{"rid":"debrid/vipernews","card":{"rid":"debrid/vipernews","eid":"vipernews","topic":"debrid","slug":"vipernews","provider":"ViperNews","url":"https://www.vipernews.com/","domain":"vipernews.com","category":"usenet backbone and provider (independent, NL)","tier":"entry plan","verdict":"paid-only","vorder":3,"grp":"paid","confidence":"reported","binding":"none","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"nntp","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":3000,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T01:52:29.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-24","stale_on":"2026-11-07","n_evidence":2,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":1.79,"summary":"No free tier. The site offers a 7-day risk-free period that it describes as a refund, not a trial: 'you can try it risk-free for 7 days, without limitations....","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":0},"record":{"topic":"debrid","slug":"vipernews","provider":"ViperNews","url":"https://www.vipernews.com/","category":"usenet backbone and provider (independent, NL)","tier":"entry plan","free_tier":{"stated":"No free tier. The site offers a 7-day risk-free period that it describes as a refund, not a trial: 'you can try it risk-free for 7 days, without limitations. Not happy? We'll refund your payment'.","unit":"none","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://www.vipernews.com/","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.vipernews.com/","notes":"an article size is a protocol convention, not a vendor number"},"retention":{"stated":"Retention is not stated on the home page read. The r/usenet map records a 3,000-day retention with 1,500-day primary and 1,500-day secondary backfill.","days":3000,"source_url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers"},"egress":{"terms":"Unlimited volume on the unlimited plans; account sharing permitted; posting enabled by default","metered":false,"free_allowance":"unlimited","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.vipernews.com/"},"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":"Stacks as a cheap fill or as a low-cost primary for recent content; the ASN it shares with UsenetExpress makes it a weaker second feed than its independence suggests.","limits":[{"kind":"request-rate","value":"30+ simultaneous connections","source":"https://www.vipernews.com/"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"soft 5 TB/month on unlimited plans, reset on request via support - reported, not on the vendor page","source":"https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers"},{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"3,000 days, reported; not stated on the vendor page","source":"https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers"}],"limits_note":"Packages start at $1.79/mo with no coupon required, per the vendor. Blocks are sold separately; the r/usenet deals wiki records a 500 GB block at EUR 13.99 and a 2,000 GB block at EUR 18 in a Black Friday listing, neither of which was on the page read.","binding":"none","binding_note":"The vendor publishes no volume cap; the reported soft ceiling is 5 TB/month, which 1 TiB/month does not reach.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"Email plus a paid plan; the 7-day window refunds a payment rather than avoiding one.","country":null},"reliability_note":"Independent Dutch platform (ViperNews B.V., formerly mapped as Uzo Reto) that has shared an ASN with UsenetExpress since 2023, which makes it a less independent second feed than it looks.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"The price floor and the 7-day refund are vendor-stated and read today. Retention and the soft cap are third-party only, and retention decides the retrieval verdict, so the record sits at the reported rung.","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.vipernews.com/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'starting at $1.79/mo'; 'try it risk-free for 7 days'; '7-day money-back guarantee'; account sharing allowed; posting enabled by default"},{"url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"ViperNews backbone: full, cached, primary backfill 1,500 days, secondary backfill 1,500 days; 'soft limits (5tb per month) on their unlimited plans'"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-23T01:52:29.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 1.79 (entry plan)","notes":"A 3,000-day spool is roughly half of Omicron's. For anything older than eight years this provider is the wrong primary.","extras":{"backbone":"ViperNews / Uzo Reto, AS62296 shared with UsenetExpress","sharing":"allowed","soft_cap":"5 TB/month, reported"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.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:volume-quota","num":5,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[2].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":1.79,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":1.79,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}