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CoinDesk Data (CCData) pricing: news API

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run CoinDesk Data through our news API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 836 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.198 per 1,000 searches or less. 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.The New York Times, Scrappa and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
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Plan: Personal one of CoinDesk Data's 3 plans
Call: GET /news/v1/search CoinDesk Data's only call
API: News API CoinDesk Data's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Source, Date.
  • Nothing to pay. CoinDesk Data limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
  • One call. You send search_string and source_key to GET /news/v1/search. You can also send limit, to_ts and lang. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: personal / non-commercial projects. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: Free Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

CoinDesk Data: news API alternatives

CoinDesk Data alternatives: other news API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

This planCoinDesk Data, freeThe New York Times, freeScrappa, free, GET /api/google/newsSerpScraper.dev, freeReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/searchAndiAI, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness33%83%67%67%67%50%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published15,000 calls a month500 calls a month5,000 calls, once1,000 callsnot published
Freshnessunknownunknownliveunknownliveunknown
Who can get itpersonal / non-commercial projectsnon-commercial use only: anyone who signs in to the developer portal, registers an app and enables the API on it for its key, commercial use goes to nytlicensing.comanyone 18 or overanyoneanyoneanyone 13 or older

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

  1. developers.coindesk.com/documentation/data-api/admin_v2_rate_limit
  2. developers.coindesk.com/documentation/data-api/introduction
  3. developers.coindesk.com/documentation/data-api/news
  4. developers.coindesk.com/documentation/data-api/news_v1_search
  5. developers.coindesk.com/pricing

Product details

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

  • Source
  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet, not in the answer
  • Image, not in the answer
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchOur News endpoints offer a consolidated repository of aggregated news tailored for the digital asset industry.
Data
Keep datano API terms
Use dataFree Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendsearch_string, source_key. Optional: limit, to_ts, lang
MethodGET
Path/news/v1/search
About the plan
PlanPersonal
Who can get itpersonal / non-commercial projects
The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

news article ID, news article GUID, news article published at, news article image URL, news article title, news article subtitle, news article authors, news article link, news article source ID, news article body, news article keywords, news article language, news article upvotes, news article downvotes, news article score, news article sentiment, news article status, news article created at, news article created by ID, news article created by username, news article updated at, news article updated by ID, news article updated by username, news article source, news article categories

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