# 2s.io, free: News API

> Live 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.

2s.io's Free trial plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. 2s.io's docs list 3: Source, Snippet, Image.
2s.io limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
In [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt), 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
[Alpaca's $99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/99-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/answerline/top-up-from-1-starter-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.
[Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol})](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finage/49-monthly-simple-plan-get-news-cryptocurrency-symbol/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) and [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-news-article-v1-news-search/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/2s-io/free
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://2s.io/catalog.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://2s.io/api/news/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://2s.io/news/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: 2s.io (https://2s.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Source: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Live 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

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.00028
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: count, offset, country, freshness
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/news/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone, 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

## 2s.io's plans (2)

- [2s.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/2s-io/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [2s.io, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/2s-io/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $22.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live

## 2s.io's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /api/news/search`: [2s.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/2s-io/free/llms.txt)

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## 2s.io: news API alternatives

- [Siftwright, $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/siftwright/999-monthly/llms.txt): $19.98 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [x402node, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /serp/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-serp-news/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Xynaptic, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xynaptic/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $276 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/276-yearly/llms.txt): $23.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## 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.

- https://2s.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://2s.io/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://2s.io/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://2s.io/catalog.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://2s.io/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://2s.io/news/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://2s.io/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing