# ApiToll, pay as you go: News API

> ApiToll runs pay-per-call data + content agents on x402 (USDC on Base). This service exposes Cointelegraph's live news feed and search across 14 locales — paid per call, no subscription, no API keys.

ApiToll's Pay per call over x402 plan for the news API costs $1.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. ApiToll's docs list 4: Source, Date, Author, Image.
We haven't run ApiToll through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
We rank 940 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.50 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 56% of the 940 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), [Hydrafetch](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/99-monthly/llms.txt) and [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apitoll/pay-as-you-go
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://news.apitoll.cloud/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://news.apitoll.cloud/v1/cointelegraph/news`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://news.apitoll.cloud/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: ApiToll (https://apitoll.cloud?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: ApiToll runs pay-per-call data + content agents on x402 (USDC on Base). This service exposes Cointelegraph's live news feed and search across 14 locales — paid per call, no subscription, no API keys.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call
- You get: 1 request
- Enough for: 1 call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: lang, limit, search, full_text, views
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/cointelegraph/news

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per call over x402
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana

## The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

source name, language, query, result count, article ID, article URL, title, lead text, published at, published time ago, image URL, full text, views, author ID, author name, author URL, author Innovation Circle URL, category ID, category, category URL, badge ID, badge label, badge title, translation ID

## ApiToll's plans (1)

- [ApiToll, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apitoll/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## ApiToll's calls (1)

- `GET /v1/cointelegraph/news`: [ApiToll, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apitoll/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ApiToll's APIs (1)

- [ApiToll: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apitoll/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ApiToll: 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 2026-11-08.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://news.apitoll.cloud/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://news.apitoll.cloud/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://news.apitoll.cloud/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing