NZBGeek
- Free allowance
- No free tier is documented: a third-party review checked in October 2026 states that search and downloads require an active subscription, and a comparison table lists NZBGeek's free tier as 'None (subscription required)'.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rateno free API allowance that a stack can use; paid membership USD 12/year; 100 results per request maximum (caps <limits max="100"/>)
- Evidence
- reported15 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 is documented: a third-party review checked in October 2026 states that search and downloads require an active subscription, and a comparison table lists NZBGeek's free tier as 'None (subscription required)'. An unkeyed search is refused with an empty-API-key error and caps declares registration available=no. Earlier third-party readings of a free trial and of a few downloads a day are not found on the pages read now. The public site lists no prices. unit requests; metered on request-count; The conservative reading is the one the vendor's own API supports: an unkeyed call is refused, and no reading of the free tier describes an API allowance enough to drive an arr stack. The 5-calls-a-day figure is unsourced, not contradicted. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
The 100 is a per-request result ceiling and applies to every tier; it is not the paid allowance. |
| Binding | request-rate The API call allowance is what fails first: without a key the first automated search is refused outright (error 102), and the readings of the free tier that describe an allowance put it at 5 calls a day, which is one search every five hours. |
| Identity | email Registration is contradictory at the vendor: the login page links 'register account?' and register.php serves a Registration Agreement with an 'agree' submit, while /api?t=caps declares <registration available="no" open="no"/>; a third-party review checked in October 2026 states that registration was open. The fields a signup demands are unverified: behind a sign-up. |
| Egress | No byte metering: the API returns XML pointers. The payload is served by whichever news provider a user pays. |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: an NZB pointer file |
| Retention | not stated on the API surface. A third-party listing claims 'NZBs from 8 years ago available, 500,000+ indexed NZBs' (nzbhydra.com, 2026-10-23). |
| Interface | rest Newznab API on a separate host, api.nzbgeek.info/api, not nzbgeek.info/api (the apex returns HTML). caps declares <limits max="100" default="100"/> and <registration available="no" open="no"/>. An unkeyed search returns error code 102. |
| Tooling | Native Newznab: Prowlarr, NZBHydra2, Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr and Mylar all add it with URL plus key. No wrapper needed. The API host is different from the site host, which is the first mistake a hand-rolled config makes. |
| Composes with | A broad, well-populated index that a paid arr stack reaches with no wrapper; on the free tier it contributes nothing to automation, because no reading of the free tier gives an API allowance that could drive a stack. |
| Reliability | The membership is what keeps the index alive; a lapsed membership drops the account back to the capped tier and automation stops with no partial service. |
| Notes | Two vendor signals contradict each other on registration: a served agreement form says open, caps says available=no. The conservative reading is recorded on the record and not resolved, because resolving it needs an account. The verdict rests on the API allowance, which is independent of that question. |
| Evidence note | reported The caps and the unkeyed error were measured. Creating one free account and reading its API page would move this to documented. |
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Evidence 15
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | probe: https://api.nzbgeek.info/api?t=caps&x=1 | caps returned 200 and 3,927 bytes: NZBgeek, <limits max="100" default="100"/>, <registration available="no" open="no"/> |
| 2026-10-23 | probe: https://api.nzbgeek.info/api?t=search&q=linux&x=1 | unkeyed search returned 200 with 47 bytes: <error code="102" description="Empty API Key"/>, so the API is closed to a free, unauthenticated caller |
| 2026-10-23 | probe: https://nzbgeek.info/api?t=caps | the apex host serves HTML for /api, 91,943 bytes; the API lives only on api.nzbgeek.info |
| 2026-10-23 | probe: https://nzbgeek.info/register.php | an anonymous GET receives the Registration Agreement plus an 'agree' submit, which contradicts the caps registration flag; no POST was made |
| 2026-10-23 | nzbhydra.com/indexers/ | third-party: NZBGeek 'USD 12/year VIP', free tier '0 calls' |
| 2026-10-23 | datahoarder.io/nzbgeek-review/ | third-party: the paid tier 'removes download caps and unlocks full API integration' |
| 2026-10-23 | www.usenet.com/free-nzb-sites/ | third-party: 'NZBgeek used to have a free level, but now you need a paid membership to search and download.' |
| 2026-11-03 | datahoarder.io/nzbgeek-review/ | a 2026 third-party review: search and downloads require an active subscription |
| 2026-11-03 | probe: https://nzbgeek.info/register.php | an anonymous GET of register.php still serves the Registration Agreement with an 'agree' submit |
| 2026-11-03 | www.usenet.com/free-nzb-sites/ | third party: no free level, a paid membership is needed to search and download |
| 2026-11-03 | api.nzbgeek.info/api?t=caps | caps still declares a 100-result ceiling and registration available=no |
| 2026-11-03 | datahoarder.io/drunkenslug-vs-nzbgeek/ | third-party table: NZBGeek's free tier is 'None (subscription required)' |
| 2026-11-03 | probe: https://api.nzbgeek.info/api?t=search&q=linux&x=2 | an unkeyed search is refused with error 102 (probe 2026-11-03) |
| 2026-11-03 | nzbhydra.com/indexers/ | third-party index: USD 12/year VIP with 6-month, 1-year, 2-year and lifetime options |
| 2026-11-03 | datahoarder.io/nzbgeek-review/ | third-party review: plan prices are not on the public site |
More fields 5
| price | USD 12/year (reported by a third-party index; the vendor's public site lists no prices; another third party says plans start at USD 6 for six months) |
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| nzb is newznab | yes |
| caps limits | 100 |
| api host | api.nzbgeek.info |
| unkeyed error | 102 Empty API Key |