# FastAF, free: News API

> Search Google News and receive structured article details, including title, link, source, publication time and snippet when available.

FastAF's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet.
We haven't run FastAF 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/fastaf/free
- [News API: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://fastaf.co/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.fastaf.co/v1/news`
- API key: with the plan, on https://fastaf.co/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://fastaf.co/apis/google-news-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: FastAF (https://fastaf.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Google SERP API · Google Maps API · Google Jobs API · Google Scholar API · LinkedIn Jobs API · Google Patents API · Google Flights API · Bing Search API · Google Images API · Google AI Mode API · Amazon API · Google Shopping API · Walmart API · Zillow API · eBay API · LinkedIn API · YouTube API · X Scraper API · Reddit API · Web Scraping API · Screenshot API · Structured Data Extraction API

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search Google News and receive structured article details, including title, link, source, publication time and snippet when available.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: We do not own the content you request, we do not grant you any licence over it, and you receive no right beyond whatever right you independently have to access and use it. [...] [...] do not resell or share access without a written agreement with us. [...] Your use of the service is subject to the Acceptable Use Policy [...] only lawful purposes, only publicly accessible content, never anything behind a login or a paywall, and you are responsible for the legality of your targets, of your instructions and of what you do with the data, including compliance with the terms of the sites you target and with data protection law. [...] You may not use the service to: collect or process personal data without a lawful basis, or in breach of applicable data protection law, collect special-category data (health, biometric, political, religious, sexual orientation), data about children, credentials or precise location data, surveil, stalk, dox or profile identified individuals, or make decisions about employment, credit, housing or insurance without the legally required safeguards, infringe copyright, database rights, trademarks or trade secrets, or reproduce third-party content in a way that substitutes for the original, send spam or phishing, distribute malware, commit ad or click fraud, run credential attacks, create fake accounts or fake reviews, or operate ticket-purchasing bots, attack, overload or disrupt any site, or place a load on a target that a reasonable operator would consider abusive, break any law that applies to you or to the target of the request.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month
- Expires: at the end of the month

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: results, country, page, domain, language, lr, uule, tbs, safe, nfpr
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: Businesses and developers acting for purposes relating to their trade, business, craft or profession, an account with a confirmed email address

## The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

result title, source, published at, result snippet, result URL

## FastAF's plans (7)

- [FastAF, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/fastaf/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [FastAF, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/fastaf/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [FastAF, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/fastaf/10-pack/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [FastAF, $29 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/fastaf/29-pack/llms.txt): $1.933 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [FastAF, $99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/fastaf/99-pack/llms.txt): $1.65 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [FastAF, $299 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/fastaf/299-pack/llms.txt): $1.495 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [FastAF, $799 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/fastaf/799-pack/llms.txt): $1.332 per 1,000, 50% complete, live

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

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

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## FastAF: news API alternatives

- [OpenWeb Ninja, $25 monthly, Pro, GET /search, 20,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/openweb-ninja/25-monthly-pro-get-search-20000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $1.25 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [NewsData.io, $1,299.99 monthly, Corporate, GET /1/market](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/1299-99-monthly-corporate-get-1-market/llms.txt): $1.30 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $16,308 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/16308-yearly/llms.txt): $1.359 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SearchApi, $2,800 monthly, Octo 2M, GET /api/v1/search?engine=bing_news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchapi/2800-monthly-octo-2m-get-api-v1-search-engine-bing-news/llms.txt): $1.40 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 2026-11-05.

- https://api.fastaf.co/openapi-api.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://fastaf.co/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://fastaf.co/apis/google-news-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://fastaf.co/apis/linkedin-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://fastaf.co/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://fastaf.co/pricing/x402-price-list?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://fastaf.co/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing