# BuzzSumo, $2,388 yearly: News API

> Query our database for article, influencer, trend, and top sharer data. Get relevant engagement metrics flowing into your dashboards alongside any other data source.

BuzzSumo's news API on its Content Creation plan. It costs $1,990.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author, Image.
We haven't run BuzzSumo through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/financial-data-financialdata-net/69-monthly-premium-get-api-v1-latest-news/llms.txt) 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})](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 Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan.
[The New York Times](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt) and [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/buzzsumo/2388-yearly
- [News API: 60+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://buzzsumo.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.buzzsumo.com/search/articles.json`
- API key: with the plan, on https://buzzsumo.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developers.buzzsumo.com/reference/articles?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: BuzzSumo (https://buzzsumo.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $1,990.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: yearly
- $ a month: $199

## Charges

- Most per search: 10,000
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Influencers · Trends · Sharers

## In their words

- 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.

## Data

- 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."

## Plan

- Pay: $2,388
- You get: 100 requests a month
- Enough for: 100 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## 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

## About the plan

- 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

## BuzzSumo's plans (5)

- [BuzzSumo, $2,388 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/buzzsumo/2388-yearly/llms.txt): $1,990.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [BuzzSumo, $3,588 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/buzzsumo/3588-yearly/llms.txt): $2,990.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [BuzzSumo, $5,988 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/buzzsumo/5988-yearly/llms.txt): $4,990.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [BuzzSumo, $11,988 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/buzzsumo/11988-yearly/llms.txt): $9,990.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [BuzzSumo, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/buzzsumo/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete

## BuzzSumo's calls (1)

- `GET /search/articles.json`: [BuzzSumo, $2,388 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/buzzsumo/2388-yearly/llms.txt)

## BuzzSumo's APIs (1)

- [BuzzSumo: news API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/buzzsumo/2388-yearly/llms.txt)

## BuzzSumo: news API alternatives

- [AskNews, top-up, Pay as you go, GET /v1/news/search, Search news archive](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/top-up-pay-as-you-go-get-v1-news-search-search-news-archive/llms.txt): $125.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [lobstr.io, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/lobstr-io/20-monthly/llms.txt): $200.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Webz.io, top-up, Scale, GET /api/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/webz-io/top-up-scale-get-api-news/llms.txt): $500.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Trading Economics, $99 pack, Professional Plan, 1-week trial, GET /news, News by Type](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trading-economics/99-pack-professional-plan-1-week-trial-get-news-news-by-type/llms.txt): $990.00 per 1,000, 33% 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 2026-11-04.

- https://buzzsumo.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://buzzsumo.com/wp-content/themes/brandwatch/src/site--buzzsumo.com/assets/Buzzsumo-Terms-2019-09.pdf?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.buzzsumo.com/reference/articles.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.buzzsumo.com/reference/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.buzzsumo.com/reference/rate-limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.buzzsumo.com/reference/which-api-should-i-use.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://help.buzzsumo.com/en/articles/1633314-does-buzzsumo-have-an-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://help.buzzsumo.com/en/articles/3883145-api-access-for-paid-web-app-subscriptions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing