How is traffic billed?

Your LRO bill has two parts: a subscription that keeps an agent active, and the traffic that agent relays beyond what its plan includes. Both are priced in coin.

1. The subscription (per agent)

Each agent you want to use carries a subscription — a recurring fee, charged per plan period, that keeps that agent active. It is a flat fee independent of how much you use the agent, and buys two things: the agent stays active for the plan’s duration, and it receives an included bucket of traffic.

An agent without an active subscription is inactive — it cannot open tunnels. The subscription is what turns an installed agent into a usable one. Plans differ in length and price (a short monthly plan, or longer plans that cost less per month); the current plans are shown in the panel’s Pricing.

Subscriptions can auto-renew from your balance at the end of each period. If the balance can’t cover a renewal when the period ends, the agent deactivates until you top up and renew.

2. The traffic (beyond the bucket)

While the included bucket lasts, relayed bytes draw it down at no extra charge. Once it runs out, additional traffic is billed by the byte — currently about 0.1 coin per GB — drawn from your coin balance or a traffic package you buy. Only relayed bytes count: an open but idle tunnel moves no data and so adds no traffic cost (though, as above, the agent’s subscription still applies).

For what different protocols actually cost, see how much traffic and coin will I use?

Coin, the unit

Both parts are denominated in coin, an internal unit you top up with real currency (roughly one euro per coin). Coin is tracked to three decimal places, so small amounts of traffic translate to small, exact charges rather than being rounded up.

Running out mid-session

If an agent exhausts its traffic while a tunnel is live, LRO pauses the tunnel rather than tearing it down. With auto-topup enabled — a chosen package and a spending limit you set — a top-up runs and the paused tunnel resumes without the connection bouncing. Subscription expiry is different: when the period ends and can’t renew, the agent deactivates until you renew it.

Everything is on the ledger

Each subscription charge, top-up and traffic deduction is written as a transaction in the panel’s billing history. Balance changes and the traffic they bought are recorded together, so what you were charged and what you received always reconcile.