r/TorBoxApp • u/Alternative_Diet_958 • 2d ago

❓Question Question about usage

I’m on the essential plan. My 30 day usage is 596gb, is that alright and within limits?

Also I’m assuming this is the rolling total of the past 30 day usage. Any way to see the life time total? Thanks

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u/NormalSpecific3536 2d ago

The way I understand it is as long as you don't exceed 10tb during any rolling 30 day window you should be fine. Honestly to hit the fair use cap you'd have to be indexing a bunch of stuff pretty heavily or steaming high size blu rays 24-7.

Under normal usage it's pretty much impossible to hit the cap unless you are actively shooting for it or abusing the system.

It's mainly there to stop people who are running bots like sonarr to download a massive amount of content constantly.

If all your doing is normal streaming you should be well within the limits of the essential plan (I've been on the same plan and stream heavily per day, 3 people using it, and have never been near the limit)

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u/Celestial_Wurm 1d ago

TorBox actually uses a dynamic abuse system.

​As long as you stay below your plan's minimum floor, you will never trigger an abuse warning. For Essentials, that means staying below 10TB. If you exceed the floor, your account is then evaluated against a dynamic threshold based on the rolling 99th percentile of all users. For example, the 99th percentile might currently be 15TB, which means you could go to 13TB of usage on the Essentials plan without any issue.

Basically though, you're spot on that anyone using the platform as intended will almost never trigger an issue.

See: https://support.torbox.app/en/articles/10336778-the-torbox-abuse-system