# AntsData, free: News API

> The Google news search interface under the Web Access product line returns a list of news items by keyword.

AntsData's Free plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. AntsData's docs list 4: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
We haven't run AntsData through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,022 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.35 or less per 1,000 searches. [334 news API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) [TickerTick's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tickertick/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 64.9 out of 100.
[Alpaca's $99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/99-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches, with no charge 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, and 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 [SignalShelf](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/signalshelf/499-pack/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/antsdata/free
- [News API in 2026: the best of 100+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://antsdata.com/en/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.antsdata.com/v1/serp/google/news`
- API key: with the plan, on https://antsdata.com/en/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://antsdata.com/en/scraping-academy/google-serp-api/google-news-discover-by-keyword/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: AntsData (https://antsdata.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 74 other AntsData calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Google news search interface under the Web Access product line returns a list of news items by keyword.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Unless separately agreed, we do not grant you rights to use outputs in ways that violate applicable law, third-party rights, platform terms, privacy obligations, or intellectual property restrictions. [...] You may not resell, sublicense, redistribute, expose, or provide AntsData services, APIs, account balance, API keys, credentials, outputs, or datasets to third parties except as expressly permitted by AntsData in writing. [...] build a competing service using AntsData without written permission, resell AntsData outputs in a way that violates our Terms, third-party rights, or applicable law, or use AntsData to create or enhance datasets, products, or services that violate platform terms, privacy rights, or intellectual property rights. [...] You may not use AntsData outputs to develop, train, operate, or deploy AI systems in ways that violate applicable law, third-party rights, platform restrictions, our Terms of Service, or this Policy. [...] You may not use AntsData to access, collect, extract, monitor, or process non-public, private, restricted, confidential, or unauthorized data. [...] You may not use AntsData to collect, infer, process, enrich, or distribute sensitive, regulated, or protected data unless you have a valid lawful basis, all required authorizations, and AntsData has expressly agreed where required. This may include: health, medical, biometric, genetic, or disability information, precise location data, financial account data, payment card data, credit information, or government identification numbers, children’s data, race, ethnicity, religion, political opinions, union membership, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristics, criminal-record data or allegations, private communications, private social media content, private account data, or other non-public personal information.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5
- Enough for: 5,000 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: geo_location, host_language, domain, page, time_range
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/serp/google/news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone legally able to enter into the Terms, for business and professional use

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

result position, result title, result URL, publisher name, result snippet, published at, result date, thumbnail URL, story token

## AntsData's plans (6)

- [AntsData, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/antsdata/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [AntsData, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/antsdata/top-up/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [AntsData, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/antsdata/50-pack/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [AntsData, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/antsdata/100-pack/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [AntsData, $250 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/antsdata/250-pack/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [AntsData, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/antsdata/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete

## AntsData's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/serp/google/news`: [AntsData, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/antsdata/free/llms.txt)

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## AntsData: news API alternatives

[AntsData alternatives: other news API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/antsdata-alternatives.txt)

We list AntsData's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to AntsData in price per 1,000 searches.

- [AntsData, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/antsdata/50-pack/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [EODHD, $399 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/eodhd/399-monthly/llms.txt): $0.665 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [NestDaddy, $9.99 monthly, Basic, GET /api/v1/news/tech](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/nestdaddy/9-99-monthly-basic-get-api-v1-news-tech/llms.txt): $0.666 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ReefAPI, $200 monthly, Enterprise monthly, POST /news-intel/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/200-monthly-enterprise-monthly-post-news-intel-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ScrapingBot.io, $599.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingbot-io/599-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 50% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://antsdata.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://antsdata.com/en/acceptable-use-policy/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://antsdata.com/en/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://antsdata.com/en/scraping-academy/auth-errors/api-conventions/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://antsdata.com/en/scraping-academy/faqs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://antsdata.com/en/scraping-academy/google-serp-api/google-news-discover-by-keyword/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://antsdata.com/en/scraping-academy/linkedin-scraper/linkedin-profiles-collect-by-url/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://antsdata.com/en/terms-of-service/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing