Blocknews
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Blocknews Debrid
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| Free tier | No free tier and no trial: block accounts only, 5 GB for USD 1.99 up to 3,072 GB for USD 99.99. unit GB; metered on downloaded-bytes; the block is the product; there is no monthly plan on the page |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 39.99 per TB one-time |
| Per-object cap | Not applicable: usenet articles are capped by the poster's segment size, not by the provider. |
| Retention | The block never expires: 'No Expiration! Keep Your Gigs Until Used!' and 'Pay Only *ONCE*! Never Any Rebilling!' Article retention is described only as 'leading retention, increasing day by day' with no number on the page. |
| Egress | Downloaded bytes are drawn from the purchased block; there is no monthly allowance to renew and no rebilling. free_allowance: the purchased block only price_per_tb: USD 39.99 per TB in the 1,024 GB block |
| Identity | email email and password at the billing portal; no identity document |
| Limits |
Article retention is the real ceiling and it is unpublished, which is the one gap in an otherwise clean offer. |
| Binding | volume-quota At 1 TiB/month the block is spent in about a month; that is the point - it is spent, not expired, and an unspent balance waits indefinitely. |
| Interface | nntp NNTP with SSL; up to 200 connections; seven server locations (two USA, one Europe, plus Africa, Asia, Australia, South America) endpoint: news.blocknews.net |
| Tooling | any NNTP client or downloader (SABnzbd, NZBGet, nzbget-compatible tooling); no API beyond NNTP |
| Composes with | the cleanest 'fetch now, read later' primitive in the whole corpus: a prepaid byte balance that survives any pause, and articles that sit on the provider's spool independent of the client's payment state |
| Reliability | Completeness depends on the poster's propagation; the FAQ page answered a bot challenge to the reader, so no completeness figure could be read. |
| Notes | The block is the answer to question in its purest form: nothing to renew, nothing to lapse. What it does not give is storage of a file the client chose - it gives access to articles the provider happens to hold. Abandonment condition: a published article-retention figure, or a change to the non-expiry claim. At $32.55/TB it is cheaper than every UsenetExpress block except CubeNet's 2 TB tier, and it sits on a different backbone, which is what a fill account needs. |
| Evidence rung | documented The non-expiring claim is on the vendor's own front page in two places. Article retention has no number there and the FAQ was challenge-walled, so one figure is missing rather than guessed. |
| Checked | 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-23 |
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Evidence (4)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | www.blocknews.net/ | 'No Expiration! Keep Your Gigs Until Used!', 'Pay Only *ONCE*! Never Any Rebilling!', the 5 GB to 3,072 GB price ladder, 200 connections, seven server locations |
| 2026-10-23 | blocknews.net/faq/ | the FAQ returned a 403 bot challenge to every reader route tried (extractor, exa, contextdev, hyperbrowser, tinyfish, cfbr), so its retention figure is unread |
| 2026-10-23 | blocknews.net/ | 5 GB $1.99 through 3,072 GB $99.99; 'Pay Only ONCE! Never Any Rebilling!'; 'No Expiration!'; 'up to 200 connections'; seven server locations |
| 2026-10-23 | www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers | BlockNews on NetNews, AS6450; reseller of the same backbone as Frugal Usenet |
More fields (7)
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"days": null,
"source_url": "https://www.blocknews.net/"
},
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"stated": "not published ('increasing day by day')",
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}
},
"account_deletion": {
"stated": "not published",
"days": null,
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},
"reactivation": "nothing to reactivate: the balance is the account",
"storage_model": "prepaid download block over NNTP",
"backbone": "NetNews, AS6450",
"block_price_tb_usd": 32.55,
"server_locations": 7
}