NewsDemon
- Free allowance
- No free tier and no free trial, stated explicitly: 'NewsDemon does not offer a 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, stated explicitly: 'NewsDemon does not offer a free trial. We used to, but payment processing partners discourage trial-to-paid conversion flows'. unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 5.00 (unlimited, annual at $60/yr) |
| Limits |
Three unlimited terms (monthly, quarterly, annual) plus metered 50/100/200 GB and non-expiring blocks. Blocks are listed twice on the same page at two price columns: 100 GB at $15 or $17, 500 GB at $47 or $49, 1000 GB at $87 or $89. A separate page offers a 100 GB block for $5 and a 50 GB metered plan for $3/mo. |
| Binding | none The annual unlimited plan publishes no byte counter. At 1 TiB/month nothing in the vocabulary binds on that tier; the metered tier would bind at 50 GB by construction. |
| Identity | card No trial at all, so a card or another accepted payment is required before the first byte. The vendor does not publish its payment list on the pages read; crypto is reported by the r/usenet deals wiki and was not confirmed here. |
| Egress | Unlimited speed and downloads on the unlimited plans; 50 SSL connections on every plan free allowance: unlimited |
| Per-object cap | no per-object cap is published |
| Retention | 5,914+ days of binary and text retention on the plans page; the block page prints 5,854++ days. The conservative figure is recorded. (5854 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 | The usual shape is a NewsDemon unlimited primary plus an Abavia block as fill: two independent spools, one subscription and one prepaid allowance. |
| Reliability | UsenetExpress backbone with NewsDemon's own spool on top, three regions (US East, US West, EU), 550 TB/day feed claimed. Post-quantum encryption is advertised on every plan. |
| Notes | The $3 metered plan is the cheapest paid entry of any provider and carries the same 50 connections as the unlimited plans. |
| Evidence note | documented All prices and the explicit refusal of a free trial come from vendor pages read. The two block price columns disagree with each other on the same page and the record keeps the higher. |
| Parsed numbers |
|
Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | www.newsdemon.com/usenet-access | unlimited monthly/quarterly/annual plus 50/100/200 GB metered and 100 GB/500 GB/1 TB blocks; 50 SSL connections; 5,914+ days |
| 2026-10-23 | www.newsdemon.com/free-trial | 'NewsDemon does not offer a free trial'; 50 GB metered at $3/mo, 100 GB block at $5, unlimited annual at $60/yr |
| 2026-10-23 | www.newsdemon.com/block-accounts | blocks 10 GB $4.00, 25 GB $7.00, 50 GB $12.00, 100 GB $17.00, 500 GB $49.00, 1000 GB $89.00, against a second column $2.50/$5.00/$10.00/$15.00/$47.00/$87.00; 5,854++ days; 50 connections |
More fields 4
| backbone | UsenetExpress |
|---|---|
| server regions | ["US East","US West","NL"] |
| block price columns conflict | yes |
| crypto | reported by r/usenet wiki/providerdeals, not vendor-confirmed |