credit), and free users unlock premium hosters only from 5,000 free MB. unit GB; metered on downloaded-bytes; Free users are charged the whole file size in advance; premium users are charged actual bytes times a per-host factor. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | Not published; the metered unit is the download itself, and a free download is charged at full size before it starts. |
| Retention | Traffic expires with the package: unused volume is lost unless the free 'Keep' option moves it into a new package of the same tier before expiry. |
| Egress | Every download spends package traffic at a per-host factor: 'Premiumnutzern wird nur der tatsächlich verbrauchte Traffic multipliziert mit den Faktoren ... berechnet', so one host can cost 33%, 50% or 100% of its size and another more than 100%. free_allowance: free-MB credit earned on the forum, plus a monthly volume bought with the package |
| Identity | email Forum account with email; payment by the methods the forum lists, including Amazon coupon and Paysafecard, with the 'KEEP' keyword typed into the payment reference to move traffic. No phone or document in the pages read. |
| Limits |
The concurrency refusal (code 4, 'Du führst zu viele gleichzeitige Downloads aus') has no exact kind in the seven-value vocabulary; it is filed under per-ip-shaping as the nearest, and it is an account-level count rather than an address-level one. The site also reserves the right to change running contracts with a forum announcement, and to add captchas against automation: 'HIGHWAY ist berechtigt, Maßnahmen gegen automatisierte oder massenhafte Mechanismen ... zu errichten, die zwangsweise auch die Bedienungsleichtigkeit der Kunden einschränken (z.B. Captchas).' |
| Binding | volume-quota Bytes are the product being sold, so a 1 TiB/month client spends the package long before any concurrency or per-host ceiling; the per-host factor makes the effective price depend on host mix. |
| Interface | rest A documented JSON endpoint at https://high-way.me/load.php?json&link=... plus login and traffic calls; the API is German-language and the error text is inside an 'error' tag. endpoint: https://high-way.me/load.php |
| Tooling | JDownloader and a community API wrapper; no rclone backend found; the site is German-only |
| Composes with | A German-language market with its own hoster contracts; the only service here that bills by host-specific multipliers, so its per-terabyte cost depends on which hosts the client uses. |
| Reliability | Every download debits package traffic at a host factor and a free download is charged in full before it starts; a Cloudhoster blocking HIGHWAY's account or server IPs is an expected event the terms describe; the API's German error strings are the only diagnostic. |
| Notes | Candidates for the first failure: traffic exhaustion (error 3), the per-host traffic ceiling (14/15), or a hoster blocking HIGHWAY (code 11). Error 3 is the one a 1 TiB/month client meets; the per-host ceiling is the one a single large release meets. The API documentation is a 2015 forum post; it is the vendor's own and the only one published, and the last changelog entry read is from 2016. This record corrects the ip-class lane's classification. Its table lists High-Way under 'server IPs at registration (reported)' and gives the verdict fails-egress, and its own prose then says High-Way 'gates the registration instead of the download' - which is the refusal of a class at signup, not a download-time class rule. The headline claim 'the other six refuse the class' counts High-Way as one of the six. Its own documentation refuses nothing; the gate is manual vetting, which is an identity constraint. The records that already existed each priced one line of this page and neither normalised TB to TiB, so the EUR 12.00 30-day rate and the EUR 32.50 no-expiry rate were both being compared against per-TiB figures from other lanes and each was 10% better than it is. This record carries the whole grid and the TiB normalisation. The floor is the annual 9 TB