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AskNews pricing: news API, GET /v1/news/search, Search news archive

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$125.00per 1,000 searchesIn our news API benchmark, the best plan from AskNews scores 29.7 out of 100. AskNews ranks 61st of 62 providers.Half of the 710 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 1% of the 710 plans.Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.00089. Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan covers up to 77,760,000 searches a month at no extra cost.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol}) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan.The New York Times, Scrappa and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Pay as you go one of AskNews's 5 plans
Call: GET /v1/news/search, Search news archive one of AskNews's 2 calls for this API
API: News API one of AskNews's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image.
  • A balance you top up. You pay any amount. You spend the whole balance on calls.
  • One call. You call GET /v1/news/search with historical set to "true". The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

AskNews: news API alternatives

AskNews alternatives: every news API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

This planAskNews, top-up, Pay as you go, GET /v1/news/search, Search news archiveQuanticData, $79 monthly, Growth, POST /scraper/collectors/google_news/runTrading Economics, $399 monthly, Professional Plan, GET /news, News by Typelobstr.io, $100 monthlyapipick, $100 pack, 100,000 credits, POST /api/search/ap-news
$ per 1,000 searches$125.00$63.20$79.80$100.00$120.00
Completeness83%67%33%67%50%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlymonthlypay first
Payany amount$79$399$100$100
Enough foras many as you pay for1,250 pages a month5,000 calls a month1,000 calls a monthabout 833 calls
Freshnessunknownliveunknownliveunknown
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years oldanyoneanyoneprofessionals, not consumersanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

  1. asknews.app/api/terms
  2. docs.asknews.app/api/spec
  3. docs.asknews.app/en/news
  4. docs.asknews.app/en/rate-limiting
  5. docs.asknews.app/llms.txt
  6. my.asknews.app/en/plans

Product details

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

  • Source
  • Date
  • Author
  • Snippet
  • Image
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$125.00
Percall
Billingpay first
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: /news (last 48 hours) · /wiki · /autofilter
In their words
Their pitchThe other is an archive and goes back to 2023. If you want to search the archive, you can set historical=True
Data
Keep datano limit
Use data"Restrictions on Use: You may use the content from AskNews for personal, non-commercial purposes only. You are not permitted to copy, reproduce, redistribute, sell, broadcast, rent, share, modify, or otherwise exploit any of the content on AskNews without express written permission from us." [...] "API data access prohibits any recreation of news articles and/or competition with news publishers." [...] "Internal use is available on non-enterprise plans. Commercial redistribution and product use require Enterprise."
Rate limit
Per second0.5
Concurrent3
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendhistorical "true". Optional: query, n_articles, start_timestamp, end_timestamp, time_filter, method, similarity_score_threshold, offset, categories, provocative, reporting_voice, domain_url, bad_domain_url, podcasts, page_rank, diversify_sources, strategy, hours_back, string_guarantee, string_guarantee_op, reverse_string_guarantee, entity_guarantee, reverse_entity_guarantee, entity_guarantee_op, return_graphs, return_geo, languages, countries, countries_blacklist, continents, sentiment, premium, authors, try_cache, geo_lat, geo_lon, geo_radius, geo_polygon
MethodGET
Path/v1/news/search
About the plan
PlanPay as you go
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old
The 62 fields the plan's answer can hold

article URL, article ID, classification, source country, source ID, page rank, source domain, English title, person entities, organization entities, location entities, nationality entities, date entities, event entities, money entities, law entities, quantity entities, time entities, sports entities, politics entities, title entities, number entities, arms entities, product entities, media entities, transportation entities, religion entities, technology entities, space entities, medicine entities, language entities, science entities, image URL, keywords, language, published date, AI summary, key points, title, sentiment, centroid distance, cluster probability, markdown citation, provocative level, reporting voice, continent, image assets, video assets, social embeds, bias, author name, author URL, author email, Wikidata entities, full text, original language summary, image description, crawl date, content type, citation key, next offset, credits used

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