Tunnelbyte

WireGuard tunnels by the minute. CLI-first, ephemeral, pay-per-use.

$ tunnelbyte sin
✓ tunnel up via 5.223.57.171 (sin) - anonymous tier
  proxy:           http://127.0.0.1:1080
  export HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:1080
  ↑ 0 B  ↓ 0 B  ·  3s  ·  daily: 0 B / 1.0 GiB · 0s / 30m 00s
  (Ctrl-C to tear down)

What

• One static binary. No subscription, no GUI, no daemons.
• WireGuard tunnel to a regional exit node, brought up in roughly one second.
• Per-app routing by default (localhost HTTP proxy, no sudo). --all is opt-in.
• Three tiers: anonymous (no signup, 1 GiB / 30 min per day), free account (email magic link, 5 GiB / 2 h per day), paid (pay-as-you-go via Stripe).
• No payload logging, ever. We log flow metadata (bytes, peer pubkey, timestamps) for billing and abuse; never destinations or packet contents.

Install

# macOS / Linux (Homebrew)
brew install tunnelbyte/tap/tunnelbyte

# macOS / Linux (one-line)
curl -fsSL https://tunnelbyte.dev/install.sh | sh

# Debian / Ubuntu (apt)
curl -fsSL https://apt.tunnelbyte.dev/tunnelbyte.asc \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/tunnelbyte.asc > /dev/null
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/tunnelbyte.asc] https://apt.tunnelbyte.dev stable main" \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tunnelbyte.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update && sudo apt install tunnelbyte

Verify the apt signing key fingerprint at docs.tunnelbyte.dev/concepts/security before first install.

Docs

Full documentation at docs.tunnelbyte.dev.

Repo layout

This repo (tunnelbyte/tunnelbyte) is the public face of the project: release artifacts, issue tracker, security policy. Per-version release notes live on the Releases page (auto-generated from commits). The CLI is distributed in binary form under the license in LICENSE.

Source code for the CLI is not currently public. We may open it once post-launch signal warrants - if that matters to you, weigh in via an issue.

Reporting

• Bugs - open an issue. Include tunnelbyte version output.
• Feature requests - open an issue.
• Abuse complaints - email abuse@tunnelbyte.dev. Include the exit IP, a UTC timestamp, the destination, and the category. We respond within 24 h on weekdays. Policy details: tunnelbyte.dev/aup.
• Security vulnerabilities - email security@tunnelbyte.dev. See SECURITY.md.
• Anything else - hello@tunnelbyte.dev.

License

Proprietary binary license - see LICENSE.