# Contify, free: News API

> Contify’s Business News API delivers business-relevant, noise-free, AI-enriched, structured data from 1M+ vetted sources across 117+ languages, with granular filtering, custom sourcing, and entity/event enrichment, via APIs/webhooks into apps, AI models, or dashboards.

Contify's news API on its 7-day free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image, Full text.
Contify limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
We haven't run Contify through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 710 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.
[Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/financial-data-financialdata-net/69-monthly-premium-get-api-v1-latest-news/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.00089. Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan covers up to 77,760,000 searches a month at no extra cost.
[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 Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 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/contify/free
- [News API: 60+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.contify.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: Docs behind sign-up
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.contify.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.contify.com/news-api-early-access/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Contify (https://www.contify.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓
- Full text: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Contify’s Business News API delivers business-relevant, noise-free, AI-enriched, structured data from 1M+ vetted sources across 117+ languages, with granular filtering, custom sourcing, and entity/event enrichment, via APIs/webhooks into apps, AI models, or dashboards.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: Docs behind sign-up

## About the plan

- Plan: 7-day free trial
- Who can get it: anyone with a business email

## The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

article ID, title, summary, URL, published date, image URL, source type, language, duplicate articles, companies, company logo, people, topics, industries, locations, themes, content types, business events, sentiment, custom tags, key highlights, English translation

## Contify's plans (2)

- [Contify, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/contify/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Contify, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/contify/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete

## Contify's calls (1)

- Docs behind sign-up: [Contify, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/contify/free/llms.txt)

## Contify's APIs (1)

- [Contify: news API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/contify/free/llms.txt)

## Contify: 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
- [YepAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/yepapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% 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 2026-11-04.

- https://api.contify.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.contify.com/news-api-early-access/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.contify.com/news-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.contify.com/news-data-feeds-api-free-trial/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.contify.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.contify.com/resources/blog/best-news-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.contify.com/resources/blog/business-news-api-v4/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.contify.com/resources/blog/why-contify-has-the-cleanest-and-the-most-granular-news-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.contify.com/terms-conditions/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing