# AnyCrawler, free: News API

> Use News Search to discover story URLs for launch, incident, market, or policy monitoring workflows.

AnyCrawler's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet.
We rank 584 plans by price. [Serpent API's top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500-scale-get-api-news-bing-news-search/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-news-article-v1-news-search/llms.txt) and [ScrapeUnblocker](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapeunblocker/299-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/anycrawler/free
- [Best news API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://anycrawler.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.anycrawler.com/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://anycrawler.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://anycrawler.com/crawler/search/news/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: AnyCrawler (https://anycrawler.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-03

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Fetch · Render · Web Search API · Image Search API · Video Search API · Scholar Search API · Screenshot API

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Use News Search to discover story URLs for launch, incident, market, or policy monitoring workflows.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "You may use AnyCrawler only in compliance with applicable law, these terms, and any separate written agreement that governs your account. You may not use the service to break the law, interfere with the security or availability of the service, evade access restrictions unlawfully, violate privacy or publicity rights, infringe intellectual property rights, distribute malware, perform credential abuse, run deceptive activity, or process data in ways that your own legal basis does not permit.", "Without limiting the foregoing, you may not use AnyCrawler to: access or attempt to access data without authorization, steal, replay, or misuse login credentials, cookies, tokens, or session data, bypass paywalls or access controls, solve or route around CAPTCHAs or similar anti-abuse controls through AnyCrawler, impersonate users, devices, or networks in a deceptive manner, or infringe or help others infringe website terms, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, or similar rights.", "Subject to these terms and your plan, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and use the service for your internal business purposes or other lawful uses of the product."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5,000 credits
- Enough for: 250 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: channel "news", query, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: country, page, results_per_page
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, query, status code, credits used, search parameters, news result title, news result link, news result source, news result date, news result snippet, knowledge graph, answer box, people also ask, related searches

## AnyCrawler's plans (5)

- [AnyCrawler, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [AnyCrawler, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/anycrawler/5-monthly/llms.txt): $6.667 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [AnyCrawler, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/anycrawler/20-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [AnyCrawler, $80 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/anycrawler/80-monthly/llms.txt): $1.667 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [AnyCrawler, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/anycrawler/200-monthly/llms.txt): $1.333 per 1,000, 50% complete

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

- `POST /v1/search`: [AnyCrawler, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt)

## AnyCrawler's APIs (5)

- [AnyCrawler: image search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: news API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: web search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/crawl/page, Fetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawler/free-post-v1-crawl-page-fetch/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/crawl/page, Fetch, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawler/free-post-v1-crawl-page-fetch-full/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/crawl/page, Render](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawler/free-post-v1-crawl-page-render/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/crawl/page, Render, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawler/free-post-v1-crawl-page-render-full/llms.txt)

## AnyCrawler: news API alternatives

- [DataBlue, $1,639 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/datablue/1639-yearly/llms.txt): $1.326 per 1,000, 83% complete, 5 minutes
- [APITube, $199 monthly, Professional, GET /v1/news/top-headlines](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apitube/199-monthly-professional-get-v1-news-top-headlines/llms.txt): $1.327 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Crawlora, $9 monthly, Starter, GET /bing/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crawlora/9-monthly-starter-get-bing-news/llms.txt): $1.35 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Scale SERP, $16,308 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/16308-yearly/llms.txt): $1.359 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-03.

- https://anycrawler.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://anycrawler.com/crawler/search/news/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://anycrawler.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://anycrawler.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing