# APEX, pay as you go: News API

> Crypto 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.

APEX's x402 pay per call plan for the news API costs $1.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. APEX's docs list 3: Source, Date, Snippet.
We haven't run APEX through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) 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](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. [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. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) and [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-news-article-v1-news-search/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://apexfaucet.xyz/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://apexfaucet.xyz/api/x402/crypto-news`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://apexfaucet.xyz/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#/paths/~1api~1x402~1crypto-news
- Sold by: APEX (https://apexfaucet.xyz?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $1.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Crypto 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

- Freshness: 5 minutes
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Do 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

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: coin, q, since, limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/x402/crypto-news

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## APEX's plans (2)

- [APEX, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 5 minutes
- [APEX, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apex/5-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 5 minutes

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

- `GET /api/x402/crypto-news`: [APEX, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## APEX's APIs (4)

- [APEX: business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [APEX: news API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [APEX: email verification API pricing, 2 plans, GET /api/x402/email-check](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-x402-email-check/llms.txt)
- [APEX: email verification API pricing, 2 plans, GET /api/x402/email-verify-bulk](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-x402-email-verify-bulk/llms.txt)
- [APEX: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans, GET /api/x402/page-extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-x402-page-extract/llms.txt)
- [APEX: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans, GET /api/x402/page-markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-x402-page-markdown/llms.txt)
- [APEX: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans, GET /api/x402/page-snap](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-x402-page-snap/llms.txt)
- [APEX: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans, GET /api/x402/web-read](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-x402-web-read/llms.txt)

## APEX: news API alternatives

- [Scrappa, pay as you go, x402, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $50 monthly, Ultra monthly, POST /news-intel/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/50-monthly-ultra-monthly-post-news-intel-v1-search/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpKite, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpkite/10-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 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 2026-11-09.

- https://apexfaucet.xyz/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://apexfaucet.xyz/pass/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://apexfaucet.xyz/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://apexfaucet.xyz/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing