# Candid, free: News API

> Access 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.

Candid's Free trial plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Candid's docs list 4: Date, Author, Image, Full text.
We haven't run Candid through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
[Alpaca's $99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/99-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/answerline/top-up-from-1-starter-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.
[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 Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [Hydrafetch](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/99-monthly/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/candid/free
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://developer.candid.org/reference/getting-access?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.candid.org/news/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://developer.candid.org/reference/getting-access?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developer.candid.org/reference/news_v1_search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Candid (https://candid.org?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Image: ✓
- Full text: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 25
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 10,000

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Access 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

- Freshness: 15 minutes
- Keep data: Licensee 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 data: Licensee 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 get: 500 requests
- Enough for: 500 pages
- Expires: 30 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17 (10 a minute)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing 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
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Candid's plans (3)

- [Candid, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/candid/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 15 minutes
- [Candid, contact us, Production subscription](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/candid/contact-us-production-subscription/llms.txt): 67% complete, 15 minutes
- [Candid, contact us, Sandbox subscription](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/candid/contact-us-sandbox-subscription/llms.txt): 67% complete, 15 minutes

## Candid's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/search`: [Candid, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/candid/free/llms.txt)

## Candid's APIs (3)

- [Candid: company discovery API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/candid/free/llms.txt)
- [Candid: news API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/candid/free/llms.txt)
- [Candid: company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, GET /v1/{ein}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/candid/free-trial-get-v1-ein/llms.txt)
- [Candid: company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v1](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/candid/free-trial-post-v1/llms.txt)
- [Candid: company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, GET /v4/{ein}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/candid/free-trial-get-v4-ein/llms.txt)

## Candid: news API alternatives

- [Scrappa, free, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Hydrafetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/free-post-news-intel-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## 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.

- https://candid.org/api-free-trial?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://candid.org/api-info-request?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.candid.org?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.candid.org/page/candid-api-terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.candid.org/reference/get-started-with-news-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.candid.org/reference/getting-access?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.candid.org/reference/news_v1_search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.candid.org/reference/rate-limits-and-thresholds?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.candid.org/reference/using-news-search-parameters?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing