# MeshArc, free: News API

> News as well as the web: Google’s News tab (Bing News when Google refuses), each result with its publisher and how old it is.

MeshArc's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. MeshArc's docs list 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Snippet.
We haven't run MeshArc through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) 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](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.
[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/mesharc/free
- [News API: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://mesharc.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.mesharc.dev/api/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://mesharc.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://mesharc.dev/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#the-verbs
- Sold by: MeshArc (https://mesharc.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: POST /scrape · POST /crawl · POST /map · POST /agent · POST /agent/batch

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: News 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

- Freshness: 10 minutes
- Keep data: no 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 get: 1,000 credits

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: query, sources "news". Optional: limit, page, country, lang, freshness, includeDomains, excludeDomains, scrape, timeout, webhook
- Method: POST
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## MeshArc's plans (8)

- [MeshArc, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mesharc/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, 10 minutes
- [MeshArc, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mesharc/29-monthly/llms.txt): 17% complete, 10 minutes
- [MeshArc, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mesharc/99-monthly/llms.txt): 17% complete, 10 minutes
- [MeshArc, $349 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mesharc/349-monthly/llms.txt): 17% complete, 10 minutes
- [MeshArc, $290 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mesharc/290-yearly/llms.txt): 17% complete, 10 minutes
- [MeshArc, $990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mesharc/990-yearly/llms.txt): 17% complete, 10 minutes
- [MeshArc, $3,490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mesharc/3490-yearly/llms.txt): 17% complete, 10 minutes
- [MeshArc, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mesharc/contact-us/llms.txt): 17% complete, 10 minutes

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

- `POST /search`: [MeshArc, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mesharc/free/llms.txt)

## MeshArc's APIs (3)

- [MeshArc: news API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mesharc/free/llms.txt)
- [MeshArc: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mesharc/free/llms.txt)
- [MeshArc: web search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/mesharc/free/llms.txt)

## MeshArc: news API alternatives

- [Scrappa, free, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/free-post-news-intel-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapeunblocker/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [GDELT, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gdelt/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, 15 minutes

## 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.

- https://mesharc.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mesharc.dev/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mesharc.dev/docs/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mesharc.dev/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mesharc.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mesharc.dev/web-search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing