{"rid":"debrid/easynews","card":{"rid":"debrid/easynews","eid":"easynews","topic":"debrid","slug":"easynews","provider":"Easynews","url":"https://www.easynews.com/usenet-plans/","domain":"easynews.com","category":"Usenet provider with web-to-Usenet interface (United States) - no free trial","tier":"Big Gig","verdict":"paid-only","vorder":3,"grp":"paid","confidence":"documented","binding":"volume-quota","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","egress_metered":1,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":6432,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:20:22.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-24","stale_on":"2026-11-23","n_evidence":5,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"None. The vendor's own help centre says: \"Easynews does not offer a traditional free trial. Instead, it provides a 30-day money back guarantee on all new pla...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":1},"record":{"topic":"debrid","slug":"easynews","provider":"Easynews","url":"https://www.easynews.com/usenet-plans/","category":"Usenet provider with web-to-Usenet interface (United States) - no free trial","tier":"Big Gig","free_tier":{"stated":"None. The vendor's own help centre says: \"Easynews does not offer a traditional free trial. Instead, it provides a 30-day money back guarantee on all new plans.\" The plans page sells \"30-Day Money-Back Guarantee\" as the risk-free route.","unit":"none","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://help.easynews.com/kb/article/1589-no-free-trial-refund-available-in-30-days/","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":"Affiliate pages advertise \"14 days or 10 GB of data from Easynews\"; the vendor's own knowledge base denies a free trial. The vendor page is the evidence and the affiliate claim is recorded as refuted."},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"No per-object cap is published. The unit of retrieval is a Usenet article, roughly 750 KB by convention.","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.easynews.com/usenet-plans/","notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"\"6432+ Days Article Retention\" on the Big Gig row; a checkout page read the same day said \"6643+ Days\". The conservative figure is kept.","days":6432,"source_url":"https://www.easynews.com/usenet-plans/","notes":"Two vendor surfaces give different day counts on the same day; the smaller is recorded."},"egress":{"terms":"Metered by monthly data allowance on the Big Gig plan (150 GB/month); the unlimited-data plan is priced separately. No per-TB overage price is published on the page read.","metered":true,"free_allowance":"none","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.easynews.com/usenet-plans/"},"interface":["rest","unknown"],"interface_detail":"Web-to-Usenet browser interface plus NNTP (200+ days on the mail-in Classic, 6432+ days on Big Gig, 60 connections). The web interface is the distinguishing feature; the schema has no nntp token, so the second token is unknown.","tooling":"browser (no client needed); NNTP clients also work","chaining":"Not a free step. It is the fallback when a Usenet indexer returns an article the client wants to read in a browser: pay $9.99 for month one and use the 30-day refund as the trial, which still means a card.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"150 GB/month on Big Gig; unlimited on the unlimited plan","source":"https://www.easynews.com/usenet-plans/"},{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"6432+ days on Big Gig","source":"https://www.easynews.com/usenet-plans/"}],"limits_note":"","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"150 GB/month on the entry plan is 15% of a 1 TiB month; the unlimited plan removes the counter but requires the $9.99 monthly relationship. A card is required either way.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"Every plan is a paid subscription; the 30-day guarantee is a refund against a charge, not a free tier. The checkout was not opened, so the instrument is inferred from the refund mechanics.","country":null},"reliability_note":"The refund requires a request inside 30 days; the vendor KB documents the policy. No suspension report was read.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Both the absence of a trial and the plan numbers are quoted from vendor pages read today. The affiliate claim of a 10 GB trial is recorded as refuted by the vendor's own KB.","evidence":[{"url":"https://help.easynews.com/kb/article/1589-no-free-trial-refund-available-in-30-days/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"\"Easynews does not offer a traditional free trial. Instead, it provides a 30-day money back guarantee on all new plans.\""},{"url":"https://www.easynews.com/usenet-plans/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"\"30-Day Money-Back Guarantee\", \"Big Gig Plan\" at \"$29.94 / $9.99 /mo First 3 Months\", \"150 GB/Month Data\", \"6432+ Days Article Retention\", \"60 Connections\""},{"url":"https://www.easynews.com/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"\"6643 days of article retention\" in the body - the higher of two vendor figures for the same day"},{"url":"https://help.easynews.com/kb/article/44-payment-methods/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Easynews accepts Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express' and 'PayPal: Subscriptions can be managed through PayPal', plus the region caveat"},{"url":"https://signup.easynews.com/checkout/unlimited-special-deal/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":null}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:20:22.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"Repeatability: not applicable, because there is no free trial to repeat. Abandonment: if a free trial appears in the help centre, this becomes a trial record. PayPal is listed, but PayPal guest checkout still requires a funding card, and Easynews presents PayPal as a subscription authorisation rather than a one-off, so it is not a cardless route.","extras":{"repeatable":"not-applicable","repeat_basis":"no free trial","affiliate_claim_refuted":"\"Click here for 14 days or 10 GB of data from Easynews\" (shareconnector.net) against the vendor KB's \"does not offer a traditional free trial\"","payment_group":"card","payment":{"card":true,"paypal":true,"crypto":[],"crypto_processor":null,"local_rails":[],"voucher":false,"entry_price":"not read"}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":150,"unit":"GB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.evidence[4].proved","withheld"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}