# Meltwater, contact us, Advanced Suite: News API

> Search, stream and export mentions from billions of editorial and social sources — with analytics, filters, and real-time delivery.

Meltwater's news API on its Advanced Suite plan. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author, Image, Full text.
We haven't run Meltwater through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/financial-data-financialdata-net/69-monthly-premium-get-api-v1-latest-news/llms.txt) 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})](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 Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 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/meltwater/contact-us-advanced-suite
- [News API: 60+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://developer.meltwater.com/guides/getting-started/usage-limits/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.meltwater.com/v3/search/{id}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://developer.meltwater.com/guides/getting-started/usage-limits/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developer.meltwater.com/api-reference/v3/create-earned-search/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Meltwater (https://www.meltwater.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

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

## Meltwater's plans (8)

- [Meltwater, contact us, Advanced Suite](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/meltwater/contact-us-advanced-suite/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Meltwater, contact us, Essentials Suite](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/meltwater/contact-us-essentials-suite/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Meltwater, contact us, MI Advanced](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/meltwater/contact-us-mi-advanced/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Meltwater, contact us, Social Advanced](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/meltwater/contact-us-social-advanced/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Meltwater, contact us, Social Essentials](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/meltwater/contact-us-social-essentials/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Meltwater, contact us, Agency](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/meltwater/contact-us-agency/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Meltwater, contact us, Enterprise](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/meltwater/contact-us-enterprise/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Meltwater, contact us, Insights API package](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/meltwater/contact-us-insights-api-package/llms.txt): 83% complete

## Meltwater's calls (1)

- `POST /v3/search/{id}`: [Meltwater, contact us, Advanced Suite](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/meltwater/contact-us-advanced-suite/llms.txt)

## Meltwater's APIs (1)

- [Meltwater: news API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/meltwater/contact-us-advanced-suite/llms.txt)

## Meltwater: news API alternatives

- [PrismCrawl, contact us, Custom, POST /v1/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/prismcrawl/contact-us-custom-post-v1-google-news/llms.txt): 83% complete, live
- [GNews, contact us, Create Your Own Plan, GET /api/v4/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gnews/contact-us-create-your-own-plan-get-api-v4-search/llms.txt): 83% complete, stored
- [NewsAPI.org, contact us, Enterprise, GET /v2/everything](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-org/contact-us-enterprise-get-v2-everything/llms.txt): 83% complete, live
- [NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Infegy, contact us, API Only: pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/infegy/contact-us-api-only-pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): 83% 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 2026-11-04.

- https://developer.meltwater.com/api-reference/templates/api-json/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.meltwater.com/api-reference/v3/create-earned-search/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.meltwater.com/api-reference/v3/search-for-data-in-your-private-index/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.meltwater.com/guides/getting-started/overview/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.meltwater.com/guides/getting-started/usage-limits/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.meltwater.com/help/faqs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.meltwater.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.meltwater.com/en/product-specific-terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing