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The trial signup runs through a three-step flow who...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":0},"record":{"topic":"debrid","slug":"fastusenet","provider":"Fastusenet","url":"https://www.fastusenet.org/signup/freetrial.php","category":"usenet provider (Omicron reseller)","tier":"Unlimited","free_tier":{"stated":"A free trial of 14 days or 15 GB, whichever comes first, on all three plans, then the plan price applies. The trial signup runs through a three-step flow whose third step is 'Payment Information'.","unit":"GB","metered_on":"downloaded-bytes","source_url":"https://www.fastusenet.org/signup/freetrial.php","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":""},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"no per-object cap is published; the unit of retrieval is a Usenet article, ~750 KB by convention, so a 1 TiB month is roughly 1.4 million article fetches","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.fastusenet.org/signup/freetrial.php","notes":"an article size is a protocol convention, not a vendor number"},"retention":{"stated":"Not stated by the vendor on any page read. The trial and plans pages carry no day count; the Omicron spool this reseller serves through us.sslusenet.com is sold elsewhere as 6,642+ days, which is inferred rather than measured here.","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.fastusenet.org/signup/freetrial.php"},"egress":{"terms":"Unlimited after the trial on the top plan; 35 GB and 15 GB on the two cheaper plans","metered":true,"free_allowance":"15 GB during the trial on every plan","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.fastusenet.org/signup/freetrial.php"},"interface":["nntp"],"interface_detail":"NNTP over TLS on port 563; no HTTP or object API exists for the download path, so the client drives it through SABnzbd, NZBGet or nzbdav","tooling":"SABnzbd, NZBGet or nzbdav over NNTP/TLS; any newsreader works because the protocol is the same everywhere, and no provider SDK is needed","chaining":"Once the trial converts this is a second Omicron feed and adds nothing to a Newshosting or Eweka subscription; its stack value is the 14-day test window.","limits":[{"kind":"request-rate","value":"50 SSL connections","source":"https://www.fastusenet.org/signup/freetrial.php"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"15 GB during the 14-day trial; 15 GB, 35 GB or unlimited after it","source":"https://www.fastusenet.org/signup/freetrial.php"}],"limits_note":"Trial then $6.95/mo unlimited, $5.95/mo for 35 GB, $3.95/mo for 15 GB. The trial carries 15 GB whichever plan is chosen, so the most a free trial yields here is 15 GB once.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"The trial is hard-capped at 15 GB and the two cheap plans are hard-capped at 15 GB and 35 GB per month. At 1 TiB/month the counter is the first thing that fails, on every tier.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"'Payment Information' is step 3 of the trial signup, before 'Create Login' is step 4, so a payment method is captured before the trial starts. The card is what makes this trial-only.","country":null},"reliability_note":"Omicron reseller on the sslusenet.com hosts, the same pair Newsgroup Ninja uses. The 14-day window is longer than the 3 to 7 days most competitors allow.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Trial terms, prices and step order are on the vendor's signup pages read today. The card requirement is read from the step name, not from submitting the form.","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.fastusenet.org/signup/freetrial.php","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'14 days to test our service or 15GB of downloads, whichever comes first'; 50 SSL connections; then $6.95/$5.95/$3.95 per month"},{"url":"https://www.fastusenet.org/signup/freetrial.php","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the page's signup flow lists four steps - '1 Choose Your Plan, 2 Confirm Account, 3 Payment Information, 4 Create Login' - taken from the search snippet of this URL because the extractor returned only the marketing copy; the meta description adds 'Choose the plan your account converts to after the trial'"}],"verdict":"trial-only","verified_at":"2026-10-23T01:52:29.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 6.95 (unlimited, monthly)","notes":"Recorded as the clearest example of the pattern: a trial advertised as free, gated at a payment step that no vendor page describes as optional.","extras":{"backbone":"Omicron, via us.sslusenet.com / nl.sslusenet.com","trial_gate":"step 3 of 4 is Payment Information"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":15.0,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":15.0,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":6.95,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":6.95,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}