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Hydrafetch pricing: news API

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Hydrafetch through our news API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 805 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.Alpaca's $99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. Alpaca's $99 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Alpaca's rate limit allows.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol}) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.The New York Times, Scrappa and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Hydrafetch plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of Hydrafetch's 7 plans
Call: POST /v1/web/news Hydrafetch's only call for this API
API: News API one of Hydrafetch's 5 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 30 minutes old. You get articles Hydrafetch saved earlier.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. 3 are in the plan's price: Source, Date, Snippet. 1 costs extra: Full text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 credits once, enough for 500 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 30 days.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/web/news. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a work email. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Hydrafetch: news API alternatives

Hydrafetch alternatives: other news API providers by price

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

Hydrafetch, $399 monthlyFlashData, $1,999 monthly, Business, POST /v1/queries/realtimeSerpBase, $50 packCrustAPI, top-up from $1,999Search1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /news, News
$ per 1,000 searches$0.399$0.40$0.40$0.41$0.416
Completeness67%67%67%67%67%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay firstpay firstyearly
Pay$399$1,999$50$1,999$4,990
Enough for1,000,000 calls a month5,000,000 calls a month125,000 callsabout 4,875,609 calls1,000,000 calls a month
Freshness30 minuteslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone with legal capacity to enter into the agreement, a person under 16 may not create or use an accountanyonebusinesses and professionals, 18 or older (its terms: business and professional use only)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 2026-11-06.

  1. docs.hydrafetch.com/concepts/caching
  2. docs.hydrafetch.com/concepts/credits
  3. docs.hydrafetch.com/endpoints/news
  4. hydrafetch.com
  5. hydrafetch.com/pricing
  6. hydrafetch.com/pricing.md
  7. hydrafetch.com/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 textcosts more
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search50
Extra fieldspage markdown, page HTML, raw HTML, page links, structured data: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Scrape · Map · Crawl · Batch · Search · Extract · Brand · Styleguide · Logo as JSON · Screenshot · Images · Jobs search · Hiring changes
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFind recent news articles about anything, newest first, each with its outlet and publish time.
Data
Freshness30 minutes
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree to use the service lawfully and responsibly. In particular, you must not: direct the service at content you do not have the right to access or collect, or use it to circumvent access controls such as authentication or paywalls, collect personal data without a lawful basis, or use outputs in ways that violate privacy, data-protection, or other applicable laws, infringe third-party intellectual-property rights in your use of fetched content, use the service to harass, defraud, or harm others, or to distribute malware or unlawful content, resell raw access to the service without our written agreement, or attempt to probe, disrupt, or overload our systems.
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 credits
Enough for500 calls, once
Expires30 days
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: limit, timeRange, country, includeDomains, excludeDomains, maxAge, scrapeResults, scrapeOptions.formats, scrapeOptions.onlyMainContent, scrapeOptions.includeTags, scrapeOptions.excludeTags, scrapeOptions.removeBase64Images, scrapeOptions.blockAds, scrapeOptions.includeLinks, scrapeOptions.waitFor, scrapeOptions.timeout, scrapeOptions.location.country, scrapeOptions.location.languages, scrapeOptions.headers, scrapeOptions.preferStructure, scrapeOptions.maxAge
MethodPOST
Path/v1/web/news
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with a work email
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, status, title, URL, source, published date, snippet

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