# NewsAPI.org, free, Developer, GET /v2/top-headlines: News API

> Locate articles and breaking news headlines from news sources and blogs across the web with our JSON API

NewsAPI.org's news API on its Developer plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image.
In [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt), the best plan from NewsAPI.org scores 57.5 out of 100. NewsAPI.org ranks 39th of 73 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 745 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.
[Financial Data's $69 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/financial-data-financialdata-net/69-monthly-premium-get-api-v1-latest-news/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.00089. Financial Data's $69 monthly plan covers up to 77,760,000 searches a month at no extra cost.
[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 Financial Data's $69 monthly plan.
[The New York Times](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/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/newsapi-org/free-developer-get-v2-top-headlines
- [News API: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://newsapi.org/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines`
- API key: with the plan, on https://newsapi.org/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://newsapi.org/docs/endpoints/top-headlines?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: NewsAPI.org (https://newsapi.org?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Everything · Sources

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Locate articles and breaking news headlines from news sources and blogs across the web with our JSON API

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- 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).

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests a day
- Enough for: 100 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 100
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.17 s

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: country, category, sources, q, pageSize, page
- Method: GET
- Path: /v2/top-headlines

## About the plan

- Plan: Developer
- 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

## NewsAPI.org's plans (6)

- [NewsAPI.org, free, Developer, GET /v2/top-headlines](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-org/free-developer-get-v2-top-headlines/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [NewsAPI.org, $449 monthly, Business, GET /v2/top-headlines](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-org/449-monthly-business-get-v2-top-headlines/llms.txt): $1.796 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [NewsAPI.org, $1,749 monthly, Advanced, GET /v2/top-headlines](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-org/1749-monthly-advanced-get-v2-top-headlines/llms.txt): $0.875 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [NewsAPI.org, $4,308 yearly, Business, billed yearly, GET /v2/top-headlines](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-org/4308-yearly-business-billed-yearly-get-v2-top-headlines/llms.txt): $1.436 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [NewsAPI.org, $16,788 yearly, Advanced, billed yearly, GET /v2/top-headlines](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-org/16788-yearly-advanced-billed-yearly-get-v2-top-headlines/llms.txt): $0.70 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [NewsAPI.org, contact us, Enterprise, GET /v2/top-headlines](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-org/contact-us-enterprise-get-v2-top-headlines/llms.txt): 83% complete, live

## NewsAPI.org's calls (2)

- `GET /v2/everything`: [NewsAPI.org, free, Developer, GET /v2/everything](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-org/free-developer-get-v2-everything/llms.txt)
- `GET /v2/top-headlines`: [NewsAPI.org, free, Developer, GET /v2/top-headlines](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-org/free-developer-get-v2-top-headlines/llms.txt)

## NewsAPI.org's APIs (1)

- [NewsAPI.org: news API pricing, 6 plans, GET /v2/top-headlines](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-org/free-developer-get-v2-top-headlines/llms.txt)

## NewsAPI.org: news API alternatives

- [HasData, $16,600 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hasdata/16600-yearly/llms.txt): $0.692 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, €599 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapeunblocker/599-monthly/llms.txt): $0.698 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, $699 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/699-pack/llms.txt): $0.699 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $3,500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/3500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.70 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## 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.org?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://newsapi.org/docs/authentication?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://newsapi.org/docs/endpoints/everything?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://newsapi.org/docs/endpoints/sources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://newsapi.org/docs/endpoints/top-headlines?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://newsapi.org/docs/errors?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://newsapi.org/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://newsapi.org/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing