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mediastack pricing and alternatives: news API

mediastack's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026: pricing comparedmediastack: news API alternatives

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 502 plans by price. Serpent API's top-up from $500 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.Scrappa, Litescrape and TheNewsAPI are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of mediastack's 8 plans
Call: GET /v1/news mediastack's only call
API: News API mediastack's only API

About this item

  • A copy at most 30 minutes old. You get articles mediastack saved earlier.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests a month. Calls stop once your requests run out. Requests are not carried over from one monthly period to the next.
  • One call. You call GET /v1/news. Every input is optional: keywords, sources, categories, countries, languages, date, sort, only_with_image, limit, offset.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

mediastack: news API alternatives

The table starts with mediastack's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to mediastack's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

mediastack, $2,555.88 yearlySearch1API, $99 pack, Pay as you go, $99 (+20% bonus), POST /news, NewsScrapingdog, $400 yearly, Lite, GET /google_newsNewsMesh, $756 yearlyScrapeUnblocker, €99 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$0.852$0.833$0.833$0.84$0.844
Completeness83%67%67%83%67%
Billingyearlypay firstyearlyyearlymonthly
Pay$2,555.88$99$400$756€99
Enough for250,000 calls a month118,800 calls40,000 calls a month75,000 calls a month132,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with the power and authority to enter into its Termsanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.")

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 2026-10-29.

  1. docs.apilayer.com/mediastack/docs/api-features
  2. docs.apilayer.com/mediastack/docs/mediastack-api-v-1-0-0
  3. docs.apilayer.com/mediastack/docs/options
  4. mediastack.com
  5. mediastack.com/billing-overages-documentation
  6. mediastack.com/faq
  7. mediastack.com/pricing
  8. mediastack.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
  • Snippet
  • Image
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search10,000
Also pays fornothing else
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchScalable JSON API delivering worldwide news, headlines and blog articles in real-time
Data
Freshness30 minutes
Keep datafor the term of this Agreement: no use, storage or access of mediastack API Data & Services after its termination
Use dataYou are hereby permitted to receive, process, and display mediastack API Data & Services to individual end-users of your application(s), provided such end users use mediastack API Data & Services strictly for their own personal use, You do not permit Your end users to store, distribute, or otherwise exploit mediastack API Data & Services for any other purposes. For clarity, and without limiting the forgoing, You are permitted solely to use mediastack API Data & Services for reference by Your end users. Except as expressly provided herein, under no circumstances whatsoever may You transfer or permit the transfer of mediastack API Data & Services outside of your application(s). [...] You shall not: reproduce, copy, modify, distribute, market, display, transfer, sublicense, assign, prepare derivative work(s) or adaptation(s) based on, sell, exchange, barter or transfer, rent, lease, loan, time-share, resell, or in any other manner exploit mediastack API Data & Services or the mediastack API, make access to mediastack API Data & Services or the mediastack API available to unauthorized parties, or otherwise post or distribute mediastack API Data & Services in any public forum including, but not limited to, print, newsletters, radio, television, or internet, [...] use, store, or access any mediastack API Data & Services, or the mediastack API after the termination of this Agreement, use or permit others to use, market, distribute, or export mediastack API Data & Services, or the mediastack API, or, use mediastack API Data & Services or the mediastack API in any manner or for any purpose that violates any law, regulation or right of any person. [...] You shall not use the mediastack API in a manner that exceeds reasonable request volume or constitutes excessive or abusive usage.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 requests a month
Enough for100 calls a month
Expiresnot carried over from one monthly period to the next
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: keywords, sources, categories, countries, languages, date, sort, only_with_image, limit, offset
MethodGET
Path/v1/news
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with the power and authority to enter into its Terms, for non-commercial use
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

news result author, news result title, news result description, news result link, news result source, news result image, news result category, news result language, news result country, news result date, pagination, total results

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