BuzzSumo pricing: news API
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$1,990.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run BuzzSumo through our news API benchmark yet.Half of the 710 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less. 1 of the 710 plans costs more per 1,000 searches than this plan.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: Content Creation one of BuzzSumo's 5 plans
- $2,388 yearlyContent Creation$1,990.00 per 1,000
- $3,588 yearlyPR & Comms$2,990.00 per 1,000
- $5,988 yearlySuite$4,990.00 per 1,000
- $11,988 yearlyEnterprise$9,990.00 per 1,000
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GET / BuzzSumo's only callAPI: News API BuzzSumo's only API
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Author, Image.
- A yearly subscription. You pay $2,388 a year for 100 requests a month, enough for 100 pages.
- One call. You send
qtoGET /. The call returns the news articles that match.search/ articles.json - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
BuzzSumo: news API alternatives
BuzzSumo alternatives: every news API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planBuzzSumo, $2,388 yearly | AskNews, top-up, Pay as you go, GET /v1/news/search, Search news archive | lobstr.io, $20 monthly | Webz.io, top-up, Scale, GET /api/news | Trading Economics, $99 pack, Professional Plan, 1-week trial, GET /news, News by Type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $1,990.00 | $125.00 | $200.00 | $500.00 | $990.00 |
| Completeness | 67% | 83% | 67% | 100% | 33% |
| Billing | yearly | pay first | monthly | pay first | pay first |
| Pay | $2,388 | any amount | $20 | any amount | $99 |
| Enough for | 100 pages a month | as many as you pay for | 100 calls a month | as many as you pay for | 100 calls |
| Freshness | unknown | unknown | live | unknown | unknown |
| Who can get it | business use only, with a paid BuzzSumo account (its terms: "Our Services are for business use only. To use the Services, you have to create an account.") | anyone at least 18 years old | professionals, not consumers | anyone at least 18 years old, or under a parent's or legal guardian's supervision | anyone |
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.
- buzzsumo.com/pricing
- buzzsumo.com/wp-content/themes/brandwatch/src/site--buzzsumo.com/assets/Buzzsumo-Terms-2019-09.pdf
- developers.buzzsumo.com/reference/articles.md
- developers.buzzsumo.com/reference/pricing.md
- developers.buzzsumo.com/reference/rate-limits.md
- developers.buzzsumo.com/reference/which-api-should-i-use.md
- help.buzzsumo.com/en/articles/1633314-does-buzzsumo-have-an-api
- help.buzzsumo.com/en/articles/3883145-api-access-for-paid-web-app-subscriptions
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
- Full text, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 searches | $1,990.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | page of 100 |
| Billing | yearly |
| $ a month | $199 |
| Most per search | 10,000 |
|---|---|
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Influencers · Trends · Sharers |
| Their pitch | Query our database for article, influencer, trend, and top sharer data. Get relevant engagement metrics flowing into your dashboards alongside any other data source. |
|---|
| Keep data | no limit |
|---|---|
| Use data | "You will not: sell, resell, license, sublicense, distribute, or otherwise make the Services (including any data within the Services) available to anybody other than your Users, subject to Applicable Law, attempt to reverse compile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or otherwise reduce to human-perceivable form any part of the Services, use the Services to violate Applicable Law, including Applicable Law about data protection, privacy, or information security, or purposefully, recklessly or negligently interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Services, including spamming, hacking, violating or circumventing our API rate limits, or similar activities.", "Keep the BuzzSumo App and the data within it for yourself. Don't share it with governments, intelligence services, or to people who may misuse it.", "You have to use the Services legally and for their intended purposes. For example, you cannot use the Services for spamming, targeting individuals and groups in a discriminatory way, or to spy on people." |
| Pay | $2,388 |
|---|---|
| You get | 100 requests a month |
| Enough for | 100 pages a month |
| Per second | 1 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | q. Optional: num_days, result_type, page, begin_date, end_date, num_results, language, tld, domains, blocked_domains, article_type, b2b_publishers, exact_url, min_words |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /search/articles.json |
| Plan | Content Creation |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | business use only, with a paid BuzzSumo account (its terms: "Our Services are for business use only. To use the Services, you have to create an account.") |
The 39 fields the plan's answer can hold
total results, total pages, search type, display code, article ID, title, display title, URL, original URL, author name, Twitter user ID, thumbnail URL, language, published date, updated date, source domain, subdomain, word count, Alexa rank, total shares, Facebook shares, total Facebook shares, Facebook likes, Facebook comments, Twitter shares, Pinterest shares, Reddit engagements, total Reddit engagements, linking domains, evergreen score, article amplifiers, article types, is video, is general article, is how-to article, is infographic, is list, is what post, is why post