AnswerLine pricing and alternatives: news API, POST /v1/monitor/google/news

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields

$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 354 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.Scrappa, SerpBase and treg are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

Plan: 100 free requests one of AnswerLine's 7 plans

Call: POST /v1/monitor/google/news one of AnswerLine's 3 calls for this API

API: News API one of AnswerLine's 2 APIs

About this item

Live. AnswerLine searches the news when you call the API.
2 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date.
Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests. Calls stop once your requests run out.
One call. You send query to POST /v1/monitor/google/news. You can also send country, gl, hl, pages, include.html and include.rawWire. The call returns the news articles that match.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

AnswerLine: news API alternatives

The table starts with AnswerLine's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to AnswerLine's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

	AnswerLine, top-up from $1,900, Max, POST /v1/monitor/google/news	Scrapingdog, $120,000 yearly, Ultra Starter, GET /google_news	PrismCrawl, $1,000 pack, Volume, POST /v1/google/news	Scrappa, $1,000 pack, Ultimate, GET /api/google/news	SerpBase, $100 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches	$0.14	$0.139	$0.15	$0.20	$0.25
Completeness	33%	67%	83%	67%	67%
Billing	pay first	yearly	pay first	pay first	monthly
Pay	$1,900	$120,000	$1,000	$1,000	$100
Enough for	about 13,571,428 calls	72,000,000 calls a month	6,666,667 calls	5,000,000 calls	400,000 calls a month
Freshness	live	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone at least 18 with a valid email address	anyone	anyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreement	anyone 18 or over	anyone

Every news API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

Product details

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

Source
Date
Author, not in the answer
Snippet, not in the answer
Image, not in the answer
Full text, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000 searches	$0.00
Per	call
Billing	free

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Track ChatGPT answers · Track Gemini answers · Track Perplexity answers · Track Copilot answers · Track Grok answers · Track AI Mode answers · Track Google Search results · Submit an async task · Submit async tasks in a batch

Overage
Units cap	hard

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Google News results for any query, country and interface language, up to ten pages deep.

Data
Freshness	live
Keep data	no limit
Use data	"Between you and us, you may use the results we return for your internal or commercial purposes, subject to section 5 and the rights of the engines: that includes keeping them for as long as you choose, building your own analytics on them, and showing or exporting them to your own customers in your products and reports." "You may not use the service to: break any applicable law or regulation, or to build a service that does, infringe intellectual-property, privacy, publicity or other rights of third parties, generate, store or distribute unlawful, deceptive or harmful content, spam or malware, probe, overload or attack our infrastructure or the engines we query, or circumvent their or our access controls, resell raw access to the API without our written agreement, misrepresent results as coming directly from a third-party service, or use its or our trademarks misleadingly." "Third-party services' own terms may restrict what their content may be used for, complying with those terms is your responsibility."

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	100 requests
Enough for	100 calls

Rate limit
Per second	1000
Concurrent	n/a
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	query. Optional: country, gl, hl, pages, include.html, include.rawWire
Method	POST
Path	/v1/monitor/google/news

About the plan
Plan	100 free requests
Who can get it	every new account at signup, no card, anyone at least 18 with a valid email address

The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, result position, result title, Google News URL, publisher name, published at, page number, HTML URL, raw provider response