# CoinDesk Data, free: News API

> Our News endpoints offer a consolidated repository of aggregated news tailored for the digital asset industry.

CoinDesk Data's Personal plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. CoinDesk Data's docs list 2 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Source, Date.
CoinDesk Data limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
We haven't run CoinDesk Data through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) 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.](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.
[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/coindesk-data/free
- [News API in 2026: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://developers.coindesk.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://data-api.coindesk.com/news/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://developers.coindesk.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developers.coindesk.com/documentation/data-api/news_v1_search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: CoinDesk Data, formerly CCData (https://developers.coindesk.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓

## Price

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

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Our News endpoints offer a consolidated repository of aggregated news tailored for the digital asset industry.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: Free Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: search_string, source_key. Optional: limit, to_ts, lang
- Method: GET
- Path: /news/v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Personal
- Who can get it: personal / 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

## CoinDesk Data's plans (3)

- [CoinDesk Data, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/coindesk-data/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [CoinDesk Data, contact us, Enterprise](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/coindesk-data/contact-us-enterprise/llms.txt): 33% complete
- [CoinDesk Data, contact us, Start-Up](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/coindesk-data/contact-us-start-up/llms.txt): 33% complete

## CoinDesk Data's calls (1)

- `GET /news/v1/search`: [CoinDesk Data, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/coindesk-data/free/llms.txt)

## CoinDesk Data's APIs (1)

- [CoinDesk Data (formerly CCData): news API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/coindesk-data/free/llms.txt)

## CoinDesk Data: news API alternatives

- [The New York Times, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Scrappa, free, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpScraper.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [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
- [AndiAI, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/andiai/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://developers.coindesk.com/documentation/data-api/admin_v2_rate_limit?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.coindesk.com/documentation/data-api/introduction?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.coindesk.com/documentation/data-api/news?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.coindesk.com/documentation/data-api/news_v1_search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.coindesk.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing