NZBGeek
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NZBGeek Debrid
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| Free tier | No usable free API, and the free tier itself is in dispute. Three third-party readings: 'you need a paid membership to search and download' (usenet.com, 2026); '3-day trial, 15 NZBs total' (datahoarder.io); '5 NZB downloads per day, around 5 API calls per day' (bigwritehook.co.uk). What is measured: /api?t=search without a key returns <error code="102" description="Empty API Key"/>, and caps declares <registration available="no" open="no"/>. A membership is USD 12/year. unit requests; metered on request-count; The conservative reading is the one the vendor's own API supports: an unkeyed call is refused, and no reading of the free tier describes an API allowance enough to drive an arr stack. The 5-calls-a-day figure is not refuted, only unsourced. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: an NZB pointer file |
| Retention | not stated on the API surface. A third-party listing claims 'NZBs from 8 years ago available, 500,000+ indexed NZBs' (nzbhydra.com, 2026-10-23). |
| Egress | No byte metering: the API returns XML pointers. The payload is served by whichever news provider the client pays. |
| Identity | email Registration is contradictory at the vendor: the login page links 'register account?' and register.php serves a Registration Agreement with an agree step, while /api?t=caps declares <registration available="no" open="no"/>. No account was created, so the fields a signup actually demands were not observed. |
| Limits |
The 100 is a per-request result ceiling and applies to every tier; it is not the paid allowance. |
| Binding | request-rate The API call allowance is what fails first: without a key the first automated search is refused outright (error 102), and the readings of the free tier that describe an allowance put it at 5 calls a day, which is one search every five hours. |
| Interface | rest Newznab API on a separate host, api.nzbgeek.info/api, not nzbgeek.info/api (the apex returns HTML). caps declares <limits max="100" default="100"/> and <registration available="no" open="no"/>. An unkeyed search returns error code 102. |
| Tooling | Native Newznab: Prowlarr, NZBHydra2, Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr and Mylar all add it with URL plus key. No wrapper needed. The API host is different from the site host, which is the first mistake a hand-rolled config makes. |
| Composes with | A broad, well-populated index that a paid arr stack reaches with no wrapper; on the free tier it contributes nothing to automation, because no reading of the free tier gives an API allowance that could drive a stack. |
| Reliability | The membership is what keeps the index alive; a lapsed membership drops the account back to the capped tier and automation stops with no partial service. |
| Notes | Two vendor signals contradict each other on registration: a served agreement form says open, caps says available=no. The conservative reading is recorded on the record and not resolved, because resolving it needs an account. The verdict rests on the API allowance, which is independent of that question. |
| Evidence rung | reported The caps and the unkeyed error were measured. The free allowance that decides the verdict is third-party, because no account was created. Creating one free account and reading its API page would move this to documented. |
| Checked | 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-07 |
Evidence (8)
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-23 | probe:https://api.nzbgeek.info/api?t=caps&x=1 | caps returned 200 and 3,927 bytes: NZBgeek, <limits max="100" default="100"/>, <registration available="no" open="no"/> |
| 2026-10-23 | probe:https://api.nzbgeek.info/api?t=search&q=linux&x=1 | unkeyed search returned 200 with 47 bytes: <error code="102" description="Empty API Key"/>, so the API is closed to a free, unauthenticated caller |
| 2026-10-23 | probe:https://nzbgeek.info/api?t=caps | the apex host serves HTML for /api, 91,943 bytes; the API lives only on api.nzbgeek.info |
| 2026-10-23 | probe:https://nzbgeek.info/register.php | an anonymous GET receives the Registration Agreement plus an 'agree' submit, which contradicts the caps registration flag; no POST was made |
| 2026-10-23 | nzbhydra.com/indexers/ | third-party: NZBGeek 'USD 12/year VIP', free tier '0 calls' |
| 2026-10-23 | datahoarder.io/nzbgeek-review/ | third-party: the paid tier 'removes download caps and unlocks full API integration' |
| 2026-10-23 | www.usenet.com/free-nzb-sites/ | third-party: 'NZBgeek used to have a free level, but now you need a paid membership to search and download.' |
| 2026-10-23 | datahoarder.io/drunkenslug-vs-nzbgeek/ | third-party table: NZBGeek free tier '3-day trial, 15 NZBs total', API 'unlimited on paid plans' |
More fields (5)
{
"price": "USD 12/year (reported)",
"nzb_is_newznab": true,
"caps_limits": 100,
"api_host": "api.nzbgeek.info",
"unkeyed_error": "102 Empty API Key"
}