- Free allowance
- 'Free usenet server' with 'no credit card required, a password will be emailed to you'.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate3 connections free, up to 12 on a premium account
- Evidence
- unverified11 sources; asserted and not checked
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-19checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-11-19
| Free tier | 'Free usenet server' with 'no credit card required, a password will be emailed to you'. Includes NNTP access for a newsreader or downloader, and a web-to-usenet gateway for browser access. unit unlimited; metered on none |
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| Price | USD 0 |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) 3 connections free, up to 12 on a premium account source
The terms permit one free account per individual, household or IP address. The bundled indexer is ikbin, an open-source binary indexer whose own FAQ says it is 'a demonstration and testing site' and that 'content may be cleared out rather unexpectedly if a beta goes south'. The premium account price is not published on the pages read; whether a datacenter address is accepted is not published. |
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| Binding | request-rate Three simultaneous connections is the ceiling and it is published; no volume or retention figure exists to bind instead. Three connections will not saturate a line, so throughput, not volume, is what a 50 GiB month runs into. |
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| Identity | email An email address: 'no credit card required, a password will be emailed to you'. The terms add that only one free account is permitted per individual, household or IP address. |
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| Egress | Nothing published about speed, volume or retention; the only number on the site is the connection count |
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| Per-object cap | no per-object cap is published |
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| Retention | Not stated anywhere read. The site carries only the groups its members request: 'We only carry the newsgroups that our members have requested. To add a newsgroup, please email support.' |
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| 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 |
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| Composes with | Would stack as a zero-cost secondary for recent, popular binaries if it is alive; it cannot be a primary, because three connections and a member-requested group list cannot cover a workload. |
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| Reliability | A demo server attached to a demo indexer, with a group list that only covers what members ask for and a stated risk that content disappears when the beta misbehaves. On 2026-11-03 neither the website (an HTTP GET timed out) nor the NNTP port of news.usenetmax.com (a TCP connect timed out) answered, while DNS for both names resolves and a Wayback Machine copy of the home page dated 2026-06-27 shows the offer. Liveness is unconfirmed: the page text that reads today is an index copy. |
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| Notes | A reader with a working network should try the signup before trusting it. |
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| Evidence note | unverified The offer text was read from the live page body on 2026-10-23, but no HTTP status accompanied it and the direct fetch failed. Nothing was connected to, so neither the account flow nor the service's availability is established. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- price USD 0
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