# AskNews, top-up, Pay as you go, GET /v1/news/search, Search news archive: News API

> The other is an archive and goes back to 2023. If you want to search the archive, you can set historical=True

AskNews's news API on its Pay as you go plan. It costs $125.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image.
In [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt), 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/financial-data-financialdata-net/69-monthly-premium-get-api-v1-latest-news/llms.txt) 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})](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 Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan.
[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 [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/asknews/top-up-pay-as-you-go-get-v1-news-search-search-news-archive
- [News API: 60+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://my.asknews.app/en/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.asknews.app/v1/news/search`, Search news archive
- API key: with the plan, on https://my.asknews.app/en/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.asknews.app/en/news?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: AskNews (https://asknews.app?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $125.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: /news (last 48 hours) · /wiki · /autofilter

## In their words

- Their pitch: The other is an archive and goes back to 2023. If you want to search the archive, you can set historical=True

## Data

- Keep data: no 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 second: 0.5
- Concurrent: 3
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: historical "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
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/news/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay as you go
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## AskNews's plans (5)

- [AskNews, top-up, Pay as you go, GET /v1/news/search, Search news archive](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/top-up-pay-as-you-go-get-v1-news-search-search-news-archive/llms.txt): $125.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [AskNews, $7.99 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/news/search, Search news archive](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/7-99-monthly-pro-get-v1-news-search-search-news-archive/llms.txt): $79.90 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [AskNews, $250 monthly, Spelunker, GET /v1/news/search, Search news archive](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/250-monthly-spelunker-get-v1-news-search-search-news-archive/llms.txt): $62.50 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [AskNews, $1,000 monthly, Analyst, GET /v1/news/search, Search news archive](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/1000-monthly-analyst-get-v1-news-search-search-news-archive/llms.txt): $45.455 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [AskNews, contact us, Enterprise, GET /v1/news/search, Search news archive](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/contact-us-enterprise-get-v1-news-search-search-news-archive/llms.txt): 83% complete

## AskNews's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /v1/news/search`, Search news: [AskNews, top-up, Pay as you go, GET /v1/news/search, Search news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/top-up-pay-as-you-go-get-v1-news-search-search-news/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/news/search`, Search news archive: [AskNews, top-up, Pay as you go, GET /v1/news/search, Search news archive](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/top-up-pay-as-you-go-get-v1-news-search-search-news-archive/llms.txt)

## AskNews's APIs (2)

- [AskNews: news API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/news/search, Search news archive](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/top-up-pay-as-you-go-get-v1-news-search-search-news-archive/llms.txt)
- [AskNews: web search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/asknews/250-monthly/llms.txt)

## AskNews: news API alternatives

- [QuanticData, $79 monthly, Growth, POST /scraper/collectors/google_news/run](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/quanticdata/79-monthly-growth-post-scraper-collectors-google-news-run/llms.txt): $63.20 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Trading Economics, $399 monthly, Professional Plan, GET /news, News by Type](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trading-economics/399-monthly-professional-plan-get-news-news-by-type/llms.txt): $79.80 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [lobstr.io, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/lobstr-io/100-monthly/llms.txt): $100.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [apipick, $100 pack, 100,000 credits, POST /api/search/ap-news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apipick/100-pack-100000-credits-post-api-search-ap-news/llms.txt): $120.00 per 1,000, 50% complete

## 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.

- https://asknews.app/api/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.asknews.app/api/spec?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.asknews.app/en/news?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.asknews.app/en/rate-limiting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.asknews.app/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://my.asknews.app/en/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing