agdata pricing and alternatives: news API

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$42.40per 1,000 searchesHalf of the 502 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less. 5 of the 502 plans cost more than this plan.Serpent API's top-up from $500 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.Scrappa, Litescrape and TheNewsAPI are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

Plan: Pay as you go agdata's only plan

Pay as you goPay as you go$42.40 per 1,000

Call: POST /x402/search-plus agdata's only call for this API

POST /x402/search-plusPay as you go$42.40 per 1,000

API: News API one of agdata's 11 APIs

About this item

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None of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author, Snippet and 2 more.
Nothing to buy first. You pay per call.
One call. You send query to POST /x402/search-plus. You set type to "news". You can also send limit, include_domains, exclude_domains and Idempotency-Key. The call returns the news articles that match.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

agdata: news API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

	This planagdata, pay as you go	Anysite, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /api/bing/news/articles/search	NewsData.io, $1,919.99 yearly, Basic (yearly), GET /1/archive	lobstr.io, $4,800 yearly	Perigon, $13,500 yearly, Commercial, GET /v1/articles/all
$ per 1,000 searches	$42.40	$32.667	$40.00	$40.00	$45.00
Completeness	0%	67%	100%	67%	100%
Billing	pay as you go	monthly	yearly	yearly	yearly
Pay	per call	$49	$1,919.99	$4,800	$13,500
Enough for	as many as you pay for	1,500 calls a month	4,000 calls a month	10,000 calls a month	25,000 pages a month
Freshness	unknown	unknown	live	live	unknown
Who can get it	anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC from a wallet: x402 on Base, Polygon or Solana, or MPP on Base	anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction	anyone	professionals, not consumers	businesses and production applications

Every news API provider we score, ranked

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From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

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Price
$ per 1,000 searches	$42.40
Per	call
Billing	pay as you go

Charges
Most per search	30
Also pays for	nothing else

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$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Search API for AI agents: web or news search with up to 30 results per call, each with a title, URL and a query-relevant excerpt. Filter by site, or by category: developer (repos, issues, docs), GitHub or PDF. Fast, about a second. Pay per call in stablecoins.

Data
Keep data	no limit
Use data	Use the service lawfully and with the rights and authority your requests require. No fraud, harassment, infringement, malware, unauthorized access or service abuse. We may refuse, limit or suspend use and change or discontinue the service.

Plan
Pay	per call

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	query, type "news". Optional: limit, include_domains, exclude_domains, Idempotency-Key
Method	POST
Path	/x402/search-plus

About the plan
Plan	Pay as you go
Who can get it	anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC from a wallet: x402 on Base, Polygon or Solana, or MPP on Base

The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

position, title, URL, excerpt, type, date