Meltwater pricing: news API

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields

Contact us, Advanced SuiteWe haven't run Meltwater through our news API benchmark yet.Meltwater gives this plan's price on request. We rank 710 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.00089. Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan covers up to 77,760,000 searches a month at no extra cost.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol}) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan.The New York Times, Scrappa and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

Plan: Advanced Suite one of Meltwater's 8 plans

Call: POST /v3/search/{id} Meltwater's only call

POST /v3/search/{id}Contact us, Advanced Suite

API: News API Meltwater's only API

News API

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
5 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Author, Image, Full text.
No public price. You ask Meltwater for one.
One call. You send id and tz to POST /v3/search/{id}. The call returns the news articles that match.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Meltwater: news API alternatives

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	This planMeltwater, contact us, Advanced Suite	PrismCrawl, contact us, Custom, POST /v1/google/news	GNews, contact us, Create Your Own Plan, GET /api/v4/search	NewsAPI.org, contact us, Enterprise, GET /v2/everything	NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), contact us	Infegy, contact us, API Only: pay as you go
Completeness	83%	83%	83%	83%	83%	83%
Billing	contact	contact	contact	contact	contact	contact
Enough for	50 calls a day	not published	not published	not published	not published	not published
Freshness	unknown	live	stored	live	unknown	unknown
Who can get it	organizations that sign a Meltwater contract, most are annual, 12 months at least	anyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreement	anyone at least 18 years old	anyone	anyone with a company or academic email address	anyone who signs an Infegy order form that references its Terms and Conditions, a person acting for a company must have the authority to bind it

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

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, not in the answer
Image
Full text

Price
Per	call
Billing	contact

Charges
Most per search	1,000
Also pays for	Listening Exports: 50 exports per month · from the same budget: Listening Exports · Listening Streaming · Explore+ Search

Overage
Units cap	hard

In their words
Their pitch	Search, stream and export mentions from billions of editorial and social sources — with analytics, filters, and real-time delivery.

Data
Keep data	no limit
Use data	"Meltwater does not grant any usage rights for any content obtained through any Meltwater API. Customer is responsible for its use of content obtained through any Meltwater API and shall comply with any terms and conditions of content providers that may apply [...]", "Additionally, Customer shall not use any content obtained, related or derived through any Meltwater API to train, fine-tune, ground or develop any artificial intelligence systems. Customer shall comply with any instructions (including deletion requests) from Meltwater regarding any content made available through any Meltwater API.", "Customer is not permitted to use any Meltwater API or any data in any manner that does or could potentially undermine the security of any Meltwater API or any other data or information stored or transmitted via any Meltwater API. In addition, Customer shall not, and shall not attempt to, interfere with, modify or disable any features, functionality or security controls of any Meltwater API, defeat, avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate or otherwise circumvent any protection mechanisms for any Meltwater API, or reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or derive source code, underlying ideas, algorithms, structure or organizational form from any Meltwater API."

Plan
You get	50 requests a day
Enough for	50 calls a day

Rate limit
Per day	50
Per second	1.67
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	id, tz. Optional: company_id, countries, end, languages, page, page_size, sentiments, sort_by, sort_order, sources, start, template.name, keywords, emojis, custom_categories, filter_set, author_lists
Method	POST
Path	/v3/search/{id}

About the plan
Plan	Advanced Suite
Who can get it	organizations that sign a Meltwater contract, most are annual, 12 months at least

The 69 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, page, page size, document ID, published date, indexed date, URL, parent URL, thread title, thread URL, external ID, information type, source ID, source type, source name, source domain, source URL, outlet types, matched inputs, matched keywords, hit sentence, author name, author handle, author profile URL, author external ID, title, opening text, body, byline, image URL, hashtags, mentions, emojis, links, content type, language, sentiment, keyphrases, named entities, country, city, state, region, geo coordinates, AVE, reach, global reach, national reach, local reach, desktop reach, mobile reach, editorial echo, social echo, social echo X, social echo Facebook, social echo Reddit, views, estimated views, engagement, likes, replies, comments, shares, quotes, reposts, reactions, tags, hidden, visibility