# AgentWeb, free: News API

> Recent news articles for a query (title, url, snippet, published date).

AgentWeb's Free plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. AgentWeb's docs list 2: Date, Snippet.
You get up to 30,000 calls a month.
We ran AgentWeb in [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt). We didn't score any AgentWeb plan.
This plan is free. We rank 1,022 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.35 or less per 1,000 searches. [334 news API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) [TickerTick's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tickertick/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 64.9 out of 100.
[Alpaca's $99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/99-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches, with no charge 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, and costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [Hydrafetch](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/99-monthly/llms.txt) and [SignalShelf](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/signalshelf/499-pack/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agentweb/free
- [News API in 2026: the best of 100+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://agentweb.live?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.agentweb.live/v1/execute/news/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://agentweb.live?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.agentweb.live/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#/default/execute_recipe_v1_execute__domain___recipe_name__get
- Sold by: AgentWeb (https://agentweb.live?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Recent news articles for a query (title, url, snippet, published date).

## Data

- Freshness: 30 minutes
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 30,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1,000
- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.29 s

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: num
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/execute/news/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone: an email address gets a key at once, with no credit card and no verification

## The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, URL, snippet, published date

## AgentWeb's plans (2)

- [AgentWeb, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agentweb/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, 30 minutes
- [AgentWeb, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agentweb/contact-us/llms.txt): 33% complete, 30 minutes

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

- `GET /v1/execute/news/search`: [AgentWeb, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agentweb/free/llms.txt)

## AgentWeb's APIs (4)

- [AgentWeb Local business search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/agentweb/free/llms.txt)
- [AgentWeb News API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agentweb/free/llms.txt)
- [AgentWeb Web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/agentweb/free/llms.txt)
- [AgentWeb Web search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agentweb/free/llms.txt)

## AgentWeb: news API alternatives

[AgentWeb alternatives: other news API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/agentweb-alternatives.txt)

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the list gives live data or data at most an hour old.

- [Scrappa, free, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Hydrafetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/free-post-news-intel-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 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 2026-11-10.

- https://agentweb.live?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://agentweb.live/install.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://agentweb.live/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://agentweb.live/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.agentweb.live/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing