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Alpaca pricing: news API

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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Alpaca through our news API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 805 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.Alpaca's $99 monthly plan 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.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol}) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.The New York Times, Scrappa and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Alpaca plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of Alpaca's 6 plans
Call: GET /v1beta1/news Alpaca's only call
API: News API Alpaca's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image, Full text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get up to 8,640,000 calls a month.
  • One call. You call GET /v1beta1/news. Every input is optional: start, end, sort, symbols, limit, include_content, exclude_contentless, page_token.
  • Who can get it: anyone with an Alpaca account. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Alpaca: news API alternatives

Alpaca alternatives: other news API providers by price

The table starts with Alpaca's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Alpaca's.

Alpaca, $99 monthlyTianAPI, CNY 1,699 yearly, Diamond member, ¥1,699 a year, GET /generalnews/index探数数据 tanshuapi, CNY 2,599 yearlyFinancial Data (financialdata.net), $599 yearly, Premium, GET /api/v1/latest-newsTwelve Data, $999 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00023$0.00014$0.00042$0.00064$0.0021
Completeness100%67%50%33%17%
Billingmonthlyyearlyyearlyyearlymonthly
Pay$99CNY 1,699CNY 2,599$599$999
Enough for432,000,000 calls a month155,520,000 pages a month77,760,000 pages a month77,760,000 calls a month472,867,200 pages a month
Freshnessunknownunknown10 minutesunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone with an Alpaca accountanyone who registersanyone who registers a 探数数据 account, as an individual user (个人用户) or an enterprise user (企业用户), each real-name verified (实名认证)Personal use: the pricing page's Personal Use tabindividuals only (personal, internal and non-commercial use, a company or organization takes a Business plan)

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

  1. alpaca.markets/data
  2. alpaca.markets/support/redistribute-alpaca-api
  3. docs.alpaca.markets/reference/news-3
  4. docs.alpaca.markets/us/docs/about-market-data-api
  5. docs.alpaca.markets/us/docs/historical-news-data
  6. docs.alpaca.markets/us/llms.txt
  7. docs.alpaca.markets/us/reference/news-3.md
  8. files.alpaca.markets/disclosures/library/TermsAndConditions.pdf

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Source
  • Date
  • Author
  • Snippet
  • Image
  • Full text
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays for41 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchDeveloper-first API with up to 10,000 API calls/min and over 7+ years of historical data
Data
Keep datano limit on how long, but “No part of the Service or Content may be copied [...] to any other computer, server, web site or other medium for publication or distribution or for any commercial enterprise, without Alpaca’s express prior written consent” (Alpaca Terms and Conditions, Content)
Use dataAlpaca Terms and Conditions, Personal and Non-Commercial Usage: “Other than as set forth herein, you agree to use the Services and Content solely for your own personal and non-commercial purposes. Should you wish to use the Services and Content for any other purposes, including without limitation commercial usage, or making the Services and Content available to others through your own application (a “User Application”), you shall provide Alpaca with 30 days advance written notice prior to making such User Application available to others. Alpaca reserves the right to restrict your User Application’s connectivity to the Service and Content, and may disallow any connectivity entirely, if Alpaca determines the User Application may interfere with Alpaca’s Services or otherwise be detrimental to Alpaca, as may be determined in Alpaca’s sole discretion.” | Content: “Content is provided exclusively for personal and noncommercial access and use. No part of the Service or Content may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted or distributed in any way (including “mirroring”) to any other computer, server, web site or other medium for publication or distribution or for any commercial enterprise, without Alpaca’s express prior written consent.” | Content: “You agree that you will not use any Marks for any purpose without the prior express written consent of the respective owners.” | U.S. Residents Only: “The Content and the Service are intended for United States residents only.” | Data Plans: “By selecting the ‘Pro’ market data plan [...] you agree to: (i) the NASDAQ OMX Global Subscriber Agreement, or AGREEMENT FOR MARKET DATA DISPLAY SERVICES, each to the extent applicable” | Termination, Modification: “Alpaca may also terminate or suspend your access to the Service or the Content if Alpaca finds that your usage violates these Terms and Conditions, or if your usage puts an undue strain on Alpaca’s information technology infrastructure.” | Alpaca support, Can I redistribute Alpaca API data via my platform? (November 2022): “Unfortunately, you cannot redistribute Alpaca API data.”
Plan
Pay$0
Enough for8,640,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second3.33
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: start, end, sort, symbols, limit, include_content, exclude_contentless, page_token
MethodGET
Path/v1beta1/news
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with an Alpaca account
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

article ID, title, summary, content, URL, image URL, image size, source name, author, ticker symbols, published date, updated date, next page token

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