# Drillr, free: News API

> Searches news across sources and returns storylines.

Drillr's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Drillr's docs list 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Snippet.
We haven't run Drillr 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/drillr/free
- [News API: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://drillr.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://gateway.drillr.ai/api/v2/news-search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://drillr.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://drillr.ai/docs/api/news-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Drillr (https://drillr.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Source: ✓
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Company discovery · Company profile · Filing list · Filing search · Industry inflections · Enterprise AI adoption · Event timeline · Financing events · Deals and agreements · Executive changes · Corporate actions · Stake changes · Insider holdings and transactions · Institutional holdings · Executive roster · Executive compensation · Income statement · Balance sheet · Cash flow statement · Financial metrics snapshot · Earnings calendar · Earnings call summary · Historical price data · Price snapshot · Analyst consensus · Rating events

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Searches news across sources and returns storylines.

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 80 credits
- Enough for: 400 calls
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1.67
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: Content-Type header "application/json", one of query, theme, ticker, since or until. Optional: search_type, order_by, top_k, cursor
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v2/news-search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 42 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, theme, resolved theme, ticker, since, until, order by, count, story ID, title, summary, node count, first seen at, last seen at, created at, similarity, events in window, primary class, event types, regions, GICS sectors, event ID, event time, event type, event subtype, primary entity name, object name, score, sources total, first reported, last reported, source name, source URL, source time, source headline, claim ID, claim type, claim subtype, claimant name, target name, claims skipped, next cursor

## Drillr's plans (16)

- [Drillr, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Drillr, top-up, Credit top-up Custom, Ultra subscribers](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/top-up-credit-top-up-custom-ultra-subscribers/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Drillr, top-up, Credit top-up Custom, Plus subscribers](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/top-up-credit-top-up-custom-plus-subscribers/llms.txt): $24.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Drillr, top-up, Credit top-up Custom](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/top-up-credit-top-up-custom/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Drillr, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/10-pack/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Drillr, $12 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/12-pack/llms.txt): $24.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Drillr, $15 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/15-pack/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Drillr, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/50-pack/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Drillr, $60 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/60-pack/llms.txt): $24.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Drillr, $75 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/75-pack/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Drillr, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/100-pack/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Drillr, $120 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/120-pack/llms.txt): $24.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Drillr, $150 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/150-pack/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Drillr, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/29-monthly/llms.txt): $19.333 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Drillr, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/99-monthly/llms.txt): $13.20 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Drillr, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/contact-us/llms.txt): 33% complete

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

- `POST /api/v2/news-search`: [Drillr, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/free/llms.txt)

## Drillr's APIs (5)

- [Drillr: company discovery API pricing, 16 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/drillr/free/llms.txt)
- [Drillr: company enrichment API pricing, 16 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/drillr/free/llms.txt)
- [Drillr: company funding API pricing, 16 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/drillr/free/llms.txt)
- [Drillr: leadership change API pricing, 16 plans](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/drillr/free/llms.txt)
- [Drillr: news API pricing, 16 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/free/llms.txt)

## Drillr: news API alternatives

- [SerpWow, $1,500 yearly, Starter (annual), GET /search, Naver News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpwow/1500-yearly-starter-annual-get-search-naver-news/llms.txt): $12.50 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [AskNews, $250 monthly, Spelunker, GET /v1/news/search, Search news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/250-monthly-spelunker-get-v1-news-search-search-news/llms.txt): $12.50 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Anysite, $549 monthly, Pro, POST /api/bing/news/articles/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/anysite/549-monthly-pro-post-api-bing-news-articles-search/llms.txt): $12.918 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Tavily, $100 monthly, Bootstrap, POST /search, Search, advanced, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/100-monthly-bootstrap-post-search-search-advanced-news/llms.txt): $13.333 per 1,000, 83% 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://drillr.ai/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://drillr.ai/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://drillr.ai/docs/api/news-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://drillr.ai/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://drillr.ai/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://drillr.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing