Blocknews
- Free allowance
- No free tier and no trial: block accounts only, 5 GB for USD 1.99 up to 3,072 GB for USD 99.99.
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- no price statedsee Price below
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotathe purchased block, 5 GB to 3,072 GB; blocks from 5 GB to 3,072 GB, one-time and non-expiring
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | No free tier and no trial: block accounts only, 5 GB for USD 1.99 up to 3,072 GB for USD 99.99. unit GB; metered on downloaded-bytes; the block is the product; there is no monthly plan on the page |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 39.99 per TB one-time |
| Limits |
Article retention is the real ceiling and it is unpublished, which is the one gap in an otherwise clean offer. |
| Binding | volume-quota At 1 TiB/month the block is spent in about a month; that is the point - it is spent, not expired, and an unspent balance waits indefinitely. |
| Identity | email email and password at the billing portal; no identity document |
| Egress | Downloaded bytes are drawn from the purchased block; there is no monthly allowance to renew and no rebilling. free allowance: the purchased block only price per tb: USD 39.99 per TB in the 1,024 GB block |
| Per-object cap | Not applicable: usenet articles are capped by the poster's segment size, not by the provider. |
| Retention | The block never expires: 'No Expiration! Keep Your Gigs Until Used!' and 'Pay Only ONCE! Never Any Rebilling!' Article retention is described only as 'leading retention, increasing day by day' with no number on the page. |
| Interface | nntp NNTP with SSL; up to 200 connections; seven server locations (two USA, one Europe, plus Africa, Asia, Australia, South America) endpoint: news.blocknews.net |
| Tooling | any NNTP client or downloader (SABnzbd, NZBGet, nzbget-compatible tooling); no API beyond NNTP |
| Composes with | the cleanest 'fetch now, read later' primitive in the whole corpus: a prepaid byte balance that survives any pause, and articles that sit on the provider's spool independent of a user's payment state |
| Reliability | Completeness depends on the poster's propagation; the FAQ page answered a bot challenge to the reader, so no completeness figure could be read. |
| Notes | What it does not give is storage of a file a user chose - it gives access to articles the provider happens to hold. At $32.55/TB it is cheaper than every UsenetExpress block except CubeNet's 2 TB tier, and it sits on a different backbone, which is what a fill account needs. |
| Evidence note | documented The non-expiring claim is on the vendor's own front page in two places. Article retention has no number there and the FAQ was challenge-walled, so one figure is missing rather than guessed. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | www.blocknews.net/ | 'No Expiration! Keep Your Gigs Until Used!', 'Pay Only ONCE! Never Any Rebilling!', the 5 GB to 3,072 GB price ladder, 200 connections, seven server locations |
| 2026-10-23 | blocknews.net/faq/ | the FAQ returned a 403 bot challenge to every reader route tried (extractor, exa, contextdev, hyperbrowser, tinyfish, cfbr), so its retention figure is unread |
| 2026-10-23 | blocknews.net/ | 5 GB $1.99 through 3,072 GB $99.99; 'Pay Only ONCE! Never Any Rebilling!'; 'No Expiration!'; 'up to 200 connections'; seven server locations |
| 2026-10-23 | www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers | BlockNews on NetNews, AS6450; reseller of the same backbone as Frugal Usenet |
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| retention map | {"block_balance": {"stated": "keep your gigs until used","days": null,"source_url": "https://www.blocknews.net/"},"article_retention": {"stated": "not published ('increasing day by day')","days": null,"source_url": "https://www.blocknews.net/"}} |
|---|---|
| account deletion | {"stated": "not published","days": null,"source_url": "https://www.blocknews.net/"} |
| reactivation | nothing to reactivate: the balance is the account |
| storage model | prepaid download block over NNTP |
| backbone | NetNews, AS6450 |
| block price tb usd | 32.55 |
| server locations | 7 |