# AgentsTools, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /search/news: News API

> Keyword news search across web news engines (Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo via ddgs). Returns dated headlines with title/url/snippet/source/image + freshness/region/safesearch filters.

AgentsTools's x402 pay per call plan for the news API costs $3.00 per 1,000 searches. AgentsTools's docs list 4 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
We haven't run AgentsTools through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
We rank 851 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.20 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 33% of the 851 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.
[The New York Times](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/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/agentstools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-search-news
- [News API in 2026: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.agentstools.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.agentstools.dev/search/news`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.agentstools.dev/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#/paid/search_news_search_news_get
- Sold by: AgentsTools (https://api.agentstools.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Keyword news search across web news engines (Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo via ddgs). Returns dated headlines with title/url/snippet/source/image + freshness/region/safesearch filters.

## 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: max_results, timelimit, region, safesearch, backend
- Method: GET
- Path: /search/news

## About the plan

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

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

query, title, URL, snippet, published date, source, image URL

## AgentsTools's plans (1)

- [AgentsTools, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /search/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-search-news/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 67% complete

## AgentsTools's calls for this API (3)

- `GET /crypto/news`: [AgentsTools, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /crypto/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-crypto-news/llms.txt)
- `GET /gdelt/news`: [AgentsTools, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /gdelt/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-gdelt-news/llms.txt)
- `GET /search/news`: [AgentsTools, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /search/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-search-news/llms.txt)

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- [AgentsTools: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
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- [AgentsTools: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [AgentsTools: phone validation API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [AgentsTools: web search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [AgentsTools: GitHub repository API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [AgentsTools: news API pricing, 1 plan, GET /search/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-search-news/llms.txt)
- [AgentsTools: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan, GET /extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-extract/llms.txt)
- [AgentsTools: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan, GET /structured](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-structured/llms.txt)

## AgentsTools: news API alternatives

- [Tencent Cloud, pay as you go, Standard](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tencent-cloud/pay-as-you-go-standard/llms.txt): $2.991 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [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 2026-11-08.

- https://api.agentstools.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.agentstools.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.agentstools.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing