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All unlimited plans include free headers, free posting, header compression and a VPN account.","binding":"none","binding_note":"Unlimited volume and speed; the vendor publishes no fair-use figure, so nothing in the vocabulary binds at 1 TiB/month.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"Email plus a paid plan. No trial exists. The vendor states accounts are provisioned after payment","country":null},"reliability_note":"Own Tier-1 backbone with US and NL farms, AS62296 in the US and AS50673 in Amsterdam. Sells to resellers (NewsDemon, NewsgroupDirect, CubeNet, ThunderNews, UsenetPrime, UsenetNews) and directly.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"Prices and connections are from the vendor's plans page read today. Retention is not stated by the vendor anywhere read, so the r/usenet backfill figure is used and the record drops to the reported rung because retention decides the retrieval verdict.","evidence":[{"url":"https://usenetexpress.com/plans/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"Monthly unlimited $10; 6 months $50; yearly $90; 500 GB block $20; 50 connections; 256-bit SSL; 30 days risk free"},{"url":"https://www.usenetexpress.com/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'$7.50/mth subscribe yearly and save'; 'Exceptional Binary and Text Retention'; 50 SSL connections; VPN account included"},{"url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"backbone table records UsenetExpress US full spool, NL cached, 'Backfill: 3000 days'"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-23T01:52:29.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 7.50 (unlimited, annual at $90/yr)","notes":"Second independent backbone after Omicron by retention depth, and the only one whose resellers publish blocks under $50/TB.","extras":{"backbone":"UsenetExpress, AS62296 (US) / AS50673 (NL)","resellers":["NewsDemon","NewsgroupDirect","CubeNet","ThunderNews","UsenetPrime","UsenetNews"],"connections_max":150}},"claims":[{"path":"$.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:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":90,"unit":"TB","per":"year","currency":"USD","usd":90,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}