Giganews
- Free allowance
- A free trial is attached to every term: 14 days on the 12-month and 6-month prepaid plans and 3 days on the 1-month plan, all reached through a billing redirect.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- not statedsee Price below
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clamped550+ days for binaries against 5,800+ days for text, reported; the vendor states over 5 years of binaries
- Evidence
- reported8 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-18checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-11-18
| Free tier | A free trial is attached to every term: 14 days on the 12-month and 6-month prepaid plans and 3 days on the 1-month plan, all reached through a billing redirect. unit unlimited; metered on wall-clock |
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| Price | USD 8.33 (12-month term) |
| Limits |
1 month $9.99, 6 months $9.17/mo, 1 year $8.33/mo billed $100.00 against a stated $217.39 regular price. All terms include VyprVPN. The trial links point at order.giganews.com/signup/billing_redirect.html, which is a payment step. |
| Binding | retention-clamped Binary depth is the constraint, not volume: unlimited transfer at 100 connections never runs out, but a 550-day binary spool cannot retrieve a 2019 post however much bandwidth is left. |
| Identity | card The trial is entered through a billing redirect, so a payment method is captured at the start. The vendor's own signup page describes the trial as starting from that billing step. |
| Egress | Unlimited Transfer and Unlimited Speed, 100 connections, SSL, VyprVPN included free allowance: unlimited |
| Per-object cap | no per-object cap is published |
| Retention | The vendor homepage states 'Over 5 Years of Binaries'; the r/usenet map records 550+ days for binaries and 5,800+ days for text on the same backbone. The conservative figure is recorded. (550 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 | Its only stacking value is the bundled VyprVPN; the 550-day binary spool makes it a poor primary beside any Omicron or Abavia plan. |
| Reliability | Own US and NL infrastructure on AS30094. The vendor states over 5 years of binary retention; the community map records 550 days, a large gap between vendor and mapped figures. |
| Notes | Where two sources disagree the record keeps the conservative number: 550 days of binaries, not the 'Over 5 Years of Binaries' the vendor states. |
| Evidence note | reported Prices, connections and the trial length are vendor-stated and read. Binary retention is third-party and contradicts the vendor's number, so the record keeps 550 days and sits at the reported rung. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 8
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | www.order.giganews.com/signup/ | 1 Year $8.33/mo billed yearly at $100.00; 6 Months $9.17/mo; 1 Month $9.99/mo; '+ 14 days free trial' and '+ 3 days free trial'; 100 connections; unlimited transfer |
| 2026-10-23 | www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers | Giganews backbone table: '550+ days (binaries), 5800+ days (text)' on both US and NL |
| 2026-11-03 | giganews.com/ | the vendor homepage states over 5 years of binaries |
| 2026-11-03 | www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers | the map records 550+ days of binaries and 5800+ days of text; the vendor's own statement is a separate evidence row |
| 2026-11-03 | www.order.giganews.com/signup/ | 1 Year price unchanged |
| 2026-11-03 | www.order.giganews.com/signup/ | 14-day trial on the 12-month and 6-month terms unchanged |
| 2026-11-03 | www.order.giganews.com/signup/ | 3-day trial on the 1-month term unchanged |
| 2026-11-03 | www.order.giganews.com/signup/ | 100 connections unchanged |
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| backbone | Giganews / Certida, AS30094 |
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| retention conflict | vendor 'Over 5 Years of Binaries' vs mapped 550 days binaries |