# Grokzilla, pay as you go: News API

> Topic in, deduplicated story clusters out: headline, every outlet URL and first-seen time, from GDELT and publisher RSS. Headlines and links only, no article text.

Grokzilla's x402 pay per call plan for the news API costs $10.10 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Grokzilla's docs list 1: Snippet.
We haven't run Grokzilla through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
We rank 1,022 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.35 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 14% of the 1,022 plans.
[Alpaca's $99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/99-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches, with no charge per call. You get as many searches as Alpaca's rate limit allows. [AnswerLine's Starter plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/answerline/top-up-from-1-starter-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.
[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, and 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 [SignalShelf](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/signalshelf/499-pack/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/grokzilla/pay-as-you-go
- [News API in 2026: the best of 100+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://grokzilla.shop/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://grokzilla.shop/api/skills/news-brief`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://grokzilla.shop/docs/news-brief?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Grokzilla (https://grokzilla.shop?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $10.10
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Topic in, deduplicated story clusters out: headline, every outlet URL and first-seen time, from GDELT and publisher RSS. Headlines and links only, no article text.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Use public-data skills lawfully and within the source sites' terms.

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: topic. Optional: timespan, max_clusters, request_id
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/skills/news-brief

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone, no account or API key

## The 21 fields the plan's answer can hold

topic, search terms, timespan, headline, first seen, latest seen, outlet count, outlet, outlet headline, URL, seen at, feed type, cluster count, headline count, feeds searched, summary, confidence, sources, generated at, data as of, warnings

## Grokzilla's plans (1)

- [Grokzilla, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/grokzilla/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.10 per 1,000, 17% complete, live

## Grokzilla's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/skills/news-brief`: [Grokzilla, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/grokzilla/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Grokzilla's APIs (5)

- [Grokzilla Domain WHOIS API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/grokzilla/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Grokzilla Email verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/grokzilla/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Grokzilla IP company lookup API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/grokzilla/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Grokzilla News API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/grokzilla/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Grokzilla Web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/grokzilla/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Grokzilla: news API alternatives

[Grokzilla alternatives: other news API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/grokzilla-alternatives.txt)

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the list gives live data.

- [Scavio, top-up from $25](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scavio/top-up-from-25/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Clair, $30 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/clair/30-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Tavily, $500 monthly, Growth, POST /search, Search, advanced, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/500-monthly-growth-post-search-search-advanced-news/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [UnifAPI, top-up, Starter top-up](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unifapi/top-up-starter-top-up/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://grokzilla.shop/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://grokzilla.shop/api/catalog?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://grokzilla.shop/docs/mcp/spend-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://grokzilla.shop/docs/news-brief?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://grokzilla.shop/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://grokzilla.shop/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://grokzilla.shop/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing