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Candid pricing: news API

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Candid through our news API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 956 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.50 or less per 1,000 searches. See the best free news API plan.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. AnswerLine's Starter plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.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.Scrappa, Hydrafetch and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Candid plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free trial one of Candid's 3 plans
Call: GET /v1/search Candid's only call for this API
API: News API one of Candid's 3 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 15 minutes old. You get articles Candid saved earlier.
  • 4 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Date, Author, Image, Full text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 requests, enough for 500 pages. Unused requests expire after 30 days.
  • One call. You call GET /v1/search. Every input is optional.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Candid: news API alternatives

Candid 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 or data at most an hour old.

This planCandid, freeScrappa, free, GET /api/google/newsHydrafetch, freeReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/searchCrustAPI, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness67%67%67%67%67%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for500 pages500 calls a month500 calls, once1,000 calls6,000 calls a month
Freshness15 minuteslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who submits the free trial request form, Candid replies by email on how to claim the subscription keysanyone 18 or overanyone with a work emailanyonebusinesses and professionals, 18 or older (its terms: business and professional use only)

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

  1. candid.org/api-free-trial
  2. candid.org/api-info-request
  3. developer.candid.org
  4. developer.candid.org/page/candid-api-terms-of-service
  5. developer.candid.org/reference/get-started-with-news-api
  6. developer.candid.org/reference/getting-access
  7. developer.candid.org/reference/news_v1_search
  8. developer.candid.org/reference/rate-limits-and-thresholds
  9. developer.candid.org/reference/using-news-search-parameters

Product details

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

  • Source, not in the answer
  • Date
  • Author
  • Snippet, not in the answer
  • Image
  • Full text
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Perpage of 25
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search10,000
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAccess the only API on the market delivering real-time, actionable news on nonprofits, philanthropy, and the social sector, curated by Candid from over 65,000 sources.
Data
Freshness15 minutes
Keep dataLicensee shall not [...] store, copy, reproduce [...] other than as specifically permitted herein [...] Upon termination or expiration of the Term [...] Licensee shall cease, and shall cause its Authorized Users to cease, all use of the Candid Data
Use dataLicensee may [...] Provide access to the Candid Data through the Licensee Site to Licensee Customers by means of the Candid API solely in order to allow Licensee Customers to learn about nonprofit organizations, and Use the Candid Marks within Licensee's Site(s) and in marketing and promotional materials to identify Candid as the source of the Candid Data, and Provide access to the Candid Data by means of the Candid API for additional purposes expressly outlined in Exhibit(s). Licensee shall not, and shall not permit any Authorized User, to: use the Candid API or the Candid Data other than is expressly authorized by this Agreement, republish or distribute information from the Candid API [...] except as expressly permitted herein, modify information from the Candid API, [...] store, copy, reproduce, publish, republish, modify, upload, post, translate, scrape, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, sublicense [...] or in any manner commercially exploit the materials or the Candid API or otherwise distribute in any way the content on the Site other than as specifically permitted herein, [...] create any derivative product from the Candid Data, [...] use any data mining, robots or similar data gathering and extraction methods with respect to the Candid API or the Candid Data in order to (1) create or compile a database or other collection or aggregation of information other than for Licensee's own internal business use, (2) license, sell or otherwise make available to others any such database or collection of information, or (3) to create a service or database that is directly competitive with Candid. [...] Licensee agrees that any web page of the Licensee Site on or through which any Candid Data may be accessed shall display conspicuously the phrase "Powered by Candid" and the following legend: "© Candid. (www.candid.org)".
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 requests
Enough for500 pages
Expires30 days
Rate limit
Per second0.17 (10 a minute)
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: search_terms, start_date, end_date, added_start_date, added_end_date, eins, organizations, locations, subjects, populations, people, sources_include, sources_exclude, staff_change_mentioned, rfp_mentioned, grant_mentioned, filter_operator, advisory_content, sort_order, page
MethodGET
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree trial
Who can get itanyone who submits the free trial request form, Candid replies by email on how to claim the subscription keys
The 31 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, page count, article ID, title, content, publication date, date added, author, link, image, sources, site name, base URL, icon URL, philanthropy classification system, subjects, populations, people mentioned, most relevant organizations, organizations mentioned, EINs, locations mentioned, staff change mentioned, RFP mentioned, grant mentioned, advisory content, article score, grant mentioned confidence, RFP mentioned confidence, advisory content confidence, staff change mentioned confidence

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