Mekler pricing: news API
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17% complete: 1 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$10.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Mekler through our news API benchmark yet.We rank 851 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.20 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 14% of the 851 plans.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. AnswerLine's Starter plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/
Plan: Pay per call over x402 Mekler's only plan
Call:
POST / Mekler's only call for this APIAPI: News API one of Mekler's 3 APIs
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 1 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Source.
- Nothing to buy first. You pay per call for 1 request.
- One call. You send
querytoPOST /. You can also sendv1/ research/ news/ find-topic-news match,days,start_,date end_,date limit,sort,language,include_,summary sinceandseen. The call returns the news articles that match. - Who can get it: anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.
Mekler: news API alternatives
Mekler alternatives: other news API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planMekler, pay as you go | Scavio, top-up from $25 | Clair, $30 monthly | YepAPI, top-up | Newstex, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /x402/search | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 |
| Completeness | 17% | 33% | 67% | 33% | 17% |
| Billing | pay as you go | pay first | monthly | pay first | pay as you go |
| Pay | per call | $25 | $30 | any amount | per call |
| Enough for | 1 call | 2,500 calls | 3,000 calls a month | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | unknown | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana | anyone | anyone at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract | anyone | anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC from a wallet (x402) |
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.
Product details
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $10.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Most per search | 30 |
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| Also pays for | nothing else |
| $ per 1,000 | $10.00 |
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| Their pitch | Find recent news on a topic, with dated articles and source coverage your agent can explain. |
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| Keep data | no API terms |
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| Use data | no API terms |
| Pay | per call |
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| You get | 1 request |
| Enough for | 1 call |
| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | query. Optional: match, days, start_date, end_date, limit, sort, language, include_summary, since, seen |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/research/news/find-topic-news |
| Plan | Pay per call over x402 |
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| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana |
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold
article ID, title, URL, source domain, language, source country, observed at, duplicate count, headline ID, headline highlights, retrieved at, search window, source rows, attribution, next request