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Relay reference

Every Azzamo relay, what it is for, which are free and which need Premium, plus Tor access and rate limit details.

Azzamo runs five public relays across three regions. All of them are reachable over Tor, and all of them publish a NIP-11 information document you can inspect live on the relays page.

Free relays

Url Purpose
wss://nostr.azzamo.net General purpose relay, the front door
wss://inbox.azzamo.net DMs and groups, built for private messaging

Anyone can add these today. They are rate limited for accounts without active Premium. That limit exists to keep the relays healthy for everyone, and Premium removes it.

Premium relays

Url Region
wss://relay.azzamo.net EU
wss://us.azzamo.net US
wss://asia.azzamo.net Asia Pacific

These accept connections from keys with active Premium and have no rate limits. Adding the one closest to you is the single biggest difference you can make to how fast your client feels.

Choosing a relay set

A healthy relay list balances three things: something close to you for speed, something well connected for reach, and more than one of everything so a single outage is not a blackout. Relays disappear without notice, so redundancy matters more than any individual choice.

Inbox storage

The inbox relay keeps DMs and group messages. For free accounts that storage is temporary. Active Premium makes it permanent, which matters if you rely on Nostr for conversations rather than only public notes.

Updated: August 20, 2026