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Best news API in 2026

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Scrappa, SerpBase and Serper are the best news API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 3 providers. We list all three, ranked by score. For each one, we show its top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 searches cost. We rank 321 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.

  1. #1 Scrappa: News API

    Scrappa, $250 pack

    It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.

    Overall score
    93.5
    $ per 1,000
    $0.25
    Price score
    90
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find nothing: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 321
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 searches than this plan: 36
    Data score
    99
    Cost to get started score
    70
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $250
    Bundle score
    100
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 2,378 other calls
    Performance score
    100
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.861 s
    • Scrappa, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.861 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 searches as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.9934 out of 1 on those 20 searches. That gives this plan a Data score of 99 out of 100.

  2. #2 SerpBase: News API

    SerpBase, $100 monthly

    It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.

    Overall score
    84.8
    $ per 1,000
    $0.25
    Price score
    78
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find nothing: $0.25
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 321
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 searches than this plan: 36
    Data score
    99
    Cost to get started score
    73
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $100
    Bundle score
    98
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 46 other calls
    Performance score
    56
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 1.537 s
    • Scrappa, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.861 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 searches as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.9868 out of 1 on those 20 searches. That gives this plan a Data score of 99 out of 100.

  3. #3 Serper: News API

    Serper, $375 pack

    It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.

    Overall score
    76.0
    $ per 1,000
    $0.75
    Price score
    55
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find nothing: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 321
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 searches than this plan: 118
    Data score
    99
    Cost to get started score
    67
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $375
    Bundle score
    90
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Search · Images · Maps · Places · Videos · Shopping · Scholar · Patents · Autocomplete
    Performance score
    63
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 1.364 s
    • Scrappa, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.861 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 searches as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.9865 out of 1 on those 20 searches. That gives this plan a Data score of 99 out of 100.

The Data score on news APIs

This score, out of 100, tells you whether a search finds articles about the words you searched. We ask for the first 10 articles of each search. We read each article's own page after the run. The score is the share of articles that hold the words you searched. An article whose page is gone counts as wrong. If a search sends fewer than 10 articles, each missing one counts as wrong. We don't count an article whose site refused us or whose page has no article text. We compare a provider that ran fewer searches than the others with the others on those same searches. A provider can't score higher by running only on easy searches. We lower the score when we test the call on fewer searches than the benchmark has.

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