# HeatPulse, free: News API

> 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.

HeatPulse's "Free, no key" plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. HeatPulse's docs list 1: Source.
HeatPulse limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
In [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt), 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
[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. Finage's $49 monthly plan 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 [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/heatpulse/free
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://heatpulse.cc/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://heatpulse.cc/api/v1/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://heatpulse.cc/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: HeatPulse (https://heatpulse.cc?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Source: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 57.5
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 8
- Cost to get started score: 100
- Bundle score: 93
- Performance score: 6

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: listEvents · getEvent · relatedEvents · lookupByUrl · lookupByUrlPost · listTopics · dailyDigest · llmLeaderboards · routeIntent · datasetManifest · datasetDownload · knowledgeMap · from the same budget: searchEventsPost

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- 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.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- 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."

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.57 s

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free, no key
- 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

## HeatPulse's plans (1)

- [HeatPulse, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/heatpulse/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete

## HeatPulse's calls (1)

- `GET /api/v1/search`: [HeatPulse, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/heatpulse/free/llms.txt)

## HeatPulse's APIs (1)

- [HeatPulse: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/heatpulse/free/llms.txt)

## HeatPulse: news API alternatives

- [Scrappa, free, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Hydrafetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpScraper.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [ReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/free-post-news-intel-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [GDELT, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gdelt/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, 15 minutes

## 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.

- https://heatpulse.cc/about?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://heatpulse.cc/api/v1/search?q=transformers&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://heatpulse.cc/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://heatpulse.cc/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://heatpulse.cc/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing