- Free allowance
- A free account is browse-only.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate0 NZB downloads on the free tier; premium required for any download; 100 results per request maximum
- Evidence
- documented5 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 | A free account is browse-only. The register page says 'Join NzbPlanet - free to browse, premium to download', and a vendor page cached in search results says 'The site is free to look around, you only need to pay for premium if you want to download nzb's'. caps declares <registration available="yes" open="no"/> and <limits max="100" default="100"/>. unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) 0 NZB downloads on the free tier; premium required for any download source
- write-gated invite code required at registration; a stale code is rejected source
- request-rate (binding) 100 results per request maximum source
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| Binding | request-rate The first thing that fails is the download allowance, which is zero on free: not a counter that runs out but one that never starts. The invite gate sits in front of it and would bind first only if registration were open. |
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| Identity | email Email plus an invitation. caps says open=no, and the register page's invitecode field rejects an invented code; premium signup is the documented bypass. |
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| Egress | No byte metering; the API returns pointers. |
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| Per-object cap | not applicable: an NZB pointer file |
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| Retention | Free tier reported as 200 days, VIP or Platinum 2,500 days (nzbhydra.com, 2026-10-23). Not stated on the pages read from the vendor. |
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| Interface | rest Newznab API at /api, capped at 100 results per request. Registration is invitation-gated: the register page accepts an invitecode and rejects a bad one with 'Bad or invite code older than 7 days'. |
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| Tooling | Native Newznab on paper; in practice the key belongs to an account that cannot download without a paid tier, so Prowlarr and NZBHydra2 can add it and still get nothing useful on free. |
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| Composes with | A paid-only index from a user's position: nothing on the free side contributes to a 1 TiB/month habit. |
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| Reliability | Free accounts keep full search and zero grabs, so a misconfigured arr stack sees results and fails every download rather than failing at search time. |
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| Notes | The registerpremium page that search engines still hold returned 404 to a direct request, so its wording is cited as a snippet and not as a page read. |
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| Evidence note | documented The browse-only free tier and the invite gate are quoted from the vendor's own register pages read. Prices are third-party. |
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