# AssimilateThis, free: News API

> Recent news on a topic: a short summary and up to 5 dated developments with sources (1 to 30 days back)

AssimilateThis's Free preview call plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. AssimilateThis's docs list 2: Source, Snippet.
You get 1 request. You spend the requests on AssimilateThis's other calls. This call is free for up to 1 call in all.
We haven't run AssimilateThis through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 860 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.20 or less per 1,000 searches. [See the best free news API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
[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.
[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/assimilatethis/free
- [News API in 2026: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://bob.assimilatethis.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://bob.assimilatethis.com/news`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://bob.assimilatethis.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#/default/news_news_get
- Sold by: AssimilateThis (https://assimilatethis.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Source: ✓
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 5
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Research · Factcheck · Summarize · Search · Market Research · Company Brief · Extract · Weather Route · Alerts Route

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Recent news on a topic: a short summary and up to 5 dated developments with sources (1 to 30 days back)

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1 request
- Enough for: 1 call, once

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: days
- Method: GET
- Path: /news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free preview call
- Who can get it: anyone, one free call per caller, with no account or API key

## The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

summary, development, date, source URL

## AssimilateThis's plans (3)

- [AssimilateThis, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/assimilatethis/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [AssimilateThis, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/assimilatethis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [AssimilateThis, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/assimilatethis/10-pack/llms.txt): $33.333 per 1,000, 33% complete, live

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

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

## AssimilateThis's APIs (3)

- [AssimilateThis: news API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/assimilatethis/free/llms.txt)
- [AssimilateThis: web scraping API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/assimilatethis/free/llms.txt)
- [AssimilateThis: web search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/assimilatethis/free/llms.txt)

## AssimilateThis: news API alternatives

- [Scavio, top-up from $25](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scavio/top-up-from-25/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Clair, $30 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/clair/30-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Tavily, pay as you go, x402, paid per request](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/pay-as-you-go-x402-paid-per-request/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [UnifAPI, top-up, Pay-as-you-go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unifapi/top-up-pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 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://bob.assimilatethis.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://bob.assimilatethis.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://bob.assimilatethis.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing