TorBox vs Easynews 2026: Usenet Services Compared

Short answer: if Usenet is the only thing you want and you like a search box in the browser, Easynews is a mature, focused product. If you want Usenet and torrents and web downloads, plus storage and WebDAV, for less money, TorBox covers more. Easynews is also a different kind of service, not a direct clone.

Easynews

$9.98 / $14.97 / $29.94 per month

Easynews retention

6,652+ days on its site

TorBox

$3 / $5 / $10 per month

Easynews guarantee

30-day money back

What each one is

Easynews started as a Usenet provider and added a web interface. You search Usenet in the browser, preview, and download. It also supports regular NNTP clients, which the pricing tiers treat differently. Its homepage markup states 6,652+ days of article retention and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

TorBox is a debrid service: you add a torrent, magnet link, web link or NZB, it fetches and stores the files on fast servers, and you download from there. Usenet is one input among several. TorBox has no built-in Usenet search; you bring an indexer or app that provides NZBs. See the Usenet page for how that fits together.

Easynews pricing note: the three prices come from the page’s structured data. Data caps are from a Comparitech review last updated 13 April 2022, which lists Classic with 20 GB web and 40 GB NNTP, Plus with 40 GB and 80 GB, and Big Gig with 150 GB and unlimited NNTP, plus a $9.95 per month unlimited-data add-on. We could not read the current plan page, so check caps at easynews.com before you buy.

Cost

Service	Entry	Mid	Top
Easynews	$9.98	$14.97	$29.94
TorBox	$3	$5	$10

Easynews Classic is $9.98 for 30 days, about $0.33 per day, the same as TorBox Pro at $10. Pro includes unlimited RSS and Usenet, 1 TB storage and the TorBox News Server. Essential at $3 is $0.10 per day. With the bonus days (7 days per month purchased, first purchase only), a first month of Essential is 37 days for $3, about $0.081 per day, and Pro is 37 days for $10, about $0.27 per day. TorBox’s longer term prices are shown after login and not published here.

See the current TorBox price (opens TorBox in a new tab, affiliate link)

Where Easynews wins

• Search built in. Browse Usenet without an indexer or extra software.
• Retention. Easynews states 6,652+ days on its site.
• Focus. It does one thing and has done it a long time.
• Money-back guarantee. 30 days, per its site.

Where TorBox wins

• Price. A third of the cost for an entry plan.
• Breadth. Torrents, web downloads, Usenet, RSS, storage and WebDAV in one account.
• Free tier with 1 slot and 10 downloads per month.
• API and app support. 60+ third-party apps are listed by TorBox (verify each one before relying on it).

TorBox has no official mobile app, is not open source, and has had reported downtime.

Simultaneous use and account sharing

A TorBox slot is one active transfer, meaning a torrent or download that is running or seeding. As of November 2026 the Help Center lists 1 slot on Free, 3 on Essential, 5 on Standard and 10 on Pro, so 3 slots means three transfers at once, not three users. Cached files do not use a slot, extra items wait in a queue and start when a slot frees up, and a download with no progress for 2 days is removed. Separately, a Help Center article says TorBox does not track your IP, puts no limit on how many devices are logged in and applies a fair share policy, and its abuse-system article lists mass account sharing among the behaviours that can get an account flagged. In practice your own phone, TV and laptop on one account are fine, while handing one login to several households is where restrictions begin. The GitHub comparison also reports a Terms change against account and API-key sharing, so read the current Terms before you share anything.

Easynews is Usenet access, so its limits are about connections to the news server rather than transfer slots. Older reviews report a connection count, but our tools could not read the Easynews FAQ and we found no current official figure, so the Easynews cells say not confirmed. Check its plan page for the connection and sharing terms.

Who should pick which

• Usenet only, with a browser search and no setup: Easynews.
• Usenet with your own indexer, plus torrents and storage: TorBox.
• Light use, tight budget: TorBox Essential.

To get the TorBox bonus, open the link while logged in and confirm the popup before you pay. First paid purchase only, and it is extra time rather than a discount.

Get the 7 bonus days per month (opens TorBox in a new tab, affiliate link)

See also the Usenet guide, the debrid ranking, TorBox pricing and how the bonus works.