BestSearch pricing: news API, POST /search, Search, news

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$4.00per 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 24% 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 (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol}) 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, Scrappa and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

Plan: Pay as you go BestSearch's only plan

Top-up, Pay as you goPay as you go$4.00 per 1,000

Call: POST /search, Search, news one of BestSearch's 2 calls for this API

API: News API one of BestSearch's 3 APIs

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 query to POST /search. You set search_depth to "basic" and topic to "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. We also show the Tencent Cloud plan. Its price is farther from this plan's price.

	This planBestSearch, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search, news	Tencent Cloud, pay as you go, 标准版 (Standard)	Exa, pay as you go, x402 or MPP, paid per request, POST /search, Search, instant, news	Pullbay, $199 monthly, Scale, GET /google-news/search	cloro, $30 monthly, Lite, POST /v1/monitor/google/news	Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Growth
$ per 1,000 searches	$4.00	$2.991	$4.00	$4.00	$4.00	$4.00
Completeness	17%	33%	100%	67%	67%	50%
Billing	pay first	pay as you go	pay as you go	monthly	monthly	pay first
Pay	any amount	monthly	per call	$199	$30	$5
Enough for	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	49,750 calls a month	7,500 calls a month	1,250 pages
Freshness	unknown	unknown	unknown	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	anyone with a real-name-verified Tencent Cloud account, individual or enterprise, that has activated Yuanbao Search	AI agents paying in USDC over x402 or MPP, no Exa account or API key needed	anyone	anyone	anyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian

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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.

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Price
$ per 1,000 searches	$4.00
Per	call
Billing	pay first

Charges
Most per search	20
Also pays for	from the same budget: Search · Search, advanced · Search, advanced, news · Extract · Crawl · Map · Research

In their words
Their pitch	Search the web and return relevant results, with optional answers, raw page content, images, and domain or time filters.

Data
Keep data	no limit
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.

Plan
Expires	never while the account remains active

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	query, search_depth "basic", topic "news". Optional: max_results, include_answer, include_raw_content, include_images, include_domains, exclude_domains, exact_match, safe_search
Method	POST
Path	/search

About the plan
Plan	Pay as you go
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