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mitbbs.ai pricing: news API

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesIn our news API benchmark, this plan scores 61.7 out of 100. mitbbs.ai ranks 82nd of 97 providers.We rank 956 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.50 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan and 14 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 searches of the 956 plans. See the best free news API plan.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.Scrappa, Hydrafetch and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
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Plan: Free one of mitbbs.ai's 2 plans
Call: POST /mcp one of mitbbs.ai's 2 calls for this API
API: News API one of mitbbs.ai's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 4 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Source, Date, Author, Snippet.
  • Nothing to pay. mitbbs.ai limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
  • One call. You call POST /mcp with the inputs in Product details. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

mitbbs.ai: news API alternatives

mitbbs.ai alternatives: every news API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

This planmitbbs.ai, freeScrappa, free, GET /api/google/newsHydrafetch, freeSerpScraper.dev, freeReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/searchHeatPulse, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness67%67%67%67%67%17%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published500 calls a month500 calls, once5,000 calls, once1,000 callsnot published
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownliveunknown
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or overanyone with a work emailanyoneanyoneanyone

Sources

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  1. mitbbs.ai
  2. mitbbs.ai/.well-known/mcp.json
  3. mitbbs.ai/agents.php
  4. mitbbs.ai/app.php/pages/licensing
  5. mitbbs.ai/llms.txt
  6. mitbbs.ai/openapi.yaml

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
  • Image, not in the answer
  • Full text, not in the answer
Score
Overall score61.7
Price score100
Accuracy score39
Cost to get started score100
Bundle score0
Performance score24
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search50
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch mitbbs.ai Chinese-language news headlines and forum posts (guest-readable boards only).
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataFree, no license needed: search-engine indexing, AI answers and citations using headlines and short excerpts with attribution to "mitbbs.ai" and a link to the original article, our free data APIs and MCP within published rate limits (see llms.txt). License required: bulk retrieval of full article text, model training or fine-tuning, redistribution, sublicensing, or inclusion in commercial datasets or products, systematic mirroring of our news or forum corpus. [...] Rights note: licensing covers content mitbbs.ai owns or is permitted to license (first-party and original content). Aggregated third-party articles remain subject to their original publishers' rights, every API item carries rights metadata — please honor it.
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Per second0.17 (600 an hour)
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.42 s
The call
You sendContent-Type header "application/json", jsonrpc "2.0", method "tools/call", params.name "search_news", params.arguments.q. Optional: id, params.arguments.limit
MethodPOST
Path/mcp
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

result title, result snippet, result URL, published at, publisher name, author, board, post ID, topic ID, attribution source name, attribution source URL, data as of, rights basis, canonical URL

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