--- title: Plex Pass costs $750 now, but this $0 networking trick... description: Plex's lifetime Pass price tripled to $750, prompting a search for alternatives. Using Tailscale, a free mesh VPN, you can bypass Plex Relay's bandwidth-capped... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/plex-pass-costs-750-now-but-this-0-networking-trick-streams-4k-from-anywhere-xghpwebtw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Plex Pass costs $750 now, but this $0 networking trick streams 4K from anywhere | daily.dev og:description: Plex's lifetime Pass price tripled to $750, prompting a search for alternatives. Using Tailscale, a free mesh VPN, you can bypass Plex Relay's bandwidth-capped... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/plex-pass-costs-750-now-but-this-0-networking-trick-streams-4k-from-anywhere-xghpwebtw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xghpWEBtw.png og:image:alt: Plex Pass costs $750 now, but this $0 networking trick streams 4K from anywhere og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Plex Pass costs $750 now, but this $0 networking trick streams 4K from anywhere **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Plex's lifetime Pass price tripled to $750, prompting a search for alternatives. Using Tailscale, a free mesh VPN, you can bypass Plex Relay's bandwidth-capped relay servers entirely. By joining all devices to the same Tailscale network, Plex sees remote devices as local, enabling direct 4K streaming without port forwarding, CGNAT issues, or security risks from exposed router ports. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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