package, not the 30-day 1 TB one: EUR 8.33 per TB-month against EUR 12.00 is a 31% cut for a 12-month commitment, and the 12 TB annual (EUR 110) is worse per byte than the 9 TB annual (EUR 75), which is the one non-monotonic rung in the ladder. The 'ab' prices are floors, not prices: EUR 3.99 buys the smallest Premium package and the tariff the client would actually need is the byte package. The best price per TB and the only one whose currency does not rot, at the cost of a reviewed registration and a German-only contract. Fetched files are still not stored. Abandonment condition: if the 2038 sunset is brought forward, the indefinite claim shrinks. The cheapest-looking number on the page is the wrong one: EUR 3.99 buys the plan, not traffic, and every downloaded byte is charged again through a package. At the client's 1 TiB/month the effective price is EUR 16-32.50 per TB, which is the highest per-byte price and the reason it is not the cheapest monthly option despite the lowest headline. Free MB can be bought, so the 'free' tier is a credit scheme, not an allowance. Ranked here on mechanism rather than numbers: the factor system is real and documented, but nothing about the caps is observable without an approved account. |
| Evidence rung | documented The complete error-code table, the traffic accounting and the tariff structure are the vendor's own pages. The API thread is from 2015 with later changelog edits, so the code list is old but is the vendor's only published one; nothing was probed. |
| Checked | 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-23 |
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Evidence (23)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/threads/highway-api.201/ | The full error table in German: 1 wrong username or password; 2 log in again; 3 not enough (premium) traffic; 4 too many simultaneous downloads; 5 premium package expired; 6 no or invalid link; 8 temporary error, retry in a few minutes; 9 file not found; 10 hoster not supported or not for free users; 11 hoster under maintenance or unreachable; 12 site under maintenance; 13 password required or wrong; 14 hoster-specific traffic limit reached; 15 hoster-specific request traffic limit reached; 16 general error, contact support. Example payload {"code":"10","error":"Der Hoster wird nicht unterstuetzt"}. |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/help/counting/ | 'Sind Sie Free-User, wird jede Datei die Sie herunterladen im Voraus bezahlt'; 'Als Premium-User wird immer nur so viel Traffic berechnet, wie tatsächlich verbraucht wurde'; multi-chunk downloads can over-count a few MB per file. |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/pages/tariffs/ | Free '€ 0 dauerhaft' with free-MB credit only; Premium from €3.99/month; Unlimited from €5.99/month with 'Usenet ohne Trafficanrechnung'; free users unlock premium hosters from 5,000 free MB; the Keep option moves unused traffic. |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/help/terms | Downtime longer than 6 hours is compensated by credit; Cloudhosters may block HIGHWAY's accounts or server IPs and HIGHWAY will seek replacement; conditions can change immediately with a forum announcement, including for running contracts; captchas may be introduced against automation. |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/help/terms | Its single reference to server addresses is the reverse case: cloud hosters 'können ... auch die IP-Adressen unserer Server' block. |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/help/ | 'Unsere Plattform steht nur überprüften Nutzern zur Verfügung. Zur Zeit sind die Registrierungen geöffnet. Die Prüfung einer Registrierung beträgt wenige Stunden.' The help index lists eleven articles and none is about VPNs, proxies or server addresses. |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/help/accountsharing/ | Account sharing is invited, not restricted: 'Wenn Sie Account-Sharing betreiben wollen, empfehlen wir Ihnen dringend, das im Download-Center im Tab "Usenet" hinterlegte Passwort weiterzugeben - und nicht Ihr Forenpasswort'. The sharing constraint that binds elsewhere is lifted here. |
| 2026-10-23 | mymultihoster.org/alldebrid-com-review-07-2020/ | 'Registrations with Server-IPs werden scheinbar grundsätzlich abgelehnt' - a 2020 third-party review describing a registration gate, not a download rule. Reported, undated in effect, superseded by nothing read today. |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/choosep.php | The full grid, read live: ohne Ablauf 250 GB EUR 10.00, 500 GB EUR 19.00, 750 GB EUR 26.00, 1 TB EUR 32.50, 4 TB EUR 120.00; 1 Monat 250 GB EUR 5.99, 500 GB EUR 7.50, 750 GB EUR 9.00, 1 TB EUR 12.00; 1 Quartal 750 GB EUR 15.99, 1.5 TB EUR 19.99, 2.25 TB EUR 24.95, 3 TB EUR 32.00; 1 Semester 1.5 TB EUR 29.99, 3 TB EUR 34.99, 4.5 TB EUR 45.00, 6 TB EUR 60.00; 1 Jahr 3 TB EUR 47.99, 6 TB EUR 64.99, 9 TB EUR 75.00, 12 TB EUR 110.00; 2 Jahre 6 TB EUR 95.99, 12 TB EUR 129.99, 18 TB EUR 150.00, 24 TB EUR 200.00. |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/pages/tariffs/ | 'Unsere Plattform steht nur ueberprueften Nutzern zur Verfuegung ... Die Pruefung einer Registrierung betraegt wenige Stunden'; the free tariff carries five filehosters and usenet at 5 connections, and only against a Free MB balance. |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/pages/tariffs/ | 'Free, ab EUR 0', 'Premium, ab mtl. EUR 3,99', 'UNLIMITED, ab mtl. EUR 5,99' and the free tier's five-hoster list |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/choosep.php | the byte packages: 250 GB/month EUR 5.99, 750 GB/quarter EUR 15.99, 1.5 TB/semester EUR 29.99, 3 TB/year EUR 47.99, 6 TB/2 years EUR 95.99, and no-expiry 250 GB EUR 10.00 up to 4 TB EUR 120.00 |
| 2024-10-05 | web.archive.org/web/20241005082737/https://high-way.me/pages | that the capture contains the tab headings 'Free Premium Unlimited Volumen Pakete ohne Ablaufdatum' and no price at all, which is why the history is unread |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/choosep.php | Volumen-Pakete 'ohne Ablauf': 250 GB EUR 10.00, 500 GB EUR 19.00, 750 GB EUR 26.00, 1 TB EUR 32.50, 4 TB EUR 120.00; term packages from EUR 5.99 per month |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/help/terms | 'Bei Verträgen über Pakete ohne Ablauf... die länger als 12 Monate nicht verwendet wurden... ab dem vierundzwanzigsten Monat monatlich 10 %... mindestens aber 5 GB und höchstens 20 GB'; 'Spätestens enden diese Pakete am 19. Januar 2038 um 03:14:07 UTC' |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/ | reviewed registration ('Unsere Plattform steht nur überprüften Nutzern zur Verfügung'), and that the platform is a forum plus multihoster |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/pages/tariffs/ | 'Free, ab € 0 dauerhaft' with only 5 Filehoster, 'Premium, ab mtl. € 3,99' and 'UNLIMITED, ab mtl. € 5,99'; usenet and torrent downloaders; WebDAV/FTP/SFTP streaming |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/choosep.php | the traffic packages and their prices: 250 GB / 1 month EUR 5.99, 1 TB no-expiry EUR 32.50, 4 TB EUR 120.00, 1 year 3 TB EUR 47.99 |
| 2026-10-23 | multio.ch/ | a third-party German comparison repeats the same entry prices (Premium ab 3,99 €/Monat, Unlimited ab 5,99 €/Monat) and lists usenet, torrent cloud and TV recorder as the differentiators |
| 2026-10-23 | probe:https://high-way.me/help/counting/ | the per-host factor rule ('33% oder 50% ... zu 1/3 bzw. 1/2') and that free users pay full size with no discount |
| 2026-10-23 | probe:https://high-way.me/pages/status | login wall: 'Unsere Plattform steht nur überprüften Nutzern zur Verfügung' and 'Die Prüfung einer Registrierung beträgt wenige Stunden' |
| 2026-10-23 | probe:https://high-way.me/threads/highway-api.201/ | an API thread exists (148013 bytes) with error codes such as 'Der Hoster wird nicht unterstuetzt' |
| 2026-10-23 | probe:https://high-way.me/pages/tarife | no public tariff page: HTTP 404 |
More fields (26)
{
"failure_angle": "traffic exhaustion at a host multiplier",
