# Mekler, pay as you go: News API

> Find recent news on a topic, with dated articles and source coverage your agent can explain.

Mekler's Pay per call over x402 plan for the news API costs $10.00 per 1,000 searches. Mekler's docs list 1 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Source.
We haven't run Mekler through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/99-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/answerline/top-up-from-1-starter-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.
[Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol})](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finage/49-monthly-simple-plan-get-news-cryptocurrency-symbol/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.
[The New York Times](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt) and [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mekler/pay-as-you-go
- [News API in 2026: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://mekler.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.mekler.ai/v1/research/news/find-topic-news`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://mekler.ai/services/news-search/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#findTopicNews
- Sold by: Mekler (https://mekler.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Source: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $10.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 30
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $10.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find recent news on a topic, with dated articles and source coverage your agent can explain.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call
- You get: 1 request
- Enough for: 1 call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: match, days, start_date, end_date, limit, sort, language, include_summary, since, seen
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/research/news/find-topic-news

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per call over x402
- 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

## Mekler's plans (1)

- [Mekler, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mekler/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 17% complete

## Mekler's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/research/news/find-topic-news`: [Mekler, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mekler/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Mekler's APIs (3)

- [Mekler: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mekler/free/llms.txt)
- [Mekler: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/mekler/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Mekler: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mekler/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Mekler: news API alternatives

- [Scavio, top-up from $25](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scavio/top-up-from-25/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Clair, $30 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/clair/30-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [YepAPI, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/yepapi/top-up/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Newstex, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /x402/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newstex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x402-search/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 17% complete

## 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.

- https://api.mekler.ai/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.mekler.ai/catalog.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.mekler.ai/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.mekler.ai/trials/offer?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mekler.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mekler.ai/services/news-search/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing