# Athena News API, free: News API

> Go from news to insight with our enriched News API. Fuel your analytics with nearly twenty years of enriched news data from over 50,000 sources.

Athena News API's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
We haven't run Athena News API through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 710 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.
[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/athena-news-api/free
- [News API: 60+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://runathena.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://app.runathena.com/api/v2/query-async`
- API key: with the plan, on https://runathena.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://athena-10.gitbook.io/athena-api/getting-started/api-reference/news-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#submit-a-async-query
- Sold by: Athena News API (https://runathena.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 25
- Billing: free

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Go from news to insight with our enriched News API. Fuel your analytics with nearly twenty years of enriched news data from over 50,000 sources.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to: Use Athena to develop, enhance, or operate a competing product or service. Access Athena for business purposes if you are an employee, contractor, or representative of a competing service. Use the Service in any way that violates applicable laws or regulations, directly or indirectly. Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the Service. Register more than one API key at any one time, unless authorized. Attempt to circumvent any restrictions or limits placed on your API key or account. Use the Service to reproduce or republish copyrighted material. [...] Data Use Restrictions You will not misrepresent the ownership or source of Data. You will not obscure, remove, or change any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices. You will not falsify or delete author attributions, legal notices, or other labels of origin or source of material. You may not publicly release or disclose any data, usage statistics, or other information regarding the Data without express authorization.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling

## The call

- You send: query, page. Optional: key_phrases, sites, start_date, end_date, toggle_state, embeddings, language, sort_order, traffic_rank
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v2/query-async

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone who isn't an employee, contractor, or representative of a competing service

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, search status, news result title, news result description, news result link, news result date, news result source, news result image, news result relevance score

## Athena News API's plans (5)

- [Athena News API, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/athena-news-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Athena News API, $14.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/athena-news-api/14-99-monthly/llms.txt): $14.99 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Athena News API, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/athena-news-api/79-monthly/llms.txt): $7.90 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Athena News API, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/athena-news-api/299-monthly/llms.txt): $11.96 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Athena News API, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/athena-news-api/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete

## Athena News API's calls (1)

- `POST /api/v2/query-async`: [Athena News API, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/athena-news-api/free/llms.txt)

## Athena News API's APIs (1)

- [Athena News API: news API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/athena-news-api/free/llms.txt)

## Athena News API: news API alternatives

- [SerpWow, $4,788 yearly, BigData (annual), GET /search, Bing News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpwow/4788-yearly-bigdata-annual-get-search-bing-news/llms.txt): $7.98 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [1Lookup, $7,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/1lookup/7990-yearly/llms.txt): $7.99 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/api-direct/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-post-v1-batch/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Clair, $300 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/clair/300-monthly/llms.txt): $8.00 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 2026-11-01.

- https://athena-10.gitbook.io/athena-api/account-overview/dashboard?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://athena-10.gitbook.io/athena-api/getting-started/api-reference/news-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://athena-10.gitbook.io/athena-api/getting-started/data-model-reference/articles?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://athena-10.gitbook.io/athena-api/getting-started/python-sdk?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://athena-10.gitbook.io/athena-api/getting-started/quickstart?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://athena-10.gitbook.io/athena-api/getting-started/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://runathena.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://runathena.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://runathena.com/terms-of-service/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing