# cloro, free, POST /v1/async/task: News API

> Extract structured news articles from Google News including titles, links, snippets, sources, dates, and thumbnails

cloro's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
We rank 354 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/250-pack/llms.txt), [SerpBase](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpbase/100-monthly/llms.txt) and [treg](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/treg/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/free-post-v1-async-task
- [Best news API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://cloro.dev/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.cloro.dev/v1/async/task`
- API key: with the plan, on https://cloro.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://cloro.dev/docs/api-reference/endpoint/create-async-task
- Sold by: cloro (https://cloro.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Extract Google Search · Extract Google AI Mode · Extract ChatGPT · Extract Google Gemini · Extract Perplexity · Extract Microsoft Copilot · Get a Google shopping card product · Create async task, Google Search · Create async task, Google AI Mode · Create batch tasks

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Extract structured news articles from Google News including titles, links, snippets, sources, dates, and thumbnails

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: solely for your own purposes that do not include any transfer or sublicense of access to the Services and that do not otherwise permit you to commercialize access to or use of the Services by or on behalf of any third party [...] You shall not: (a) sell, resell, license, sublicense, distribute, rent, or lease the Services, or make the Services available to any third party [...] (e) access the Services for the purpose of building a competing product or service, or for purposes of benchmarking or competitive analysis

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits a month
- Enough for: about 166 calls a month
- Expires: end of the billing cycle

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1000
- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook

## The call

- You send: taskType "GOOGLE_NEWS", payload.query, one of payload.country or payload.gl. Optional: payload.hl, payload.device, payload.pages, payload.include.html, priority, idempotencyKey, webhook.url
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/async/task

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, news result position, news result title, news result link, news result snippet, news result source, news result date, page number, news result thumbnail, news result Google link, HTML URL

## cloro's plans (11)

- [cloro, free, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/free-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [cloro, $30 monthly, Lite, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/30-monthly-lite-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt): $2.40 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [cloro, $100 monthly, Hobby, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/100-monthly-hobby-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [cloro, $250 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/250-monthly-starter-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt): $1.154 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [cloro, $500 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/500-monthly-growth-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt): $1.111 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [cloro, $1,000 monthly, Business, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/1000-monthly-business-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt): $1.071 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [cloro, $2,000 monthly, Enterprise 2K, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/2000-monthly-enterprise-2k-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt): $1.022 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [cloro, $3,000 monthly, Enterprise 3K, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/3000-monthly-enterprise-3k-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt): $0.967 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [cloro, $4,000 monthly, Enterprise 4K, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/4000-monthly-enterprise-4k-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt): $0.941 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [cloro, $5,000 monthly, Enterprise 5K, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/5000-monthly-enterprise-5k-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt): $0.915 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [cloro, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt): 67% complete, live

## cloro's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/async/task`: [cloro, free, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/free-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/monitor/google/news`: [cloro, free, POST /v1/monitor/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/free-post-v1-monitor-google-news/llms.txt)

## cloro's APIs (2)

- [cloro: SERP API pricing, 11 plans, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google AI Mode](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/free-free-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-ai-mode/llms.txt)
- [cloro: SERP API pricing, 11 plans, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/free-free-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-search/llms.txt)
- [cloro: SERP API pricing, 11 plans, POST /v1/monitor/aimode](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/free-free-post-v1-monitor-aimode/llms.txt)
- [cloro: SERP API pricing, 11 plans, POST /v1/monitor/google](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/free-free-post-v1-monitor-google/llms.txt)
- [cloro: news API pricing, 11 plans, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/free-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt)

## cloro: news API alternatives

- [Zenserp, $899 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/zenserp/899-monthly/llms.txt): $0.899 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SearchCans, $18 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchcans/18-pack/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $10,800 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/10800-yearly/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Search1API, $19 pack, Pay as you go, $19 (+5% bonus), POST /news, News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/search1api/19-pack-pay-as-you-go-19-5-bonus-post-news-news/llms.txt): $0.952 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 2026-10-27.

- https://cloro.dev
- https://cloro.dev/docs/api-reference/endpoint/create-async-task
- https://cloro.dev/docs/guides/billing
- https://cloro.dev/docs/guides/concurrency
- https://cloro.dev/docs/guides/providers
- https://cloro.dev/openapi.json
- https://cloro.dev/pricing
- https://cloro.dev/terms