# mediastack, free: News API

> Scalable JSON API delivering worldwide news, headlines and blog articles in real-time

mediastack's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image.
We rank 504 plans by price. [Serpent API's top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500-scale-get-api-news-bing-news-search/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) and [TheNewsAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/79-monthly-pro-monthly-get-v1-news-all/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mediastack/free
- [Best news API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://mediastack.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.mediastack.com/v1/news`
- API key: with the plan, on https://mediastack.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.apilayer.com/mediastack/docs/mediastack-api-v-1-0-0#/API%20Endpoints/getNews
- Sold by: mediastack (https://mediastack.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 10,000
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Scalable JSON API delivering worldwide news, headlines and blog articles in real-time

## Data

- Freshness: 30 minutes
- Keep data: for the term of this Agreement: no use, storage or access of mediastack API Data & Services after its termination
- Use data: You 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 get: 100 requests a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month
- Expires: not carried over from one monthly period to the next

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: keywords, sources, categories, countries, languages, date, sort, only_with_image, limit, offset
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## mediastack's plans (8)

- [mediastack, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mediastack/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, 30 minutes
- [mediastack, $24.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mediastack/24-99-monthly/llms.txt): $2.499 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [mediastack, $99.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mediastack/99-99-monthly/llms.txt): $1.9998 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [mediastack, $249.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mediastack/249-99-monthly/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [mediastack, $275.88 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mediastack/275-88-yearly/llms.txt): $2.299 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [mediastack, $1,055.88 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mediastack/1055-88-yearly/llms.txt): $1.76 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [mediastack, $2,555.88 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mediastack/2555-88-yearly/llms.txt): $0.852 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [mediastack, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mediastack/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete, live

## mediastack's calls (1)

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

## mediastack's APIs (1)

- [mediastack: news API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mediastack/free/llms.txt)

## mediastack: news API alternatives

- [Search1API, $99 pack, Pay as you go, $99 (+20% bonus), POST /news, News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/search1api/99-pack-pay-as-you-go-99-20-bonus-post-news-news/llms.txt): $0.833 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $400 yearly, Lite, GET /google_news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingdog/400-yearly-lite-get-google-news/llms.txt): $0.833 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [NewsMesh, $756 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsmesh/756-yearly/llms.txt): $0.84 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, €99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapeunblocker/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.844 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## 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.

- https://docs.apilayer.com/mediastack/docs/api-features
- https://docs.apilayer.com/mediastack/docs/mediastack-api-v-1-0-0
- https://docs.apilayer.com/mediastack/docs/options
- https://mediastack.com
- https://mediastack.com/billing-overages-documentation
- https://mediastack.com/faq
- https://mediastack.com/pricing
- https://mediastack.com/terms