{
    "meta": {
        "title": "Nostr Public Relay Directory",
        "description": "Editorially-curated directory of 25 notable public Nostr relays by access model, focus, operator and relay software.",
        "generated": "2026-07-17T14:13:42+00:00",
        "version": "1.0",
        "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
        "license_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "source": "https://d-central.tech/nostr-relay-directory/",
        "record_count": 25,
        "disclaimer": "Curated snapshot (July 2026). Nostr relays change access policy and go offline frequently; this directory lists notable, established relays by their stable characteristics (operator, access model, focus) rather than volatile ones (price, uptime, event counts). For LIVE relay status and uptime, use a live crawler such as nostr.watch. Fields that could not be confirmed from a public source are left blank."
    },
    "rows": [
        {
            "relay": "wss://relay.damus.io",
            "operator": "Damus (OpenSats-funded)",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "General",
            "software": "strfry",
            "region": "United States",
            "notable": "The default bootstrap relay bundled in the Damus iOS client; a canonical general-purpose relay.",
            "info_url": "https://damus.io"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://nos.lol",
            "operator": "nos.lol (community)",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "General",
            "software": "strfry",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "Widely-used free strfry relay shipped as a default in many Nostr clients.",
            "info_url": "https://nos.lol"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://relay.primal.net",
            "operator": "Primal",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "General",
            "software": "strfry",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "Public read/write endpoint in front of Primal's caching service that powers the Primal apps; the relay itself is open (a separate Premium tier and Primal Trust web-of-trust filtering exist).",
            "info_url": "https://primal.net"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://relay.snort.social",
            "operator": "Snort (v0l)",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "General",
            "software": "memlay",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "Fast in-memory relay (runs v0l's 'memlay') tied to the Snort web client.",
            "info_url": "https://snort.social"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://offchain.pub",
            "operator": "Undisclosed",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "General",
            "software": "strfry",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "General-purpose strfry relay used as a common default/fallback in many clients; shares its operator key with nostr.bitcoiner.social.",
            "info_url": "https://offchain.pub"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://nostr.oxtr.dev",
            "operator": "0xtr",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "General",
            "software": "strfry",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "Long-running free relay run by developer 0xtr (online since Apr 2022); also reachable as a Tor onion service.",
            "info_url": "https://nostr.oxtr.dev"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net",
            "operator": "Greg Heartsfield (nostr-rs-relay author)",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "General",
            "software": "nostr-rs-relay",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "Reference relay run by the author of nostr-rs-relay; one of the oldest public relays and a common example endpoint in libraries.",
            "info_url": "https://nostr-pub.wellorder.net"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://relay.nostr.net",
            "operator": "nostr.net",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "General",
            "software": "strfry",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "Long-running free general relay (strfry) with Tor onion access and negentropy (NIP-77) sync.",
            "info_url": "https://relay.nostr.net"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://nostr21.com",
            "operator": "Undisclosed",
            "access": "Paid",
            "focus": "General",
            "software": "strfry",
            "region": "United States",
            "notable": "Paid general relay (nominal ~21-sat Lightning admission) in a US West-Coast datacenter; runs strfry and the TREX moderator portal.",
            "info_url": "https://nostr21.com"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://nostrue.com",
            "operator": "Community",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "General",
            "software": "strfry",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "Free general-purpose relay commonly used as a default write relay.",
            "info_url": "https://nostrue.com"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://nostr.mom",
            "operator": "Undisclosed (nos.lol sibling)",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "Spam-resistant",
            "software": "strfry",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "Spam- and nudity-filtered general relay; a stricter, more experimental sibling to nos.lol.",
            "info_url": "https://nostr.mom"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://relay.nostr.band",
            "operator": "nostr.band",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "Search/indexer",
            "software": "custom",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "NIP-50 full-text search relay powering the nostr.band search engine and trending; aggregates events from all known relays with spam filtering and a trust-rank metric.",
            "info_url": "https://nostr.band"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://relay.noswhere.com",
            "operator": "noswhere",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "Search/indexer",
            "software": "custom",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "NIP-50 search relay with spam-exclusion filtering, query negation and exact-phrase matching (supports NIPs 1/11/50).",
            "info_url": "https://relay.noswhere.com"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://purplepag.es",
            "operator": "pablof7z",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "Profiles/outbox",
            "software": "purplepag.es (open-source)",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "Outbox-model directory storing profile metadata (kind 0), relay lists (kind 10002) and NIP-51 lists; a default profile-discovery relay in many clients.",
            "info_url": "https://purplepag.es"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://relay.mostr.pub",
            "operator": "Mostr bridge project",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "Bridge",
            "software": "strfry",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "Nostr-to-ActivityPub (Mastodon / fediverse) bridge relay; supports negentropy (NIP-77) for bridge sync.",
            "info_url": "https://mostr.pub"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social",
            "operator": "bitcoiner.social (community)",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "Bitcoin",
            "software": "strfry",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "Long-running Bitcoin-focused community relay; runs strfry with negentropy sync and appears in many early Bitcoin default relay lists.",
            "info_url": "https://bitcoiner.social"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://relay.getalby.com/v1",
            "operator": "Alby",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "DM/private",
            "software": "undisclosed",
            "region": "Austria",
            "notable": "Dedicated Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC / NIP-47) relay: the encrypted messaging layer between Lightning wallets and apps.",
            "info_url": "https://getalby.com"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://relay.0xchat.com",
            "operator": "0xchat (OpenSats-funded)",
            "access": "Free",
            "focus": "DM/private",
            "software": "strfry",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "Default inbox relay for the 0xchat encrypted-messaging app; serves NIP-17 gift-wrapped private DMs to minimize metadata leakage.",
            "info_url": "https://0xchat.com"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://nostr.wine",
            "operator": "nostr.wine",
            "access": "Paid",
            "focus": "General",
            "software": "strfry",
            "region": "United States",
            "notable": "Large paid-only general relay; the paid membership is itself the spam-resistance model, with NIP-50 search and NIP-42 auth for DM privacy.",
            "info_url": "https://nostr.wine"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://filter.nostr.wine",
            "operator": "nostr.wine",
            "access": "Paid",
            "focus": "Spam-resistant",
            "software": "filter-relay (custom)",
            "region": "United States",
            "notable": "Web-of-trust filtered feed (people you follow + their follows) that also broadcasts your events to public relays; requires an active nostr.wine membership. Runs the nostr.wine team's own filter-relay in front of a strfry aggregator.",
            "info_url": "https://nostr.wine"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://nostr.land",
            "operator": "nostr.land (Semisol)",
            "access": "Paid",
            "focus": "General",
            "software": "NFDB",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "Premium paid aggregator relay (Lightning subscription): spam filtering, follow-list backup, NIP-05 names and a NIP-42-gated gift-wrapped DM inbox.",
            "info_url": "https://nostr.land"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://eden.nostr.land",
            "operator": "nostr.land / Nostr Plebs",
            "access": "Paid",
            "focus": "General",
            "software": "NFDB",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "One of the earliest paid relays; a whitelist-gated premium relay in the nostr.land fleet.",
            "info_url": "https://nostr.land"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://atlas.nostr.land",
            "operator": "nostr.land / Nostr Plebs",
            "access": "Paid",
            "focus": "General",
            "software": "NFDB",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "Pay-to-be-whitelisted premium relay in the nostr.land fleet (write access requires paying sats to join the whitelist).",
            "info_url": "https://nostr.land"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://relay.nostrplebs.com",
            "operator": "Nostr Plebs (Derek Ross)",
            "access": "Paid",
            "focus": "General",
            "software": "strfry",
            "region": "",
            "notable": "Nostr Plebs members' relay: readable by all, writable only by users whose NIP-05 identity is a registered Nostr Plebs handle.",
            "info_url": "https://nostrplebs.com"
        },
        {
            "relay": "wss://relay.nostr.com.au",
            "operator": "Nostr.com.au (community)",
            "access": "Invite-only",
            "focus": "General",
            "software": "undisclosed",
            "region": "Australia",
            "notable": "Whitelisted / registration-gated relay for the Australian Nostr community; Sydney-hosted.",
            "info_url": "https://nostr.com.au"
        }
    ]
}