# Finlight, free: News API

> Power your applications with real-time financial news, AI-driven sentiment analysis, and enterprise-grade reliability.

Finlight's news API on its Launchpad plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
We rank 584 plans by price. [Serpent API's top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500-scale-get-api-news-bing-news-search/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-news-article-v1-news-search/llms.txt) and [ScrapeUnblocker](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapeunblocker/299-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finlight/free
- [Best news API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://finlight.me/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.finlight.me/v2/articles`
- API key: with the plan, on https://finlight.me/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.finlight.me/en/v2/rest-endpoints?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Finlight (https://finlight.me?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

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

## 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.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 5,000 calls a month

## 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

## Finlight's plans (5)

- [Finlight, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finlight/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 12 hours
- [Finlight, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finlight/29-monthly/llms.txt): $2.90 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Finlight, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finlight/99-monthly/llms.txt): $1.98 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Finlight, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finlight/249-monthly/llms.txt): $1.66 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Finlight, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finlight/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete

## Finlight's calls (1)

- `POST /v2/articles`: [Finlight, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finlight/free/llms.txt)

## Finlight's APIs (1)

- [Finlight: news API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finlight/free/llms.txt)

## Finlight: news API alternatives

- [ScrapeBadger, $49 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/google/news/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapebadger/49-monthly-starter-get-v1-google-news-search/llms.txt): $1.633 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [DataBlue, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/datablue/59-monthly/llms.txt): $1.639 per 1,000, 83% complete, 5 minutes
- [AnyCrawler, $80 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/anycrawler/80-monthly/llms.txt): $1.667 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [QuanticData, $299 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/serp, Google news search, rendered](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/quanticdata/299-monthly-scale-post-v1-serp-google-news-search-rendered/llms.txt): $1.674 per 1,000, 67% complete, 24 hours

## Sources

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

- https://docs.finlight.me/en/v2/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.finlight.me/en/v2/rest-endpoints?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://finlight.me?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://finlight.me/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://finlight.me/terms-of-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing