Datacircle

APILayer pricing and alternatives: news API

APILayer's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026: pricing comparedAPILayer: news API alternatives

Is APILayer yours? Write to us about this page. We invite selected tool providers to our WhatsApp group.

50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 502 plans by price. Serpent API's top-up from $500 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.Scrappa, Litescrape and TheNewsAPI are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free Plan one of APILayer's 5 plans
Call: GET /news APILayer's only call for this API
API: News API one of APILayer's 4 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 60 minutes old. You get articles APILayer saved earlier.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests a month.
  • One call. You send keywords to GET /news. You can also send date, sources, keyword and tickers. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

APILayer: news API alternatives

The table starts with APILayer's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to APILayer's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

APILayer, $99.99 monthlymediastack, $99.99 monthlyDataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/serp/google/news/live/advancedSerply, $5 packValueSERP, $600 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$1.9998$1.9998$2.00$2.00$2.00
Completeness50%83%67%50%67%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay firstpay firstyearly
Pay$99.99$99.99$50$5$600
Enough for50,000 calls a month50,000 calls a month25,000 pages2,500 calls25,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with the right, power and authority to enter into and be legally bound by the Marketplace Terms of Useanyone with the power and authority to enter into its Termsanyone not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraineanyoneanyone

Every news API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

  1. marketplace.apilayer.com/financelayer-api
  2. ideracorp.com/Legal/APILayer/Marketplace-Terms-of-Use

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$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReal-time Finance News API using the JSON payload to extract dynamic financial data.
Data
Freshness60 minutes
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 requests a month
Enough for100 calls a month
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendkeywords. Optional: date, sources, keyword, tickers
MethodGET
Path/news
About the plan
PlanFree Plan
Who can get itanyone with the right, power and authority to enter into and be legally bound by the Marketplace Terms of Use
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

news result title, news result link, news result description, news result source, news result tickers, news result tags, news result date, pagination, total results

Best GTM APIs