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Autom pricing and alternatives: news API

Autom's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 354 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.Scrappa, SerpBase and treg are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Autom's 7 plans
Call: GET /v1/google/news Autom's only call for this API
API: News API one of Autom's 4 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Autom searches the news when you call the API.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send query to GET /v1/google/news. You can also send page, num, gl and hl. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Autom: news API alternatives

The table starts with Autom's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Autom's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Autom, $3,750 packSerpBase, $3 monthlySerper, $3,750 packPrismCrawl, $5 pack, Micro, POST /v1/google/newsCrawlerData, $3,750 pack, Ultimate, POST /v1/jobs
$ per 1,000 searches$0.30$0.30$0.30$0.30$0.30
Completeness50%67%67%83%67%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay firstpay firstpay first
Pay$3,750$3$3,750$5$3,750
Enough for12,500,000 calls10,000 calls a month12,500,000 calls16,667 calls12,500,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itprofessionals: the service is ordered for a trade, business, craft or profession, by someone at least 18 and able to contractanyonebusinesses: its terms say "Serper is a business-to-business service and does not provide end-user (consumer) services"anyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreementanyone 18 or older using it for a business or profession

Every news API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

  1. app.autom.dev/pricing
  2. docs.autom.dev/billing/plans-and-pricing
  3. docs.autom.dev/credits
  4. docs.autom.dev/global-parameters
  5. docs.autom.dev/google-news
  6. autom.dev/
  7. autom.dev/pricing
  8. autom.dev/terms

Product details

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

  • Source
  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet
  • Image, not in the answer
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Bing Search · Brave Images · Brave Search · Brave Videos · Google AI Mode · Google Images · Google Jobs · Google Maps · Google Search · Google Search Autocomplete · Google Search Light · Google Shopping · Google Videos
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch Google News via API and retrieve structured news results with pagination.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data"While you have unused credits, or an active paid period, you receive a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the service for your own activities, including inside a product you offer to your own users. [...] This licence does not let you resell API keys, or resell access to the service as a standalone product, unless we agree in writing." "Third-party material returned by the service remains subject to its owners' rights." "Use the service in accordance with the law and these terms." "Do not use the service to break the law, to infringe another person's rights, or to submit content you have no right to submit." "Do not distribute malware, attempt unauthorized access, access another customer's account, or interfere with the service." "Do not bypass a fee or a limit, or send traffic in order to overload the service." "Do not use the service for unlawful surveillance, harassment, or unsolicited contact that the law does not allow." "Do not use the service in breach of applicable sanctions, or as the sole control of a decision that could affect a person's health, safety, legal position, finances, or employment."
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for1,000 calls
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
Median9.13 s
The call
You sendquery. Optional: page, num, gl, hl
MethodGET
Path/v1/google/news
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itprofessionals: the service is ordered for a trade, business, craft or profession, by someone at least 18 and able to contract
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

news result position, news result title, news result link, news result source, news result domain, news result snippet, news result date, pagination, search parameters

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