Debrid Services

What is a debrid service?

A debrid service in its simplest form, is a high speed downloader. It can download from torrents and filehosts. The main selling point of debrid services is the cache. These services act like a shared storage space for downloading torrents. You can download as much as you want without worrying about storage limits, because the files are shared among all users. More users = more cache.

Torrent file/Magnet/Filehoster > Debrid service X's servers > Ready for download

Why should I use a debrid service?

Debrids can completely replace torrenting on your main machine in favor of torrenting remotely instead. Debrids are cheaper than VPN subscriptions, and more convenient. Debrids is faster because you are using the debrid servers to torrent for you, which typically are very fast, upwards of 1GBIT/s. Most of the stuff you need to torrent will likely be cached already and available for instead download. All traffic is encrypted, so you are not exposing your IP anywhere.

Do I need a VPN?

No. Traffic is encrypted when using a debrid service so a vpn is not needed. However, if privacy is an important concern for you, note the Privacy policies of each service: Real-Debrid and Premiumize. Torbox does not track IP's.

Does it cost?

Most debrid services dont have a free plan but some do. Cheapest plan starts at $3/month.

Why Pay for Piracy?

Paying for piracy can be a turn off for some people. A debrid subscription does cost but in exchange you guarantee the following benefits:

  1. buffer-free
  2. remote torrenting (use the debrid servers to torrent)
  3. reliability
  4. no need to use own storage.
  5. watch content long after it's been deleted off specific streaming services
  6. netflix like experience for a cheap price (thru stremio or other streaming interfaces)

You are still playing pirated files, but you are just paying the debrid service to serve them to you in a high speed reliable way.

Do debrids contribute to torrents?

Torbox and Premiumize both seed. Real-Debrid does not seed.

How fast is it?

Once a torrent is cached, Debrid servers typically are very fast, most times it will just max out your internet speed. The speed at which torrents download is entirely dependent on the qualtiy and quantity of seeders of the torrent. (Seeders are just people who are uploading the file, which the debrid service servers are downloading from).

Real-Debrid and Premiumize,

Real-Debrid is a good choice, it has the largest cache size and has been around for a decade at this point. There are some issues with it tho, like how it doesnt have accurate cached indicators, only allows one IP to be streaming at a time, and their abhorrent custom support ((context, 1, 2).
Premiumize is not something I reccomend because, while it does have a pretty large userbase and cache, it is also the most expensive at 12 a month.

Torbox

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My debrid of choice is Torbox. It doesnt have any of the issues as mentioned above, and It's the more affordable at only $3 a month. They also have a free plan. Torbox does not track IP's and account sharing is completely allowed. Server speeds are generally pretty fast, and they have 19 cdns all over the world. You can do a speedtest here.

💡Although Torbox does not have the largest cache, it is constantly growing and with over 200 thousand users, it has already served ~190 petabytes of data to its users.

Create an Account

  1. Go to https://torbox.app/
  2. Click get started for free, and create an account
  3. Verify your email.
  4. Login in

You can test it yourself by clicking add torrent and then putting in a magnet link or .torrent file. If that torrent had already been downloaded before,, it will show up as cached, available for instant download/streaming. If not, it will begin downloading the torrent.

Choose a Plan

Now for the plans. I recommend the essential plan. Mainly for two reasons: It’s the cheapest, and that its all you really need. Standard is great for Private trackers because of its seeding time, but its not necessary. Pro is way more expensive and Usenet is not needed for the average user.

Put simply, Usenet is just another source to get files. There are 2 parts of Usenet: Indexers that are essentially search engines that index nzb files. Providers are the companies that have huge private servers that store the actual usenet files. Nzb files are the stuff that a provider needs to find the content on their server to give you a download link. Torbox pro acts as an indexer and a provider. Torrents will typically have everything you need so Usenet is not necessary for most people.

Torbox offers a $1 plan for a day to test all features.

For a little bonus on your plan time, you can scroll down on torbox.app/subscriptions to the referral section and enter my referral code:
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Me and you both get free days, and it stacks so for every month you pay for and use a referral code, you get 7 days free. Thank you for using my referral code if you do!

Streaming with Stremio

I recommend the Stremio app to use with Torbox because it works right out of the box , it's the fastest, and it has a Netflix like UI. "Stremio is a semi–open-source content aggregator. It centralizes streaming metadata and multiple sources for a better tracking and watching experience"
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Prerequisites for Stremio

A active debrid subscription
A device to install stremio on (iOS,Android,Windows,Mac,Linux, Android tv, Fire tv).

Getting started

To get started with Stremio, follow instructions from the website, stremio.com.

With Torbox, you can get started with Stremo the fastest through their official addon.
Click on Access Stremio Addon to automatically open Stremio and be prompted to install the TorBox Official Addon. You can also click on Copy Manifest URL so you can add to Stremio. With the manifest copied, go over to your Stremio app or stremio web, go to the Addons tab and click on '+ Add Addon'. Paste the TorBox manifest and click on add.

You can tweak the filter/sorting settings to your desired liking in the Integration Settings menu on the torbox website.

Note: Stremio saves your addons in the cloud, so once you make an account on your phone, you can set up your addons there, and then login in on your TV, and they will be there.

Recommended Stremio Addons
There are several stremio addons reccomended by the community.
Scraping:

Its best to use multiple add-ons for more results.

Note: Although these addons scrape torrent sites to find content, you are not torrenting directly as long as you input your debrid service apikey.

Catalogs & Metadata:

💡See all stremio add-ons here.

Note: Most addons by themselves arent't great when it comes to finding the correct episode in a series and/or title matching. If you find it giving wrong episodes you can use AIOStreams title and episode matching feature to guarantee the correct episode and title. Aiostreams is just an addon that wraps other addons and applies user applied filters/sorting/formatting to it. The episode matching feature requires a TMDB read access token, which is free. Go to services and paste your Torbox api token, which can be found here.For the TMDB read access token, Sign up at TMDB and create a free account. Then go to settings > API > Request an API Key. It will ask for a URL, but it doesn't matter what URL you put. Once done, go back to your settings API and copy the read access token. Copy and paste it in AIOStreams, services > TMDB Read access token. Also put your TMDB api key into the box right below it. You can edit everything else to your liking. Once your done, go to save & install > create > install.

Torbox has a discord. Torbox & Real-Debrid are featured on reputable megathreads like fmhy.

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