"strongest_signal": "error code 3, 'Es ist nicht genügend (Premium-)Traffic vorhanden'",
"account_states": "3 no traffic; 5 premium expired; 1/2 credential and session; 4 too many simultaneous downloads; 14/15 hoster ceilings; 11 hoster down; 12 site maintenance",
"cache_miss": "no cache-status field in the documented API; the service resolves a link on demand",
"host_removal": "code 10 'Der Hoster wird nicht unterstützt'; the terms say a host that blocks HIGHWAY's accounts will be replaced where commercially justified",
"simultaneous_use": "No multi-IP rule on the pages read. The concurrency refusal is error code 4, 'Du führst zu viele gleichzeitige Downloads aus', counted per account.",
"class_rule_quoted": "none published",
"accepts_bare_cloud_ip": "not refused by any published clause; untested",
"accepts_listed_cloud_ip": "not applicable, no list",
"sanctioned_routes": [
"none needed for the class",
"registration vetting cannot be bypassed"
],
"measured_by": "documented absence in the terms and the help index; the 2020 registration observation is reported",
"price_history": [
{
"date": "2026-10-23",
"price": "EUR 5.99 / 250 GB / month",
"plan": "Premium, 250 GB monthly package",
"source_url": "https://high-way.me/choosep.php"
},
{
"date": "2026-10-23",
"price": "EUR 47.99 / 3 TB / 12 months",
"plan": "Premium, 250 GB/month annual",
"source_url": "https://high-way.me/choosep.php"
},
{
"date": "2026-10-23",
"price": "EUR 75.00 / 9 TB / 12 months",
"plan": "Premium, 750 GB/month annual",
"source_url": "https://high-way.me/choosep.php"
},
{
"date": "2026-10-23",
"price": "EUR 120.00 / 4 TB no expiry",
"plan": "Premium volume block",
"source_url": "https://high-way.me/choosep.php"
},
{
"date": "2026-10-23",
"price": "EUR 3.99 / month (from)",
"plan": "Premium floor",
"source_url": "https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/"
},
{
"date": "2026-10-23",
"price": "EUR 5.99 / month (from)",
"plan": "UNLIMITED floor",
"source_url": "https://high-way.me/pages/tariffs/"
}
],
"price_history_status": "unread",
"price_history_note": "Captures exist for 2023-11-17, 2024-10-05 and 2025-10-11 but none contains a price body; the tariff table is rendered client-side and the replay renders empty too. This is a capture-method failure, not evidence of no change.",
"change_36m": "unknown",
"currency": "EUR",
"usenet": true,
"per_tb_month_eur": 8.33,
"retention_map": {
"volume_package": {
"stated": "no expiry; 10%/month erosion after 12 idle months from month 24",
"days": null,
"source_url": "https://high-way.me/help/terms"
},
"hard_sunset": {
"stated": "every such package ends 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z",
"days": 4106,
"source_url": "https://high-way.me/help/terms"
},
"fetched_files": {
"stated": "proxy, not stored",
"days": 0,
"source_url": "https://high-way.me/help/terms"
}
},
"account_deletion": {
"stated": "account deleted on request from either side; no inactivity deletion published",
"days": null,
"source_url": "https://high-way.me/help/terms"
},
"reactivation": "the package is still there; unused traffic remains until the package is used or 2038",
"storage_model": "traffic package, no file storage; a TV archive recording exists as a revocable free extra",
"sunset_days_note": "4106 days is 2026-10-23 to 2038-01-19, computed, not published",
"host_matrix": {
"published_daily_caps": false,
"source": "https://high-way.me/pages/status",
"cap_endpoint": "members-only 'Dienststatus' tab",
"hosts_listed": 0,
"rows": []
},
"matrix_ref": "matrix.md",
"factor_rule": "33% or 50% of actual bytes charged on discounted hosts; 100% for free users"
}Unknown or withheld values (2)
$.limits[4].valuepartly-held$.notespartly-held
HIGHWAY (high-way.me) Debrid
caveatemailno cardDvolume-quotadisagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
debrid/high-way-freesays fails-quota, debrid/high-way-unlimited says qualifies-with-caveat
