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2s.io pricing: news API

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesIn our news API benchmark, the best plan from 2s.io scores 22.3 out of 100. 2s.io ranks 89th of 91 providers.This plan is free. We rank 881 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.30 or less per 1,000 searches. See the best free news API plan.Alpaca's $99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. Alpaca's $99 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Alpaca's rate limit allows. AnswerLine's Starter plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol}) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.Scrappa, SerpScraper.dev and ReefAPI are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest 2s.io plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free trial one of 2s.io's 2 plans
Call: GET /api/news/search 2s.io's only call for this API
API: News API one of 2s.io's 15 APIs

About this item

  • Live. 2s.io searches the news when you call the API.
  • 3 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Source, Snippet, Image.
  • Nothing to pay. 2s.io limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
  • One call. You send q to GET /api/news/search. You can also send count, offset, country and freshness. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

2s.io: news API alternatives

2s.io alternatives: every news API provider ranked

The table starts with 2s.io's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to 2s.io's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

2s.io, pay as you goSiftwright, $999 monthlyx402node, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /serp/newsXynaptic, pay as you goScale SERP, $276 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$22.50$19.98$20.00$20.00$23.00
Completeness50%50%33%33%67%
Billingpay as you gomonthlypay as you gopay as you goyearly
Payper call$999per callper call$276
Enough foras many as you pay for50,000 calls a monthas many as you pay foras many as you pay for1,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana, paying each call over x402, with no account or API keyanyoneanyone with a wallet paying USDC on Base or Solana (x402), no account or API keyanyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base, Polygon or Solana (x402), with no account or API keyanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

  1. 2s.io
  2. 2s.io/
  3. 2s.io/.well-known/x402
  4. 2s.io/catalog.txt
  5. 2s.io/llms.txt
  6. 2s.io/news/search
  7. 2s.io/openapi.json

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Source
  • Date, not in the answer
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet
  • Image
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchLive news search. Returns recent headlines with title, URL, snippet, publisher source, relative age, and a breaking-news flag — real-time coverage past any model training cutoff.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Per second0.00028
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: count, offset, country, freshness
MethodGET
Path/api/news/search
About the plan
PlanFree trial
Who can get itanyone, with no wallet or payment, for one call per endpoint per hour (a request with ?trial=1 or the X-2s-Trial: 1 header)
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, URL, description, source, age, breaking, thumbnail, total results

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