# Agent Data Workers, pay as you go: News API

> latest news on any topic, company or token: headline, source, link, time.

Agent Data Workers's x402 pay per call plan for the news API costs $3.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Agent Data Workers's docs list 2: Source, Date.
We haven't run Agent Data Workers through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
We rank 881 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.30 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 34% of the 881 plans.
[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/agent-data-workers/pay-as-you-go
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.agent-data.workers.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.agent-data.workers.dev/api/v1/news/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.agent-data.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#/paths/~1api~1v1~1news~1search
- Sold by: Agent Data Workers (https://api.agent-data.workers.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $3.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: latest news on any topic, company or token: headline, source, link, time.

## Data

- Freshness: 5 minutes
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: lang, country, when, limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/news/search

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet paying USDC on Base or Solana, or USDT on Solana (x402 v2), with no account or API key

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, result count, news provider, title, link, source, published date

## Agent Data Workers's plans (1)

- [Agent Data Workers, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agent-data-workers/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, 5 minutes

## Agent Data Workers's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /api/v1/news/search`: [Agent Data Workers, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agent-data-workers/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Agent Data Workers's APIs (6)

- [Agent Data Workers: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/agent-data-workers/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Agent Data Workers: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/agent-data-workers/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Agent Data Workers: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/agent-data-workers/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Agent Data Workers: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agent-data-workers/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Agent Data Workers: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/agent-data-workers/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Agent Data Workers: web search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agent-data-workers/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Agent Data Workers: news API alternatives

- [Stophy, top-up from $100](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/stophy/top-up-from-100/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 15 minutes
- [Octen, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/octen/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 minute
- [Nimble, pay as you go, POST /v2/serp](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/nimble/pay-as-you-go-post-v2-serp/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [OpenWeb Ninja, pay as you go, GET /news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/openweb-ninja/pay-as-you-go-get-news/llms.txt): $3.00 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://api.agent-data.workers.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.agent-data.workers.dev/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.agent-data.workers.dev/api/v1/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.agent-data.workers.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.agent-data.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing