# PredictLeads, free, 100 API credits Free, GET /discover/news_events: Leadership change API

> Returns a list of News Events, optionally filtered by categories and company’s location, company’s size, ordered by the found_at, descending.

PredictLeads's leadership change API on its 100 API credits Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 changes. It returns all 3 key fields we check: Change, Person, Company.
We rank 35 plans by price. [The Swarm's $99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/the-swarm/99-monthly-premium-50-post-v3-profiles-search/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 changes: as little as $0.000038. The Swarm's $99 monthly plan covers up to 2,592,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 1,000 changes.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/predictleads/free-100-api-credits-free-get-discover-news-events
- Get it: https://predictleads.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://predictleads.com/api/v3/discover/news_events`
- API key: with the plan, on https://predictleads.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.predictleads.com/api_endpoints/news_events_dataset/discover_news_events
- Sold by: PredictLeads (https://predictleads.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-24

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Change: ✓
- Person: ✓
- Company: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 changes: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Repeat free: never
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Get followed companies · Unfollow the company · Get Company · Discover Companies · Get Extended Company · Discover Extended Companies · Get Similar Companies · Get Job Openings · Get a single Job Opening by ID · Discover Job Openings · Get Technology Detections · Discover Companies using a Technology · Get a single Extended Technology Detection by ID · Get all tracked Technologies · Get a single Technology by ID or fuzzy name · Get News Events · Get a single News Event by ID · Discover Financing Events · Get SEC Filings · Get a single SEC Filing by ID · Get Connections · Discover Portfolio Companies · Discover Public Companies Connections · Get Subpages · Get Github Repositories · Discover Github Repositories · Get Products · Get a single Product by ID · Discover Products · Discover Startup Platform Posts · Followed companies · Webhook signals · Get Financing Events

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Returns a list of News Events, optionally filtered by categories and company’s location, company’s size, ordered by the found_at, descending.

## Data

- Freshness: 2 weeks
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits a month
- Enough for: 100 results a month
- Expires: end of each billing period

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: "hires", "leaves", "promotes" or "retires_from" in categories, company_location, company_sizes, page, limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /discover/news_events

## About the plan

- Plan: 100 API credits Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 34 fields the plan's answer can hold

news event ID, summary, headline, category, found at, first seen at, confidence, article sentence, planning, company importance, person name, job title, job title tags, effective date, location, city, state, ZIP code, country, region, continent, location fuzzy match, company ID, company domain, company name, ticker, source ID, source URL, source title, source author, source image URL, source published at, source body, total results

## PredictLeads's plans (6)

- [PredictLeads, free, 100 API credits Free, GET /discover/news_events](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/predictleads/free-100-api-credits-free-get-discover-news-events/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 2 weeks
- [PredictLeads, pay as you go, 101-5,000 API Calls, GET /discover/news_events](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/predictleads/pay-as-you-go-101-5000-api-calls-get-discover-news-events/llms.txt): $40.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 2 weeks
- [PredictLeads, pay as you go, 5,001-10,000 API Calls, GET /discover/news_events](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/predictleads/pay-as-you-go-5001-10000-api-calls-get-discover-news-events/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 2 weeks
- [PredictLeads, pay as you go, 10,001-100,000 API Calls, GET /discover/news_events](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/predictleads/pay-as-you-go-10001-100000-api-calls-get-discover-news-events/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 2 weeks
- [PredictLeads, pay as you go, 100,001-500,000 API Calls, GET /discover/news_events](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/predictleads/pay-as-you-go-100001-500000-api-calls-get-discover-news-events/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 2 weeks
- [PredictLeads, pay as you go, 500,001+ API Calls, GET /discover/news_events](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/predictleads/pay-as-you-go-500001-api-calls-get-discover-news-events/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 2 weeks

## PredictLeads's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /discover/news_events`: [PredictLeads, free, 100 API credits Free, GET /discover/news_events](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/predictleads/free-100-api-credits-free-get-discover-news-events/llms.txt)
- `GET /companies/{company_id_or_domain}/news_events`: [PredictLeads, free, 100 API credits Free, GET /companies/{company_id_or_domain}/news_events](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/predictleads/free-100-api-credits-free-get-companies-company-id-or-domain-news-events/llms.txt)

## PredictLeads's APIs (10)

- [PredictLeads: company funding API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/predictleads/free/llms.txt)
- [PredictLeads: company hierarchy API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/predictleads/free/llms.txt)
- [PredictLeads: company open jobs API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/predictleads/free/llms.txt)
- [PredictLeads: similar companies API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/predictleads/free/llms.txt)
- [PredictLeads: tech stack API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/predictleads/free/llms.txt)
- [PredictLeads: job posting details API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/predictleads/free/llms.txt)
- [PredictLeads: job postings API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/predictleads/free/llms.txt)
- [PredictLeads: company discovery API pricing, 6 plans, GET /discover/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/predictleads/free-100-api-credits-free-get-discover-companies/llms.txt)
- [PredictLeads: company discovery API pricing, 6 plans, GET /discover/technologies/{technology_id_or_fuzzy_name}/technology_detections](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/predictleads/free-100-api-credits-free-get-discover-technologies-technology-id-or-fuzzy-name-technology-detections/llms.txt)
- [PredictLeads: company discovery API pricing, 6 plans, GET /discover/extended_companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/predictleads/free-100-api-credits-free-get-discover-extended-companies/llms.txt)
- [PredictLeads: leadership change API pricing, 6 plans, GET /discover/news_events](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/predictleads/free-100-api-credits-free-get-discover-news-events/llms.txt)
- [PredictLeads: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans, GET /companies/{id_or_domain}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/predictleads/free-100-api-credits-free-get-companies-id-or-domain/llms.txt)
- [PredictLeads: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans, GET /extended_companies/{id_or_domain}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/predictleads/free-100-api-credits-free-get-extended-companies-id-or-domain/llms.txt)

## PredictLeads: leadership change API alternatives

- [The Swarm, $96,000 yearly, Enterprise 20000, POST /v3/profiles/search](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/the-swarm/96000-yearly-enterprise-20000-post-v3-profiles-search/llms.txt): $0.0031 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 day
- [Autobound, $40,000 pack, Enterprise credit pack, 11.5M credits, POST /v1/companies/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/autobound/40000-pack-enterprise-credit-pack-11-5m-credits-post-v1-companies-enrich/llms.txt): $6.957 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 day

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-24.

- https://docs.predictleads.com/
- https://docs.predictleads.com/api_endpoints/news_events_dataset/discover_news_events
- https://docs.predictleads.com/api_endpoints/similar_companies_dataset/get_similar_companies
- https://docs.predictleads.com/schemas/open_api_schema.json
- https://predictleads.com/faq
- https://predictleads.com/pricing
- https://predictleads.com/terms_and_conditions