NewsAPI.org pricing: news API, GET /
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$0.00per 1,000 searchesIn our news API benchmark, the best plan from NewsAPI.org scores 57.3 out of 100. NewsAPI.org ranks 33rd of 62 providers.This plan is free. We rank 710 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.00089. Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan covers up to 77,760,000 searches a month at no extra cost.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/
Plan: Developer one of NewsAPI.org's 6 plans
- Free, DeveloperDeveloper$0.00 per 1,000
- $449 monthly, BusinessBusiness$1.796 per 1,000
- $1,749 monthly, AdvancedAdvanced$0.875 per 1,000
- $4,308 yearly, Business, billed yearlyBusiness, billed yearly$1.436 per 1,000
- $16,788 yearly, Advanced, billed yearlyAdvanced, billed yearly$0.70 per 1,000
- Contact us, EnterpriseEnterprise
Call:
GET / one of NewsAPI.org's 2 callsAPI: News API NewsAPI.org's only API
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, Snippet, Image.
- Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests a day. Calls stop once your requests run out.
- One call. You call
GET /. Every input is optional:v2/ top-headlines country,category,sources,q,pageSize,page. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
NewsAPI.org: news API alternatives
NewsAPI.org alternatives: every news API provider ranked
The table starts with NewsAPI.org's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to NewsAPI.org's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| NewsAPI.org, $16,788 yearly, Advanced, billed yearly, GET /v2/top-headlines | HasData, $16,600 yearly | ScrapeUnblocker, €599 monthly | PerceptLayer, $699 pack | ValueSERP, $3,500 monthly | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.70 | $0.692 | $0.698 | $0.699 | $0.70 |
| Completeness | 83% | 50% | 67% | 67% | 67% |
| Billing | yearly | yearly | monthly | pay first | monthly |
| Pay | $16,788 | $16,600 | €599 | $699 | $3,500 |
| Enough for | 2,000,000 calls a month | 2,000,000 calls a month | 966,000 calls a month | 1,000,000 calls | 5,000,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone | anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.") | developers and businesses, 18 or older | anyone |
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.
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
- Full text, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Everything · Sources |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Locate articles and breaking news headlines from news sources and blogs across the web with our JSON API |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | Permission is granted to download the materials (information or software) on News API's website for as long as your use case requires. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not: attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on News API's website, remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials, register more than one API key at any one time, unless authorised, attempt to circumvent any restrictions or limits placed on your API key or account, use the service to reproduce or republish copyrighted material, use the service in any manner that violates any laws directly or indirectly, attempt to build a competing news database. [...] Data accessible through News API may contain third party content (such as text, images, videos). This content will remain the sole responsibility of those who make it available. In some cases content accessible through our API may also be subject to intellectual property rights. If this is the case you may not use it unless you are licensed to do so or are otherwise permitted by law. Unless applicable by law or expressly permitted by the owner, you will not, and will not permit your end users or others acting on your behalf to, do any of the following with the Data returned from the API: Misrepresent the ownership or the source, Obscure, remove or change any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices, Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal notices, or other labels of the origin or source of material. Unless expressly authorized herein, you may not publicly release or disclose any data or usage statistics or other information regarding the Data. [...] The Developer plan may be used for development and testing in a development environment only, and cannot be used in a staging or production environment (including internally). |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | 100 requests a day |
| Enough for | 100 calls a day |
| Per day | 100 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| Median | 0.17 s |
| You send | nothing required. Optional: country, category, sources, q, pageSize, page |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /v2/top-headlines |
| Plan | Developer |
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| Who can get it | anyone, for development and testing in a development environment only: not in staging or production, internally included |
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold
search status, total results, source ID, source name, author, title, description, URL, image URL, published date, content snippet