# Aligned News, $25 monthly: News API

> Integrate AI news intelligence into your agents, apps, and workflows — REST API + MCP for Claude, Cursor, and more.

Aligned News' Pro plan for the news API costs $0.833 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields: Source, Date, Author, Snippet and 2 more. Aligned News' docs list none of the 6.
You pay $25 a month for up to 30,000 calls.
We haven't run Aligned News through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
We rank 956 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.50 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 64% of the 956 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), [Hydrafetch](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/99-monthly/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/aligned-news/25-monthly
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://alignednews.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://alignednews.com/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://alignednews.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://alignednews.com/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Aligned News (https://alignednews.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.833
- Per: call
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $25

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: List stories · Single story with full body · List signals · Signal with full analysis + related stories · List reports (summaries only) · Single report with full content · List bundles with stories · Single bundle with all stories · Get all stories grouped by section · List active news sections

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Integrate AI news intelligence into your agents, apps, and workflows — REST API + MCP for Claude, Cursor, and more.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $25
- Enough for: 30,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1,000
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Pro
- Who can get it: anyone who subscribes to Pro (30-day free trial, card required)

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

result ID, result title, result count, limit

## Aligned News' plans (2)

- [Aligned News, $25 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/aligned-news/25-monthly/llms.txt): $0.833 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Aligned News, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/aligned-news/contact-us/llms.txt): 0% complete

## Aligned News' calls (1)

- `GET /v1/search`: [Aligned News, $25 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/aligned-news/25-monthly/llms.txt)

## Aligned News' APIs (1)

- [Aligned News: news API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/aligned-news/25-monthly/llms.txt)

## Aligned News: news API alternatives

- [NewsData.io, $9,989.99 yearly, Corporate (yearly), GET /1/market](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/9989-99-yearly-corporate-yearly-get-1-market/llms.txt): $0.833 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $14,990 yearly, Volume, GET /v1/google/news/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapebadger/14990-yearly-volume-get-v1-google-news-search/llms.txt): $0.833 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Search1API, $99 pack, Pay as you go, $99 (+20% bonus), POST /news, News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/search1api/99-pack-pay-as-you-go-99-20-bonus-post-news-news/llms.txt): $0.833 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $400 yearly, Lite, GET /google_news/v2](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingdog/400-yearly-lite-get-google-news-v2/llms.txt): $0.833 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://alignednews.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://alignednews.com/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://alignednews.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing