PacketStream

packetstream.io · Storage · 1 record · JSON

PacketStream (buy side) Storage

fails: quotacardcardRper-ip-shaping

packetstream.io/pricing · contributed bandwidth - metered consumer-connection proxy · storage/packetstream · JSON · compare

Free tier	$1.00/GB, $50 minimum purchase, balance never expires unit GB; metered on unstated
Price	$1024/TB (egress)
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	metered at the gateway: 'you are metered at the gateway for exactly what you send'. No free allowance.
Identity	card card
Limits	per-ip-shaping 1 TiB/day source 1 TiB/day = 30,720 GB/month x $1.00 = $30,720/month. Fails by roughly two orders of magnitude against any real storage budget. The $1/GB is the floor of the market, not an anomaly.
Binding	per-ip-shaping one stream is shaped, and a user's throughput is the shaped rate times the number of streams
Interface	s3, rclone HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 proxy
Tooling	curl -x, requests, any S3/rclone HTTP proxy config
Composes with	the cheapest published per-GB consumer-connection rate found ($1.00/GB), and the only vendor that publishes both sides - pays contributors $0.10/GB and sells at $1.00/GB
Reliability	Consumer-connection exits, same automated-traffic-filter and churn issues as Proxyrack; payouts to contributors carry a 3% cashout fee.
Notes	$1.00/GB, $50 minimum purchase, balance never expires
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-ip-shaping 1.0 TiB / day `$.price_per_tb_month` price-per-tb USD1024.0 TB / month

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	packetstream.io/pricing	'$1 per GB. No subscription.'; 'Buy $50 of bandwidth and use it over a year'; 'nothing expires, and you are metered at the gateway for exactly what you send'
2026-10-21	proxypicker.com/what-your-wifi-is-worth/	'PacketStream is the only app that publishes both sides of the deal: it pays $0.10/GB and sells at $1.00/GB. That's a 10x markup'; median entry price across 10 consumer-connection proxy providers is $4.50/GB

More fields (2)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "retention",
  "why": "$1.00/GB, $50 minimum purchase, balance never expires",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 },
 "price_verbatim": "$1024/TB (egress)"
}

Unknown or withheld values (6)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted