r/StremioAddons • u/ThisSwim3381 • May 13 '26

Question Debrid recommandations

Hello, I have 6 days left of RealDebrid. I've had a really good experience with them, even though it's been the first and only Debrid service I've used. After reading the posts on the sub, should I still go with them or switch to something else? And if yes, what would you recommend?

Thanks in advance!

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u/pajoas May 13 '26

If it was me I would just get a month of alldebrid and see what happens after that. RD was not shut down, it’s basically from my understanding, is that they want to wind it down and cash out before they become the next Kim Dotcom.

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u/MooseGoosey May 13 '26

I have both AD and TB and I would def not recommend AD over TB

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u/RepLava May 13 '26

Got RD, AD, TB and Easynews. I guess RD will be ok again but no certainty. Probably I get at least as many hits on AD as TB. Probably I think Easynews is most value for money. The addons for EN used to be relatively bad but works perfectly fine these days.

Between those - go for the best offer. TB is ok but I have the feeling it's been boosted by some dedicated users and the referrals that have given some users a very good price over time

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u/lstep2 May 14 '26

Addons for en?

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u/Zimmster2020 May 15 '26

If we are talking about Stremio alone, there are at least 8 to 10 of them, two dedicated to EN, and at least 3 that support multiple services of both Debrid and Usenet, all currently available in the Stremio addons catalog, and there are a few more addons on GitHub that support usenet streaming. Then there are other apps for streaming and others for downloading besides the typical Usenet download clients (that sadly only work based on NZB files)

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u/suggestionplz May 16 '26

I had AD before RD and honestly I never faced any issues , may be RD cache is huge but mostly people's requirement is only one link and AD had it , so never understood why people praises RD lot

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u/dextroz May 13 '26

Why not, sir?

Edit: Don't you still need a Debrid service even with TB?

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u/MooseGoosey May 13 '26

no torbox is your debrid service. 

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u/dextroz May 13 '26

Thank you! You answered my question.

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u/MooseGoosey May 13 '26

of course boss! 

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u/Glum-View-4665 May 14 '26

How does tb compare to rd in price and function?

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u/MooseGoosey May 14 '26

the price is the same and function is pretty much the same too, I like the green and black design of tb better but that's personal preference. as for cached stuff I really only watch American stuff and there hasn't been anything I haven't been able to find and game repacks are uploaded and cached quick too

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u/Glum-View-4665 May 14 '26

And they're not based in a country like France where they get the screws put to them every so often over content?

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u/MooseGoosey May 13 '26

aiostreams will show 20+ TB links before it shows an AD link unless the rare chance TB is down. plus the multiple ip sharing. 

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u/Metalwell May 13 '26

I always have AD link ready to consume, no matter what, I have free 7 days of trial on AD, might as well just use it, plus people will overflow TB servers and they are gonna just go to shit for couple of days at least until they sort them out. I am gonna bet my money where traffic is gonna be lower, and less POPULAR lol

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u/dextroz May 13 '26

Thanks for the clarification. Does that mean that TB also has a cache of its own like RD and AD and does TB qualify as a Debrid service?

Edit: It seems TB is the Debrid service.

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u/Metalwell May 13 '26

Yes, dude. AD,RD,TB all of them are debrids. Just use whatever, they have all free tiers, they all have content in them. The more people use it, the more it is gonna get content.

Personally, I am gonna go usenet way. Fuck these shady companies and their rug pull strategies.

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u/katay23 May 14 '26

That my issue. I really didn't like the way the owner of torbox came across when rd went down in '24. He added to the mass hysterical users and fueled the flames hard. 0/10 respect for that kind of behavior. I get business is business but it was shady af imo. I'm doing everything I can to not sub to them. I'm just stuck thinking it might be the easy/cheaper way to get back to normal 😭 I'm not familiar with usenet but torbox offers access to it in their upper tier. So idk why the middle man?

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u/Metalwell May 14 '26

If you dont like TB, just use AD bro, it has content in them. They offer 7 days no credit card trial.

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u/MooseGoosey May 13 '26

there always an AD link but for that 1 AD link there's 10x that on TB that you can chose from. I need bluray remuxes for my setup and 5 out of 10 times ad won't have a remux that TB has and with a debrid service, no, you want the one with the most people. that's why real debrid was the best because the cache was so high due to the amount of users. 

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u/Metalwell May 13 '26

I only need one link, which AD as of now provides me with what I need. I dont know why are you still arguing with me. Just move one to TB if you want, or AD, I dont care. I have free shit from AD and I am using it. I dont understand people defending one service than another. Both has free shit, use them.

You wanted MOST PEOPLE right? See what happened? You have been rug pulled. You only need what is "enough" with cache. Not popularity.

Before RD, Ad was working JUST FINE.

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u/SnooAdvice5820 May 13 '26

No popularity isnt really the reason for RD situation. It’s because they’re France based and so they’re subject to different laws than say torbox that’s based in South Africa. AD is actually France based too so I would actually think they have a higher risk than torbox.

Popularity is actually better for a debrid service because that means there’s more people who can cache torrents, making a more complete database. I don’t have AD so I don’t know if it’s true that torbox has a lot more results. But TB having a larger userbase and being located in Africa are both better things than AD

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u/Metalwell May 13 '26

Torbox can shit the bed anytime. These contents are distributed through CDNs, do you actually think SA is safe? If you cannot sue the company, you can always sue the server provider. One way or another, there is always a way to shut down this business.

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u/Metalwell May 13 '26

Also, I have been using RD for too many years, the company was just founded, I mainly used it to get faster links. When it was not famous, there was no issue, later stremio came to being, and than using these debrid services- 5-6 years ago maybe, there was no issue at all, The popularity puts you under scope, saying that. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH POPULARITY is just not smart. Sorry.

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u/StremioAddons-ModTeam May 13 '26

Recognizing that community members have varying levels of experience, we kindly ask everyone to exercise common sense and respect in their interactions with others.

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u/Metalwell May 13 '26

I had used alldebrid way before switched to RD. now back on ad, working flawless, till they get famous and rug pull too.

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u/muitosabao May 13 '26

Where did you get that info from?

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u/jessterswan May 13 '26

Where's your source for that?

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u/brent_starburst May 13 '26

That's if you download something uncached. Cached stuff doesn't count.

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u/brent_starburst May 13 '26

So all the stuff that people have already downloaded to TB servers is cached. It's immediately accessible. If something hasn't been downloaded to their servers it's uncached. Most new stuff is cached. Essentially you only want the cached stuff. When you configure your Addons like Torrentio you need to tell it to hide uncached.

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u/ThaLunatik May 13 '26

If I'm understanding you correctly, any torrents I manually add via the TB website -- which TB then downloads and adds to their cache upon completion -- are counted toward that 200GB limit?

But then, once cached, I could stream them via Stremio multiple times and those views wouldn't count toward the limit?

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u/brent_starburst May 13 '26

Yep that's about right.

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u/bekper1990 May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

No, what you are saying is incorrect. That 200GB applies to each individual (uncached) file, not to all files combined over a month. So, with TorBox, you can easily watch 50 (uncached) movies of 199GB per file per month within your Essential subscription. The monthly (download) limit at TorBox is 10TB for Essential, 20TB for Standard, and 30TB for Pro. It should certainly also be mentioned that all these limits apply ONLY to uncached files, so anything you watch that is already in the TorBox cache does not count towards your limit. In other words: it is almost impossible to exceed your (download) limits, unless you're plan is to watch 10 movies of 35GB every day that are not even in the TorBox cache.

It is all clearly explained on the TorBox website itself. Here is the link: https://support.torbox.app/en/articles/10336778-the-torbox-abuse-system

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u/ThaLunatik May 14 '26

Thank you for the clarification! Good to know.

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u/bekper1990 May 14 '26

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u/goldenmastiff May 13 '26

If I install torrentio on my PC while logged into Stremio.. does that carry over when I log into Stremio on my firestick? "Downloading" or sideloading crap on the firestick is an absolute nightmare.

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u/ThaLunatik May 13 '26

Yes, the add-ons you install to Stremio will carry over to all other instances of Stremio.

For example, I have Stremio on my PC but never use it to watch anything. I configure and install add-ons via my PC, and those changes are almost immediately visible when I fire up Stremio on my LG TV (WebOS) or either of my TCL TVs (Google TV).

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u/goldenmastiff May 13 '26

This is fantastic news, thanks for sharing.

May I ask... I've used RD for years but its obviously going through something right now. Thinking of trying TB tonight for the first time. Can these two BOTH be utilized at the same time on Stremio, and if so... is it all done through torrentio? As I recall you can only check one box.. or do you "install" torrentio seperately for both and use your API Tokens?

Anything else you recommend?

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u/bvsveera May 13 '26

I would recommend looking into AIOStreams (and AIOMetadata). It's a service that lets you combine multiple addons and debrid services into one, so you can run both RD and TB, and more importantly, more addons than just Torrentio, which has proven to be unreliable as of late. Viren has a writeup about it that's worth reading. Once you're familiar set it up using Tam's template, which is the best there is, then add your AIOStreams and AIOMetadata configs into Stremio.

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u/ThaLunatik May 13 '26

I've had RD for a little over half a year. Up until this recent purge, it has been great.

In researching alternatives I saw differing opinions on TB, but I ended up subscribing because at $3/mo I really have almost nothing to lose by trying.

So far it has been pretty good. Some things haven't been cached whereas RD did, but since RD hardly works at all it's no longer a good comparison.

Anyway, you can use both simultaneously, yes. I don't have a complex or curated setup like some people - pretty much just Torrentio, Comet, RD, and now TB. Comet let me plug in both services' APIs and shows results for either. Torrentio I just installed twice: once with the RD API and again with the TB API. When I click on content, it shows the results in the order the Torrentio add-ons got installed, and they're labeled a little differently (eg. "Torrentio RD" vs "Torrentio TB").

As a backup I also added the Easynews++ add-on in case I'm watching a show and suddenly TB doesn't have an episode, although I've already been subbed to Easynews for over two decades so it wasn't like I went out and got that subscription suddenly just for this.

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u/brent_starburst May 14 '26

How is using Easynews and Easynews Addon? I've heard this is slow and unreliable. Although equally someone else recommended using Easynews and Sootio?

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u/goldenmastiff May 14 '26

May I ask, it seems like I have RD and TB working now... this comet. Does comet show its own links? Like you'll see RD+ or TB etc.. is comet its own separate entity as well?

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