# CryptoNews API, free trial, GET /api/v1/category, General Crypto News: News API

> Access comprehensive crypto data: news, prices, whale transactions, and sentiment. All through one clean API.

CryptoNews API's news API on its Free Trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Full text.
We haven't run CryptoNews API through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 745 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.
[Financial Data'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'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'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/cryptonews-api/free-trial-get-api-v1-category-general-crypto-news
- [News API: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://cryptonews-api.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://cryptonews-api.com/api/v1/category`, General Crypto News
- API key: with the plan, on https://cryptonews-api.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://cryptonews-api.com/documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: CryptoNews API (https://cryptonews-api.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Full text: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Crypto Ticker News · Alltickers Crypto News · Crypto Prices · Whale Transactions · Whale Summary · Top Mentions · Sentiment · Trending Headlines · Events · Sundown Digest

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Access comprehensive crypto data: news, prices, whale transactions, and sentiment. All through one clean API.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: 2.1 License Subject to Customer’s compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Crypto News API grants a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, license to access and use the API Service. [...] 2.3 API Rate Limits You will only access our API by the means described in our documentation. We set and enforce limits on your use of the API (e.g. limiting the number of API requests that you may make in a month period), depending on your plan. [...] 2.4 API Usage & Display [...] Content accessible through our API Service may be subject to intellectual property rights, and, if so, you may not use it unless you are licensed to do so by the owner of that content or are otherwise permitted by law. [...] If you intend to display API Data on your website, application or any other platform, you need to comply with the terms and conditions of the news source or data owner your are linking to. [...] 2.7 Restrictions When using the API service or the Platform, you may not (or allow those acting on your behalf to): 1. Sublicense the API for use by a third party. Consequently, you will not create an API Client that functions substantially the same as the APIs and offer it for use by third parties. 2. Reverse engineer or attempt to extract the source code from the API or site. 3. Remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials. 4. Attempt to circumvent any restrictions or limits placed on your API key or account (e.g. creation of multiple accounts).

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests
- Enough for: 100 calls
- Expires: 5 days

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: section "general", items. Optional: page, search, topic, source, sourceexclude, type, sentiment, extra-fields, metadata, date, datetimerange, datatype
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/category

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Trial
- Who can get it: anyone who registers for an API key, once: a one-time free trial of 5 days (100 API calls) from the date you register, with access to all features

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, URL, source name, published date, text, sentiment, tickers, news ID, event ID, rank score

## CryptoNews API's plans (4)

- [CryptoNews API, free trial, GET /api/v1/category, General Crypto News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cryptonews-api/free-trial-get-api-v1-category-general-crypto-news/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [CryptoNews API, $19.99 monthly, Basic, GET /api/v1/category](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cryptonews-api/19-99-monthly-basic-get-api-v1-category/llms.txt): $0.9995 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [CryptoNews API, $29.99 monthly, Premium, GET /api/v1/category, General Crypto News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cryptonews-api/29-99-monthly-premium-get-api-v1-category-general-crypto-news/llms.txt): $0.9997 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [CryptoNews API, contact us, Business, GET /api/v1/category, General Crypto News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cryptonews-api/contact-us-business-get-api-v1-category-general-crypto-news/llms.txt): 50% complete

## CryptoNews API's calls (3)

- `GET /api/v1/category`, Alltickers Crypto News: [CryptoNews API, free trial, GET /api/v1/category, Alltickers Crypto News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cryptonews-api/free-trial-get-api-v1-category-alltickers-crypto-news/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/v1`: [CryptoNews API, free trial, GET /api/v1](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cryptonews-api/free-trial-get-api-v1/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/v1/category`, General Crypto News: [CryptoNews API, free trial, GET /api/v1/category, General Crypto News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cryptonews-api/free-trial-get-api-v1-category-general-crypto-news/llms.txt)

## CryptoNews API's APIs (1)

- [CryptoNews API: news API pricing, 4 plans, GET /api/v1/category, General Crypto News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cryptonews-api/free-trial-get-api-v1-category-general-crypto-news/llms.txt)

## CryptoNews API: news API alternatives

- [Anysite, $1,199 monthly, Enterprise, POST /api/yahoo/search/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/anysite/1199-monthly-enterprise-post-api-yahoo-search-news/llms.txt): $0.999 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [ScrapeBadger, $1,499 monthly, Volume, GET /v1/google/news/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapebadger/1499-monthly-volume-get-v1-google-news-search/llms.txt): $0.999 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Scale SERP, $4,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/4999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.9998 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Stock News API, $49.99 monthly, Premium, GET /api/v1/category](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/stock-news-api/49-99-monthly-premium-get-api-v1-category/llms.txt): $0.9998 per 1,000, 67% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://cryptonews-api.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://cryptonews-api.com/documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://cryptonews-api.com/examples?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://cryptonews-api.com/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://cryptonews-api.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://cryptonews-api.com/termsandconditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing