The 5 Best Torrent Sites That Are Still Working in 2021.

 

The 12 Best Torrent Sites That Are Still Working in 2021

1. The Pirate Bay – Best overall torrent site
2. RARBG – Great torrent site with an active community
3. 1337X – Awesome torrent site for movies, tv-series and music
4. Torrentz2 – The best choice for music torrents
5. YTS – Our recommended torrent website to download HD movies

How To Choose The Best Torrent Site

Download speed is the average speed for downloading torrents from a certain site, through a client. While that information is reliable only as a ballpark reference, keep in mind that this will vary a lot based on the torrent itself, and your internet connection.

Monthly traffic was an important aspect to determine how popular that site was, implicitly tying it to a lot of metrics like library size or seeders/leechers ratio. While we also considered including some numbers on seeders and leechers for popular torrents at the time of writing, we realized that’s very seasonal and probably won’t be relevant in a month or two, so we focused on other metrics.

Library size will be included for websites whenever possible. While it’s hard to get that exact number in all cases, we did our best to research it and find an answer for you.

Torrent type and variety are also important when choosing which torrent sites to use. Torrent sites like The Pirate Bay or RARBG have big libraries, sporting torrents from all categories, while sites like Bibliotik or YTS have a considerable number of book and movie torrents respectively. That’s why below we’ll discuss which platforms are good for which specific torrent types, where applicable.

Ad Intrusion is also important when deciding what torrent site to use. Pop-ups that “click themselves” and fake “contests” that you just happened to win without participating in are annoying. If you have to go through 8 ads just to browse for a file, it might be time to find a new torrent site. Within our research, there were about 3-4 popular torrent sites that we didn't include due to the ad intrusion degree.

Security is essential when installing torrents. Right after all, there are many questionable torrenting platforms on the internet that could compromise your web security. That’s why our listing of the best torrent websites also takes security into consideration and talks about some security concerns.

With that said ,, let’s enter into our roundup much more fine detail.

1. The Pirate Bay – Best Overall Torrent Site

Attention: The Pirate Bay is blocked in many countries (even mirror sites), so you might need a VPN to change your virtual location and unblock the Pirate Bay.

The Pirate Bay has been a crowd favorite for many years. It managed to deflect attempts at blocking it or shutting it down, and it’s going really strong with over 6.3 million monthly users on the main site. However, considering the number of mirrors and blocking attempts, that number may be skewed, and 20-60 million visits a month is perhaps a bit more accurate.

We couldn’t get an exact number on its library size, but it’s in the millions of files, and you can expect a download speed of 5-6 MB/s, all other things being equal.

The Pirate Bay is popular for its large community, which ensures at least one seeder on almost any torrent on the site, no matter the age. We tried downloading obscure titles from even over a decade ago, and we found that there were still happy seeders to help out.

On top, it’s got a clean interface and helpful tags that let you know which torrent comes from a trusted source, and which torrent could pose a security risk to your PC.

Without a doubt, Pirate Bay is the king of all torrent sites, and with almost no ad intrusion and an active community, it’s basically got no downsides.

Mirrors: thepiratebay.vip, thepirate-bay.org, thepiratebay.rocks.

2. RARBG – Great Torrent Site with an Active Community

Website: RARBG Website

RARBG is a large directory of torrents, famous for a very active community of seeders and high-quality torrents. It’s been around since 2008 and it amasses about 40 million visitors each month.

It competes with The Pirate Bay by offering a more “personalized” experience, complete with top tens in different categories and news displayed on the home page. Its library size is decent, and it gets updated often, meaning that you have a high chance of finding new torrents on the site.

RARBG also comes with a very similar download speed as The Pirate Bay. The only difference is that ad intrusion is a bit bigger on RARBG, so take that into account when choosing one of the two.

Oh and, if you’re from Denmark, Portugal, or the UK, you’ll need a VPN to enter, because it’s blocked there.

Mirrors: rarbg.is, rarbgunlock.com, rarbgmirror.com.

3. 1337X – Awesome Torrent Site for Movies, Television Series and Music

Website: 1337X website

1337X is good for movies, shows and music. Some people use it to browse for game torrents as well, but from our research, it does look like both RARBG and The Pirate Bay have more torrents in that category, especially for older titles.

A few years ago, 1337X was a bad choice for any torrenting, since it was clunky to navigate and it posed a lot of security risks. Since then, it went through an entire site revamp, making it seamless to browse and safer. For shows and movies, you also have improved browsing functionalities, like searching by award nomination.

This round of changes got it up to 53 million visits a month, and it makes sense – it’s got an average download speed of 3-4 MB/s and virtually no ad intrusion, the creators only make money through bitcoin donations from what we can see.

Mirrors: 1337x.st (Active since Oct. 2017), x1337x.ws (Active since Dec. 2017), x1337x.eu (Active since Mar. 2018), x1337x.se (Active since May. 2018), 1337x.is (Active since Jan. 2019), 1337x.gd (Active since Oct. 2019).

We included the “active since” date so you can check domain age to make sure you don’t fall for a phishing campaign.

4. Torrentz2 – Best Choice for Music Torrents

Website: Torrentz2 website

At the time of writing, the main torrentz2 site was down, but we accessed it through one of the mirrors you’ll find below.

While this is not that big of a torrent site – only amassing 10-20 million users a month, and unable to sport much of a library for general torrents – Torrentz2 is very good for finding music. And by very good we mean it’s got the largest music library of public torrent sites. Other than that, Torrentz2 doesn’t have much going for it. The download speed isn’t that great (we got anywhere in between 1 MB/s and 3 MB/s, with an average under 2) and ad intrusion is pretty annoying.

Not to mention – any type of browsing options, like searching by album, artist or song would be greatly appreciated. So just keep it in mind for when you can’t find the music you’re looking for anywhere else.

Mirrors: torrentz2eu.org (the one we used), torrentz.eu

5. YTS – Our Recommended Torrent Website to Download HD Movies

Website: https://yts.mx/

If you’re looking for a movie, just head on over to YTS.

While the average metrics don’t look so great: not a big library when compared to The Pirate Bay, and an average download speed of 3-4 MB/s, YTS has over 75 million visits a month, and that’s due to its positioning.

First, it’s only focused on movies, and it does its best to track torrents with HD quality and small size, optimizing for any device or bandwidth. Second, ad intrusion is minimal and the interface is beautiful.

Lastly, classics are readily available on the platform. In fact, it’s the only torrent site where we could find movies like 12 Angry Men in 1080p.

Mirrors: yts.am, yts.pm, yts.gm (but so far the site was never taken down)