| Free tier | No free traffic on this tariff; it is the second paid level. The free tariff is a separate record. unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | EUR 15.99 per TB per 30 days at 750 GB for EUR 11.99; EUR 24.00 per TB at 3 TB for one year (EUR 71.99); usenet unmetered |
| Per-object cap | not stated: there is no per-file ceiling, only a traffic balance for filehoster traffic |
| Retention | Packages expire with their term - '1 Monat' is 30 days (720 hours) - and unused traffic is lost unless the '_Keep' option moves it into a new package of the same tariff and an equal or longer term (30 days) |
| Egress | Same prepaid traffic model as Premium, with one material difference: 'Usenet ohne Trafficanrechnung' and 'TV ohne Trafficanrechnung' - usenet and TV-recorder traffic are not charged against the package at all. Filehoster traffic still is. free_allowance: package volume for filehosters; usenet unmetered price_per_tb: EUR 15.99 per TB for 30 days at the 750 GB package |
| Identity | email E-mail registration plus manual review and a forum account; payment by card, PaysafeCard or Amazon coupon. |
| Limits |
Despite the name, the filehoster side is fully metered and capped by the package; 'Unlimited' refers to usenet and TV not being charged. That is the misreading this record exists to prevent. |
| Binding | volume-quota Filehoster bytes are counted, so the package size is the constraint, and it is a worse EUR-per-TB than Premium at every volume (EUR 15.99 vs EUR 12.00 per TB at 750 GB). A client whose 1 TiB month comes from usenet is unaffected; one that comes from filehosters pays more for the same bytes than on the Premium tariff. |
| Interface | rest, webdav, ftp JSON API at high-way.me/api/ plus WebDAV, FTP and SFTP; usenet access is issued as standard NNTP credentials with 20 connections. endpoint: https://high-way.me/api/ |
| Tooling | API, WebDAV/FTP/SFTP, NNTP clients, JDownloader, pyLoad, Android TV app. |
| Composes with | The interesting combination is unmetered usenet on top of a metered filehoster balance: a client can pull a terabyte from usenet here without touching the package, which no other service offers at any price. |
| Reliability | Unmetered usenet is the only part not counted; filehoster traffic expires with the term and is billed at up to the full file size when a download manager uses multiple connections. |
| Notes | at that volume the effective rate is EUR 39.96 a TB, the worst, and the tier only becomes sensible when usenet carries the bulk. The name is the trap and the vendor's own footnote contradicts it: filehoster traffic is charged. |
| Evidence rung | documented Package prices, the usenet exemption, connection counts and expiry rules all come from vendor pages read today. Whether the tariff page's 'ab mtl. EUR 5,99' is included in the package price is not stated anywhere reachable, so no combined figure is recorded. |
| Checked | 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-23 |
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Evidence (3)
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/chooseu.php | the UNLIMITED package ladder: 1 month 250 GB EUR 9.99, 500 GB EUR 10.99, 750 GB EUR 11.99; 1 year 3 TB EUR 71.99; 2 years 6 TB EUR 143.99 |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/pages/tariffs/ | 'UNLIMITED, ab mtl. € 5,99', 'Usenet mit 20 Verbindungen', 'Usenet ohne Trafficanrechnung', 'TV ohne Trafficanrechnung' |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/help/terms | the 30-day month definition, package expiry, and the _Keep rules for carrying traffic into a new package |
More fields (5)
{
"filehosters": "16 total, same catalogue as Premium",
"usenet_connections": 20,
"usenet_metered": "no",
"torrent": "yes, torrent downloader, metered",
"annual_term": "1 year 3 TB for EUR 71.99"
}Unknown or withheld values (1)
$.notespartly-held
HIGHWAY (high-way.me) Debrid
fails: quotaemailno cardDvolume-quotadisagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
debrid/high-way-freesays fails-quota, debrid/high-way-premium says qualifies-with-caveat - verdict:
debrid/high-way-freesays fails-quota, debrid/high-way-unlimited says qualifies-with-caveat
| Free tier | Free, permanently, at 0 EUR: five filehosters, usenet with 5 connections, forum support and XMPP access - but 'nur mit Free MB-Guthaben', i.e. only against a balance of Free MB that the user acquires separately. unit mixed; metered on downloaded-bytes; The asterisk names the hosts: 'drop.download, FileFactory, FILESTORE.to, MEGA, Uptobox, katfile.com und YouTube' - seven names for a '5 Filehoster' headline, because YouTube is not a filehoster. |
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| Price | EUR 0 with no included traffic; consumption is charged to a prepaid Free MB balance |
| Per-object cap | not stated on the free tariff; no single-file ceiling is published |
| Retention | not applicable: no storage on the free tariff; downloaded traffic is deducted from the Free MB balance |
| Egress | 'Sind Sie Free-User, wird jede Datei die Sie herunterladen im Voraus bezahlt. Das bedeutet, dass Ihr tatsächlich verbrauchter Traffic ignoriert wird. Außerdem gilt für Sie kein Traffic-Rabatt' - a free user pays each file in advance from the balance and gets none of the 33% or 50% host discounts. free_allowance: only what the Free MB balance holds |
| Identity | email E-mail registration followed by manual review, which the vendor says takes a few hours and exists because 'gut hundert Forenspammer pro Tag' try to register. A forum account is required for every service. |
| Limits |
Forum registration is a prerequisite for every other service: 'Die Anmeldung bei unserer Diskussionsplattform (dem Forum) ist Grundvoraussetzung zur Nutzung aller anderen von uns angebotenen Dienstleistungen'. |
| Binding | volume-quota There is no free traffic allowance at all - the tier runs on a prepaid balance - so the byte counter is the constraint before any host or concurrency rule. |
| Interface | rest, webdav, ftp A JSON API at high-way.me/api/ (an /api/hoster endpoint returns the live host list with per-host discount factors), plus WebDAV and FTP for content the user owns. endpoint: https://high-way.me/api/ |
| Tooling | Documented API through a public Postman collection, JDownloader and pyLoad integrations, WebDAV/FTP/SFTP access, a Windows tool and an Android TV app. |
| Composes with | A free balance is useful only for a handful of named hosts, and the balance itself comes from community activity rather than from an allowance; it is a way to test the service, not a way to move a terabyte. |
| Reliability | A vetting queue stands between a new user and the service; free downloads get no host discount and no refund of unused traffic; the vendor opens registrations only in windows. |
| Notes | It is kept as its own record because its honest ceiling is zero bytes rather than a small number. |
| Evidence rung | documented Free-tier composition, host names, usenet connection count and the vetting rule all come from the vendor's tariff page read today. The size of a Free MB is defined in the terms as 1,000 KB, so the balance is a decimal byte count. |
| Checked | 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-23 |
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Evidence (4)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/pages/tariffs/ | 'Free, ab € 0 dauerhaft', 'nur 5 Filehoster', 'Usenet mit 5 Verbindungen', 'nur mit Free MB-Guthaben', and the host names in the footnote |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/help/counting/ | free users pay each file in advance and receive no traffic discount; premium users are charged only for what they used |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/help/terms | forum registration is a prerequisite for all services, and HIGHWAY sells decimal kilobytes (1,000 bytes to the KB) |
| 2026-10-23 | high-way.me/pages/tariffs/ | 'Unsere Plattform steht nur überprüften Nutzern zur Verfügung', registrations open, review takes a few hours |
More fields (4)
{
"filehosters": 5,
"usenet_connections": 5,
"torrent": "no on the free tariff; the torrent downloader is a Premium feature",
"language": "German only"
}