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Grounder News API pricing

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Grounder through our news API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 1,022 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.35 or less per 1,000 searches. 334 news API plans on our price sheet are free. TickerTick's free plan scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 64.9 out of 100.Alpaca's $99 monthly plan 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 costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol}) covers any number of searches, and costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.Scrappa, Hydrafetch and SignalShelf are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Grounder plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of Grounder's 2 plans
Call: POST /v1/search Grounder's only call for this API
API: News API one of Grounder's 5 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 4 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Source, Date, Snippet, Full text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 requests a day.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/search. You set features to "news" and the Content-Type header to "application/json". The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Grounder: news API alternatives

Grounder alternatives: other news API providers by price

The table starts with Grounder's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Grounder's.

Grounder, top-up from $5Trends MCP, $19 monthlyTrendsConnector, $19 monthlyArch Tools, $199 packDrillr, $29 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$19.00$19.00$19.00$19.104$19.333
Completeness67%17%17%33%33%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$5$19$19$199$29
Enough foras many as you pay for1,000 calls a month1,000 calls a monthabout 10,416 calls1,500 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownliveunknown
Who can get itanyone 18 or older with a Google, GitHub or Apple account whose email address is verifiedanyone aged 18 or over with a Trends MCP account (sign up with an email and an 8-digit code, no card)anyone aged 18 or over with a TrendsConnector accountanyone aged 18 or over with a valid email addressanyone

Sources

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

  1. grounder.net
  2. grounder.net/docs/api
  3. grounder.net/docs/api/search
  4. grounder.net/docs/drop-in
  5. grounder.net/docs/providers
  6. grounder.net/docs/routing
  7. grounder.net/openapi.json
  8. grounder.net/pricing
  9. grounder.net/terms

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, not in the answer
  • Full text
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search · Tavily request format · Brave request format · Claude Desktop's custom web search · Search (image-search) · Search (video-search) · Search (page-text)
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchNews articles on a subject, dated, from news sources, a date window keeps them to the last days.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataDon't use Grounder to: break the law, or infringe or violate anyone's rights, get around the free allowance, rate limits or other limits, including by opening extra accounts, resell or redistribute access to the service, or offer its results as a search service of your own, without our written permission, disrupt, overload or attack the service, or test its security without our permission, work out how Grounder decides where a search goes, or build a competing router with it, send searches that break a search provider's terms.
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 requests a day
Enough for50 calls a day
Rate limit
Per second2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, features "news", Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: top_k, filters.domains, filters.recency, filters.language, filters.publisher_ids, filters.article_types, filters.temporal_sensitivity, include_text, text_max_chars, requested_provider, providers, realtime, routing_settings, profile, workspace, context.user_location, context.user_time_zone, urls
MethodPOST
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or older with a Google, GitHub or Apple account whose email address is verified
The 59 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, request ID, workspace, root query ID, features, routing policy, provider call provider, provider call status, provider call latency, provider call result count, provider call mode, provider call results requested, provider call unique result count, provider call fresh result count, provider call cost units, provider call cost unit, provider call features, live data call provider, live data call status, live data call latency, live data call result count, live data call mode, live data call results requested, live data call unique result count, live data call fresh result count, live data call cost units, live data call cost unit, live data call features, citation request, latency, cached, licensed result count, cost in dollars, response count, historical count known, counting started at, result ID, rank, provider, found by, licensed, licensed basis, promoted, result features, publisher ID, publisher name, publisher domain, URL, domain, canonical URL, page title, text, summary, section heading, published date, relevance score, article type, temporal sensitivity, language

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