Bulknews

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Bulknews — free Usenet trial (10 GB) Storage

trialemail?card?Rper-object-cap

www.bulknews.eu/usenet-plans/ · messaging · storage/bulknews-free-usenet-trial · JSON · compare

Free tier	Trial: 10 GB, unlimited speed, 30 connections, listed as FREE. Paid blocks start at 20 GB. unit GB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	per-object-cap: standard Usenet article size (~750 KB (750000 bytes)
Retention	This is a download-block trial, not free storage: you get 10 GB of retrieval, not 10 GB you can park data in permanently
Egress	Included in the 10 GB block; no separate egress charge.
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Limits	per-object-cap per-object-cap: standard Usenet article size (~750 KB source per-object-cap: standard Usenet article size (~750 KB-1 MB practical). Request-rate: 30 connections. Retention: 10 GB is a download volume block, not a storage quota — there is no storage at all here, it is a retrieval service.
Binding	per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interface	rest rest
Tooling	Plain NNTP (port 563 SSL), works with any newsreader or an NNTP library.
Composes with	Trial-shaped and single-use: 10 GB once per account, and Usenet accounts are tied to a paid order flow. Not repeatable at scale.
Reliability	This is a download-block trial, not free storage: you get 10 GB of retrieval, not 10 GB you can park data in permanently. Categorically the wrong shape for a user's workloads.
Notes	Trial: 10 GB, unlimited speed, 30 connections, listed as FREE. Paid blocks start at 20 GB.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-object-cap 750.0 KB

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.bulknews.eu/usenet-plans/	'Trial / Unlimited speed / 30 Connections / 10Gb / FREE!'; next tier 'Block 20 / 20Gb'

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Trial: 10 GB, unlimited speed, 30 connections, listed as FREE. Paid blocks start at 20 GB.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (6)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted