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

> The news endpoint allows you to perform low-latency search on the world's largest news knowledge graph, which is updated in real-time.

AskNews's news API on its Pay as you go plan. It costs $25.00 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), this plan 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 5% 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
- [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
- 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: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 29.7
- Price score: 3
- Accuracy score: 27
- Cost to get started score: 93
- Bundle score: 75
- Performance score: 37

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $25.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: The news endpoint allows you to perform low-latency search on the world's largest news knowledge graph, which is updated in real-time.

## 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
- Median: 0.27 s

## The call

- You send: nothing required. 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/top-up-pay-as-you-go-get-v1-news-search-search-news/llms.txt): $25.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [AskNews, $7.99 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/news/search, Search news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/7-99-monthly-pro-get-v1-news-search-search-news/llms.txt): $15.98 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [AskNews, $250 monthly, Spelunker, GET /v1/news/search, Search news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/250-monthly-spelunker-get-v1-news-search-search-news/llms.txt): $12.50 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [AskNews, $1,000 monthly, Analyst, GET /v1/news/search, Search news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/1000-monthly-analyst-get-v1-news-search-search-news/llms.txt): $9.091 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [AskNews, contact us, Enterprise, GET /v1/news/search, Search news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/contact-us-enterprise-get-v1-news-search-search-news/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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/top-up-pay-as-you-go-get-v1-news-search-search-news/llms.txt)
- [AskNews: web search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/asknews/250-monthly/llms.txt)

## AskNews: news API alternatives

- [Scale SERP, $276 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/276-yearly/llms.txt): $23.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Feedly, $28,800 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/feedly/28800-yearly/llms.txt): $24.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Perigon, $25 monthly, Individual, GET /v1/articles/all](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perigon/25-monthly-individual-get-v1-articles-all/llms.txt): $25.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 hour
- [You.com, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search, news, full](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/you-com/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-news-full/llms.txt): $25.00 per 1,000, 67% 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