# Mekong Trade Intel, free: News API

> Headlines by topic from public RSS feeds (Google News + Hacker News).

Mekong Trade Intel's Free daily trial plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Mekong Trade Intel's docs list 1: Source.
In [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt), the best plan from Mekong Trade Intel scores 52.1 out of 100. Mekong Trade Intel ranks 70th of 91 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 881 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.30 or less per 1,000 searches. [See the best free news API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
[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.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) and [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-news-article-v1-news-search/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/tools/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/news/api/news`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#/paths/~1news~1api~1news
- Sold by: Mekong Trade Intel (https://mekongtradeintel.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Source: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Headlines by topic from public RSS feeds (Google News + Hacker News).

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 10 requests a day
- Enough for: 10 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 2.48 s

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: topic
- Method: POST
- Path: /news/api/news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free daily trial
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account, API key or payment: a daily free quota for each IP address

## The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, URL, source, topic, fetched at

## Mekong Trade Intel's plans (2)

- [Mekong Trade Intel, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Mekong Trade Intel, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mekong-trade-intel/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 17% complete

## Mekong Trade Intel's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /news/api/news`: [Mekong Trade Intel, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free/llms.txt)

## Mekong Trade Intel's APIs (6)

- [Mekong Trade Intel: business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free/llms.txt)
- [Mekong Trade Intel: domain WHOIS API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free/llms.txt)
- [Mekong Trade Intel: email verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free/llms.txt)
- [Mekong Trade Intel: news API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free/llms.txt)
- [Mekong Trade Intel: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free/llms.txt)
- [Mekong Trade Intel: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans, POST /enrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free-daily-trial-post-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Mekong Trade Intel: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans, POST /companyenrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free-daily-trial-post-companyenrich/llms.txt)

## Mekong Trade Intel: news API alternatives

- [Scrappa, pay as you go, x402, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $50 monthly, Ultra monthly, POST /news-intel/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/50-monthly-ultra-monthly-post-news-intel-v1-search/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpKite, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpkite/10-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 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 2026-11-09.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/tools/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mekongtradeintel.com/privacy.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mekongtradeintel.com/terms.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing