# Alpaca, free, GET /v1beta1/news: News API

> Developer-first API with up to 10,000 API calls/min and over 7+ years of historical data

Alpaca's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Alpaca's docs list all 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image, Full text.
You get up to 8,640,000 calls a month.
We haven't run Alpaca through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) 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](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.
[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/alpaca/free-get-v1beta1-news
- [News API: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://alpaca.markets/data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://data.alpaca.markets/v1beta1/news`
- API key: with the plan, on https://alpaca.markets/data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.alpaca.markets/reference/news-3?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Alpaca (https://alpaca.markets?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓
- Full text: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: 41 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Developer-first API with up to 10,000 API calls/min and over 7+ years of historical data

## Data

- Keep data: no 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 data: Alpaca 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 for: 8,640,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 3.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: start, end, sort, symbols, limit, include_content, exclude_contentless, page_token
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1beta1/news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Alpaca's plans (6)

- [Alpaca, free, GET /v1beta1/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/free-get-v1beta1-news/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Alpaca, free, Standard](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/free-standard/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Alpaca, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.00023 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Alpaca, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0039 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Alpaca, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0046 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Alpaca, $2,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/2000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0046 per 1,000, 100% complete

## Alpaca's calls (1)

- `GET /v1beta1/news`: [Alpaca, free, GET /v1beta1/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/free-get-v1beta1-news/llms.txt)

## Alpaca's APIs (1)

- [Alpaca: news API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/free-get-v1beta1-news/llms.txt)

## Alpaca: news API alternatives

- [TianAPI, CNY 1,699 yearly, Diamond member, ¥1,699 a year, GET /generalnews/index](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tianapi/cny-1699-yearly-1699-get-generalnews-index/llms.txt): $0.00014 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [探数数据 tanshuapi, CNY 2,599 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tanshuapi/cny-2599-yearly/llms.txt): $0.00042 per 1,000, 50% complete, 10 minutes
- [Financial Data (financialdata.net), $599 yearly, Premium, GET /api/v1/latest-news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/financial-data-financialdata-net/599-yearly-premium-get-api-v1-latest-news/llms.txt): $0.00064 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Twelve Data, $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/twelve-data/999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0021 per 1,000, 17% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://alpaca.markets/data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://alpaca.markets/support/redistribute-alpaca-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.alpaca.markets/reference/news-3?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.alpaca.markets/us/docs/about-market-data-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.alpaca.markets/us/docs/historical-news-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.alpaca.markets/us/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.alpaca.markets/us/reference/news-3.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://files.alpaca.markets/disclosures/library/TermsAndConditions.pdf?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing