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GroundRoute pricing and alternatives: news API

GroundRoute's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 354 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.Scrappa, SerpBase and treg are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: BYOK one of GroundRoute's 2 plans
Call: POST /v1/search GroundRoute's only call for this API
API: News API one of GroundRoute's 2 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 5 minutes old. You get articles GroundRoute saved earlier.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Snippet, Full text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get up to 77,760,000 calls a month.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/search. You set mode to "news" and the Content-Type header to "application/json". You can also send max_results, freshness, domains, exclude_domains, lang and country. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: anyone who supplies their own engine API keys. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

GroundRoute: news API alternatives

The table starts with GroundRoute's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to GroundRoute's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.

GroundRoute, top-upScrappa, pay as you go, x402, GET /api/google/newsSerpKite, $10 packSerper, $50 packAutom, $50 pack
$ per 1,000 searches$1.00$1.00$1.00$1.00$1.00
Completeness50%67%67%67%50%
Billingpay firstpay as you gopay firstpay firstpay first
Payany amountper call$10$50$50
Enough foras many as you pay foras many as you pay for10,000 calls50,000 calls50,000 calls
Freshness5 minuteslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with a payment method or credits on fileanyone 18 or overanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)businesses: its terms say "Serper is a business-to-business service and does not provide end-user (consumer) services"professionals: the service is ordered for a trade, business, craft or profession, by someone at least 18 and able to contract

Every news API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-27.

  1. groundroute.ai
  2. groundroute.ai/docs/byok
  3. groundroute.ai/docs/caching
  4. groundroute.ai/docs/errors-and-limits
  5. groundroute.ai/docs/pricing
  6. groundroute.ai/docs/routing-and-policies
  7. groundroute.ai/docs/search-api
  8. groundroute.ai/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Source, not in the answer
  • 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 search50
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search, web · Search, academic · Search, answer · Search, page
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchOne API for every search engine your agent calls.
Data
Freshness5 minutes
Keep datano limit
Use dataSearch results originate from third-party Search Providers and are subject to their rights and terms, GroundRoute makes no claim of ownership over them and grants no rights beyond passing them through to you. You are responsible for how you use returned results. You agree not to use the Service to: violate any law, regulation, or third-party right, or any Search Provider's terms, send queries or fetch content for unlawful, infringing, deceptive, or harmful purposes, circumvent rate limits, quotas, billing, or access controls, or share access to evade metering, attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, other customers' data, or our infrastructure, scrape, resell, or redistribute the Service in a way that competes with GroundRoute as a routing layer without our written consent, introduce malware, or use the Service to facilitate denial-of-service, mass surveillance, or harassment
Plan
Pay$0
Enough for77,760,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second30
Concurrent30
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, mode "news", Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: max_results, freshness, domains, exclude_domains, lang, country
MethodPOST
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanBYOK
Who can get itanyone who supplies their own engine API keys
The 44 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, tenant ID, URL, page title, snippet, page content, relevance score, source engine, published date, position, answer, citation URL, citation title, citation index, degraded, routing strategy, query class, chosen engine, routing reason, routing candidates, provider cost, latency, failover engine, missing engines, cache tier, poolable, poolability reason, freshness bucket, private cache key, pooled cache key, cached at, TTL, cost avoided, similarity, quality score, quality components, judge sampled, engine agreement, account ID, API key ID, timestamp, billable, searches counted, provider key source

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