# Delx.ai, pay as you go: News API

> News search API with publisher links for agents: search recent GDELT Project news metadata for $0.001 USDC. Returns attributed publisher links and bounded headline metadata—never article bodies or arbitrary URL fetches.

Delx.ai's x402 plan for the news API costs $1.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Delx.ai's docs list 2: Source, Date.
We haven't run Delx.ai through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
We rank 999 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.25 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 54% of the 999 plans. Delx.ai has no free news API plan. [345 news API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) [B77's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/b77/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 79.2 out of 100.
[Alpaca's $99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/99-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches, with no charge per call. You get as many searches as Alpaca's rate limit allows. [AnswerLine's "Starter" plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/answerline/top-up-from-1-starter-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.
[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, and costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [B77](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/b77/free/llms.txt) and [SignalShelf](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/signalshelf/499-pack/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/delx-ai/pay-as-you-go
- [Best news API and Google News API: 100+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://commerce.delx.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/news-search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://commerce.delx.ai/products/search-news-gdelt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Delx.ai (https://delx.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $1.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 10
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: News search API with publisher links for agents: search recent GDELT Project news metadata for $0.001 USDC. Returns attributed publisher links and bounded headline metadata—never article bodies or arbitrary URL fetches.

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: timespan, sort, max_records, timeout
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/x402/news-search

## About the plan

- Plan: x402
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, timespan, sort, max records, result count, result title, result URL, published at, publisher domain, provider, provider URL, attribution, cached

## Delx.ai's plans (1)

- [Delx.ai, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/delx-ai/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## Delx.ai's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/v1/x402/news-search`: [Delx.ai, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/delx-ai/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Delx.ai's APIs (5)

- [Delx.ai Company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/delx-ai/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Delx.ai Domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/delx-ai/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Delx.ai Email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/delx-ai/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Delx.ai News API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/delx-ai/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Delx.ai Web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/delx-ai/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Delx.ai: news API alternatives

[Delx.ai alternatives: other news API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/delx-ai-alternatives.txt)

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

- [Scrappa, pay as you go, x402, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $50 monthly, Ultra monthly, POST /news-intel/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/50-monthly-ultra-monthly-post-news-intel-v1-search/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 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
- [SerpKite, $10 pack, Starter, POST /v1/news, Google News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpkite/10-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 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 2026-11-10.

- https://api.delx.ai/openapi.x402.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.delx.ai/x402-portfolio.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://commerce.delx.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://commerce.delx.ai/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://commerce.delx.ai/products/search-news-gdelt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://delx.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://delx.ai/trust?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing