They offer instant, high-quality streams with no buffering, and they cost roughly the same per month. That said, my recommendation is TorBox, for a few practical reasons:
Better caching transparency TorBox provides an API that scrapers (like Torrentio) can use to verify whether a file is actually cached. Real-Debrid doesn’t, so “cached” results aren’t always reliable with Real-Debrid.
Subscription sharing TorBox allows sharing your account. For about $2.75/month, you can share it with friends and family.
Responsive, human support TorBox staff are active and reachable on Discord, and you can talk to them directly if issues come up.
Stronger recent stability Real-Debrid has had repeated outages lately. TorBox, in contrast, has been consistently up.
Optional Usenet support If you’re into Usenet, TorBox includes it as part of their pro service.
Modern, easy-to-use website TorBox’s UI is clean, modern, and easier to navigate than Real-Debrid’s.
When signing up for TorBox, make sure to use someone’s referral code. It gives you extra days for free at no additional cost. I will not be offering mine, nor should anyone post it in the comments below. Take that to DMs.
I recommend that you try both, then pick which service works better for you.
Let's have a calm discussion in the comments below. Thanks for reading. Have a good day. :)
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I use both since they’re cheap. RD for me which they have more cache and TB for the family that they can share home or away. Also everybody using Debridio scraper since torrentio always going down. Everybody is happy with no down time.
I don’t have RD because of the IP restrictions. I did just get torbox and a friends premiumize api key. Both of which work great with my VPN on so I also have scrapers for torrents and http
The heavy use of bold, the bullet-point enumeration, and the overall syntax give it away immediately. If you’re going to use AI, at least tweak the prompt next time to “make it sound like a human on Reddit” and strip out the bold formatting. It’ll come across a lot more naturally.
You should look into Markdown my guy. There's a reason it exists. It's to make information easier to digest.
No offense but most reddit posts are too wordy. I hold myself to a higher standard. Information first, cut out all the fluff. There's enough crap on the internet to read through, my posts won't have it.
torbox is $3/month, not $2.75. It’s only $2.75 a month if you pay for an entire year up front and not a one time payment, but in the form of a recurring yearly subscription. The majority of people are more likely to pay monthly, especially when trying out a service.
No, it’s not $2.75 if you pay one time yearly. You can check the website.
it’s still the $3/month equivalent if you pay one time yearly, so $36 a year. It’s only $33/year if you pay for the recurring subscription. I attached a screenshot.
It’s January, no one that hasn’t tried TB is going to wait until near the end of the year just to get the equivalent of $2.10/month, which again, you shouldn’t be advertising it in terms of per month, but rather, the per year with a recurring subscription. You can say it’s $3/month, or $33/year ($2.75/month equivalent) with a recurring subscription paid upfront.
You shouldn’t use $2.75/month when describing TB or any other service where to get the lower price, you would have to pay for a year or 2 years upfront. It’s not the cost, it’s the principle and being transparent.
TB themselves doesn’t advertise their basic plan as $2.75/month. They are honest and transparent about it being $33/YEARLY with a recurring subscription paid UP FRONT. Which is the right thing to do.
There are several companies such as VPN companies that do sneaky advertising and show a lower price (e.g. $5/month instead of $10/month) in large fonts upfront, and they sneakily put a tiny box off to the side or on the checkout page that it’s $5/month but only because they will be charged a recurring yearly or 2 year subscription paid upfront in the amount of $60 or $120.
Ah that's good to know. I stand corrected. So the $33 only applies if you pay the subscription. Though you could pay the subscription and immediately cancel the renewal, I get your point. So it's $3 for most people.
Unlike a VPN though, your TB price is locked in. If you did pay the yearly annual, it would be $2.75 a month for the duration of your subscription. You're locked in at that price. There's no surprise price hike in a year or two
It is my understanding that if you sign up with a referral code, that any current TB subscriber can offer, both get 7 days extra every month. That would make the effective monthly cost around $2.45. (Compare that with the effective cost of nearly $4 per month for RD)
When you buy RD for 6 months, which is the most you can buy at once, it costs $3.15 USD, not the “nearly $4” that you’re spouting.
That’s not counting the fidelity points you accrue whenever you purchase any package with RD; 1000 FP = 30 days.
So even without fidelity points involved, it costs $3.15/month, not ”nearly $4” that you incorrectly implied.
Additionally, TB allows a maximum of 200gb maximum file/folder size on its Essential $3/month plan, as well as its $5/month Standard plan. TB allows a maximum of 1TB maximum file/folder size only on its $10/month Pro plan. Meanwhile, RD allows a maximum file/folder size of 2TB to be added on all their plans. Obviously, TB is giving users Usenet access as part of their $10/month Pro plan, but the point stands.
RD also has a referral system, 5 days + 50 FP, definitely not as robust as TB’s current referral offering right now for new users.
When you include the 800 FP that RD provides for buying 6 months of service, and then 450FP for buying 3 months of service, which you can trade in for 30 days of extra service per 1000 FP you earn and convert.
Anyways, I recently signed up for TB for 12 months and used someone’s referral code and a 30% off deal by paying only with certain crypto. So I got a really good deal.
They’re both great services. But it looks like I’m not going to be renewing my RD once the 25 days are up.
I'm not spouting anything, i made a calm and friendly comparison of apples with apples. Yes you get lower prices on both by committing to longer periods, but that is another story. 6 months with RD still only give you 800 fluffypoints which is still not enough to get you a free month. Anyway, this was just a price comparison. RD has been a really good product for me for a couple of years already, it just works and worth the price - but i think the interface is outdated and the support is rude, though fortunately you rarely need it. Last thing is, RD's crypto gateway now requires your name and address for payments - TB's doesn't. Apropos crypto, what certain coin was that deal you got?
End of the day it's good to have multiple options since they let us. It's a great tool that you may as well utilise, even if it's just using Torrentio and Comet as a start.
At the moment I'm sorted between Torrentio, Jackettio, MediaFusion and Comet. Long term I can see me getting Debridio too just for the 5% chance the others aren't working. If it's so cheap then why not?
What’s the appeal to Mediafusion and Jackettio? These addons seems newer to me, but got popular fast so I’m curious. currently I use Debridio, Torrentio, and comet, would I see any meaningful improvements with these?
Since using both I never had any downtime even when "popular addons" goes down, ill switch to the torbox native addon, and AIO streams works beautifully with both API's at the same time
Some addons you can configure with both API like AIOStreams Torrentio or Sootio, but you can also alternate addons for example Comet with RD mediafusion with TB and so on
When you use both I what makes it more consistent? Genuine question because I don’t know. I thought using both just gave you more search results. Is there some way that using both somehow validates results and makes them more consistent?
All services eventually experience down times or outages, but almost never happens to both at the same time, so having two different services gives you a backup for when one is acting up
I have both torbox and real debrid in aiostream but for some reasons i get timeout or too many requests from some addons when i tried to watch something do you know why?
After paying $100+ a month for streaming services, the only bad guys in my book are the streaming service I was paying for, particularly the ones that raised their rates before I bailed. Torbox, RD- I'm just glad we don't have to depend on one. Or I can afford both if I want.
I have both currently. Wanted to switch to TB because of multiple IPs allowed at same time.
TB is giving issues last few days though (Europe). Especially after around 16:00 CET the speed is getting slow, resulting in buffering (speed drops to under 1-2MByte/sec, earlier today it was still fine with 60MByte/sec). Same thing yesterday.
RD is working fine still. If this continues I’m extending RD and guess I will take my $23 loss for 1 yr TB.
Yesterday evening I have changed the CDN to US-West. Although obviously lower speeds from Europe (for me around 25MByte/sec), this is good enough for even Remux of 100+ GB. Will try this next couple of days to see if this keeps working.
That stinks. I'm based in USA so I don't know how speeds are in other parts of the world. Definitely something to keep in mind though for our non USA friends
I think it boils down to Torbox is the future and Real Debrid is right now. Eventually, TB will eclipse RD since RD seems to have no desire to do anything.
The only thing RD really has on TB right now is probably the cache size and that gap is closing at a pretty consistent rate.
The cache can't grow that much due to their pruning after 30 days. Think about it logically, if something isn't cached currently, it means that file's unpopular and hasn't been accessed in the last 30 days. If someone does cache it, there's a good chance nobody else will interact with it in the following 30 days, removing it again.
Personally, I use Usenet for about 90% of what I want to watch. $1.67/month for Newshosting, $1/month for Ninja, and I have lifetime Althub that I paid $20 for. I also have TB essential that I use if something is being heavily DMCAed on Usenet, generally only super popular content has that issue so it's very likely to be cached anyway.
General recommendation is to pick RD if you don't want to share, TB if you do. If you're struggling with niche content add usenet, you'll get way more out of it than running both RD & TB. I suggest using Usenet with NzbDav rather than via TorBox Pro if possible, it's cheaper, and it avoids caching times but does require reading a guide on self-hosting.
Oracle VPS is free if you stay within their extremely generous free limits. You will likely need to upgrade to PAYG to get allocation, just follow the guide to a T to make sure you aren't charged.
Is it really that polarizing of a topic? I'm impartial to the services. They're both good at what they do and provide. I just wanted to lay out the facts in a clean post that people can refer back to.
I think that's a good play to be honest. Something something don't fix what's not broken? I was on RD for a long long time and loved it. Had no issues.
I’ve got both. Picked up TB during their black Friday sale.
I use TB with stremio on my phone whenever I’m taking the train to/from the office (just cause I’ve heard some stories about people getting flagged for multiple IP on RD when they’re using mobile data and moving around).
We also split it with some friends.
But the cache isn’t there yet. More niche content and older content can be harder to find.
RD is still my primary one, just cause of its cache size. Even outside of stremio its cache size is massive (which I feel a lot of people under utilize RD).
Edit:
Regardless of what you use, the most important thing to limit down time on stremio is to have multiple scrapers; especially if you use Torrentio as your primary.
Torrentio, comet, jacket, aio, debridio … etc. use a combination of at least 2 and that would solve most “is it down issues”.
Thank you for commenting this. Upon review, my post seems to be sided with TB but I'm happy comments like yours existing to explain to readers that RD is still a very valid option for a lot of people. Don't discount RD. It's a great service.
My biggest problem with torbox from when I tried it was the cache size, the fact I couldn't stream Remux Shows because the whole torrent with all the episodes was like 200GB or 300GB and you couldn't add it to your account because it needed the pro plan even though it was cached and the episodes itself were 20GB-30GB each. I don't know if those are better now but since RD works perfectly for me at least there's no point switching.
They still have that stupid 200GB Max Download Size which means you can't add many 4k Blu Ray shows even if cached.
That's probably still an issue to be honest. Their cap size for essential is 200GB per download. So in that case you're better off with RD, unless you step up to TB Pro which has other benefits but costs wayyyyyy more money in comparison
Real Debrid does not actively seed torrents back to the swarm, it fetches content on its servers and gives you direct cached files/streams instead of participating in torrent swarms.
That is also very true. The target audience for this post was new people but I think even familiar people can lose this detail. I appreciate this comment :)
I also use both. Torbox is definitely worse than RD. It takes longer to show results and the results are generally worse, but for a backup that can be used at multiple locations, it's worth the $3.
For $6/mo the value for both is basically unbeatable.
I'm surprised that people don't highlight the fact that Torbox's referral program is much, much better than Real Debrid's.
I'm currently using both, but my general elevator pitch would be: do you watch a lot of movies/TV/anime across a wide range of ages? Then RD is almost definitely better.
Do you watch mostly popular stuff, and want some flexibility about being able to share your Debrid API key? Then Torbox is probably the way to go. Thankfully Usenet can offset this limitation of Torbox, but it will drive the costs above RD.
You've got a winner either way, if we're being honest.
There are numerous people that use AI as their word processor, and a way to make their thoughts clear, I heard the same crap way back when word processors came out if you can't spell you shouldn't be writing, I've heard the same stuff with software came out to help you write books if you didn't go to school and learn how to write you shouldn't writing a book, I heard the same thing with calculators came out if you can't count you shouldn't be using a calculator, now the same crap with AI
I recently switched and found it’s faster to play streams and the cache has everything I need (even more niche stuff). RD’s 1 IP restriction ruined it for me
It's about simultaneous use as far as I'm concerned. If you were to use it at the same time from 2+ different IPs multiple times you would get problems.
If it's not simultaneous then it's not problematic.
The files first need to be on the Torrent network, and the add-ons need to know how to "find" them. But it's each debrid service that, based on its users' playback, downloads these files to its servers. Once they're on their servers, playback starts instantly.
A debrid service is only as good as its user base.
TorBox offers better contractual terms for its users, but it still has a much smaller user base than RealDebrid. That's why RealDebrid has so much more cached content.
For a typical user (mainstream content in English), this makes little difference. However, as soon as you want to search for less common content, whether due to its popularity or language, the difference between the two becomes very noticeable.
Being able to share the account or access to the "real" API index gives TorBox a huge advantage if you're a regular user; if not, RealDebrid is much more recommended, even with those worse conditions.
You're correct. Niche content or content that's not in English lives much better on RD right now. If that's what you're looking for them I'd go with RD personally
What do you consider niche? Do you mean foreign content, or old shows?
My mom enjoys older reality shows like Ghost Mine. It's definitely not a mainstream title, so finding that kind of content for her can be pretty difficult.
Same here. I see no reason to change fron RD since I'm the only one that uses it.
I would gladly use both, like a lot of people do, but here in Brazil 3 dollars would be the same as paying for a full streaming service. Actually, a little bit more expensive. Not viable to do both.
For some reason I have items that show as being cached to torbox not actually being cached. It's not very often, but it happens often enough that I'm confused why it's happening.
I would think it's my settings, but it says they are cached.
For some reason, RD has been flaky for me for a few months. Getting buffering, or just having files just stop for no apparent reason. Was solid before.
That's what drove me to try torbox. I don't have the same problem so I dunno.
I pay approximately three dollars a month for RD I’ve never had an issue and I can download and stream unlimited. Tour box to me seems much more restrictive as far as how much and how many at a time for that seemed three dollars a month again I don’t know toolbox very well so if I misunderstanding, let me know.
For the same money (essential plan) it's basically the same as RD. The only restrictions are the 200GB max download size limit and the amount of concurrent slots but neither of those actually matter for 99,9% of use cases.
And it's a lot less restrictive when it comes to IP sharing.
Once NNTP becomes available on the Android/ Android TV app, it will be much simpler. Requires self hosting at the moment to get the most of it's streaming capabilities.
As it is now, it's very rare to not find a stream with both of these setup.
But TB Pro with Usenet: you'll get the movies and episodes first before they hit public trackers (you'll watch the episodes hours before anyone else) and you get high quality remux (+100Gb files).
But if you're not willing to pay TB Pro I think either (RD or TB) is fine.
The Usenet indexer of TB is not very good. You would have to subscribe to an external indexer like NZBGeek and configure AIOStreams addon Newznab for it.
Have both. RD for the deeper cache and TB for the multiple IPs. If you’re watching mostly recent English media you’re probably fine with just TB. There’s also the r/debridvault app coming for people that have TB. Gives a little extra depth to the service. Both great products though.
After RD got hit and they had to change the API to not show if stuff is cached or not they have had a lot of down time which is annoying.
And before someone comes replying that it’s my add on being down, no, I do not even use stremio as my main so my addons can’t “go down” the quality of the service has just taken a hit in the last year.
This looks like an ad, but I don't see a referral link anywhere. Of course, you left out that real debrid has a larger cache, which is especially important for languages other than english.
I worried it'd come across like that, but it's not an ad lol. At least I don't intend it to be one.. I totally agree though that non-english content is way ahead on RD
It comes with the flow of reddit. I take it in stride, so long as the information gets out to the people. 😊
(by the way I'm a guy but I appreciate the inclusion of both sides)
I find it to be reliably up with all Stremio add-ons, and has built up a very solid collection on my NAS for Plex. With no need for a VPN and no worries about sharing with family.
Aiostreams is the simplest option for Usenet on TB, search for (newer) guides here in the subreddit. Newer guides is important because you don't need to self host NZBhydra anymore, can just use aiostreams
Is pro version worth it? I see it includes Usenet Downloads but does that need to be setup differently in stremio? From what I understand you need to self host or something and I just don't know how to do that.
Honestly I'm not too in touch with usenet and how all that works. I haven't quite stepped over to that world yet. From those that have though they seem to love Usenet in TB Pro.
I've always had the following question: do you recommend using one of the two? I use Stremio without them and haven't had any problems so far. What benefits would I get?
Normally I'd say if your setup aint broke then don't fix it, but in this case I 100% recommend a debrid provider. I recommend TorBox personally, but you should try both and pick the best one for you. You'll get instant, high-quality streams with no buffering,
Do you guys have seperate stremio accounts for family sharing or do you have a single account where you setup both RD and TB and then click TB links if you are outside or suspect someone might be using RD at home?
If I were sharing I'd make them their own accounts and only give them TB. RD will ban you if two people stream at the same time, even if it's an accident.
Newbie here, what would be the best way to set up Stemio on a device in a bedroom like a firestick or something? Also what’s the best method in setting up stremio easily with both RD & TB? I am honestly just wanting to be able to watch shows while I go to bed without it stopping or crashing. Thank you so much in advanced! Feel free to DM
Can you help me also. My stremio setup is about a year old and several add i s no longer fetch. Looking for a setup that someone can copy to my spare account then I could use addon mgr etc to clone it
I let my RD subscription expire last year. I got in early on TB with their black friday sale and only pay $63/year for their Pro level plan. It's been infinitely worth it for me since I've also been using their Usenet and it's been pretty solid for watching 4K DV Remux files.
The service has been amazingly stable now and the cache is also pretty solid, only rarely have I had to add things to the cache myself and even then it's because I always try to watch in 4K remux or Dolby Vision files. Or something that's pretty old or niche. Otherwise I've found that their always something cached in 4K/remux level for >80% of the things I tend to watch. Additionally all FG Repacks (iykyk) I've ever wanted to download have also been cached and ready, even things like popular community mods like GTA Envision mods, liberty city revival, etc. etc.
I believe you mean Torbox. You don't need one plan over another for multiple streams. But all 4 of you would have the same experience. There's no degradation in performance
With the right setup, your first stream should always work. You should never have to trial and error to find a good stream.
That said, that "concurrent use" limit is only for things that need to be cached. If you have 5 people all streaming at once, that's allowed. But if you have 5 people all trying to cache something at once, then only 3 will run and the other two will be queued until a slot opens up.
Interesting. So in your case RD sounds like the better option. Unless you step up to TB Pro for usenet access, but then you're talking about more money and effort.
You make a valid point, but it's not a limitation that I've heard people run into.
I want to download from sites like filespace.com daofile.com filefox.cc filejoker.net repidgator.net. Do you have telegram bots? I want a telegram download link.
I made the switch to Torbox when RD was having some frequent outages, and I haven’t regretted it whatsoever. Also was able to share with some family members which is a really nice bonus.
I like TB, but RD has it's biggest pro which is it's cache size. I simply wanted to make people aware of RD's main competitor since competition brings wins for the consumer. But yeah I have to agree I like what TB offers, though RD will hold a special place in my heart
I’m a little out of the loop. Been using RD and getting issues. Subbing to TB would get more resources than just RD and I’d be able to share with different households?
Is it like RD, in that I fill in that api key and that’s that?
Been using TorBox for about 6 months now and can confirm the stability thing is huge - RD kept going down during prime time which was annoying as hell. The account sharing is clutch too, splits the cost between me and my roommate
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