Own your links. Cap the heavy stuff.
Links are unlimited by count on both plans and are never recycled or evicted to make room. Plans only govern concurrency, size, storage, and transfer.
Free
Start sharing with agents on a public link
Unlimited owned links. Live tunnels and storage are capped.
- 3 live tunnels at a time
- 100 MB per publish
- 1 GB total storage
- 2 GB live transfer / month
- Readable assigned labels
- Opens analytics
Pro
More concurrency, storage, and link controls
Named subdomains, password protection, richer analytics.
- 10 live tunnels at a time
- 1 GB per publish
- 50 GB total storage
- 25 GB live transfer / month
- Request a specific subdomain
- Password protection (1h–30d)
- Opens, bytes, referrer, country
Every difference, side by side.
The same limits we enforce in production. No hidden rows.
| Capability | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Links | ||
| Owned links | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Labels recycled or evicted to free room | Never | Never |
| Named subdomain | Readable assigned labels | Request a specific subdomain |
| Live tunneling | ||
| Simultaneous live tunnels | 3 | 10 |
| Live transfer | 2 GB / month | 25 GB / month |
| HTTPS and WSS forwarding | Included | Included |
| Viewer Origin & WebSocket lifecycle preserved | Included | Included |
| Published hosting | ||
| Per-publish deployment size | 100 MB | 1 GB |
| Total published storage | 1 GB | 50 GB |
| Published views | Uncapped | Uncapped |
| Serves while your machine is offline | Included | Included |
| Keep a published label when replacing it | — | Included |
| Protection & analytics | ||
| Password protection | — | 1 hour – 30 days |
| Analytics | Opens | Opens, bytes, referrer, country |
| Interface | ||
| Local MCP tools | 17 | 17 |
| Hosted MCP connector | Included | Included |
| CLI | Included | Included |
How that compares.
serve is not a pure tunnel and not a pure host: one account-owned link can be live from your machine now and hosted after it sleeps. Dedicated services usually do one side or the other.
| Capability | serve | ngrok | Cloudflare Tunnel + Pages | Vercel | Netlify |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Localhost / local-service tunneling | Yes | Yes | Yes | — | — |
| Static hosting that survives your machine | Yes | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| One owned link covering both modes | Yes | — | — | — | — |
| Useful on a free tier | Yes | Yes, capped | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Choose your own subdomain without owning a domain | Pro | Paid | Needs your zone | Needs your domain | Needs your domain |
Directional comparison, checked 2026-09-11 against each provider’s public pricing and documentation; third-party plans change, so verify before relying on it. serve figures come from Serve’s current plan-cap contract. Sources: ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel, Vercel, Netlify.
Included on both plans.
- Unlimited account-owned links
- Both residencies: live tunnel and published hosting
- HTTPS and WSS end to end to the public edge
- No account or install for viewers
- Local MCP server and hosted MCP connector