# AFP, free: News API

> Get access to AFP's verified multimedia content in 6 languages, directly to your platform.

AFP's Try it for free plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields: Source, Date, Author, Snippet and 2 more. AFP's docs list none of the 6.
We haven't run AFP through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 940 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.50 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), [Hydrafetch](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/99-monthly/llms.txt) and [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/afp/free
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.afp.com/en/our-offer/afp-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: Docs behind sign-up
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.afp.com/en/our-offer/afp-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.afp.com/en/our-offer/afp-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: AFP (https://www.afp.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get access to AFP's verified multimedia content in 6 languages, directly to your platform.

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## The call

- You send: Docs behind sign-up

## About the plan

- Plan: Try it for free
- Who can get it: anyone who fills in the registration form on the AFP API page

## The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

content type, language, keyword, named entity, IPTC category, photographer

## AFP's plans (2)

- [AFP, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/afp/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [AFP, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/afp/contact-us/llms.txt): 0% complete

## AFP's calls (1)

- Docs behind sign-up: [AFP, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/afp/free/llms.txt)

## AFP's APIs (1)

- [AFP: news API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/afp/free/llms.txt)

## AFP: news API alternatives

- [Scrappa, free, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Hydrafetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpScraper.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [ReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/free-post-news-intel-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [XDive, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xdive/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, 10 minutes

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://www.afp.com/en/our-offer/afp-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.afp.com/en/useful-links/terms-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing