# API League, free: News API

> Search and filter millions of news from over 200 countries in 90 languages by text, date, location, category, language, and more.

API League's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Author, Snippet, Image, Full text.
In [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt), API League's best plan scores 58.8 out of 100.
This plan is free. We rank 618 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.05 per 1,000 searches or less.
[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.
[The New York Times](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/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 our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/api-league/free
- [News API: 50+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://apileague.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.apileague.com/search-news`
- API key: with the plan, on https://apileague.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://apileague.com/apis/search-news-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: API League (https://apileague.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓
- Full text: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 10,100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 54 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search and filter millions of news from over 200 countries in 90 languages by text, date, location, category, language, and more.

## Data

- Keep data: no copy or storage of what it provides, with prior written permission, a cache of user-requested data for a maximum of 1 hour
- Use data: Non-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 get: 50 tokens a day
- Enough for: about 6 calls a day
- Expires: at midnight UTC, when the daily quota resets

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.02 s

## The call

- You send: at 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
- Method: GET
- Path: /search-news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## API League's plans (4)

- [API League, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/api-league/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [API League, $7 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/api-league/7-monthly/llms.txt): $3.733 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [API League, $39 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/api-league/39-monthly/llms.txt): $2.08 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [API League, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/api-league/199-monthly/llms.txt): $1.061 per 1,000, 83% complete

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

- `GET /search-news`: [API League, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/api-league/free/llms.txt)

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- [API League: news API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/api-league/free/llms.txt)
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- [API League: web search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/api-league/free/llms.txt)

## API League: news API alternatives

- [Ujeebu, $105 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/ujeebu/105-pack/llms.txt): $1.05 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [NewsMesh, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsmesh/79-monthly/llms.txt): $1.053 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [APITube, $1,919 yearly, Professional, GET /v1/news/everything](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apitube/1919-yearly-professional-get-v1-news-everything/llms.txt): $1.066 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [cloro, $1,000 monthly, Business, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/1000-monthly-business-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt): $1.071 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 2026-11-02.

- https://apileague.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://apileague.com/apis/search-news-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://apileague.com/docs/quotas-and-rate-limiting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://apileague.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://apileague.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing