Frugal Usenet
- Free allowance
- No free tier and no free trial.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price statedsee Price below
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented3 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 free trial. The homepage sells a USD 5.00/mo entry and a 14-day window is quoted by third-party review sites, not by the vendor page read. unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 5.99 (monthly) |
| Limits |
USD 5.99/mo monthly; USD 60/year including a Blocknews block account; the billing portal also lists a Yearly Unlimited at USD 35.00/year excluding Blocknews. 8 server locations: 2 US, 1 EU and single servers in Africa, Asia, Australia and South America, plus a bonus/backup EU server. |
| Binding | none Unlimited volume on the primary NetNews spool. The 1 TB/month cap applies only to the bundled UsenetFarm bonus server, which is a completion aid rather than the main feed. |
| Identity | card Email plus a paid order through billing.frugalusenet.com. No trial; a card is required before the first byte. |
| Egress | Up to 250 connections across 8 server locations on 6 continents free allowance: unlimited |
| Per-object cap | no per-object cap is published |
| Retention | 5000+ days retention on the primary, stated on the homepage price block (5000 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 | One subscription gives a NetNews primary plus a UsenetFarm bonus server, the cheapest two-backbone stack; add a block only for content older than 5,000 days. |
| Reliability | Two backbones in one plan: NetNews as primary and UsenetFarm as the bonus EU fill server, which is the cheapest way to get two independent feeds without buying two subscriptions. |
| Notes | The homepage and the billing portal quote different yearly prices for different bundles ($60 with a Blocknews block, $35 without), which is not a contradiction once the bundle is read, but it reads as one at a glance. |
| Evidence note | documented Prices, connections and retention are from the vendor homepage read. The USD 35/year figure is from the vendor's own billing portal, which contradicts the homepage's USD 60/year bundle; both are recorded. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | www.frugalusenet.com/ | 'As Low As $5.00/Month'; '$5.99 Per Month w/ 5000+ Days Retention'; '$60 per year - incl/ Blocknews block account'; 'Up To 250 Connections'; 8 server locations |
| 2026-10-23 | billing.frugalusenet.com/signup/byUkhnlJF | Yearly Unlimited Subscription $35.00 Per Year; 'Blocknews NOT Included' |
| 2026-10-23 | www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers | Frugal Usenet on NetNews, AS6450; bonus UsenetFarm server capped at 1 TB/month |
More fields 3
| backbone | NetNews (AS6450) primary + UsenetFarm bonus |
|---|---|
| server locations | 8 |
| yearly without block | USD 35.00 |