Cheapnews
- Free allowance
- A 20 GB / 7-day trial is advertised as free: 'We are happy to offer all first time users a free trial of 20GB, no credit card needed!'.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotablocks from 50 GB to 2000 GB, never expiring; 50 GB to 2,000 GB blocks
- Evidence
- documented6 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 | A 20 GB / 7-day trial is advertised as free: 'We are happy to offer all first time users a free trial of 20GB, no credit card needed!'. The same trial is priced at EUR 3.90 in the plan table on the same page. unit GB; metered on downloaded-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | EUR 9.75 (Flat Unlimited, monthly); EUR 20.98 per TB on the 2000 GB block |
| Limits |
Flats: Basic 20 EUR 3.50/mo (20 Mbit, 10 connections), Premium 60 EUR 6.25, Ultimate 120 EUR 8.50, Stellar 160 EUR 8.75, Legacy 250 EUR 9.25, Flat Unlimited EUR 9.75 (48 connections). Blocks: 50 GB EUR 2.95, 100 GB EUR 4.95, 500 GB EUR 14.95, 1000 GB EUR 24.95, 2000 GB EUR 41.95, all 'Never Expires'. Payment: SEPA, card, iDEAL, Sofort, crypto, Bancontact, Belfius, Giropay and others. |
| Binding | volume-quota On the flats the speed tier binds before any volume, because downloads are unlimited; on the blocks the byte allowance is the whole product and a 2 TB block is 24 months at 1 TiB/month. |
| Identity | card The vendor says the 20 GB trial needs no credit card, but the plan card prices the same trial at EUR 3.90, so the honest reading is that something is charged. Crypto and SEPA are accepted for paid plans, which is the card-free route to a block. |
| Egress | Unlimited downloads on every flat plan; speed and connections are tiered free allowance: unlimited |
| Per-object cap | no per-object cap is published |
| Retention | 3000+ days of binary and text retention, stated twice on the page (3000 days) |
| Interface | nntp NNTP over TLS on port 563; no HTTP or object API exists for the download path, so a user drives it through SABnzbd, NZBGet or nzbdav |
| Composes with | A prepaid Abavia block stacks as fill under any primary and needs no renewal; the flats duplicate the XS News spool behind a lower speed ceiling. |
| Reliability | The EUR 3.90 trial line and the 'no credit card needed' sentence are the kind of contradiction that costs a session if it is not recorded. |
| Notes | Cheaper than its own parent brand at every block size except the 5 TB tier, which only XS News sells. Same shape as Blocknews with a published retention figure and a free 20 GB trial. |
| Evidence note | documented Every price is from the vendor page read. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 6
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | www.cheapnews.eu/ | 'Free 20GB Trial, no credit card needed'; 'Free trial ... 20GB downloads, 7 days /20GB' priced 'EUR 3,90' in the plan card |
| 2026-10-23 | www.cheapnews.eu/ | blocks 50 GB EUR 2.95, 100 GB EUR 4.95, 500 GB EUR 14.95, 1000 GB EUR 24.95, 2000 GB EUR 41.95, never expires; flats EUR 3.50 to EUR 9.75; 3000+ days |
| 2026-10-23 | www.cheapnews.eu/faq/ | 'Get 20GB completely free - no credit card needed! Use it for 7 days or until you reach 20GB'; payment methods SEPA, card, iDEAL, Sofort, crypto, Bancontact, Belfius, Giropay |
| 2026-10-23 | www.cheapnews.eu/en/usenet-packages | 'You buy a package Gigabytes and download till you used it all without any time-limits!', the block ladder 50 GB to 2,000 GB, 24 connections, and the 20 GB / 7-day trial |
| 2026-10-23 | www.cheapnews.eu/de/usenet-tarife/ | 'Läuft nie ab' on the Block Starter 50 listing, and '3000+ Tage binäre Aufbewahrung' |
| 2026-10-23 | www.cheapnews.eu/ | '3000+ days binary retention' and 'Free 20GB Trial, no credit card needed' |
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| backbone | Abavia |
|---|---|
| payment methods | SEPA, card, iDEAL, Sofort, crypto, Bancontact, Belfius, Giropay |
| block price tb eur | 20.98 |
| retention map | {"block_balance": {"stated": "without any time-limits","days": null,"source_url": "https://www.cheapnews.eu/en/usenet-packages"},"article_retention": {"stated": "3000+ days binary","days": 3000,"source_url": "https://www.cheapnews.eu/"},"trial": {"stated": "20 GB or 7 days, whichever first","days": 7,"source_url": "https://www.cheapnews.eu/faq/"}} |
| account deletion | {"stated": "not published","days": null,"source_url": "https://www.cheapnews.eu/faq/"} |
| reactivation | nothing to reactivate: the balance is the account |
| storage model | prepaid download block over NNTP |