BestSearch pricing: news API, POST /
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$8.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run BestSearch through our news API benchmark yet.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 15% of the 710 plans.Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan 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 (/
Plan: Pay as you go BestSearch's only plan
Call:
POST /, Search, advanced, news one of BestSearch's 2 calls for this APIPOST /, Search, advanced, newsTop-up, Pay as you go$8.00 per 1,000search POST /, Search, newsTop-up, Pay as you go$4.00 per 1,000search
API: News API one of BestSearch's 3 APIs
- Web scraping API
- Web search API
POST /, Searchsearch - Web search API
POST /, Search, advancedsearch - News API
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Image.
- A balance you top up. You pay any amount. You spend the whole balance on calls.
- One call. You send
querytoPOST /. You setsearch search_to "advanced" anddepth topicto "news". The call returns the news articles that match. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
BestSearch: news API alternatives
BestSearch alternatives: every news API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planBestSearch, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search, advanced, news | API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request, POST /v1/batch | Clair, $300 monthly | NewsData.io, $1,919.99 yearly, Basic (yearly), GET /1/crypto | NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), $400 monthly | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $8.00 | $8.00 | $8.00 | $8.00 | $8.00 |
| Completeness | 17% | 83% | 67% | 100% | 83% |
| Billing | pay first | pay as you go | monthly | yearly | monthly |
| Pay | any amount | at a threshold | $300 | $1,919.99 | $400 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | 37,500 calls a month | 20,000 calls a month | 50,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | live | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into the agreement, the service is intended for business and professional use | at least 18 years old, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms | anyone at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract | anyone | anyone with a company or academic email address |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Source, not in the answer
- Date, not in the answer
- Author, not in the answer
- Snippet, not in the answer
- Image
- Full text, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 searches | $8.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | pay first |
| Most per search | 20 |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: Search · Search, advanced · Search, news · Extract · Crawl · Map · Research |
| Their pitch | Search the web and return relevant results, with optional answers, raw page content, images, and domain or time filters. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | You may not use BestSearch to: break any law, court order, sanction, or third-party right, infringe copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or database rights, distribute malware, phishing, spam, fraudulent content, or abusive automation, collect, expose, or misuse sensitive personal data without a lawful basis, probe, bypass, disrupt, overload, reverse engineer, or evade security and rate limits, resell upstream credentials, conceal the origin of abusive traffic, or use the service for a prohibited or high-risk business, submit content that you do not have the right to process. [...] You are responsible for reviewing results and complying with the terms and rights that apply to your use. [...] These Terms give you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access the service during your account term. |
| Expires | never while the account remains active |
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| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | query, search_depth "advanced", topic "news". Optional: max_results, include_answer, include_raw_content, include_images, include_domains, exclude_domains, exact_match, safe_search |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /search |
| Plan | Pay as you go |
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| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into the agreement, the service is intended for business and professional use |
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold
query, answer, images, results, raw page content, response time, request ID