# AgentBIT, pay as you go: News API

> News search API via Google News: fresh, time-ordered news results with title, link, source and publish date. Use for news monitoring, daily briefings, brand or competitor alerts and event tracking — what is the latest news about X. Distinct from general web search: news-scoped and recency-first.

AgentBIT's x402 pay per call plan for the news API costs $20.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. AgentBIT's docs list 2: Source, Date.
We haven't run AgentBIT 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 7% 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/agentbit/pay-as-you-go
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://agentbit.app?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://agentbit.app/v1/search/news`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://agentbit.app/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#/paths/~1v1~1search~1news
- Sold by: AgentBIT (https://agentbit.app?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: $20.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: News search API via Google News: fresh, time-ordered news results with title, link, source and publish date. Use for news monitoring, daily briefings, brand or competitor alerts and event tracking — what is the latest news about X. Distinct from general web search: news-scoped and recency-first.

## Data

- 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: query. Optional: country, language, limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search/news

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC (x402), with no account or API key

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

search query, result count, result title, result URL, publisher name, published at

## AgentBIT's plans (1)

- [AgentBIT, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agentbit/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## AgentBIT's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/search/news`: [AgentBIT, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agentbit/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

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## AgentBIT: news API alternatives

- [Drillr, top-up, Credit top-up Custom, Ultra subscribers](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/top-up-credit-top-up-custom-ultra-subscribers/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Dappier, pay as you go, Per query, POST /app/v2/search, Get AI Article Recommendations (Benzinga)](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/dappier/pay-as-you-go-per-query-post-app-v2-search-get-ai-article-recommendations-benzinga/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Anysite, $200 monthly, Growth, POST /api/bing/news/articles/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/anysite/200-monthly-growth-post-api-bing-news-articles-search/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Financial Datasets, top-up from $20](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/financial-datasets/top-up-from-20/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, 1 minute

## 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://agentbit.app?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://agentbit.app/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://agentbit.app/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://agentbit.app/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://agentbit.app/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://agentbit.app/start?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