UsenetExpress
- Free allowance
- No free tier and no free trial; '30 Days Risk Free' on every plan is a money-back guarantee.
- 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
- reported11 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 and no free trial; '30 Days Risk Free' on every plan is a money-back guarantee. unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 7.50 (unlimited, annual at $90/yr) |
| Limits |
Monthly $10, 6 months $50, yearly $90 (USD 7.50/mo equivalent), block 500 GB $20. All unlimited plans include free headers, free posting, header compression and a VPN account. |
| Binding | none Unlimited volume and speed; the vendor publishes no fair-use figure, so nothing in the vocabulary binds at 1 TiB/month. |
| Identity | card Email plus a paid plan. No trial exists. Payment methods listed by the vendor: PayPal, UK/EU/USA debit and Bitcoin; accounts are provisioned after payment. |
| Egress | Unlimited, with 50 connections included and an upgrade path to 150 free allowance: unlimited |
| Per-object cap | no per-object cap is published |
| Retention | The vendor homepage states 'Many Articles Over 4000 Days Old' and 'Exceptional Binary and Text Retention'; no binary retention depth in days is stated. The r/usenet map records a 3,000-day backfill; that third-party figure is the recorded number. (3000 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 | Direct access buys the 150-connection upgrade no reseller sells, and the 500 GB block stacks as a fill under any other primary. |
| Reliability | Own Tier-1 backbone with US and NL farms, AS62296 in the US and AS50673 in Amsterdam. Sells to resellers (NewsDemon, NewsgroupDirect, CubeNet, ThunderNews, UsenetPrime, UsenetNews) and directly. |
| Notes | Second independent backbone after Omicron by retention depth, and the only one whose resellers publish blocks under $50/TB. |
| Evidence note | reported Prices and connections are from the vendor's plans page read. Retention is not stated by the vendor anywhere read, so the r/usenet backfill figure is used and the record drops to the reported rung because retention decides the retrieval verdict. |
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Evidence 11
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | usenetexpress.com/plans/ | Monthly unlimited $10; 6 months $50; yearly $90; 500 GB block $20; 50 connections; 256-bit SSL; 30 days risk free |
| 2026-10-23 | www.usenetexpress.com/ | '$7.50/mth subscribe yearly and save'; 'Exceptional Binary and Text Retention'; 50 SSL connections; VPN account included |
| 2026-10-23 | www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers | backbone table records UsenetExpress US full spool, NL cached, 'Backfill: 3000 days' |
| 2026-11-03 | www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers | the map records a 3000-day backfill; the vendor's own statement is a separate evidence row |
| 2026-11-03 | www.usenetexpress.com/ | the vendor states many articles over 4000 days old |
| 2026-11-03 | www.usenetexpress.com/ | debit accepted, with PayPal and Bitcoin on adjacent lines |
| 2026-11-03 | www.usenetexpress.com/ | PayPal accepted |
| 2026-11-03 | www.usenetexpress.com/ | Bitcoin accepted |
| 2026-11-03 | www.usenetexpress.com/ | 50 connections upgradeable to 150 |
| 2026-11-03 | usenetexpress.com/plans/ | yearly unlimited plan $90 with 50 connections, unchanged |
| 2026-11-03 | www.usenetexpress.com/ | money-back guarantee, not a trial, unchanged |
More fields 3
| backbone | UsenetExpress, AS62296 (US) / AS50673 (NL) |
|---|---|
| resellers | ["NewsDemon","NewsgroupDirect","CubeNet","ThunderNews","UsenetPrime","UsenetNews"] |
| connections max | 150 |