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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Media Cloud through our news API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 710 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.00089. Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan covers up to 77,760,000 searches a month at no extra cost.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol}) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan.The New York Times, Scrappa and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Default quota (4000 API requests per week) Media Cloud's only plan
Call: GET /search/story-list Media Cloud's only call
API: News API Media Cloud's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 4,000 requests, enough for 4,000 pages.
  • One call. You call GET /search/story-list. You send q, start and end. You can also send platform, ss, cs, expanded, pagination_token, sort_order and page_size. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Media Cloud: news API alternatives

Media Cloud alternatives: every news API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

This planMedia Cloud, freeThe New York Times, freeScrappa, free, GET /api/google/newsSerpScraper.dev, freeReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/searchGroundRoute, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness33%83%67%67%67%50%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for4,000 pages15,000 calls a month500 calls a month5,000 calls, once1,000 calls77,760,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownliveunknownlive5 minutes
Who can get itanyone who creates a Media Cloud account and is 13 years or older, the platform is designed for and best fitted to academic, nonprofit, and journalistic research, not as a commercial tool for e.g. market and brand researchnon-commercial use only: anyone who signs in to the developer portal, registers an app and enables the API on it for its key, commercial use goes to nytlicensing.comanyone 18 or overanyoneanyoneanyone who supplies their own engine API keys

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

  1. github.com/mediacloud/api-client
  2. raw.githubusercontent.com/mediacloud/api-client/main/mediacloud/api.py
  3. raw.githubusercontent.com/mediacloud/api-client/main/mediacloud/types.py
  4. mediacloud.org/documentation/faqs
  5. mediacloud.org/documentation/query-guide
  6. mediacloud.org/documentation/search-api-guide
  7. mediacloud.org/documentation/story-guide
  8. mediacloud.org/legal/media-cloud-terms-of-use

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, not in the answer
  • Image, not in the answer
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Perpage, size not stated
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: search/total-count · search/count-over-time · search/count-by-source-week · search/count-by-source-over-interval · search/sample · search/story · search/words · search/sources · search/languages
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch Against Media Cloud's new Online News Archive, with access to 200 million+ stories and growing everyday. [...]
Data
Keep datano limit
Use data"You may use the Platform for any lawful use, subject to the limitations outlined in these Terms of Use and Section 2.4, and with the knowledge that the Platform is designed for and is best fitted to academic, nonprofit, and journalistic research and not designed for use as a commercial tool for, e.g., market and brand research.", "“Platform Outputs” include aggregated data and/or analyses produced by the Platform (e.g. “number of media mentions in 2019,” “related words in media mentions”) and images generated by the Platform (e.g. charts, “word clouds”). You may use, reproduce, distribute, and/or display any Platform Outputs, including directly copying them.", "We highly recommend, but do not require, that you attribute Media Cloud when using, reproducing, distributing, and/or displaying any Platform Outputs.", "In contrast to Platform Outputs, which you can use freely, Media Cloud does not own the content (e.g. news stories, blogs) of third-party sources analyzed by or linked to by the Platform. MEDIA CLOUD CANNOT AND DOES NOT GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO USE, REPRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE, AND/OR DISPLAY ANY THIRD-PARTY CONTENT. If you choose to use, reproduce, distribute, and/or display that content, you must do so in accordance with the intellectual property rights and/or terms of use of the relevant third-party source(s).", Limitations on Use: "You may not use the Platform to infringe on or violate the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights or any other rights of any person or entity." "You may not use an unreasonable amount of bandwidth or exceed any API request limit." "You may not make multiple accounts in order to circumvent the API request limit." "You may not post material to the Platform that advertises or sells a product or service or functions as spam." "You may not impede or interfere with others’ use of the Platform, intentionally disrupt, attack, modify, or interfere with the proper working of the Platform in any way, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to Media Cloud’s servers by any means." "You may not use the Platform in connection with spyware, malware, or other malicious programs or code." "You may not sell, lease or sublicense the Media Cloud Platform, any Media Cloud API key, or access thereto."
Plan
Pay$0
You get4,000 requests
Enough for4,000 pages
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq, start, end. Optional: platform, ss, cs, expanded, pagination_token, sort_order, page_size
MethodGET
Path/search/story-list
About the plan
PlanDefault quota (4000 API requests per week)
Who can get itanyone who creates a Media Cloud account and is 13 years or older, the platform is designed for and best fitted to academic, nonprofit, and journalistic research, not as a commercial tool for e.g. market and brand research
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

story ID, title, URL, language, source name, source URL, published date, indexed date, pagination token

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