CrustAPI pricing: news API
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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run CrustAPI through our news API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 805 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.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.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/
Plan: Free one of CrustAPI's 10 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $5 packAgent pack (x402)
- Top-up from $10$10+ deposit$1.00 per 1,000
- Top-up from $149$149+ deposit$0.76 per 1,000
- Top-up from $549$549+ deposit$0.56 per 1,000
- Top-up from $1,999$1,999+ deposit$0.41 per 1,000
- Top-up from $6,500$6,500+ deposit$0.33 per 1,000
- Top-up from $27,500$27,500+ deposit$0.28 per 1,000
- Top-up from $50,000$50,000+ deposit$0.26 per 1,000
- Top-up from $100,000$100,000+ deposit$0.20 per 1,000
Call:
GET / CrustAPI's only call for this APIAPI: News API one of CrustAPI's 15 APIs
- Web scraping API
- Image search API
- Search autocomplete API
- Local business reviews API
- News API
- Google Shopping search API
- LinkedIn company post API
- LinkedIn profile post API
- LinkedIn people search API
- LinkedIn job details API
- LinkedIn job search API
- LinkedIn company data API
GET /v1/ linkedin - LinkedIn company data API
POST /v1/ linkedin/ batch - SERP API
GET /, Lensv1/ search - SERP API
GET /, Patentsv1/ search - SERP API
GET /, Scholarv1/ search - Local business search API
GET /, Mapsv1/ search - Local business search API
GET /, Placesv1/ search - LinkedIn profile API
GET /, People refreshv1/ linkedin - LinkedIn profile API
POST /, Process a list of LinkedIn URLs, profilev1/ linkedin/ batch - LinkedIn profile API
POST /, Process a list of LinkedIn URLs, refreshv1/ linkedin/ batch - LinkedIn profile API
GET /, Profilev1/ linkedin
About this item
- Live. CrustAPI searches the news when you call the API.
- 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
- Nothing to pay. You get $6 of credit a month, enough for 6,000 calls. Unused credit expires each month.
- One call. You send
qtoGET /. You setv1/ search typeto "news". You can also sendgl,hl,page,tbsandfresh. The call returns the news articles that match. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
CrustAPI: news API alternatives
CrustAPI alternatives: other news API providers by price
The table starts with CrustAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to CrustAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| CrustAPI, top-up from $100,000 | Scrappa, $1,000 pack, Ultimate, GET /api/google/news | AnswerLine, top-up from $1, Starter, POST /v1/async/task | Scrapingdog, $6,000 monthly, Enterprise Pro, GET /google_news/v2 | Serpent API, top-up from $10, Default, GET /api/news, Bing News Search | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.20 | $0.20 | $0.20 | $0.20 | $0.20 |
| Completeness | 67% | 67% | 33% | 67% | 67% |
| Billing | pay first | pay first | pay first | monthly | pay first |
| Pay | $100,000 | $1,000 | $1 | $6,000 | $10 |
| Enough for | 500,000,000 calls | 5,000,000 calls | 5,000 calls | 30,000,000 calls a month | 50,000 calls |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | businesses and professionals, 18 or older (its terms: business and professional use only) | anyone 18 or over | anyone at least 18 with a valid email address | anyone | anyone |
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.
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
- Image
- Full text, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: People refresh · Profile · Company · Jobs · Posts · People search · Maps · Places · Shopping · Images · Reviews · Scholar · Patents · Autocomplete · Webpage · Lens · Process a list of LinkedIn URLs |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Google News: title, source, date, and a real hero image |
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| Freshness | live |
|---|---|
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | "The Service is for business and professional use only. It is a business-to-business product. It is not a consumer or end-user service, and you may not use it for personal, household, or consumer purposes." "We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service for your own business purposes" [...] "Do not resell or redistribute the raw data as a competing dataset or API without adding meaningful value." "Do not use CrustAPI for anything illegal, and comply with all laws that apply to you and to your use of the data." |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | $6 a month |
| Enough for | 6,000 calls a month |
| Expires | month |
| Concurrent | 2 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | type "news", q. Optional: gl, hl, page, tbs, fresh |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/search |
| Plan | Free |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | businesses and professionals, 18 or older (its terms: business and professional use only) |
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold
result title, result URL, result snippet, result date, source, image URL, Google News URL, result position