# GNews, free, GET /api/v4/search: News API

> Search 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.

GNews's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
We rank 584 plans by price. [Serpent API's top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500-scale-get-api-news-bing-news-search/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-news-article-v1-news-search/llms.txt) and [ScrapeUnblocker](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapeunblocker/299-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gnews/free-get-api-v4-search
- [Best news API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://gnews.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://gnews.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.gnews.io/endpoints/search-endpoint?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: GNews (https://gnews.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 1,000
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Top headlines

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search 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

- Freshness: 12 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 get: 100 requests a day
- Enough for: 100 calls a day
- Expires: end of the day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 100
- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.20 s

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: lang, country, max, in, nullable, from, to, sortby, page, truncate
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v4/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## GNews's plans (8)

- [GNews, free, GET /api/v4/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gnews/free-get-api-v4-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 12 hours
- [GNews, €49.99 monthly, Essential, GET /api/v4/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gnews/49-99-monthly-essential-get-api-v4-search/llms.txt): $1.875 per 1,000, 83% complete, stored
- [GNews, €99.99 monthly, Business, GET /api/v4/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gnews/99-99-monthly-business-get-api-v4-search/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 83% complete, stored
- [GNews, €249.99 monthly, Enterprise, GET /api/v4/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gnews/249-99-monthly-enterprise-get-api-v4-search/llms.txt): $0.375 per 1,000, 83% complete, stored
- [GNews, €479.99 yearly, Essential, billed yearly, GET /api/v4/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gnews/479-99-yearly-essential-billed-yearly-get-api-v4-search/llms.txt): $1.48 per 1,000, 83% complete, stored
- [GNews, €959.99 yearly, Business, billed yearly, GET /api/v4/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gnews/959-99-yearly-business-billed-yearly-get-api-v4-search/llms.txt): $0.592 per 1,000, 83% complete, stored
- [GNews, €2,399.99 yearly, Enterprise, billed yearly, GET /api/v4/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gnews/2399-99-yearly-enterprise-billed-yearly-get-api-v4-search/llms.txt): $0.296 per 1,000, 83% complete, stored
- [GNews, contact us, Create Your Own Plan, GET /api/v4/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gnews/contact-us-create-your-own-plan-get-api-v4-search/llms.txt): 83% complete, stored

## GNews's calls (2)

- `GET /api/v4/search`: [GNews, free, GET /api/v4/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gnews/free-get-api-v4-search/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/v4/top-headlines`: [GNews, free, GET /api/v4/top-headlines](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gnews/free-get-api-v4-top-headlines/llms.txt)

## GNews's APIs (1)

- [GNews: news API pricing, 8 plans, GET /api/v4/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gnews/free-get-api-v4-search/llms.txt)

## GNews: 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
- [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
- [ScrapeUnblocker, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapeunblocker/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Finlight, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finlight/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 12 hours

## 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.

- https://docs.gnews.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.gnews.io/article-availability?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.gnews.io/endpoints/search-endpoint?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.gnews.io/endpoints/top-headlines-endpoint?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.gnews.io/error-handling?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.gnews.io/json-response?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.gnews.io/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://gnews.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://gnews.io/legal/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://gnews.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing