Brave Search API pricing: news API
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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Brave Search API through our news API benchmark 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 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: Search (free monthly credits) one of Brave Search API's 3 plans
- FreeSearch (free monthly credits)$0.00 per 1,000
- Top-up from $5Search (prepaid credits)$5.00 per 1,000
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GET / Brave Search API's only call for this APIAPI: News API one of Brave Search API's 5 APIs
About this item
- Live. Brave Search API searches the news when you call the API.
- 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet, Image, Full text.
- Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit a month, enough for 1,000 calls. Unused credit expires each month.
- One call. You send
qtoGET /. The call returns the news articles that match.res/ v1/ news/ search - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.
Brave Search API: news API alternatives
Brave Search API alternatives: every news API provider ranked
The table starts with Brave Search API's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Brave Search API's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| Brave Search API, top-up from $5 | Search1API, $99 pack, Pay as you go, $99 (+20% bonus), POST /news, News, full | GloryCloud, $5 monthly | Pullbay, $9 monthly, Hobby, GET /google-news/search | OpenWeb Ninja, pay as you go, GET /local-headlines | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 |
| Completeness | 83% | 67% | 0% | 67% | 83% |
| Billing | pay first | pay first | monthly | monthly | pay as you go |
| Pay | $5 | $99 | $5 | $9 | monthly |
| Enough for | 1,000 calls | 19,800 calls | 1,000 calls a month | 1,800 calls a month | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone with a credit card | anyone | anyone | anyone | anyone, a minor with a parent's permission |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com/api-reference/news/news_search/get/index.html.md
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com/api-reference/web/search/get
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/guides/rate-limiting
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/help-feedback
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/terms-of-service
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/services/news-search/index.html.md
- brave.com/search/api/
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
- Full text
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Most per search | 500 |
|---|---|
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Web search · LLM Context · Video search · Image search |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Dedicated search for news, with advanced filtering and freshness options |
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| Freshness | live |
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| Keep data | nothing stored, cached or put in a database, in whole or in part, but the transient storage an application needs, storing results needs a plan that includes storage rights, asked of searchapi-support@brave.com, nothing kept after the agreement ends |
| Use data | "a limited, worldwide, revocable (as provided in this Agreement), non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-assignable, non-sublicensable license during the Term to (i) use the API and Documentation solely to develop, test, and integrate the API with, the Customer Applications, (ii) use the Search Results with the Customer Applications, and (iii) use and display the Provider’s Marks solely as provided herein." [...] "Customer shall not use the API, Search Results, Documentation or Provider’s Marks for any purposes beyond the scope of the license granted in this Agreement and the restrictions in this Section. Customer shall not and shall not permit End Users or others to: (i) store, cache, or create a database of Search Results, in whole or in part, other than transient storage required for operation of Customer Applications or related software, service or systems, (ii) create derivative works of the API, Documentation or Search Results, (iii) rent, lease, lend, sell, distribute, publish, sublicense, assign, transfer, or otherwise make available the API or Documentation to any third party, in whole or in part, (iv) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, decode, adapt, or otherwise attempt to derive or gain access to any software component of, the API, in whole or in part, (v) circumvent or bypass rate limits or service limits through any method, including by creating multiple accounts, (vi) remove any proprietary notices from the API or Documentation, (vii) use the API or Search Results in any manner or for any purpose that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any intellectual property right or other right of any person, or that violates any applicable law, rule or regulation, (viii) use the API or Documentation in any manner that harms the Provider, including without limitation, Provider’s products, services, systems, infrastructure, brand, or goodwill, (ix) combine or integrate the API with any software, services, systems, technology or materials not authorized by Provider, other than Customer Applications, (x) use the API in Customer Applications to replicate or attempt to replace the functionality of the API, or circumvent use of the API, (xi) attempt to obfuscate or conceal Customer’s identity or the identity of the Customer Applications when requesting authorization to use the API, (xii) redistribute, resell, or sublicense the Search Results, (xiii) use the Search Results to create, evaluate, train, re-train, fine-tune, benchmark or otherwise improve artificial intelligence models or services offered by Customer or third parties, (xiv) upon expiration or termination of this Agreement, continue any further use of the API or Documentation or retain Documentation or Search Results in Customer’s possession and control, or (xv) use the API in connection with any spyware, adware, or other malicious programs or code, counterfeit goods, items subject to US embargo, unsolicited mass distribution of email, multi-level marketing, hate materials, hacking, surveillance, interception, or descrambling equipment, libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, or otherwise offensive content, stolen products, and items used for theft, hazardous material, or any illegal activities." [...] "Customer hereby grants Provider a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, sublicensable through multiple levels, royalty-free and fully paid, license during the Term to use Search Query Data for purposes of use with the API, providing the Search Results, and otherwise performing hereunder." |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | $5 a month |
| Enough for | 1,000 calls a month |
| Expires | month |
| Per second | 50 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | q. Optional: search_lang, ui_lang, country, safesearch, count, offset, spellcheck, freshness, extra_snippets, goggles, include_fetch_metadata, operators, api-version, cache-control, user-agent |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /res/v1/news/search |
| Plan | Search (free monthly credits) |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone with a credit card: it is checked with a $0 or $1 hold, refunded, and the prepay amount can be left at $0 |
The 31 fields the plan's answer can hold
response type, original query, altered query, cleaned query, spellcheck off, strict safesearch warning, search operators applied, cleaned query without operators, operator sites, news result type, news result title, news result link, news result description, news result age, news result date, news result page fetched date, news result content fetched timestamp, news result source name, news result source long name, news result source URL, news result source image, news result URL scheme, news result URL network location, news result hostname, news result favicon, news result URL path, news result breaking, news result thumbnail, news result original thumbnail, news result extra snippets, news result icons