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APEX pricing: news API

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$1.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run APEX through our news API benchmark yet.We rank 881 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.30 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 54% of the 881 plans.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. AnswerLine's Starter plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.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.Scrappa, SerpScraper.dev and ReefAPI are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
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Plan: x402 pay per call one of APEX's 2 plans
Call: GET /api/x402/crypto-news APEX's only call for this API
API: News API one of APEX's 4 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 5 minutes old. You get articles APEX saved earlier.
  • 3 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Source, Date, Snippet.
  • Nothing to buy first. You pay per call.
  • One call. You call GET /api/x402/crypto-news. Every input is optional: coin, q, since, limit.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

APEX: news API alternatives

APEX alternatives: other news API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.

This planAPEX, pay as you goScrappa, pay as you go, x402, GET /api/google/newsReefAPI, $50 monthly, Ultra monthly, POST /news-intel/v1/searchCrustAPI, top-up from $10SerpKite, $10 pack
$ per 1,000 searches$1.00$1.00$1.00$1.00$1.00
Completeness50%67%67%67%67%
Billingpay as you gopay as you gomonthlypay firstpay first
Payper callper call$50$10$10
Enough foras many as you pay foras many as you pay for50,000 calls a month10,000 calls10,000 calls
Freshness5 minuteslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with a wallet paying in USDC on Arc, Base or Solana (or XNT on X1), no account and no API keyanyone 18 or overanyonebusinesses and professionals, 18 or older (its terms: business and professional use only)anyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

  1. apexfaucet.xyz/openapi.json
  2. apexfaucet.xyz/pass/
  3. apexfaucet.xyz/pricing
  4. apexfaucet.xyz/terms
  5. api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources

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
  • Image, not in the answer
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$1.00
Percall
Billingpay as you go
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays fornothing else
In their words
Their pitchCrypto news from 8 newsrooms in one call: CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, The Block, Bitcoin Magazine, The Defiant, Blockworks and Bitcoin.com News, read every 5 minutes, merged, de-duplicated and newest first, each story with its source, link, time, a short excerpt and the coins it names.
Data
Freshness5 minutes
Keep datano limit
Use dataDo not attack, overload or try to break the site, the API or the faucet, and do not try to claim more than the faucet allows. We may rate-limit or block traffic that harms the service or other users.
Plan
Payper call
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: coin, q, since, limit
MethodGET
Path/api/x402/crypto-news
About the plan
Planx402 pay per call
Who can get itanyone with a wallet paying in USDC on Arc, Base or Solana (or XNT on X1), no account and no API key
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, summary, URL, source name, published date, coins, total results

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