# AllNewsAPI, free: News API

> Get live breaking news, headlines from top sources and historical news data for the past 10 years (since January 2016) using one news API

AllNewsAPI's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image.
We rank 412 plans by price. [AllNewsAPI's $200 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/allnewsapi/200-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.033. AllNewsAPI's $200 monthly plan covers up to 200,000 searches a day.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/250-pack/llms.txt), [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) and [TheNewsAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/79-monthly-pro-monthly-get-v1-news-all/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/allnewsapi/free
- [Best news API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://allnewsapi.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.allnewsapi.com/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://allnewsapi.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://allnewsapi.com/docs#search-endpoint
- Sold by: AllNewsAPI (https://allnewsapi.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 5
- Also pays for: Headlines

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get live breaking news, headlines from top sources and historical news data for the past 10 years (since January 2016) using one news API

## Data

- Keep data: during the subscription term: "Upon termination, you must cease all use of the Service and any data obtained through it."
- Use data: During an active paid subscription, you may use the data for personal and commercial purposes provided that you: Display the name of the original publisher for each article and link each article to its original URL, Display AI-generated summaries only with attribution to the original publisher and a link to the original article, Do not display or republish the full text of articles or full-size images. Thumbnail images are permitted, Comply with applicable copyright laws. [...] Customer may not: Copy, rent, lease, sell, transfer, assign, sublicense, disassemble, reverse engineer, create derivative works, decompile, modify, adapt or alter any part of the allnewsapi.com API, Use the allnewsapi.com API on behalf of any third party or otherwise make the API available over a network where it could be used by others, Create multiple accounts and/or use multiple API Keys, Reproduce or republish copyrighted material except as permitted under the DATA LICENSE, [...] Use the allnewsapi.com API in any manner that violates any laws directly or indirectly.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 requests a day
- Enough for: 50 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 50
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.86 s

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: startDate, endDate, content, lang, country, region, category, max, attributes, page, sortby, publisher, format, ai_sentiment, ai_entity_name, ai_entity_type
- Method: GET
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: non-commercial projects or development and testing purposes

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, page number, next page, news result title, news result description, news result category, news result country, news result region, news result language, news result authors, news result link, news result image, news result date, news result source, news result source URL

## AllNewsAPI's plans (6)

- [AllNewsAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/allnewsapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [AllNewsAPI, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/allnewsapi/9-monthly/llms.txt): $0.06 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [AllNewsAPI, $30 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/allnewsapi/30-monthly/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [AllNewsAPI, $80 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/allnewsapi/80-monthly/llms.txt): $0.053 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [AllNewsAPI, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/allnewsapi/200-monthly/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [AllNewsAPI, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/allnewsapi/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete

## AllNewsAPI's calls (1)

- `GET /search`: [AllNewsAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/allnewsapi/free/llms.txt)

## AllNewsAPI's APIs (1)

- [AllNewsAPI: news API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/allnewsapi/free/llms.txt)

## AllNewsAPI: news API alternatives

- [SERPpost, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serppost/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [TheNewsAPI, $792 yearly, Pro, yearly, GET /v1/news/all](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/792-yearly-pro-yearly-get-v1-news-all/llms.txt): $0.087 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $300,000 yearly, Nova Pro, GET /google_news/v2](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingdog/300000-yearly-nova-pro-get-google-news-v2/llms.txt): $0.114 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [AnswerLine, top-up from $1,900, Max, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/answerline/top-up-from-1900-max-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt): $0.14 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Litescrape, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $0.15 per 1,000, 33% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

- https://allnewsapi.com/api
- https://allnewsapi.com/docs
- https://allnewsapi.com/docs#search-endpoint
- https://allnewsapi.com/mcp
- https://allnewsapi.com/pricing
- https://allnewsapi.com/terms-of-service
- https://unpkg.com/allnewsapi/README.md
- https://unpkg.com/allnewsapi@0.2.1/dist/index.d.ts
- https://unpkg.com/allnewsapi@0.2.1/dist/index.js