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BrowserAct pricing: news API

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run BrowserAct through our news API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 805 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.Alpaca's $99 monthly plan 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.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol}) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.The New York Times, Scrappa and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
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Plan: Free one of BrowserAct's 8 plans
Call: POST /v3/bots/templates/{template_id}/runs BrowserAct's only call for this API
API: News API one of BrowserAct's 4 APIs

About this item

  • Live. BrowserAct searches the news when you call the API.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 200 credits.
  • One call. You call POST /v3/bots/templates/{template_id}/runs. You send input.Search_Keywords, input.Publish_date and input.Datelimit. You set template_id to "77638424152140851". You can also send proxy_region, callback_url and status_change_callback_url. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. Or the provider sends the answer to your webhook.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

BrowserAct: news API alternatives

BrowserAct alternatives: other news API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planBrowserAct, freeScrappa, free, GET /api/google/newsReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/searchScrapeUnblocker, freePerceptLayer, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness50%67%67%67%67%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0€0$0
Enough fornot published500 calls a month1,000 calls500 calls, once1,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.")developers and businesses, 18 or older

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

  1. docs.browseract.com/account-billing/billing/billing-credits
  2. docs.browseract.com/account-billing/billing/subscription-management
  3. docs.browseract.com/openapi_3.json
  4. docs.browseract.com/workflow/api-reference/tasks/run-an-official-bot-template-create-a-task
  5. browseract.com
  6. browseract.com/data-api
  7. browseract.com/pricing
  8. browseract.com/template/google-news-api
  9. browseract.com/terms-of-service

Product details

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

  • Source
  • Date
  • Author
  • Snippet, not in the answer
  • Image, not in the answer
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Amazon ASIN Lookup API · Amazon Product API · Google Maps API · Run a bot (create a task)
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchExtract structured news data from Google News with a single API call. Filter by time range and keywords. Built for monitoring and automation.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataThe Content and Marks are provided in or through the Services "AS IS" for your personal, non-commercial use or internal business purpose only. [...] The Service may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by us. As a user of the Service, you agree not to: Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Service to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us. [...] Use the Service to crawl websites in violation of their Terms of Service, robot exclusion protocols, or applicable laws.
Plan
Pay$0
You get200 credits
Rate limit
Concurrent2
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling or webhook
The call
You sendtemplate_id "77638424152140851", input.Search_Keywords, input.Publish_date, input.Datelimit. Optional: proxy_region, callback_url, status_change_callback_url
MethodPOST
Path/v3/bots/templates/{template_id}/runs
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

news result source, news result title, news result date, news result authors, news result link

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