# Blackwood State, pay as you go: News API

> Returns JSON with recent news articles matching keywords: headline, URL, source, publish time, authors, tone, image and the people and organizations named, from GDELT.

Blackwood State's x402 pay per call plan for the news API costs $8.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Blackwood State's docs list 4: Source, Date, Author, Image.
We haven't run Blackwood State through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
We rank 881 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.30 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 19% of the 881 plans.
[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.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) and [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-news-article-v1-news-search/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/blackwood-state/pay-as-you-go
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://x402-gateway.blackwoodstate8.workers.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://x402-gateway.blackwoodstate8.workers.dev/v1/news-headlines`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://x402-gateway.blackwoodstate8.workers.dev/services/news-headlines?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Blackwood State (https://x402-gateway.blackwoodstate8.workers.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $8.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Returns JSON with recent news articles matching keywords: headline, URL, source, publish time, authors, tone, image and the people and organizations named, from GDELT.

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: hours, domain, limit, sort
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/news-headlines

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base (x402), with no account or API key

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, time window, results returned, title, URL, source domain, published at, author name, sentiment, image URL, people, organizations, themes, last ingested at, attribution

## Blackwood State's plans (4)

- [Blackwood State, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/blackwood-state/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Blackwood State, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/blackwood-state/5-pack/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Blackwood State, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/blackwood-state/20-pack/llms.txt): $7.20 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Blackwood State, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/blackwood-state/100-pack/llms.txt): $6.40 per 1,000, 67% complete

## Blackwood State's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/news-headlines`: [Blackwood State, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/blackwood-state/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Blackwood State's APIs (4)

- [Blackwood State: domain WHOIS API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/blackwood-state/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Blackwood State: news API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/blackwood-state/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Blackwood State: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/blackwood-state/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Blackwood State: email verification API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/email-batch](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/blackwood-state/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-v1-email-batch/llms.txt)
- [Blackwood State: email verification API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/email-check](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/blackwood-state/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-v1-email-check/llms.txt)

## Blackwood State: news API alternatives

- [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
- [NewsData.io, $1,919.99 yearly, Basic (yearly), GET /1/crypto](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/1919-99-yearly-basic-yearly-get-1-crypto/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), $400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/400-monthly/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 83% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://x402-gateway.blackwoodstate8.workers.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://x402-gateway.blackwoodstate8.workers.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://x402-gateway.blackwoodstate8.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://x402-gateway.blackwoodstate8.workers.dev/services/news-headlines?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing