# CrustAPI, free: News API

> Google News: title, source, date, and a real hero image

CrustAPI's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. CrustAPI's docs list 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
We haven't run CrustAPI through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) 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](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.
[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/crustapi/free
- [News API: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://crustapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://crustapi.com/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://crustapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://crustapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: CrustAPI (https://crustapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## 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: People refresh · Profile · Company · Jobs · Posts · People search · Maps · Places · Shopping · Images · Reviews · Scholar · Patents · Autocomplete · Webpage · Lens · Process a list of LinkedIn URLs

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Google News: title, source, date, and a real hero image

## Data

- 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."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $6 a month
- Enough for: 6,000 calls a month
- Expires: month

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: type "news", q. Optional: gl, hl, page, tbs, fresh
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- 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

## CrustAPI's plans (10)

- [CrustAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/5-pack/llms.txt): 67% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $149](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-149/llms.txt): $0.76 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $549](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-549/llms.txt): $0.56 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $1,999](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-1999/llms.txt): $0.41 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $6,500](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-6500/llms.txt): $0.33 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $27,500](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-27500/llms.txt): $0.28 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $50,000](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-50000/llms.txt): $0.26 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $100,000](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-100000/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## CrustAPI's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/search`: [CrustAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)

## CrustAPI's APIs (15)

- [CrustAPI: web scraping API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: image search API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: search autocomplete API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: Local business reviews API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: news API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: Google Shopping search API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/linkedin](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-linkedin/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 10 plans, POST /v1/linkedin/batch](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/crustapi/free-post-v1-linkedin-batch/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/search, Lens](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-lens/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/search, Patents](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-patents/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/search, Scholar](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-scholar/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: Local business search API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/search, Maps](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-maps/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: Local business search API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/search, Places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-places/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 10 plans, GET linkedin, People refresh](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-linkedin-people-refresh/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 10 plans, POST linkedin/batch, Process a list of LinkedIn URLs, profile](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/crustapi/free-post-v1-linkedin-batch-process-a-list-of-linkedin-urls-profile/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 10 plans, POST linkedin/batch, Process a list of LinkedIn URLs, refresh](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/crustapi/free-post-v1-linkedin-batch-process-a-list-of-linkedin-urls-refresh/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 10 plans, GET linkedin, Profile](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-linkedin-profile/llms.txt)

## CrustAPI: news API alternatives

- [Scrappa, $1,000 pack, Ultimate, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/1000-pack/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [AnswerLine, top-up from $1, Starter, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/answerline/top-up-from-1-starter-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $6,000 monthly, Enterprise Pro, GET /google_news/v2](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingdog/6000-monthly-enterprise-pro-get-google-news-v2/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Serpent API, top-up from $10, Default, GET /api/news, Bing News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-10-default-get-api-news-bing-news-search/llms.txt): $0.20 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 2026-11-06.

- https://crustapi.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://crustapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://crustapi.com/linkedin-profile-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://crustapi.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://crustapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://crustapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing