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 on endpoints, traffic, requests, and retention, and the page indicates credit card verification is needed for some capabilities, so the offer is useful but clearly limited compared with the $8/month Hobbyist plan.
What's included in the free tier
- $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
- 5GB
- HTTP/S requests
- 100k
- team members
- 1
- development domain
- 1
- concurrent agents
- 3
- No additional usage beyond credit
- 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
- 5GB included
- HTTP/S requests
- 100k included
- team members
- 3 included
- concurrent agents
- Unlimited
- traffic inspector retention
- 72 hours
- No additional usage beyond credit
- 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)
- SSO & RBAC, SCIM add-ons available
Pricing extracted from ngrok's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
