- Free allowance
- "You can try out Usenet risk-free for 14 days with free data volume." The trial page prices the Rookie+ package at "0 € During the trial with free download volume" and "30 GB Monthly highspeed data volume", then "7.95 € per month" after the trial.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota30 GB during the 14-day trial; 30 GB/month on Rookie+ afterwards
- 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 | "You can try out Usenet risk-free for 14 days with free data volume." The trial page prices the Rookie+ package at "0 € During the trial with free download volume" and "30 GB Monthly highspeed data volume", then "7.95 € per month" after the trial. unit GB; metered on downloaded-bytes; The trial page prints no separate byte figure for the trial; 30 GB is the Rookie+ package volume the trial runs on. Whether the trial carries exactly that volume is inferred from the page layout, not from a second sentence. |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 30 GB during the 14-day trial; 30 GB/month on Rookie+ afterwards source
- write-gated registration requires "Entering payment information and billing address" source
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| Binding | volume-quota No speed figure is published for the trial. |
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| Identity | card The provider §1.1b lists "Entering payment information and billing address" as a registration step. §6.1c says the payment provider may "reserve or deduct and reimburse a small amount of money (less than $5.00 US) from the credit card or PayPal account or iDeal account" to verify the customer. A payment instrument is captured before the trial starts. |
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| Egress | No separate traffic price is published; the trial is metered by downloaded volume and the plan list prices volume per month after it. The provider does not state an overage rate for the trial. free allowance: 30 GB during a 14-day trial |
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| Per-object cap | No per-object cap is published. The unit of retrieval is a Usenet article, roughly 750 KB by convention, so 30 GB is about 40,000 article fetches. |
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| Retention | "More than 18 years retention of data (6,600+ days)" in the package feature list on the home page. (6600 days) |
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| Interface | unknown NNTP over SSL. The vendor publishes no API. The schema has no nntp token, so the array says unknown; the protocol is not in doubt. |
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| Tooling | any NNTP client (SABnzbd, NZBGet, nzbget CLI); the package bundles a VPN, not a downloader |
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| Composes with | A one-off 30 GB that must be spent inside 14 days on the largest remaining object, then cancelled before the monthly plan starts; it does not compose into a repeating month. |
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| Reliability | The trial converts to a paid monthly plan at 7.95 € unless cancelled inside the 14 days; §6.4c stores the registration IP and §6.1d allows immediate blocking where payment data is judged false. |
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| Notes | A second address does not defeat this, because the gate is the payment instrument plus the stored registration IP rather than the network address. Abandonment: if the trial stops being priced at 0 € for a full 14 days, the record becomes paid-only. |
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| Evidence note | documented Trial length, volume and the payment gate are each quoted from a vendor page read. A signup completed to the payment step would raise the volume attribution from inferred to measured; it was not executed. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- volume-quota 30 GB
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