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NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry) pricing and alternatives: news API

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 504 plans by price. Serpent API's top-up from $500 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.Scrappa, Litescrape and TheNewsAPI are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry)'s 9 plans
Call: GET /api/v1/article/getArticles NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry)'s only call for this API
API: News API one of NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry)'s 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Author, Image, Full text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 2,000 tokens, enough for 2,000 calls. Units never expire.
  • One call. You call GET /api/v1/article/getArticles. Every input is optional.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a company or academic email address, for evaluation and testing. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry): news API alternatives

The table starts with NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry)'s cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry)'s.

NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), $3,000 monthlyNewsMesh, $29 monthly1Lookup, $1,999 monthlySearch1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /news, News, fullOutscraper, pay as you go, Business Tier
$ per 1,000 searches$6.00$5.80$5.997$6.00$6.00
Completeness83%83%67%67%33%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlypay firstpay as you go
Pay$3,000$29$1,999$5monthly
Enough for500,000 calls a month5,000 calls a monthabout 333,333 calls a monthas many as you pay foras many as you pay for
Freshnessunknown1 hourliveliveunknown
Who can get itanyone with a company or academic email addressanyoneanyone with a business name and a working business email addressanyoneanyone who adds a payment method

Every news API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. newsapi.ai
  2. newsapi.ai/documentation?tab=data_models
  3. newsapi.ai/documentation?tab=searchArticles
  4. newsapi.ai/documentation?tab=usage
  5. newsapi.ai/free-news-api
  6. newsapi.ai/landing/js/script-ceb046b483.min.js
  7. newsapi.ai/llms-full.txt
  8. newsapi.ai/plans
  9. newsapi.ai/terms

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, not in the answer
  • Image
  • Full text
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per searchno limit
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Stream of new articles · Get article details · Get events · Stream of events · Annotate · Categorize · Sentiment · Semantic similarity · Extract article information · Detect language · Named entity recognition
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFind news articles that match one or more search conditions.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataFree access is intended solely for evaluation and testing. It may not be used for any project, research, or application that produces commercial or institutional value, even indirectly. [...] By subscribing to a paid plan, you are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to access and use Event Registry data for commercial purposes, provided that all use complies with third-party copyright and intellectual property laws. [...] Unless expressly authorized, you may not: Create multiple accounts to avoid limits, Attempt to bypass rate limits, API restrictions, or authentication controls, Share, sell, sublicense, or redistribute the data provided by our Service as such, for example as raw API responses, bulk datasets, or article feeds, Redistribute content received via the API, including publishing or embedding, without the appropriate rights or licensing from the original content owner, Build or market directly competing media intelligence, news aggregation, or event detection services.
Plan
Pay$0
You get2,000 tokens
Enough for2,000 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Concurrent5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median4.23 s
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: resultType, articlesPage, articlesCount, articlesSortBy, articlesSortByAsc, articleBodyLen, dataType, forceMaxDataTimeWindow, query, keyword, conceptUri, categoryUri, sourceUri, sourceLocationUri, sourceGroupUri, authorUri, locationUri, lang, dateStart, dateEnd, dateMentionStart, dateMentionEnd, keywordLoc, keywordOper, keywordSearchMode, conceptOper, categoryOper, ignoreKeyword, ignoreConceptUri, ignoreCategoryUri, ignoreSourceUri, ignoreSourceLocationUri, ignoreSourceGroupUri, ignoreLocationUri, ignoreAuthorUri, ignoreLang, ignoreKeywordLoc, startSourceRankPercentile, endSourceRankPercentile, minSentiment, maxSentiment, isDuplicateFilter, eventFilter, includeArticleTitle, includeArticleBasicInfo, includeArticleBody, includeArticleEventUri, includeArticleSocialScore, includeArticleSentiment, includeArticleConcepts, includeArticleCategories, includeArticleLocation, includeArticleImage, includeArticleAuthors, includeArticleVideos, includeArticleLinks, includeArticleExtractedDates, includeArticleDuplicateList, includeArticleOriginalArticle, includeSourceTitle, includeSourceDescription, includeSourceLocation, includeSourceRanking, includeConceptLabel, includeConceptImage, includeConceptSynonyms, conceptLang, includeCategoryParentUri, includeLocationGeoLocation, includeLocationPopulation, includeLocationGeoNamesId, includeLocationCountryArea, includeLocationCountryContinent
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/article/getArticles
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with a company or academic email address, for evaluation and testing
The 82 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, page number, results returned, total pages, article ID, article URL, title, body, found date, found time, found at, published at, language, is duplicate, data type, sentiment, event ID, story ID, relevance, image URL, story similarity, source domain, source title, source data type, source description, source location label, source location type, source location Wikipedia URL, source location validated, source importance rank, source Alexa global rank, source Alexa country rank, source social media, source image URL, source thumbnail URL, category ID, category label, category weight, category parent ID, concept ID, concept type, concept label, concept score, concept image URL, concept synonyms, author ID, author name, author is agency, body links, video ID, video label, Facebook shares, Google Plus shares, Pinterest shares, LinkedIn shares, duplicate article IDs, original article, extracted date, extracted end date, extracted date detected, extracted date is ambiguous, extracted date year imputed, extracted date position in text, extracted date text snippet, dateline location label, dateline location type, dateline location Wikipedia URL, dateline location GeoNames ID, dateline location feature code, dateline location latitude, dateline location longitude, dateline location population, dateline country label, dateline country Wikipedia URL, dateline country 2-letter code, dateline country 3-letter code, dateline country web extension, dateline country area, dateline country continent, dateline country population, dateline country currency code, dateline country currency name

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