UsenetMax
usenetmax.com · Debrid · 1 record · JSON
UsenetMax Debrid
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| Free tier | 'Free usenet server' with 'no credit card required, a password will be emailed to you'. Includes NNTP access for a newsreader or downloader, and a web-to-usenet gateway for browser access. unit unlimited; metered on none |
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| Price | USD 0 |
| Per-object cap | 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 |
| Retention | Not stated anywhere read. The site carries only the groups its members request: 'We only carry the newsgroups that our members have requested. To add a newsgroup, please email support.' |
| Egress | Nothing published about speed, volume or retention; the only number on the site is the connection count |
| Identity | email An email address: 'no credit card required, a password will be emailed to you'. That is the whole gate as published. |
| Limits |
Server settings published: host news.usenetmax.com, port 563, 3 connections free with the note that 'more than 3 rarely improves anything'. The bundled indexer is ikbin, an open-source binary indexer whose own FAQ says it is 'a demonstration and testing site' and that 'content may be cleared out rather unexpectedly if a beta goes south'. |
| Binding | request-rate Three simultaneous connections is the ceiling and it is published; no volume or retention figure exists to bind instead. Three connections will not saturate a line, so throughput, not volume, is what a 50 GiB month runs into. |
| Interface | nntp 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 |
| Composes with | Would stack as a zero-cost secondary for recent, popular binaries if it is alive; it cannot be a primary, because three connections and a member-requested group list cannot cover a workload. |
| Reliability | A demo server attached to a demo indexer, with a group list that only covers what members ask for and a stated risk that content disappears when the beta misbehaves. Liveness is the open question: the page body came back from a search index with no HTTP status, and a direct fetch returned a broker-side 522. |
| Notes | The one lead that could clear the bar for nothing, and the one that could not be confirmed alive. A reader with a working network should try the signup before trusting it. |
| Evidence rung | unverified The offer text was read from the live page body on 2026-10-23, but no HTTP status accompanied it and the direct fetch failed at the broker. Nothing was connected to, so neither the account flow nor the service's availability is established. |
| Checked | 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-07 |
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Evidence (3)
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-23 | www.usenetmax.com/ | 'Free usenet server'; 'NNTP access for newsreader or downloader'; 'Web to usenet gateway for browser access'; 'no credit card required a password will be emailed to you' |
| 2026-10-23 | www.usenetmax.com/how-to/ | Host news.usenetmax.com, port 563, 'Connections: 3 (up to 12 for a premium account)' |
| 2026-10-23 | news.usenetmax.com/faq.php | the bundled indexer is ikbin, 'a demonstration and testing site'; 'Content may be cleared out rather unexpectedly if a beta goes south' |
More fields (5)
{
"host": "news.usenetmax.com",
"port": 563,
"connections_free": 3,
"connections_premium": 12,
"liveness": "unconfirmed: no upstream status, fetch returned broker 522"
}