HeatPulse pricing: news API
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$0.00per 1,000 searchesIn our news API benchmark, this plan scores 57.5 out of 100. HeatPulse ranks 84th of 96 providers.We rank 940 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.50 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan and 12 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 searches of the 940 plans. See the best free news API plan.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/
Plan: Free, no key HeatPulse's only plan
Call:
GET / HeatPulse's only callAPI: News API HeatPulse's only API
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 1 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Source.
- Nothing to pay. HeatPulse limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
- One call. You send
qtoGET /. You can also sendapi/ v1/ search limit. The call returns the news articles that match. - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
HeatPulse: news API alternatives
HeatPulse alternatives: every news API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planHeatPulse, free | Scrappa, free, GET /api/google/news | Hydrafetch, free | SerpScraper.dev, free | ReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/search | GDELT, free | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 17% | 67% | 67% | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | not published | 500 calls a month | 500 calls, once | 5,000 calls, once | 1,000 calls | no limit |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | unknown | live | 15 minutes |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone 18 or over | anyone with a work email | anyone | anyone | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.
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| Overall score | 57.5 |
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| Price score | 100 |
| Accuracy score | 8 |
| Cost to get started score | 100 |
| Bundle score | 93 |
| Performance score | 6 |
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Most per search | 100 |
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| Also pays for | listEvents · getEvent · relatedEvents · lookupByUrl · lookupByUrlPost · listTopics · dailyDigest · llmLeaderboards · routeIntent · datasetManifest · datasetDownload · knowledgeMap · from the same budget: searchEventsPost |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Read-only, no-auth JSON API for AI agents and scripts. HeatPulse aggregates AI news from EN/DE/FR outlets, clusters multi-source reporting into events ranked by cross-source heat, publishes original editorial summaries and daily digests, and tracks live LLM arena leaderboards. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | CC-BY-4.0, the API spec's licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/): "Attribution appreciated: link heatpulse.cc when surfacing this data." Its docs: "Attribution: link back to https://heatpulse.cc when surfacing this data." |
| Pay | $0 |
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| Per second | 1 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| Median | 1.57 s |
| You send | q. Optional: limit |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /api/v1/search |
| Plan | Free, no key |
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| Who can get it | anyone |
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold
search query, search mode, result count, event ID, event slug, event title, event summary, why it matters, category, tags, heat score, source count, first seen, outlet domains, languages, event URL