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Firecrawl pricing: news API

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Firecrawl through our news API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 710 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.00089. Financial Data (financialdata.net)'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}) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan.The New York Times, Scrappa and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Firecrawl's 14 plans
Call: POST /v2/search Firecrawl's only call for this API
API: News API one of Firecrawl's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Snippet, Image.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 500 pages. Unused credits expire at the end of the month.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v2/search. You set sources to "news". The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Firecrawl: news API alternatives

Firecrawl alternatives: every news API provider ranked

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

Firecrawl, $7,190 yearlyZenserp, $1,439.88 yearlyDataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/serp/google/news/task_post, Setting Google News SERP Tasks (priority queue)Ujeebu, $12 packGloryCloud, $120 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$1.198$1.20$1.20$1.20$1.20
Completeness50%67%67%67%0%
Billingyearlyyearlypay firstpay firstmonthly
Pay$7,190$1,439.88$50$12$120
Enough for500,000 pages a month100,000 calls a monthabout 41,666 pages10,000 calls100,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveunknownlivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardiananyoneanyone not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraineanyone who is 18 or older, or 13 to 17 with a parent's or guardian's permissionanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

  1. docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/endpoint/search
  2. docs.firecrawl.dev/features/search
  3. docs.firecrawl.dev/rate-limits
  4. firecrawl.dev/pricing
  5. firecrawl.dev/pricing.md
  6. firecrawl.dev/terms-of-service

Product details

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

  • Source, not in the answer
  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet
  • Image
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Perpage of 10
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search · Scrape · Crawl · Map · Interact · Monitor · Agent · Search with Content Scraping · Search the Developer Index
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchIn addition to regular web results, Search supports specialized result types via the sources parameter: [...] news: news-focused results
Data
Keep datano retention period is set for what the API answers, "Reproduce any portion of the Services in any form or by any means, except as expressly permitted in this Agreement or otherwise in writing by our authorized agent", "If there is a conflict between this Agreement and an Order Form or Enterprise Data Provider Agreement, the applicable Order Form or Enterprise Data Provider Agreement shall govern", data supplied by a third-party provider through the Services is under that provider's own terms
Use data"The following are prohibited activities under this Agreement: [...] Use the Services for any commercial purposes except as expressly authorized by Firecrawl, [...] Modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Services in any manner [...], [...] Employing the Services in association with debt collection, Employing the Services for hard background check purposes, Employing the Services to determine eligibility for a government license, Employing the Services for any purpose prohibited by applicable data privacy and security laws, including the GDPR or CCPA, Using our Services to benefit any government agency operating as an intelligence agency whose purpose is to collect and analyze data on people, Any evidentiary purpose related to law enforcement or criminal prosecution, Using or reselling Services in connection with any purpose covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act"
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for500 pages a month
Expiresend of the month
Rate limit
Per second0.17
Concurrent2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, sources "news". Optional: limit, categories, includeDomains, excludeDomains, location, country, safe, timeout, ignoreInvalidURLs, highlights, enterprise, scrapeOptions, threatProtection
MethodPOST
Path/v2/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, credits used, warning, position, title, URL, snippet, published date, image URL

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