# FreeNewsApi, free: News API

> Search and retrieve global news through a free API with a generous daily allowance, a 2 requests/second rate limit, country and language filters, categories, and full article details.

FreeNewsApi's Free plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. FreeNewsApi's docs list 2: Source, Date.
We haven't run FreeNewsApi through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
We rank 940 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.50 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan and 12 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 searches of the 940 plans. [See the best free news API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
[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 Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [Hydrafetch](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/99-monthly/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/freenewsapi/free
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://freenewsapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.freenewsapi.io/v1/news`
- API key: with the plan, on https://freenewsapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://freenewsapi.io/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#tag/news/GET/news
- Sold by: FreeNewsApi (https://freenewsapi.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓

## Price

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

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search and retrieve global news through a free API with a generous daily allowance, a 2 requests/second rate limit, country and language filters, categories, and full article details.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may use the API for legitimate activities such as analysis, monitoring, research, data enrichment, statistics, trend detection, academic use, internal tooling, alerts, dashboards and similar lawful use cases. You may not republish full articles or redistribute article content in a way that substitutes the original publisher source. [...] You agree to use the API responsibly and not to: abuse or overload the service, bypass rate limits or quotas, probe, scan or attempt to exploit vulnerabilities, use the service for unlawful purposes, create multiple accounts to circumvent restrictions, resell or repackage the API itself as a competing or substitute service.

## Plan

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

## Rate limit

- Per day: 5,000
- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: published_after, published_before, language, country, topic, publisher_uuid, author_uuid, in_title, order_by, offset, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

news result ID, news result title, news result date, news result source, results returned, page size, more results available, result ordering, applied filters, offset, next offset, next cursor, pagination warning

## FreeNewsApi's plans (1)

- [FreeNewsApi, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/freenewsapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## FreeNewsApi's calls (1)

- `GET /news`: [FreeNewsApi, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/freenewsapi/free/llms.txt)

## FreeNewsApi's APIs (1)

- [FreeNewsApi: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/freenewsapi/free/llms.txt)

## FreeNewsApi: news API alternatives

- [Scrappa, free, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Hydrafetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpScraper.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [ReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/free-post-news-intel-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Dataify, free, Qishu program](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/dataify/free-qishu-program/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

- https://freenewsapi.io/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://freenewsapi.io/docs/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://freenewsapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://freenewsapi.io/terms.php?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing