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NewsCatcher pricing: news API, POST /search, Search

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
Top-up, Individual, POST /search, SearchIn our news API benchmark, the best plan from NewsCatcher scores 36.1 out of 100. NewsCatcher ranks 60th of 62 providers.This plan costs . 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 (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol}) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan.The New York Times, Scrappa and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Individual one of NewsCatcher's 5 plans
Call: POST /search, Search one of NewsCatcher's 4 calls
API: News API NewsCatcher's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet.
  • A balance you top up. You pay any amount. You spend the whole balance on calls.
  • One call. You call POST /search. You send q and the Content-Type header "application/json" on POST. You set effort to "medium". The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

NewsCatcher: news API alternatives

NewsCatcher alternatives: every news API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans that you pay for up front. These plans come closest to this plan in number of key fields.

This planNewsCatcher, top-up, Individual, POST /search, SearchPushbuild, top-upProLevelMax, top-up, Pay per use, POST /v1/run, Google News by keywordRumoro, top-up from $20SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/search/news
Completeness50%50%67%67%67%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay firstpay firstpay first
Payany amountany amountany amount$20£15
Enough foras many as you pay foras many as you pay foras many as you pay forabout 18 pagesnot published
Freshnessunknownunknownliveunknownlive
Who can get itanyoneanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contractanyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)anyone who can enter into a binding contractanyone 18 or over

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

  1. newscatcherapi.com/company/legal/terms-of-conditions
  2. newscatcherapi.com/docs/get-started/credits-and-pricing
  3. newscatcherapi.com/docs/get-started/enterprise-plans
  4. newscatcherapi.com/docs/get-started/rate-limits
  5. newscatcherapi.com/docs/news/effort-levels
  6. newscatcherapi.com/docs/news/filters
  7. newscatcherapi.com/docs/news/quickstart
  8. newscatcherapi.com/docs/news/response-fields
  9. newscatcherapi.com/docs/news/writing-queries
  10. newscatcherapi.com/news-api
  11. newscatcherapi.com/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Source
  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet
  • Image, not in the answer
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
Percall
Billingpay first
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Stories
In their words
Their pitchOver 2 billion articles archived since 2019, drawn from 140,000+ sources across 50+ languages and 100+ countries.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataClient will not, directly or indirectly: (i) reverse engineer, decompile, copy, mirror, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover or reproduce the source code, object code, or underlying structure, feature, function, user interface, ideas, know-how, or algorithms relevant to the Services, (ii) modify, translate, or create derivative works based on the Services (except to the extent expressly permitted by Company or authorized within the Services), (iii) use or make available any portion of the Services for any timesharing, commercial, or service bureau purposes or otherwise for the benefit of a third party, including as an outsourcing offering, except as expressly set forth herein, (iv) build or create applications, programs, or services that are competitive with the Services, (v) remove any proprietary notices or labels, (vi) use the Services beyond the Service Capacity or other usage limits set forth in this Agreement, (vii) remove any attribution to third parties included with the Services, or (viii) violate the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) or other applicable laws. [...] Client acknowledges and agrees that the Services will be for internal use only
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq, effort "medium", Content-Type header "application/json" on POST. Optional: search_window, languages, not_languages, countries, not_countries, sources, not_sources, min_newsrooms, content_type, sort_by, limit, collapse, include
MethodPOST
Path/search
About the plan
PlanIndividual
Who can get itanyone
The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, effort, sort order, time taken, search window, window clamped, results returned, excluded terms, news result ID, news result title, news result title in English, news result summary, news result summary in English, news result snippet, news result link, source domain, source name, news result language, source country, news result date, crawled at, content type, story ID, story newsrooms, relevance score

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