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MeshArc pricing: news API

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17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run MeshArc through our news API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 805 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.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.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol}) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.The New York Times, Scrappa and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
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Plan: Free one of MeshArc's 8 plans
Call: POST /search MeshArc's only call for this API
API: News API one of MeshArc's 3 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 10 minutes old. You get articles MeshArc saved earlier.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Snippet.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send query to POST /search. You set sources to "news". You can also send limit, page, country, lang, freshness, includeDomains, excludeDomains, scrape, timeout and webhook. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a work email address, 18 or older. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

MeshArc: news API alternatives

MeshArc alternatives: other news API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.

This planMeshArc, freeScrappa, free, GET /api/google/newsReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/searchScrapeUnblocker, freePerceptLayer, freeGDELT, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness17%67%67%67%67%33%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0€0$0$0
Enough fornot published500 calls a month1,000 calls500 calls, once1,000 calls a monthno limit
Freshness10 minuteslivelivelivelive15 minutes
Who can get itanyone with a work email address, 18 or olderanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.")developers and businesses, 18 or olderanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

  1. mesharc.dev
  2. mesharc.dev/docs/api
  3. mesharc.dev/docs/billing
  4. mesharc.dev/legal/terms
  5. mesharc.dev/pricing
  6. mesharc.dev/web-search-api

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Source, not in the answer
  • Date, not in the answer
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet
  • Image, not in the answer
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: POST /scrape · POST /crawl · POST /map · POST /agent · POST /agent/batch
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchNews as well as the web: Google’s News tab (Bing News when Google refuses), each result with its publisher and how old it is.
Data
Freshness10 minutes
Keep datano limit
Use data"You are responsible for making sure your use is lawful and that you have the right to collect, store and use what you crawl. In particular, you agree that you will not use the service to: Access a site or content you are not permitted to access, whether by law, by the site's terms, or by a technical measure that exists to keep you out. [...] Override robots.txt or rate limits on a site without the right to do so. [...] Collect personal data in a way that breaks the data protection law that applies to you or to the people the data is about. Collect content protected by copyright for use beyond what the law or the rights holder allows. Overload, disrupt or damage any site, or the service itself, or probe it for weaknesses other than under the security page. Resell the service as your own, share one account across companies, or use it to build a competing crawler by copying how it works. Do anything illegal, or anything that makes us the vehicle for something illegal."
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
The call
You sendquery, sources "news". Optional: limit, page, country, lang, freshness, includeDomains, excludeDomains, scrape, timeout, webhook
MethodPOST
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with a work email address, 18 or older
The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, search ID, search status, search parameters, engine, cached, result count, credits used, created at, finished at, result position, result URL, result title, result snippet, result source, result engine, result publisher, result age

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