Finlight pricing: news API

Name: Finlight news API
Brand: Finlight
Price: 29 USD

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields

$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 584 plans by price. Serpent API's top-up from $500 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.Scrappa, ReefAPI and ScrapeUnblocker are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

Plan: Launchpad one of Finlight's 5 plans

Call: POST /v2/articles Finlight's only call

API: News API Finlight's only API

About this item

A copy at most 12 hours old. You get articles Finlight saved earlier.
4 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
Nothing to pay. You get 5,000 requests a month. Calls stop once your requests run out.
One call. You call POST /v2/articles with the Content-Type header set to "application/json". The call returns the news articles that match.
Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

The table starts with Finlight's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Finlight's.

	Finlight, $249 monthly	ScrapeBadger, $49 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/google/news/search	DataBlue, $59 monthly	AnyCrawler, $80 monthly	QuanticData, $299 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/serp, Google news search, rendered
$ per 1,000 searches	$1.66	$1.633	$1.639	$1.667	$1.674
Completeness	67%	67%	83%	50%	67%
Billing	monthly	monthly	monthly	monthly	monthly
Pay	$249	$49	$59	$80	$299
Enough for	150,000 calls a month	30,000 calls a month	36,000 calls a month	48,000 calls a month	about 178,571 calls a month
Freshness	unknown	unknown	5 minutes	unknown	24 hours
Who can get it	anyone	anyone 18 or over	anyone at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into the Terms of Service	anyone	anyone

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Fetch article by link · Get all sources

Overage
Units cap	hard

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Power your applications with real-time financial news, AI-driven sentiment analysis, and enterprise-grade reliability.

Data
Freshness	12 hours
Keep data	no limit
Use data	You may use the API for personal, internal and commercial purposes, including in your own products and services. You may not share, sublicense, or resell access to the API itself to any third party. [...] finlight does not authorize the redistribution or republication of third-party content. When you display or distribute data obtained through the API, such as titles or summaries, you must clearly attribute it to the original source by naming the publisher and linking directly to the original article. [...] You may not create multiple accounts to bypass usage limits. [...] 6. Prohibited Uses: Use the API to redistribute copyrighted third-party content without authorization, Use the API to scrape or harvest data in violation of third-party website terms, Bypass rate limits or access restrictions, Use the API to create a competing news or content distribution service, Use the API or the data obtained through it in a way that violates applicable law or the rights of third parties. [...] If we inform you as a customer that certain content may no longer be used, you must stop using it and delete it from your systems without undue delay.

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: query, sources, optInSources, excludeSources, tickers, countries, categories, includeEntities, from, to, language, orderBy, order, pageSize, page
Method	POST
Path	/v2/articles

About the plan
Plan	Launchpad
Who can get it	anyone

The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, summary, URL, source domain, published date, indexed date, revised date, language, image URL, article country, category