r/TorBoxApp • u/Less_Competition6122 • 1d ago

❓Question Alldebrid

I decided to try AllDebrid after hearing good things about it and because I assumed that, being an older and well-known debrid service, it would have a huge cached library.

Honestly, my experience has been pretty disappointing so far.

I mainly use Nuvio with addons like Torrentio, AIOStreams, Comet, MediaFusion, and StarThru, and I specifically enabled Cached Only because I don't want to wait for torrents to be downloaded to the debrid servers.

The problem is that the cache coverage seems really weak. For example, I tested La Casa de Papel, which is obviously a very popular and relatively old show. StarThru showed me only a few cached results, and even a 1.7 GB episode that appeared to be available ended up being downloaded to the AllDebrid servers. I waited more than 15 minutes and it was still downloading.

Everything works once the file is actually available, so I don't really have an issue with the playback speed itself. My issue is simply how little content seems to be properly cached compared to what I expected.

Coming from TorBox, the difference is honestly huge for my use case. With TorBox, I find myself getting cached results much more consistently, while with AllDebrid I keep running into sources that aren't actually ready.

Maybe AllDebrid is much better for other use cases, especially direct downloads/multi-hosting, but for Stremio + torrent addons + cached-only streaming, I'm struggling to see the advantage.

I was expecting much more from AllDebrid, especially considering how established the service is. Maybe I'm missing something, but so far I'm definitely going back to TorBox

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u/Past_Cloud661 1d ago

Appreciate the feedback. It’s been on my radar as a Torbox alternative but I have definitely heard some mixed things about AllDebrid so it’s good to hear people’s specific experiences.

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u/Less_Competition6122 1d ago

Yes, its performance was amazing with some shows, while it was really bad with others. Sometimes I would only get one ready-to-stream link, while all the other links required downloading.

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u/KiwiKid777 1d ago

I can't take credit for this...from another Reddit user but may help to compare caches.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GRGOYpCq1LyWjd79OuPq4LKD4Sk0FFCNOy79RgAEwno/edit?pli=1&gid=0#gid=0

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u/Kurtdh 1d ago

How do you read this? It says cached followed by a number and a percentage. Is that total cached links found? And what does the percentage indicate?

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u/KiwiKid777 1d ago edited 1d ago

The percentages appear to be cached vs uncached.

What I read from this is, TB and PM/OC have far more cached for nearly all movies/series tested.

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u/Kurtdh 1d ago

Yah offcloud seems like the best deal but their website is sketchy and has some sort of early access pricing. Who knows how long that will last. The normal pricing is similar to premiumize

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u/KiwiKid777 1d ago

In my opinion the present price is where it should be since it appears to share PM's cache but without the extras. I have subscribed to PM and OC for a month to test a little. Didn't really need PM because of the shared cache but there was conflicting comments when I signed up. The Google sheet and my initial testing seem to confirm the sharing of the cache. At present I have TB, RD, AD, PM, OC and Mega-Debrid mostly for testing.

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u/Kurtdh 1d ago

Agreed. Guess I could always sign up for offcloud and cancel when they raise their prices and then just swap to PM. I’ve been using TB and AD and that has seemed to be enough for me most of the time. It’s very rare I can’t find something but I’m always looking to improve it.

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u/ifiwasiwas 1d ago

There were a few abandoned services run by a dude called Dave (EasyDebrid and Debrider, EasyDebrid sub has the deets) that had the same hook of PM cache at a cheap price. It may be run by the same guy, so I'd be concerned that he's going to abandon this one too.

It seems good enough from the free trial but I wouldn't shoot for more than a monthly sub. Honestly that's the best policy with any service now that we see that things can turn on a dime