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GNews pricing: news API, GET /api/v4/search

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 584 plans by price. Serpent API's top-up from $500 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.Scrappa, ReefAPI and ScrapeUnblocker are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of GNews's 8 plans
Call: GET /api/v4/search one of GNews's 2 calls
API: News API GNews's only API

About this item

  • A copy at most 12 hours old. You get articles GNews saved earlier.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests a day. Calls stop once your requests run out. Unused requests expire at the end of the day.
  • One call. You send q to GET /api/v4/search. You can also send lang, country, max, in, nullable, from, to, sortby, page and truncate. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

GNews: news API alternatives

GNews 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 a day old.

This planGNews, free, GET /api/v4/searchScrappa, free, GET /api/google/newsReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/searchScrapeUnblocker, freePerceptLayer, freeFinlight, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness67%67%67%67%67%67%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay€0$0$0€0$0$0
Enough for100 calls a day500 calls a month1,000 calls500 calls, once1,000 calls a month5,000 calls a month
Freshness12 hourslivelivelivelive12 hours
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, for personal, academic, evaluation and other non-commercial use onlyanyone 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 olderanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. docs.gnews.io
  2. docs.gnews.io/article-availability
  3. docs.gnews.io/endpoints/search-endpoint
  4. docs.gnews.io/endpoints/top-headlines-endpoint
  5. docs.gnews.io/error-handling
  6. docs.gnews.io/json-response
  7. docs.gnews.io/openapi.yaml
  8. gnews.io
  9. gnews.io/legal/terms-of-service
  10. gnews.io/pricing

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
Most per search1,000
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Top headlines
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch real-time articles from 80,000+ trusted sources across 41 languages and 71 countries, and tap into years of historical news going back to 2020, all delivered in clean JSON that is ready to use.
Data
Freshness12 hours
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use the API for commercial purposes only while you hold an active paid subscription. [...] If you do not hold an active paid subscription (including while on the Free plan or on any plan provided to you free of charge, such as education access), your license to use the API is limited to personal, academic, evaluation, and other non-commercial use. [...] You agree that you will NOT: Exceed the rate limits or request quotas associated with your subscription plan, Use the API in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair our servers or networks, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the API, accounts, computer systems, or networks through hacking, password mining, or any other means, Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code of the API or any underlying technology, Use the API to create a competing service or product, Redistribute, resell, or sublicense access to the API without our express written consent, Use the API in violation of any applicable law or regulation, Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices, Use the API to transmit any viruses, malware, or other harmful code. [...] A paid subscription does not grant you any rights in third-party content, which remains the property of its respective owners [...]. You must comply with all applicable copyright laws and respect third-party intellectual property rights, Images and media content obtained through the API may be subject to copyright protection by third parties, you are solely responsible for ensuring you have the necessary rights to use such content, You must not represent that API data originated from you or misrepresent the source of the data, Attribution to GNews API is appreciated but not required unless specified in your subscription plan. [...] You agree not to use the Service: [...] To create a database by systematically downloading and storing all or substantial portions of API content for the purpose of creating a competing service, redistributing the data, or avoiding API usage limits. Reasonable caching of API responses for application performance is permitted.
Plan
Pay€0
You get100 requests a day
Enough for100 calls a day
Expiresend of the day
Rate limit
Per day100
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.20 s
The call
You sendq. Optional: lang, country, max, in, nullable, from, to, sortby, page, truncate
MethodGET
Path/api/v4/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, for personal, academic, evaluation and other non-commercial use only
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, article ID, title, description, content snippet, URL, image URL, published date, language, source ID, source name, source URL, source country

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