# Grounder, free: News API

> News articles on a subject, dated, from news sources, a date window keeps them to the last days.

Grounder's Free plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Grounder's docs list 4: Source, Date, Snippet, Full text.
We haven't run Grounder through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) [TickerTick's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tickertick/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 64.9 out of 100.
[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/grounder/free
- [News API in 2026: the best of 100+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://grounder.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.grounder.net/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://grounder.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://grounder.net/docs/providers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#features
- Sold by: Grounder (https://grounder.net?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Full text: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from 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 pitch: News articles on a subject, dated, from news sources, a date window keeps them to the last days.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Don'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 get: 50 requests a day
- Enough for: 50 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, 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
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Grounder's plans (2)

- [Grounder, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Grounder, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/grounder/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $19.00 per 1,000, 67% complete

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

- `POST /v1/search`: [Grounder, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)

## Grounder's APIs (5)

- [Grounder Image search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)
- [Grounder News API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Video search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web search API pricing, 2 plans, GET /compat/brave/res/v1/web/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-get-compat-brave-res-v1-web-search/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /compat/claude-desktop/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-post-compat-claude-desktop-search/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-post-v1-search/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /compat/tavily/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-post-compat-tavily-search/llms.txt)

## Grounder: news API alternatives

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

We list Grounder's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Grounder in price per 1,000 searches.

- [Grounder, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/grounder/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $19.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Trends MCP, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trends-mcp/19-monthly/llms.txt): $19.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [TrendsConnector, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trendsconnector/19-monthly/llms.txt): $19.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Arch Tools, $199 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/arch-tools/199-pack/llms.txt): $19.104 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Drillr, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/drillr/29-monthly/llms.txt): $19.333 per 1,000, 33% complete

## 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.

- https://grounder.net?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/api/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/drop-in?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/providers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/routing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing