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GDELT pricing: news API

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesHalf of the 584 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan and 2 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 searches of the 584 plans.Scrappa, ReefAPI and ScrapeUnblocker are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free GDELT's only plan
Call: GET /api/v2/doc/doc GDELT's only call
API: News API GDELT's only API

About this item

  • A copy at most 15 minutes old. You get articles GDELT saved earlier.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Image.
  • Nothing to pay. You get as many calls as you like.
  • One call. You send query to GET /api/v2/doc/doc. You set mode to "ArtList" and format to "json". You can also send maxrecords, timespan, startdatetime, enddatetime and sort. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

GDELT: news API alternatives

GDELT alternatives: every news API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.

This planGDELT, freeScrappa, free, GET /api/google/newsReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/searchScrapeUnblocker, freePerceptLayer, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness33%67%67%67%67%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0€0$0
Enough forno limit500 calls a month1,000 calls500 calls, once1,000 calls a month
Freshness15 minuteslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.")developers and businesses, 18 or older

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

  1. blog.gdeltproject.org/gdelt-doc-2-0-api-debuts/
  2. gdeltproject.org
  3. gdeltproject.org/about.html

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, not in the answer
  • Image
  • Full text, not in the answer
Score
Overall score60.8
Price score100
Accuracy score41
Cost to get started score100
Bundle score0
Performance score3
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search250
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchWe are incredibly excited to announce today the debut of the new GDELT 2.0 DOC API, which is our full text search API.
Data
Freshness15 minutes
Keep datano limit
Use dataThe GDELT Project is an open platform for research and analysis of global society and thus all datasets released by the GDELT Project are available for unlimited and unrestricted use for any academic, commercial, or governmental use of any kind without fee. [...] You may redistribute, rehost, republish, and mirror any of the GDELT datasets in any form. However, any use or redistribution of the data must include a citation to the GDELT Project and a link to this website (https://www.gdeltproject.org/).
Plan
Pay$0
Enough forno limit
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median7.46 s
The call
You sendquery, mode "ArtList", format "json". Optional: maxrecords, timespan, startdatetime, enddatetime, sort
MethodGET
Path/api/v2/doc/doc
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, URL, image URL, source country, language, published date

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