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The Best Stremio Addons in 2026

Three addons, opinionated picks, honest trade-offs. If you want the short version:

  • AIOStreams: our top pick. Aggregates other addons into one clean result list.
  • MediaFusion: strong secondary, especially for non-English regional content.
  • Comet: lightweight backup.

If you're not sure which to install, just AIOStreams. Two addons is usually a better setup than ten.

The rest of this page expands on each pick and covers why our public stack looks the way it does.

One quick thing before the picks

All three addons below pair with a provider (debrid or Usenet). We don't recommend running Stremio in "free mode" (no provider, just P2P or HTTP-direct addons). Both come with real costs:

  • P2P turns your Stremio app into a swarm participant, with your IP visible to anyone else in the swarm. ISP letters can follow.
  • HTTP-direct addons scrape unwilling streaming sites that actively fight the scrapers. Your setup breaks every few weeks, and the content quality is usually compressed.

For the full provider explainer, read providers and bundles.

The picks

AIOStreams

AIOStreams is a "meta-addon" that queries several underlying addons in parallel, deduplicates results, and hands your Stremio client one consolidated list. You install AIOStreams, configure which sources to draw from, and get broad stream coverage without managing a pile of addons yourself.

Why it's our top pick:

  • Broad coverage, because it queries multiple scrapers at once.
  • Fewer duplicates than running scrapers individually, because AIOStreams deduplicates.
  • Filterable by quality, language, codec, release group, size, seeder count, and more.
  • Actively maintained, with regular updates from the developer.

Try it:

  • Public instance: aiostreams.elfhosted.com. Free, rate-limited.
  • Private instance: AIOStreams bundle with your choice of TorBox Essential, Usenet via NzbDAV, MediaFlow Proxy, or StremThru. $1 for 7 days, $9 per month after.

MediaFusion

MediaFusion has been around longer than AIOStreams and takes a different approach. It emphasises configurability and regional content coverage. Power users tend to prefer it because of its fine-grained filtering; non-English speakers prefer it for its regional breadth.

Strengths:

  • Strong regional content coverage, particularly Indian, Spanish, French, German, and East Asian sources.
  • Extensive configuration UI with granular filter controls.
  • Active community of power users sharing configurations.
  • Built-in parental filters (useful for family setups).

Try it:

Comet

Comet is lightweight, fast, and focused. It doesn't try to be a meta-addon; it queries a smaller set of sources quickly. It's a good secondary to fill gaps when AIOStreams or MediaFusion don't return what you want, and it includes its own built-in proxy streaming feature (useful if you want proxy without running a separate service).

When to use it:

  • As a lightweight secondary alongside AIOStreams.
  • If you specifically want Comet's built-in proxy streaming.
  • On devices where AIOStreams' full feature set feels heavy.

Try it:

  • Public instance: comet.elfhosted.com. Free.
  • Private instance: Comet bundle with bundled TorBox, or proxy streaming for your own RealDebrid account. $1 for 7 days, $9 per month after.

If you've read other Stremio guides, you've probably noticed our stack is different. Five deliberate choices worth knowing.

We don't offer Torrentio on our public instances

The Torrentio developer has specifically asked hosting providers not to scrape or aggregate their service. We respect that. Running a globally-available, highly-available Stremio addon is genuinely hard work, and we don't think it's right to free-ride on another developer's effort.

If you specifically want Torrentio, you can add it yourself on a private ElfHosted instance where you control what runs.

Every search improves the platform via ElfCache

ElfCache is a proprietary shared cache fed by every ElfHosted addon user, public and private. When one person finds a working stream for a title, the next person looking for the same thing gets it back instantly. It's a network effect that grows stronger as the platform grows. No other managed host runs anything like it.

Streams come through debrid and Usenet only

Never P2P, never HTTP-direct. Your IP stays private, streams don't depend on flaky seeders, and you skip the HTTP-scraper corner of Stremio entirely (lower quality, less reliable, often pulling from hosts you don't want to be feeding traffic into). Full reasoning in providers and bundles.

Our public stack handles more requests than any other managed host

Stable since 2024. We rate-limit heavy or misconfigured users on the public instances (100 searches up front, 1 per minute refill) so a handful of bad actors can't slow the platform for everyone else. Most users never hit the limit. See our public status page for uptime history.

Public or private, whichever fits you

Public instances are free to use, but unsupported. If something breaks, Reddit, our Discord, and each addon's GitHub issues page are where the community helps.

Private instances are $9 per month and give you your own copy of any addon with dedicated resources, your own rate limits and credentials, and our team when something goes wrong.

Which addon should you start with?

Just AIOStreams. Seriously. It aggregates the others internally, so you get broad coverage without managing a pile of addons. Add MediaFusion later if you want more configuration depth or regional coverage. Add Comet later if you want a lightweight backup.

Two addons is usually a better setup than ten.

Can I self-host these addons myself?

Every addon above is open-source. You can host them yourself on your own infrastructure if you're comfortable with Docker, SSL certificates, reverse proxies, release-note reading, and the general grind of DIY self-hosting.

Upstream repos:

If "I want to run it myself" is your thing, those are where to start. If "I'd rather not" is your thing, our managed versions skip the ops work.

What's next

Read providers and bundles to understand what a debrid or Usenet provider actually does, which to pick, and how bundled subscriptions save you time.

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