# mitbbs.ai, free: News API

> Search mitbbs.ai Chinese-language news headlines and forum posts (guest-readable boards only).

mitbbs.ai's Free plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. mitbbs.ai's docs list 4: Source, Date, Author, Snippet.
mitbbs.ai limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
In [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt), 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
[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/mitbbs-ai/free
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://mitbbs.ai/app.php/pages/licensing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://mitbbs.ai/mcp`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://mitbbs.ai/.well-known/mcp.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: mitbbs.ai (https://mitbbs.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Snippet: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 61.7
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 39
- Cost to get started score: 100
- Bundle score: 0
- Performance score: 24

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search mitbbs.ai Chinese-language news headlines and forum posts (guest-readable boards only).

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Free, 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 second: 0.17 (600 an hour)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.42 s

## The call

- You send: Content-Type header "application/json", jsonrpc "2.0", method "tools/call", params.name "search_news", params.arguments.q. Optional: id, params.arguments.limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /mcp

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## mitbbs.ai's plans (2)

- [mitbbs.ai, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mitbbs-ai/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [mitbbs.ai, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mitbbs-ai/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete

## mitbbs.ai's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /mcp`: [mitbbs.ai, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mitbbs-ai/free/llms.txt)
- `GET /agent-api/v1/search`: [mitbbs.ai, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mitbbs-ai/contact-us/llms.txt)

## mitbbs.ai's APIs (2)

- [mitbbs.ai: local business search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mitbbs-ai/free/llms.txt)
- [mitbbs.ai: news API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mitbbs-ai/free/llms.txt)

## mitbbs.ai: 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
- [Hydrafetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpScraper.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [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
- [HeatPulse, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/heatpulse/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% 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://mitbbs.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mitbbs.ai/.well-known/mcp.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mitbbs.ai/agents.php?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mitbbs.ai/app.php/pages/licensing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mitbbs.ai/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mitbbs.ai/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing