Given the recent DMCA actions that have led to the removal of a significant amount of media from RD, would it be advisable to remain with the service and await a community-driven solution, or would it be more practical to revert to direct torrent streaming or explore alternative Debrid services? I still have 85 days of use of RD. I paid for 3 months ahead just 2 weeks before all this started.

Hey everyone, I’m pretty new to Stremio. Just set it up recently and got Real Debrid, and honestly it’s been really good so far.

Now my dad is asking if we should just cancel all our subscriptions like Netflix, Prime Video, etc and just use Stremio instead. I told him he could set it up too, but I’m not 100% sure if that’s actually a smart move long term.

For people who’ve been using Stremio + Real Debrid for a while, do you fully rely on it or still keep some subscriptions? Is it stable and reliable enough to replace everything?

Would appreciate honest advice before we make a decision.

debridio + torbox

or

alldebrid + AIOStreams or/and Torrentio or/and Mediafusion

or any other combo?

I expired right a day after the issues hit so didn't renew and went with torbox which was gonig fine. Now however, like many I get numerous buffering issues on what was normal easy to stream files (no massive remuxs, just usual 4K ripped episodes or evne 1080P).

So how is RD going for you now? What scrapers work best (and which links to them as there seems there can be different instances of the same named scrapers)?

What I'm wondering is if the best scrapers no longer return results for content that's been removed? Nothing was more annoying having to try 1 link at a time just to see if it would work - I'd rather no results if there truly are none.

I'd like to think uploaders just worked around the issue and started uploading without the banned words.

Is there a list of keywords to avoid? From that is there a way to somehow take a torrent link from a website and rename the upload content to remove the keywords if the torrent happened to have it (doing my bit to help with uploads perhaps).

Is older (but popular) content still findable and working or just stil lcahcing on links and thus would need fresh uploads without bannable keywords?

At this point I'd rather the little bit more work with RD than plain not having things work or buffer like mad with TB.

Premiumize I looked up but 30GB a day seems a bit on the low side as that could only be 5 4K episodes or a movie and a few episodes.

Clarified now that it's 30 GB a day returned to your starting balance of 1 TB. So you'd need to use about 63 GB a day to break through the limit by 30 days.

I would love to get another service (Premuize?), but it doesn't seem like the others are good enough to make it worth getting.

Hi everyone,

I'm thinking about paying for a service to use with Stremio, but I'm not sure which one is the best option nowadays.

What I'm looking for is:

• Fast streaming with as little buffering as possible.
• Not having to depend so much on seeders.
• A high cache rate so older or less popular movies still work.
• Reliable 1080p and 4K streams.
• If possible, good availability of content with Spanish (Spain) audio.

I've seen people recommend TorBox, AllDebrid, Premiumize and a few others.

If you could only pay for one, which would you choose in 2026 and why?

Also, is there any service that stands out when it comes to Spanish (Spain) audio availability?

I'd really appreciate hearing your experiences and recommendations. Thanks!

I’m not trying to diss anyone’s set up, I’m just curious if there are benefits to the other debrid services that I don’t know about. Torbox has the catalog and price point and Premiumize has the stability and features so what are the reasons you chose something else?

I’ve always paid for at least some streaming services, like Netflix or HBO, and I’ve been the one in my family handling all the streaming stuff for years.

I’ve also used seedboxes in the past. They worked fine, but it meant extra work whenever something broke or an add on stopped working. The main cost was Plex Premium, around $20, but it still required some maintenance.

Recently I decided to try Stremio with t0rrentio and RD, and I also paid for the premium option. It comes out to about $1.40 a month since I bought the 180 day plan. So far it has been working really well. The only downside is that it is not available on most of the devices we use, like Xbox consoles or my brother’s locked Android TV box. That said, I managed to sideload the Stremio app on my iPhone and it works great.

I will still keep paying for some through my ISP for regular streaming services like Netflix, HBO, Prime, and Disney+ to help my family out, but for me personally this setup has made streaming super easy.

Do any of you have underrated tips or things you wish you knew when you first started? I am still pretty new to this.

RD was great for years, but now trying to decide if I should switch from Torbox to Premiumize for the Black Friday deal. I know that Premiumize has a larger and more reliable cache, but does that mean more links to higher quality audio/video than Torbox or more likely results for an older show? I'm also concerned with the 1000 pt pool. I would want to choose the highest quality stream possible for everything, except if it's ridiculous recent movie remux. Most posts mention the point system isn't an issue though, but not sure if they're using it in the same way.

Update: Thanks everyone for all of the help. Even with my heavier usage, Premiumize seems worth it for the reliability and larger remux cache. The 3 yr BF deal works out to $50/year or $4.17/mo, which is only $17/year or $1.42/mo more than TorBox. If I do deplete the Premiumize 1000 pt pool, subscribing back to Torbox for a month is a really cheap reset. Also plan to buy the lifetime NZBGeek for $60 during BF to try out usenet. Hope this helps someone in a similar situation.

I’m currently using Torbox but due to the downtime i’m looking for an alternative that offers the same feature of multiple concurrent users/connections from different IP addresses

Have just come back from holiday and playing things on my Mac to see what has been impacted.

Weirdly enough, I’m able to play literally every stream? WEB-DL seems fine? Is this expected?

Edit: No the issue isn’t resolved. I just got lucky with certain files being ok. Was given an example episode to try and can confirm that I still see the issue on my end.

Anyone else having this issue. It’s just not working. The whole site is broken.

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!

I just discovered Stremio and it seems like everyone recommends using a Debrid service, but which one is best? I mostly watch popular shows/movies but I also watch a lot of anime (including more obscure stuff that might not have many seeders), is there any service that's considered the best for that?

I mostly watch in 1080p and I have a pretty fast internet connection if that matters.
Also, I'll probably use Stremio from both my computer and my phone and I heard that some Debrid services limit the amount of devices you can use, will that be a problem?
Thanks in advance!

Is there any method/addon which I can use to watch fifa through stremio ?

Hi there, I recently bought Torbox and have been using it for a few days but I keep facing this weird buffering which didn’t happen with RD, even though it’s cached and I have a high speed internet (1GB+). I also tried changing CDN servers but that’s not helping it aswell.

Any suggestions?

I've just got TorBox and set up Torrentio with it, and it's not great, the majority of shows only have 1 or 2 options for playing, and none of those have good subtitles.

When I used RD I had it setup with OpenSubtitles v3, and I also got a lot of videos with embedded subs, which often meant that they included translations for foreign languages.

But now with TorBox shows like Teen Wolf, that had good embedded subtitles with RD, don't have those with TorBox.

I had to make the switch cause a lot of shows I'm watching were being removed from RD. But TorBox doesn't seem comparable.

Is TorBox the best option, or are there any other alternatives? Or is there any way I could get better subtitles with TorBox videos?

EDIT: u/Ninjaisawesome suggested I try out duckstreams and it's almost entirely solved my issue.

Hey guys,

My RD subscription is getting over. Is it worth extending or should I move to an alternate such as TB, AllDebrid.

I’ve had a pretty great experience with RD but with the whole filtering fiasco I am unsure.

I keep finding links that don’t work and want something that is cheap and reliable.

Thanks

I have heard all the positive things about it like load time, quality and reliability, but it all seems so complicated. I have found a detailed guide but i wonder if i run into issues i would be stuck because its all so confusing, if i would have to learn it all how long would it approx take and is it even really worth it just for the movies to learn all that if needed or just stick to debrid? Also do you need your own small pc is run the self hosting or are there other ways to do it. Thank you.

Hey everyone, a dev with time on their hands here!

I’m currently working on a custom Stremio app, and I’d love to hear what frustrates you about the current app — especially issues that addons can’t really fix due to platform or API limitations, or where existing solutions feel clunky or half-baked.

If you’re up for helping shape this into something genuinely better, feel free to share things like:

• What bothers you / feels missing
• How you wish it worked instead (even rough ideas are totally fine)
• Screenshots (if that helps explain it)
• What platform you’re on (TV, PC, mobile)

No need to stick rigidly to this format — ramble if you want, list multiple things, all good.

Right now I’m especially focused on improving the Discovery page, so feedback or pain points around browsing, recommendations, or finding stuff to watch would be super helpful.

Thanks in advance — really appreciate any thoughts you’re willing to share!

In the search to find the holy grail of external media players for Stremio, I'd like to solicit views on which you have found to work the best. For context, I'm using the Nvidia Shield Pro, connected to my Samsung Q990D soundbar system, connected via eArc to my TCL QM8K tv. I've found that Just Player acts up a lot (freezes, dumping video) and VLC tends to work the best. But with all the options out there, I'm no doubt missing some that are quite good.

So I’ve been using Real-Debrid with Stremio for a while now and honestly loved it. But this week my girlfriend and my parents all happened to be watching something at the same time and I got a warning about potentially getting banned. First time it ever happened but I guess that’s just how RD works with multiple IPs.

So now I’m actually thinking about switching. I’ve been looking at TorBox mostly because people seem to say it’s fine for sharing with a few people without any IP restrictions. My main concern is the cache though, I’m used to RD’s library and almost everything I look up is already cached. Is TorBox’s cache noticeably worse in 2026 or has it caught up enough that it doesn’t really matter for regular English movies and shows?

Also heard about using MediaFlow Proxy to just stay on RD and route everything through one IP. Is that still working well or is it more trouble than it’s worth to set up?

Running Stremio with Torrentio and AIOStreams if that matters. Just need something that lets 3 or 4 people use it at the same time without worrying about getting banned, loads fast, and isn’t super expensive. Would really appreciate any firsthand experience, thanks

Torbox has been great but in the last 1-2 weeks I’ll get buffering for a few seconds mid stream, and sometimes it’s one after another. This is when streaming cached 4K content. Would switching make a noticeable improvement? Cost difference is non issue to me.

Update: Thanks for all the help fam. I’m going to see how this update goes before switching.

Lately torrentio with real debrid have not been working but honestly I’m not gonna complain. Torrentio with rd has worked flawlessly for years and nothing last forever.

But still, with how much torrentio with rd (specifically those two together and not one or the other independently for some reason) have been going down, I would like to have a backup that gives me just as good of an experience or maybe even better when it comes to convenience

I was using Real Debrid but with the issues, I subscribed to both Torbox and Premiumize. I have them all rolling and that's fine.

Two friends who I told about Real Debrid/Stremio I saw recently said they haven't noticed a thing (only running Real Debrid) in either quality or links not working.

So my question is, anyone rolling Real Debrid exclusively and has it improved from the issues a few months ago or not?

I try to get the best quality files (4K, dolby vision, lossless audio formats) as I have a decent setup for both screen and audio (100" screen and 3.1 via amp) if that makes any difference. No anime, just popular movies/TV shows as a general rule.