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API League pricing: news API

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 584 plans by price. Serpent API's top-up from $500 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.Scrappa, ReefAPI and ScrapeUnblocker are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of API League's 4 plans
Call: GET /search-news API League's only call for this API
API: News API one of API League's 5 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Author, Snippet, Image, Full text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 tokens a day, enough for about 6 calls. Calls stop once your units run out. Unused units expire at midnight UTC, when the daily quota resets.
  • One call. You call GET /search-news with the inputs in Product details. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

API League: news API alternatives

API League alternatives: every news API provider ranked

The table starts with API League's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to API League's.

API League, $199 monthlyUjeebu, $105 packNewsMesh, $79 monthlyAPITube, $1,919 yearly, Professional, GET /v1/news/everythingcloro, $1,000 monthly, Business, POST /v1/async/task
$ per 1,000 searches$1.061$1.05$1.053$1.066$1.071
Completeness83%67%83%100%67%
Billingmonthlypay firstmonthlyyearlymonthly
Pay$199$105$79$1,919$1,000
Enough for6,250 calls a day100,000 calls75,000 calls a month150,000 pages a monthabout 933,333 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownlive
Who can get itanyoneanyone who is 18 or older, or 13 to 17 with a parent's or guardian's permissionanyoneanyoneanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

  1. apileague.com
  2. apileague.com/apis/search-news-api
  3. apileague.com/docs/quotas-and-rate-limiting
  4. apileague.com/pricing
  5. apileague.com/terms

Product details

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

  • Source, not in the answer
  • Date
  • Author
  • Snippet
  • Image
  • Full text
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search10,100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 54 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch and filter millions of news from over 200 countries in 90 languages by text, date, location, category, language, and more.
Data
Keep datano copy or storage of what it provides, with prior written permission, a cache of user-requested data for a maximum of 1 hour
Use dataNon-Commercial Use, Backlink Required, a link to apileague.com on your website or application. You may use the data provided by the API League as part of your website, application, or other project, but you cannot use API League data to create a site or application meant to provide the same experience as API League [...] You may not create the impression that your site or application is endorsed by API League, nor may you use any API League brands/logos to promote your site/app without prior permission [...] You may not scrape the API League or in any way attempt to copy or store the information it provides, including any derived, hashed, or transformed data [...] You may not resell any data received via the API League. You may use the API League in order to compare the API League to API League competitors
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 tokens a day
Enough forabout 6 calls a day
Expiresat midnight UTC, when the daily quota resets
Rate limit
Per second1
Concurrent1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendat least one of text, source-countries, language, min-sentiment, max-sentiment, earliest-publish-date, latest-publish-date, news-sources, authors, categories, entities or location-filter. Optional: sort, sort-direction, offset, number
MethodGET
Path/search-news
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

offset, number, total results, news ID, title, text, summary, URL, image, video, publish date, authors, category, language, source country, sentiment

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