localtunnel
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localtunnel Egress and tunnels
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| Free tier | a unique public URL proxied to a local server, with no published limits unit unlimited; metered on request-count |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: a stream |
| Retention | the assigned subdomain is random per run |
| Egress | no quota published anywhere: the project page states a URL and no limit |
| Identity | anonymous no account to use the shared server |
| Limits |
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| Binding | none No byte figure exists anywhere: the author says there are no limitations and the current maintainer explains outages as CPU saturation, so the failure mode is the single volunteer instance rather than a meter. A user measured about 0.8 Mbit/s download through it in 2019, which would cap a month near 260 GB, but that is that instance on that day. |
| Interface | cli npx localtunnel --port PORT against the shared localtunnel.me server |
| Tooling | the npm package, or the standalone binary |
| Composes with | composes with an origin and nothing that needs a published ceiling; the shared server is someone else's capacity and is the first thing to break. |
| Reliability | the shared server is a single volunteer-run instance with no published capacity |
| Notes | Recorded because a reader searching for a free tunnel meets this first and its absence of a limits page is the finding, not a gap. Not measured: the shared server is one instance and a throughput number from it would describe that instance on that day. The record carried an empty limits array. Replaces 'nothing binds' with the reason no byte constraint exists and the one throughput datum that stands in for it. |
| Evidence rung | documented |
| Checked | 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22 |
Evidence (2)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | localtunnel.github.io/www/ | the project page states that it assigns a unique public URL and says nothing about a limit, which is a documented absence |
| 2026-10-22 | probe:https://localtunnel.me/ | the bare host answers 302 and the project docs live at localtunnel.github.io/www/, so there is no vendor pricing page to read |
More fields (3)
{
"stale_after_days": 180,
"bytes_transit": "yes",
"transit_note": "the shared server proxies the origin's bytes"
}