# NewsCatcher, top-up, Individual, POST /search, Search, high effort: News API

> Over 2 billion articles archived since 2019, drawn from 140,000+ sources across 50+ languages and 100+ countries.

NewsCatcher's news API on its Individual plan. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet.
In [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt), 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](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 (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})](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 (financialdata.net)'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/newscatcher/top-up-individual-post-search-search-high-effort
- [News API: 60+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.newscatcherapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.newscatcherapi.com/news-api/search`, Search, high effort
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.newscatcherapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/news/effort-levels?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: NewsCatcher (https://www.newscatcherapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Stories

## In their words

- Their pitch: Over 2 billion articles archived since 2019, drawn from 140,000+ sources across 50+ languages and 100+ countries.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Client 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

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q, effort "high", 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
- Method: POST
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Individual
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## NewsCatcher's plans (5)

- [NewsCatcher, top-up, Individual, POST /search, Search, high effort](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newscatcher/top-up-individual-post-search-search-high-effort/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [NewsCatcher, contact us, Enterprise, POST /search, Search, high effort](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newscatcher/contact-us-enterprise-post-search-search-high-effort/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [NewsCatcher, contact us, Embeddings](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newscatcher/contact-us-embeddings/llms.txt): 100% complete
- [NewsCatcher, contact us, IPTC Tags](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newscatcher/contact-us-iptc-tags/llms.txt): 100% complete
- [NewsCatcher, contact us, NLP](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newscatcher/contact-us-nlp/llms.txt): 100% complete

## NewsCatcher's calls (4)

- `POST /search`, Search: [NewsCatcher, top-up, Individual, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newscatcher/top-up-individual-post-search-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /search`, Search, high effort: [NewsCatcher, top-up, Individual, POST /search, Search, high effort](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newscatcher/top-up-individual-post-search-search-high-effort/llms.txt)
- `POST /search`, Search, low effort: [NewsCatcher, top-up, Individual, POST /search, Search, low effort](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newscatcher/top-up-individual-post-search-search-low-effort/llms.txt)
- `POST /search`, Search articles (v3): [NewsCatcher, contact us, Embeddings](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newscatcher/contact-us-embeddings/llms.txt)

## NewsCatcher's APIs (1)

- [NewsCatcher: news API pricing, 5 plans, POST /search, Search, high effort](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newscatcher/top-up-individual-post-search-search-high-effort/llms.txt)

## NewsCatcher: news API alternatives

- [Pushbuild, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/pushbuild/top-up/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [ProLevelMax, top-up, Pay per use, POST /v1/run, Google News by keyword](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/prolevelmax/top-up-pay-per-use-post-v1-run-google-news-by-keyword/llms.txt): 67% complete, live
- [Rumoro, top-up from $20](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/rumoro/top-up-from-20/llms.txt): 67% complete
- [SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/search/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/socialcrawl/15-pack-starter-get-v1-search-news/llms.txt): 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 2026-10-31.

- https://www.newscatcherapi.com/company/legal/terms-of-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/get-started/credits-and-pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/get-started/enterprise-plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/get-started/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/news/effort-levels?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/news/filters?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/news/quickstart?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/news/response-fields?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/news/writing-queries?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.newscatcherapi.com/news-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.newscatcherapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing