# APILayer, free: News API

> Real-time Finance News API using the JSON payload to extract dynamic financial data.

APILayer's news API on its Free Plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet.
We rank 502 plans by price. [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.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) and [TheNewsAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/79-monthly-pro-monthly-get-v1-news-all/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apilayer/free
- [Best news API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://marketplace.apilayer.com/financelayer-api
- Request: `GET https://api.apilayer.com/financelayer/news`
- API key: with the plan, on https://marketplace.apilayer.com/financelayer-api
- Its API docs: https://marketplace.apilayer.com/financelayer-api
- Sold by: APILayer (https://apilayer.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Real-time Finance News API using the JSON payload to extract dynamic financial data.

## Data

- Freshness: 60 minutes
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: keywords. Optional: date, sources, keyword, tickers
- Method: GET
- Path: /news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Plan
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## APILayer's plans (5)

- [APILayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apilayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 60 minutes
- [APILayer, $14.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apilayer/14-99-monthly/llms.txt): $14.99 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [APILayer, $49.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apilayer/49-99-monthly/llms.txt): $3.333 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [APILayer, $99.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apilayer/99-99-monthly/llms.txt): $1.9998 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [APILayer, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apilayer/contact-us/llms.txt): 50% complete, live

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

- `GET /news`: [APILayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apilayer/free/llms.txt)

## APILayer's APIs (4)

- [APILayer: news API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apilayer/free/llms.txt)
- [APILayer: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans, GET /adv_scraper/scraper](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apilayer/free-plan-get-adv-scraper-scraper/llms.txt)
- [APILayer: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans, GET /scraper](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apilayer/free-plan-get-scraper/llms.txt)
- [APILayer: email verification API pricing, 15 plans, GET /email_verification/{email}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/apilayer/free-plan-get-email-verification-email/llms.txt)
- [APILayer: email verification API pricing, 15 plans, GET /check, Validate](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/apilayer/free/llms.txt)
- [APILayer: phone validation API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/apilayer/free-plan/llms.txt)

## APILayer: news API alternatives

- [mediastack, $99.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mediastack/99-99-monthly/llms.txt): $1.9998 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [DataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/serp/google/news/live/advanced](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/dataforseo/top-up-from-50-pay-as-you-go-post-v3-serp-google-news-live-advanced/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Serply, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serply/5-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $600 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/600-yearly/llms.txt): $2.00 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 2026-10-31.

- https://marketplace.apilayer.com/financelayer-api
- https://www.ideracorp.com/Legal/APILayer/Marketplace-Terms-of-Use