{"rid":"debrid/nzbfinder","card":{"rid":"debrid/nzbfinder","eid":"nzbfinder","topic":"debrid","slug":"nzbfinder","provider":"NZBFinder","url":"https://nzbfinder.ws/","domain":"nzbfinder.ws","category":"Usenet indexer (Newznab API, tiered membership)","tier":"free","verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"reported","binding":"request-rate","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:11:54.066Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-24","stale_on":"2026-11-07","n_evidence":5,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Free tier reported as 5 NZB downloads and 25 API hits per day, no XXX access; Basic EUR 10/year gives 5,000 API hits and unlimited downloads, Pro EUR 20/year...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":0},"record":{"slug":"nzbfinder","provider":"NZBFinder","url":"https://nzbfinder.ws/","category":"Usenet indexer (Newznab API, tiered membership)","tier":"free","free_tier":{"stated":"Free tier reported as 5 NZB downloads and 25 API hits per day, no XXX access; Basic EUR 10/year gives 5,000 API hits and unlimited downloads, Pro EUR 20/year 20,000, Elite EUR 35/year unlimited plus Spotweb. The vendor's own caps declares <limits max=\"100\" default=\"100\"/> and <registration available=\"yes\" open=\"yes\"/>.","unit":"requests","metered_on":"request-count","source_url":"https://nzbfinder.ws/api?t=caps","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":"Two 2026 third-party tables agree on 5 downloads / 25 API per day; a 2013 vendor forum post said 10 API and 5 downloads, and a March 2020 promotion raised it temporarily to 250 API and 100 downloads. The conservative 25 is kept."},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable: an NZB pointer file","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://nzbfinder.ws/api?t=caps","notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"'18+ years of posts in our DB' (login page strapline); a third-party listing claims 'over 3,600 days of binary content, 500,000+ NZBs indexed'.","days":null,"source_url":"https://nzbfinder.ws/login","notes":"The vendor states a span in years, not a day count; the day figure is third-party."},"egress":{"terms":"No byte metering; the API returns pointers.","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://nzbfinder.ws/api?t=caps"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"Newznab API on the same host at /api. caps advertises 100 results per request and open registration. The site lists Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, NZBHydra 2, SickChill/SickGear, Chaptarr, Mylar, Lazylibrarian and Lidarr as compatible.","endpoint":"https://nzbfinder.ws/api?t=caps ; https://nzbfinder.ws/api?t=search&q=<query>&apikey=<key>","tooling":"Native Newznab, no wrapper: Prowlarr, NZBHydra2 and every arr app add it with URL plus key.","chaining":"An open-registration indexer with a real API key on the free tier, so it can carry an arr stack at 25 searches and 5 grabs a day before EUR 10/year lifts the ceiling.","limits":[{"kind":"request-rate","value":"25 API hits per day and 5 NZB downloads per day on the free tier","source":"https://usenetreviewz.com/nzbfinder-review/"},{"kind":"request-rate","value":"100 results per request maximum","source":"https://nzbfinder.ws/api?t=caps"}],"limits_note":"Registration is declared open today, which is the one difference that matters against every other invite-only indexer.","binding":"request-rate","binding_note":"At a 1 TiB/month habit the daily counter is what stops the client: 25 API hits a day is roughly one search per hour, and the 5-grab cap allows about 50 GB a day at a 10 GB average NZB, which is 1.5 TB a month only if nothing retries.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"Registration declares itself open in caps and /register serves an email field with the warning 'Temporary e-mail domains are banned', plus a verification link. Spam-blocking is the gate, not an invite.","country":null},"reliability_note":"Free accounts have been re-capped before without notice (the 2013 status post reverted a temporary lift), so a free allowance is a policy number that can change under a running stack.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"caps and the open-registration flag were measured today; the free allowance that decides the verdict is third-party. One free account would settle it and would move the record to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"probe:https://nzbfinder.ws/api?t=caps&x=1","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"caps returned 200 and 2,425 bytes: title NZBFinder, <limits max=\"100\" default=\"100\"/>, <registration available=\"yes\" open=\"yes\"/>"},{"url":"probe:https://nzbfinder.ws/api?t=search&q=linux&x=1","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"an unkeyed search did not reach the API: the origin answered a Cloudflare page (4,553 bytes), so the key requirement is inferred from the Newznab contract and caps, not from an error element"},{"url":"https://nzbfinder.ws/login","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"vendor strapline '18+ years of posts in our DB', 'Newznab-compatible API', and the client list"},{"url":"https://usenetreviewz.com/nzbfinder-review/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"third-party 2026 table: Free 5 NZBs / 25 APIs; Basic 10 EUR / 5,000; Pro 20 EUR / 20,000; Elite 35 EUR / unlimited + Spotweb"},{"url":"https://www.toolsurf.com/nzbfinder-price-2026/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"second third-party 2026 table with the same free row, and the note that 'Free' figures are daily"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","extras":{"price":"EUR 10/year Basic (reported); FREE = 5 downloads + 25 API hits/day","nzb_is_newznab":true,"caps_limits":100,"registration_open":true},"notes":"The open-registration flag in caps is the strongest single fact on this record, and it is what separates NZBFinder from DrunkenSlug, NZBPlanet, Tabula Rasa and NinjaCentral today.","verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:11:54.066Z","topic":"debrid","price_per_tb_month":null},"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:request-rate","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}