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tunnelbyte upgrade [flags]
Opens a Stripe Checkout page in your browser. Add a card, confirm, and the next tunnelbyte session bills at €0.01/min + €0.02/GiB, pro-rated per second and per byte, with no daily quota. You must have a free account (tunnelbyte signup) first.

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Example

$ tunnelbyte upgrade
✓ Opening Stripe Checkout in your browser...
   https://checkout.stripe.com/c/pay/cs_live_...

# ...add card in browser, click Confirm...

$ tunnelbyte ash
✓ tunnel up via 51.34.65.83 (ash) - paid tier
  ↑ 0 B  ↓ 0 B  ·  3s  ·  €0.000

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Flags

FlagDefaultPurpose
--print-urloffPrint the Checkout URL instead of opening a browser. Useful in SSH / headless environments.

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What you get on the paid tier

  • Unmetered. No daily byte or session-time cap. Sessions run as long as you keep them up.
  • Any region.
  • API access via the same bearer token the CLI uses (in your config dir, see overview). The same POST /v1/sessions endpoint works for scripts and CI - see the API docs.

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Pricing

  • €0.01 per minute of session time, pro-rated per second.
  • €0.02 per GiB of traffic (sum of bytes_in + bytes_out), pro-rated per byte.
  • The running cost shows live in the status line while a tunnel is up. The canonical billed amount is whatever your monthly Stripe invoice says.
  • See tunnelbyte billing for the billing portal (card updates, invoices, cancellation).

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See also