NewsCatcher pricing: news API, POST /search, Search, low effort

NewsCatcher's site llms.txt News API: 60+ providers compared on price and data NewsCatcher: news API alternatives

Is NewsCatcher yours? Write to us about our scores for this plan. We invite selected tool providers to our WhatsApp group.

50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields

Top-up, Individual, POST /search, Search, low effortIn our news API benchmark, this plan 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, low effort one of NewsCatcher's 4 calls

API: News API NewsCatcher's only API

News 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 "low". 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, Search, low effort	Pushbuild, top-up	ProLevelMax, top-up, Pay per use, POST /v1/run, Google News by keyword	Rumoro, top-up from $20	SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/search/news
Completeness	50%	50%	67%	67%	67%
Billing	pay first	pay first	pay first	pay first	pay first
Pay	any amount	any amount	any amount	$20	£15
Enough for	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	about 18 pages	not published
Freshness	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	live
Who can get it	anyone	anyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract	anyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)	anyone who can enter into a binding contract	anyone 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.

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

Score
Overall score	36.1
Price score	0
Accuracy score	63
Cost to get started score	93
Bundle score	50
Performance score	3

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
Median	3.30 s

The call
You send	q, effort "low", 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