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FlashData pricing and alternatives: news API, POST /v1/queries/realtime

FlashData's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 354 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.Scrappa, SerpBase and treg are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free trial one of FlashData's 8 plans
Call: POST /v1/queries/realtime one of FlashData's 3 calls for this API
API: News API one of FlashData's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. FlashData searches the news when you call the API.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/queries/realtime. You set source to "google_news". You can also send params.gl, params.hl, params.location, params.num, params.page, params.tbs and params.autocorrect. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a verified email account eligible for trial Credits. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

FlashData: news API alternatives

The table starts with FlashData's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to FlashData's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

FlashData, $1,999 monthly, Business, POST /v1/queries/realtimeScrapingdog, $900 yearly, Standard, GET /google_newsSerpBase, $50 packSearch1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /news, NewsUjeebu, $3,229.20 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$0.40$0.375$0.40$0.416$0.449
Completeness67%67%67%67%67%
Billingmonthlyyearlypay firstyearlyyearly
Pay$1,999$900$50$4,990$3,229.20
Enough for5,000,000 calls a month200,000 calls a month125,000 calls1,000,000 calls a month600,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with legal capacity to enter into the agreement, a person under 16 may not create or use an accountanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone who is 18 or older, or 13 to 17 with a parent's or guardian's permission

Every news API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

  1. flashdata.dev
  2. flashdata.dev/docs/errors
  3. flashdata.dev/docs/sources/google_news
  4. flashdata.dev/legal/terms
  5. flashdata.dev/pricing
  6. flashdata.dev/pricing/google-search

Product details

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

  • Source
  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet
  • Image
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Google Search API · Google Images API · Google Shopping API · Google Videos API · Google Places API · YouTube Search API · YouTube Extended Search API · YouTube Video Metadata API · YouTube Transcript API · YouTube Captions API · YouTube Channel API · YouTube Suggestions API · YouTube Trainability API · YouTube Download API · Google News API (Async) · Google News API (Batch)
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRetrieve Google News articles with headlines, source publications, links and publication dates. Filter by country, language and date range.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data"FlashData grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable right to access and use the Service for your internal or customer-facing business purposes during the applicable subscription, trial, or PAYG entitlement." "This license permits you to use Results only to the extent you have a lawful right to use the underlying third-party material." "You may not copy or mirror the Service as a competing service, reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract non-public source code except where law expressly permits, remove proprietary notices, evade technical restrictions, register or coordinate multiple accounts to bypass limits, or provide raw account or API-key access to an unaffiliated third party without written permission."
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendsource "google_news", query. Optional: params.gl, params.hl, params.location, params.num, params.page, params.tbs, params.autocorrect
MethodPOST
Path/v1/queries/realtime
About the plan
PlanFree trial
Who can get itanyone with a verified email account eligible for trial Credits
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

search status, created at, credits consumed, search parameters, news result title, news result link, news result snippet, news result source, news result date, news result thumbnail, news result position

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