Hydra Usenet
- Free allowance
- No free tier or trial stated on the home page read; access is bought by card checkout or redeemed from a prepaid token.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotanon-expiring blocks of 100 GB to 1 TB (third-party index)
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-18checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-11-18
| Free tier | No free tier or trial stated on the home page read; access is bought by card checkout or redeemed from a prepaid token. unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Block prices: unverified: the plan table is loaded by script and was not in the page read. |
| Binding | volume-quota Every product is a fixed block of GB. |
| Identity | card The home page says 'Buy a plan below with card checkout, or redeem a prepaid token'; payment methods listed by a third-party index are card and crypto. The member signup was not opened: unverified: behind a sign-up. |
| Egress | Non-expiring block accounts from 100 GB to 1 TB per a third-party index; the plan prices load by script and were not in the page read free allowance: none |
| Retention | unverified: the home page says 'High retention article storage' without a number of days |
| Interface | nntp NNTP; servers in the US and the EU |
| Composes with | Blocks do not expire, so a 1 TB block is a one-time fill account; the vendor also sells prepaid tokens that are redeemed on its member page. |
| Reliability | A service that launched in 2026 and leaves many details open, per a third-party index; the page shows a 'real completion rate' counter that loaded empty in the capture. |
| Notes | Prices unread; the verdict rests on there being no free offer on the page. |
| Evidence note | reported Connections and checkout route are on the vendor page; the block range is third-party; prices are unread. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | hydrause.net/ | part of the text of Limits, above |
| 2026-11-03 | hydrause.net/ | plans are bought by card checkout or redeemed from a prepaid token |
| 2026-11-03 | www.usenet.org/providers/hydrausenet | a third-party index gives the block range 100 GB to 1 TB, non-expiring |