ngrok gives new accounts a $5 one-time signup credit rather than an ongoing free tier. The free plan includes $5 of one-time included usage, up to 3 online endpoints, and up to 1GB data transfer.
About
ngrok is an all-in-one cloud networking platform that provides secure tunnels, API gateway routing, traffic policy, and observability for services running anywhere. It can expose localhost or private services through secure tunnels, route HTTP, TCP, and TLS traffic, and apply request and response policies such as authentication, redirects, header changes, rate limits, WAF rules, and custom responses.
The free offering includes $5 of one-time usage credit, up to 3 online endpoints, up to 1 GB of data transfer, up to 20k HTTP/S requests, 4k HTTP requests per minute, 5k TCP/TLS connections per month, 3 concurrent agents, and 1 team member. It is suited to developers who need public URLs for local apps, webhook testing, remote access, or lightweight production traffic with clear usage caps.
- Secure tunnels for localhost and private services
- API gateway and webhook routing
- HTTP, TCP, and TLS protocol support
- Traffic policy with authentication and rewrites
- Traffic inspector and log export
- Up to 3 online endpoints
- 1 GB data transfer included
- 20k HTTP/S requests included
- 3 concurrent agents
Free Tier Value
This free tier includes a one-time $5 usage credit, so its recurring monthly value can’t be treated like a normal subscription allowance. It also has real caps and friction: only 3 endpoints, 1 GB transfer, 20k HTTP/S requests, and an interstitial page on HTTP/S endpoints, so it lands well below the $8/month Hobbyist plan even though it’s useful for light testing.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- $5 of one-time included usage
- Up to 3 online endpoints
- Up to 1GB data transfer
- Up to 20k HTTP/S requests
- Interstitial page on HTTP/S endpoints
- Assigned dev domain for public endpoints
- 1 team member
- 3 concurrent agents
- 1 development domain
- 1 TCP address
- 24 hours of traffic inspector retention
- 1 user account
- Unlimited service users
- Basic email support with best-effort response times
See ngrok pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Hobbyist
- online endpoints
- 3
- data transfer
- 5 GB
- HTTP/S requests
- 100k
- team members
- 1
- included usage
- $10/month
- $10 of monthly included usage
- Up to 3 online endpoints
- 5GB data transfer included
- 100k HTTP/S requests included
- No interstitial page on HTTP/S endpoints
- ngrok-branded domains for public endpoints
- 1 team member
Pay-as-you-go
- online endpoints
- Unlimited
- data transfer
- 5 GB included
- HTTP/S requests
- 100k included
- team members
- 3 included
- included usage
- $20/month
- $20 of monthly included usage
- Additional usage billed monthly
- Unlimited online endpoints
- Unlimited data transfer (5GB included)
- Unlimited HTTP/S requests (100k included)
- No interstitial page on HTTP/S endpoints
- Bring your own domain for public endpoints
- Unlimited team members (3 included)
Enterprise
- SSO/SAML and SCIM
- SLAs with dedicated support
- Contracts, invoicing, and security reviews
- HIPAA, SOC 2, BAAs, and custom terms
- Purchase through AWS Marketplace
- Per-device and per-customer pricing
Pricing extracted from ngrok's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is ngrok free forever?
No. ngrok gives new accounts a one-time signup credit of about $5.00, spent at normal usage rates, then the account moves to pay-as-you-go.
What happens when you exceed ngrok's free tier?
Once the signup credit runs out the account moves to pay-as-you-go pricing. ngrok's cheapest published paid plan is Hobbyist at $8 / month.
What is ngrok's free tier worth?
ngrok's free tier is worth about $5.00 in signup credit. That maps to an FTV score of 28/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
