Currents API pricing: news API, GET /
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$0.00per 1,000 searchesIn our news API benchmark, the best plan from Currents API scores 58.2 out of 100. Currents API ranks 31st of 62 providers.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 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 (/
Plan: Free one of Currents API's 7 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $69 monthly, Builder, monthlyBuilder, monthly$0.92 per 1,000
- $150 monthly, Professional, monthlyProfessional, monthly$0.50 per 1,000
- $300 monthly, Scale, monthlyScale, monthly$0.50 per 1,000
- $690 yearly, Builder, yearlyBuilder, yearly$0.756 per 1,000
- $1,500 yearly, Professional, yearlyProfessional, yearly$0.411 per 1,000
- $3,000 yearly, Scale, yearlyScale, yearly$0.411 per 1,000
Call:
GET / one of Currents API's 2 callsAPI: News API Currents API's only API
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image.
- Nothing to pay. You get 250 requests a day. Calls stop once your requests run out. Unused requests expire at 00:00 UTC each day, unused volume does not roll over.
- One call. You call
GET /. Every input is optional.v1/ search - Anyone can get it. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.
Currents API: news API alternatives
Currents API alternatives: every news API provider ranked
The table starts with Currents API's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Currents API's.
| Currents API, $1,500 yearly, Professional, yearly, GET /v1/search | Search1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /news, News | XCrawl, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/serp, Google News Search | ScrapeBadger, $1,290 yearly, Growth, GET /v1/baidu/news | treg, top-up from $200 | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.411 | $0.416 | $0.416 | $0.418 | $0.421 |
| Completeness | 83% | 67% | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| Billing | yearly | yearly | monthly | yearly | pay first |
| Pay | $1,500 | $4,990 | $499 | $1,290 | $200 |
| Enough for | 10,000 calls a day | 1,000,000 calls a month | 1,200,000 calls a month | about 257,142 calls a month | about 475,249 calls |
| Freshness | unknown | live | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone | individuals 18 or older and legal entities represented by natural persons, for personal or business use | anyone 18 or over | anyone 16 or over, topping up by hand (automatic top-ups earn no bonus) |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Source
- Date
- Author
- Snippet
- Image
- Full text, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Most per search | 3,600 |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: Search v2 · Latest News |
| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Currents is a REST news API that delivers real-time and historical articles from a source directory spanning 168 countries and 34 languages. |
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| Keep data | for as long as your use case requires, no permanent copies, scraped data or databases of it, and the downloaded data destroyed when the license ends |
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| Use data | Permission is granted to download the data (information or software) on Currents API service for as long as your use case requires. [...] under this license you may not: attempt to reverse engineer any software provided by Currents API Service, remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the data, "mirror" the data on any other server "as-is" with no-value-added, register or maintain more than one account or API key at any one time, whether directly, through aliases (including plus-addressing), or through automated or bulk account creation, use temporary, disposable, or auto-generated email domains for registration when Currents API Service requests a permanent email address, attempt to circumvent any restrictions or limits placed on your API key or account, including through automated or abusive request patterns intended to farm free-tier quotas, coordinate with other accounts to evade per-account restrictions or limits, or act as an intermediary (including by re-serving, relaying, or aggregating responses on behalf of accounts you control or operate jointly with others) for the purpose of circumventing those restrictions or limits. [...] Unless applicable by law or expressly permitted by the owner of the data, you may not, and will not be permitted to your end users or others acting on your behalf to, do any of the following with the data retrieved from the Currents API Service: Create permanent copies of, scrape, build databases of such data, Sell, lease, lend, convey, distribute, sublicense to any third party, copy, translate, modify, create a derivative work of the data, Misleading others as the ownership or the source, Obscure, remove or change any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices, Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal notices, or other labels of the origin or source of material. Unless you are authorized, you may also not publicly disclose or release any data usage or statistic information about the data. [...] Unless authorized by Currents News API Service, you shall agree to display an attribution to Currents News API Service beside the display of data obtained from Currents News API Service indicating that the service is provided by Currents News API Service. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | 250 requests a day |
| Enough for | 250 calls a day |
| Expires | at 00:00 UTC each day, unused volume does not roll over |
| Per day | 250 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| Median | 0.20 s |
| You send | nothing required. Optional: keywords, query, language, category, country, start_date, end_date, page_number, page_size, limit, type, domain, domain_not, author, has_image, has_description |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/search |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone |
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold
search status, news result ID, news result title, news result description, news result link, news result author, news result image, news result language, news result category, news result source category, news result date, page number, query matched, query scope, no-match reason, page has results