Free
For personal use
$0 forever
$0 forever
- Bandwidth a month
- 5 GB
- Machines
- 100
- Previews and tunnels
- 100
- Public TCP addresses
- 1
- Console terminals
- 10
- Audit log
- 30 days
- Every feature
- Self-hosted relays and edges
Pricing
Every feature is free for personal use. Pro adds relay and edge traffic; Team adds people.
Pro
Personal use, more traffic
$8 a month
$80 a year
- Bandwidth a month
- 100 GB
- Machines
- 1,000
- Previews and tunnels
- 1,000
- Public TCP addresses
- 10
- Console terminals
- 100
- Audit log
- 90 days
- Everything in Free
- Extra traffic, $5 per 100 GB
- Invoices
Team
For teams
$15 a seat a month
$150 a seat a year
- Bandwidth a month
- 100 GB a seat
- Machines
- Unlimited
- Previews and tunnels
- Unlimited
- Public TCP addresses
- 10 a seat
- Console terminals
- Unlimited
- Audit log
- 365 days
- Members and roles
- Session recordings in your S3 bucket
- SSO and SCIM from 10 seats
- Audit log export
Team starts with a 14-day trial. Your card is taken at the start and billing begins on day 15. We remind you 3 days before, and cancelling during the trial costs nothing.
Bandwidth
Only bytes that pass through a server we run. If you run your own relay or edge, those bytes are not counted either.
Direct: never counted
Machines that can reach each other talk peer to peer. That is most traffic, and it is free on every plan.
Relayed: counted
When a network blocks the direct path, our relay carries the encrypted bytes. Those bytes count.
Public links: counted
Requests to a preview or tunnel pass through our edge. Those bytes count too.
- Encrypted between your machines. Nothing in the middle can read it.
- HTTPS. Encrypted to the edge, which reads the request to route it.
Direct traffic between two machines is never counted. Traffic through a Paperboat relay is counted. Requests to a public preview or tunnel through a Paperboat edge are counted.
When it runs out
Relayed connections, previews and tunnels pause until the next month. Direct connections keep working. pb and the console
name the limit and link to where you raise it.
Adding more
On Pro and Team, add 100 GB for $5, as many as you need. It is used after the plan's own allowance and lasts until that month's allowance resets.
On a team
Each member has their own 100 GB inside the team. Extra bandwidth goes into one pool the whole team draws from. A personal plan and a team share nothing.
Every feature by plan
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| Feature | Free | Pro | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limits | |||
| Relay and edge bandwidth a month | 5 GB | 100 GB | 100 GB a seat |
| Direct traffic between your machines | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Machines | 100 | 1,000 | Unlimited |
| Previews and tunnels running at once | 100 | 1,000 | Unlimited |
| Public raw-TCP tunnel addresses | 1 | 10 | 10 per seat |
| Terminals open in the web console at once | 10 | 100 | Unlimited |
| Terminals from the pb command | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Extra bandwidth, $5 per 100 GB | Not included | Included | Included |
| On your machines | |||
| Terminals that survive a dropped connection, with replay | Included | Included | Included |
| Remote commands | Included | Included | Included |
| SSH, SCP, SFTP and rsync with managed keys | Included | Included | Included |
| File sending and the Inbox | Included | Included | Included |
| Private access to ports | Included | Included | Included |
| ENV: end-to-end encrypted environment variables | Included | Included | Included |
| Config sync from a Git repository | Included | Included | Included |
| Public links | |||
| Previews and tunnels over HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and WebSocket | Included | Included | Included |
| Your own domains, with certificates | Included | Included | Included |
| Request inspector and replay | Included | Included | Included |
| Self-hosted relays and tunnel servers | Included | Included | Included |
| Access and people | |||
| Share a live terminal or a preview link | Included | Included | Included |
| Tags, policy file and API tokens | Included | Included | Included |
| Audit log kept for | 30 days | 90 days | 365 days |
| Team members with lasting access to shared machines | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Roles: owner, admin, billing, auditor, member | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Single sign-on (SAML, OIDC) and directory sync (SCIM) | Not included | Not included | From 10 seats |
| Audit log export and streaming | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Terminal session recordings, archived to your own S3 bucket | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Invoices and receipts | Not included | Included | Included |
Pricing questions
What exactly do I pay for?
Bandwidth that passes through servers we run: relays, when two machines cannot connect directly, and edges, which serve public previews and tunnels. Traffic that goes straight between your machines is never counted, on any plan.
What happens when the bandwidth runs out?
Relayed connections, previews and tunnels pause until the next month, or until you add more on a paid plan ($5 per 100 GB). Direct connections keep working, and you are told which limit was reached and where to raise it.
Are features locked behind a paid plan?
No. Free and Pro have the same features and differ in limits and bandwidth. Team adds what a company needs: members, roles and audit log export, and single sign-on and directory sync for teams of 10 seats or more.
Do I need Team to share with someone?
No. Sharing a live terminal or a preview link works on every plan. Team is for people who use each other's machines every day.
What counts as a browser terminal?
A terminal open in the web console. Terminals from the pb command are unlimited on every plan. A shared terminal counts once, however many of its 50 possible viewers are watching.
How does the Team trial work?
Team starts with a 14-day trial. Your card is taken at the start and billing begins on day 15. We remind you 3 days before, and cancelling during the trial costs nothing.
What if I host my own relay or tunnel server?
Traffic through servers you run is not counted against your plan. Self-hosting works on every plan, including Free.
What if a payment fails?
Paid benefits stay for 7 days while the payment is retried. After that the workspace drops to the free limits until the payment goes through. Your machines, sessions and settings are untouched.
What happens to my machines if I cancel?
You move back to Free. Machines, terminals and settings stay; only the limits change.
Start with the machine in front of you
Install Paperboat here, then on a second machine. Free for personal use, no card needed.
$ curl -fsSL https://get.pprbt.dev/install | bash > irm https://get.pprbt.dev/install.ps1 | iex