# Agent402 Tools, pay as you go: News API

> Live news search: ranked recent articles as results[] of {title, url, description (the snippet, plain text), age, publishedAt (ISO), source (publisher hostname), breaking} from an independent search index as clean JSON.

Agent402 Tools's x402 pay per call plan for the news API costs $10.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Agent402 Tools's docs list 3: Source, Date, Snippet.
We haven't run Agent402 Tools 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 14% 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/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://agent402.tools/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://agent402.tools/api/search-news`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://agent402.tools/tools/search-news?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Agent402 Tools (https://agent402.tools?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $10.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Live news search: ranked recent articles as results[] of {title, url, description (the snippet, plain text), age, publishedAt (ISO), source (publisher hostname), breaking} from an independent search index as clean JSON.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Don't use the service to break the law, infringe others' rights, or attack the service or third parties (e.g. using the URL-fetching tools against targets you don't control). [...] Don't attempt to bypass rate limits, payment, or the proof-of-work gate, or to disrupt availability for others. [...] Don't use the service to create malware or exploits for unauthorized use, to defraud, phish, spam, or deceive, or to process other people's personal data unlawfully. You are responsible for the inputs you send and how you use the outputs.

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

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

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 (or the age of majority where they live, if higher), able to form a binding contract, not barred from receiving services under U.S. or other applicable law, not in an embargoed jurisdiction and not on a U.S. government sanctions list, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC (or USDG on Robinhood Chain) over x402 or MPP

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, result count, news result title, news result link, news result snippet, news result age, news result date, news result source, breaking news flag, untrusted content

## Agent402 Tools's plans (1)

- [Agent402 Tools, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live

## Agent402 Tools's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /api/search-news`: [Agent402 Tools, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Agent402 Tools's APIs (14)

- [Agent402 Tools: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Agent402 Tools: tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Agent402 Tools: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Agent402 Tools: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Agent402 Tools: image search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Agent402 Tools: IP company lookup API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Agent402 Tools: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Agent402 Tools: search autocomplete API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
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- [Agent402 Tools: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan, POST /api/extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-api-extract/llms.txt)
- [Agent402 Tools: web search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /api/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-search/llms.txt)
- [Agent402 Tools: web search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /api/search-lite](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-search-lite/llms.txt)
- [Agent402 Tools: X profile API pricing, 1 plan, POST /api/x-users-lookup](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-api-x-users-lookup/llms.txt)
- [Agent402 Tools: X profile API pricing, 1 plan, POST /api/x-user](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-api-x-user/llms.txt)

## Agent402 Tools: news API alternatives

- [Scavio, top-up from $25](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scavio/top-up-from-25/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Clair, $30 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/clair/30-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Tavily, pay as you go, x402, paid per request](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/pay-as-you-go-x402-paid-per-request/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [AssimilateThis, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/assimilatethis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% 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://agent402.tools?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://agent402.tools/api/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://agent402.tools/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://agent402.tools/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://agent402.tools/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://agent402.tools/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://agent402.tools/tools/search-news?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing