UsenetAgency
- Free allowance
- A 30 GB, 7-day try-out: 'The try out plan gives you: 500 mbit speed, 4084 days retention, 30 gigabytes free, No auto billing, Absolutely free'.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota30 GB on the free try-out, then unlimited on paid plans
- 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 | A 30 GB, 7-day try-out: 'The try out plan gives you: 500 mbit speed, 4084 days retention, 30 gigabytes free, No auto billing, Absolutely free'. The vendor's payment FAQ repeats it: 'Can I try your service before I pay? Hell yes! You can always try the first 7 days for free.' unit GB; metered on downloaded-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | EUR 5.75 (Senior, monthly) |
| Limits |
Junior EUR 2.46/mo (40 Mbit, 25 connections), Medior EUR 3.69/mo (80 Mbit, 25 connections), Senior EUR 5.75/mo (unlimited speed, 50 connections). No automatic renewal: 'Your subscription expires when your subscription days have passed.' |
| Binding | volume-quota The free path is a 30 GB one-off, so at 1 TiB/month the allowance is what fails, and it fails after 30 GB. On Senior the vendor publishes no volume ceiling. |
| Identity | email An email address, and the trial has three explicit gates: 'You can't register with a disposable e-mail address', 'You can't use a VPN or proxy server to register' and 'You can't have multiple accounts'. The VPN ban means the signup must come from a user's real residential address. |
| Egress | Unlimited speed on Senior; 40 Mbit on Junior and 80 Mbit on Medior free allowance: unlimited |
| Per-object cap | no per-object cap is published |
| Retention | 4085 days retention on the home page, 4084 days on the try-out page (4084 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 | A 30 GB Abavia allowance tests whether an Abavia spool completes a user's content before any money is spent; after that the Junior tier keeps it for EUR 2.46/mo. |
| Reliability | The try-out page also carries the line 'Payment will show up on your statement as NectoFarm B.V.', which is odd for a product listed at 'Total cost: FREE' and suggests a payment method may still be captured. That was not tested at checkout, so it is flagged rather than resolved. Abavia reseller operated by NectoFarm BV. The 30 GB try-out is the largest card-free allowance found on any provider, and the VPN ban is the price of it. |
| Notes | The caveat is the identity gate rather than the product: no disposable email, no VPN or proxy at signup, one account. A client behind a VPN cannot claim this trial at all. |
| Evidence note | documented The trial terms, the three registration rules, the prices and the retention figure are all from vendor pages read. Whether a card is captured at checkout is the one gap, because the signup form itself was not opened. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | usenet.agency/en/try-for-free/ | '30 gigabytes free', 'No auto billing', 'Absolutely free'; 7 days; 500 mbit; 4084 days; 'You can't use a VPN or proxy server to register'; 'Total cost: FREE' |
| 2026-10-23 | usenet.agency/en/ | Junior EUR 2.46/mo 40 Mbit 25 connections; Medior EUR 3.69/mo 80 Mbit 25 connections; Senior EUR 5.75/mo unlimited 50 connections; 4085 days |
| 2026-10-23 | usenet.agency/en/support/?category=payments | 'Can I try your service before I pay? Hell yes!'; 'It is possible to set an automatic payment? We choose not to.' |
More fields 3
| backbone | Abavia |
|---|---|
| trial rules | ["no disposable email","no VPN or proxy","no multiple accounts"] |
| payment line conflict | try-out page mentions a statement descriptor |