# Messari, pay as you go: News API

> Aggregated news from 500+ sources including headlines, links and summaries, with assets tagged per article.

Messari's Pay-Per-Request with x402 plan for the news API costs $550.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Messari's docs list 3: Source, Date, Snippet.
We haven't run Messari through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
We rank 956 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.50 or less per 1,000 searches. 8 of the 956 plans cost more per 1,000 searches than this plan.
[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), [Hydrafetch](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/99-monthly/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/messari/pay-as-you-go
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://docs.messari.io/api-reference/x402-payments?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.messari.io/news/v1/news/feed`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://docs.messari.io/api-reference/endpoints/news/get-v1-news-feed?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Messari (https://messari.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $550.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Aggregated news from 500+ sources including headlines, links and summaries, with assets tagged per article.

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: publishedBefore, publishedAfter, sourceTypes, sourceIds, assetIds, sort, limit, page
- Method: GET
- Path: /news/v1/news/feed

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay-Per-Request with x402
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account or API key, paying each request in USDC on Base or Solana from a wallet (x402)

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, URL, description, published at, source ID, source name, source type, category, subcategory, assets, sentiment, total results

## Messari's plans (2)

- [Messari, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/messari/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $550.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Messari, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/messari/contact-us/llms.txt): 50% complete

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

- `GET /news/v1/news/feed`: [Messari, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/messari/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Messari's APIs (3)

- [Messari: company funding API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/messari/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Messari: news API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/messari/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Messari: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans, GET /funding/v1/organizations](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/messari/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-with-x402-get-funding-v1-organizations/llms.txt)
- [Messari: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans, GET /funding/v1/projects](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/messari/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-with-x402-get-funding-v1-projects/llms.txt)

## Messari: news API alternatives

- [lobstr.io, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/lobstr-io/20-monthly/llms.txt): $200.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [TrawlingWeb, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trawlingweb/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $202.554 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Webz.io, top-up, Scale, GET /api/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/webz-io/top-up-scale-get-api-news/llms.txt): $500.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [rankur, $98 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/rankur/98-monthly/llms.txt): $653.333 per 1,000, 33% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://docs.messari.io/api-reference/endpoints/news/get-v1-news-feed.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.messari.io/api-reference/x402-payments.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.messari.io/introduction?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing