# NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), free: News API

> Find news articles that match one or more search conditions.

NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry)'s news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author, Image, Full text.
We rank 504 plans by price. [Serpent API's top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500-scale-get-api-news-bing-news-search/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) and [TheNewsAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/79-monthly-pro-monthly-get-v1-news-all/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/free
- [Best news API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://newsapi.ai/plans
- Request: `GET https://eventregistry.org/api/v1/article/getArticles`
- API key: with the plan, on https://newsapi.ai/plans
- Its API docs: https://newsapi.ai/documentation?tab=searchArticles
- Sold by: NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry) (https://newsapi.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Image: ✓
- Full text: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: no limit
- Also pays for: from 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 pitch: Find news articles that match one or more search conditions.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Free 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 get: 2,000 tokens
- Enough for: 2,000 calls
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 4.23 s

## The call

- You send: nothing 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
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/article/getArticles

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry)'s plans (9)

- [NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), $90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/90-monthly/llms.txt): $18.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), $150 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/150-monthly/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), $220 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/220-monthly/llms.txt): $11.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), $400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/400-monthly/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), $700 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/700-monthly/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), $1,300 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/1300-monthly/llms.txt): $6.50 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), $3,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/3000-monthly/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete

## NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry)'s calls for this API (1)

- `GET /api/v1/article/getArticles`: [NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/free/llms.txt)

## NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry)'s APIs (2)

- [NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry): web scraping API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/free/llms.txt)
- [NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry): news API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/free/llms.txt)

## NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry): news API alternatives

- [NewsMesh, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsmesh/29-monthly/llms.txt): $5.80 per 1,000, 83% complete, 1 hour
- [1Lookup, $1,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/1lookup/1999-monthly/llms.txt): $5.997 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Search1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /news, News, full](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/search1api/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-news-news-full/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Outscraper, pay as you go, Business Tier](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/outscraper/pay-as-you-go-business-tier/llms.txt): $6.00 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 2026-10-29.

- https://newsapi.ai
- https://newsapi.ai/documentation?tab=data_models
- https://newsapi.ai/documentation?tab=searchArticles
- https://newsapi.ai/documentation?tab=usage
- https://newsapi.ai/free-news-api
- https://newsapi.ai/landing/js/script-ceb046b483.min.js
- https://newsapi.ai/llms-full.txt
- https://newsapi.ai/plans
- https://newsapi.ai/terms