# NewsData.io, free, GET /1/latest: News API

> Get real-time and historical news from 102434+ trusted sources across 206+ countries in 90+ languages.

NewsData.io's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image.
We rank 504 plans by price. [Serpent API's top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500-scale-get-api-news-bing-news-search/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) and [TheNewsAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/79-monthly-pro-monthly-get-v1-news-all/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/free-get-1-latest
- [Best news API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://newsdata.io/pricing
- Request: `GET https://newsdata.io/api/1/latest`
- API key: with the plan, on https://newsdata.io/pricing
- Its API docs: https://newsdata.io/documentation/latest-news-api
- Sold by: NewsData.io (https://newsdata.io)
- 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

- Most per search: no limit
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Crypto News · Market News · News Sources · Real-Time Streaming API

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get real-time and historical news from 102434+ trusted sources across 206+ countries in 90+ languages.

## Data

- Freshness: 12 hours
- Keep data: for the term of the agreement
- Use data: [...] a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sub-licensable, non-assignable license to access and use the selected proprietary application programming interface solely to implement, integrate and use the NewsData.io/Bytesview Services for personal or internal business purposes. [...] Except as expressly authorized under this Agreement, Customer may not: Copy, rent, lease, sell, transfer, assign, sublicense, disassemble, reverse engineer, create derivative works, decompile, modify, adapt or alter any part of the NewsData.io API, Use the NewsData.io API on behalf of any third party or otherwise make the API available over a network where it could be used by others, Create multiple accounts and/or use multiple API Keys, Use the Product to reproduce copyrighted material, [...] Use the NewsData.io API in any manner that violates any laws directly or indirectly. [...] You may use the Data Derivatives for your internal and external business purposes. [...] the users can use the data for their personal or professional purposes, keeping in mind not to break any copyright law or any other law of their country. The customers can sublicense, sell, syndicate or otherwise share the Data with any third party on their own risk. [...] Unless otherwise authorised, you shall agree to display an attribution to NewsData.io API alongside any implementation or display of the NewsData.io API Data [...] with the text "Powered by NewsData.io API".

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 200 credits a day
- Enough for: 200 calls a day
- Expires: end of the day

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.033
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: q, qInTitle, qInMeta, country, excludecountry, category, excludecategory, language, excludelanguage, domainurl, excludedomainurl, prioritydomain, id, url, timeframe, timezone, image, video, full_content, removeduplicate, sentiment, sentiment_score, tag, region, organization, creator, datatype, size, page, sort, excludefield
- Method: GET
- Path: /1/latest

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, article ID, URL, title, description, keywords, authors, language, country, category, content type, publish date, time zone, collected at, image URL, video URL, source ID, source name, source priority, source URL, source icon URL, sentiment, sentiment breakdown, topic tags, duplicate, next page

## NewsData.io's plans (8)

- [NewsData.io, free, GET /1/latest](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/free-get-1-latest/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, 12 hours
- [NewsData.io, $199.99 monthly, Basic, GET /1/latest](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/199-99-monthly-basic-get-1-latest/llms.txt): $9.999 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [NewsData.io, $349.99 monthly, Professional, GET /1/latest](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/349-99-monthly-professional-get-1-latest/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [NewsData.io, $1,299.99 monthly, Corporate, GET /1/latest](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/1299-99-monthly-corporate-get-1-latest/llms.txt): $1.30 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [NewsData.io, $1,919.99 yearly, Basic (yearly), GET /1/latest](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/1919-99-yearly-basic-yearly-get-1-latest/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [NewsData.io, $3,359.99 yearly, Professional (yearly), GET /1/latest](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/3359-99-yearly-professional-yearly-get-1-latest/llms.txt): $5.60 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [NewsData.io, $9,989.99 yearly, Corporate (yearly), GET /1/latest](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/9989-99-yearly-corporate-yearly-get-1-latest/llms.txt): $0.833 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [NewsData.io, contact us, Custom, GET /1/latest](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/contact-us-custom-get-1-latest/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## NewsData.io's calls (4)

- `GET /1/crypto`: [NewsData.io, free, GET /1/crypto](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/free-get-1-crypto/llms.txt)
- `GET /1/latest`: [NewsData.io, free, GET /1/latest](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/free-get-1-latest/llms.txt)
- `GET /1/market`: [NewsData.io, free, GET /1/market](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/free-get-1-market/llms.txt)
- `GET /1/archive`: [NewsData.io, $199.99 monthly, Basic, GET /1/archive](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/199-99-monthly-basic-get-1-archive/llms.txt)

## NewsData.io's APIs (1)

- [NewsData.io: news API pricing, 8 plans, GET /1/latest](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/free-get-1-latest/llms.txt)

## NewsData.io: news API alternatives

- [HasData, $1,660 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hasdata/1660-monthly/llms.txt): $0.83 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Search1API, $99 pack, Pay as you go, $99 (+20% bonus), POST /news, News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/search1api/99-pack-pay-as-you-go-99-20-bonus-post-news-news/llms.txt): $0.833 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $400 yearly, Lite, GET /google_news/v2](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingdog/400-yearly-lite-get-google-news-v2/llms.txt): $0.833 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [NewsMesh, $756 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsmesh/756-yearly/llms.txt): $0.84 per 1,000, 83% 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://newsdata.io/
- https://newsdata.io/breaking-news-api
- https://newsdata.io/documentation/api-credit-limits
- https://newsdata.io/documentation/api-credit-usage
- https://newsdata.io/documentation/api-rate-limit
- https://newsdata.io/documentation/latest-news-api
- https://newsdata.io/free-news-api
- https://newsdata.io/llms-full.txt
- https://newsdata.io/llms.txt
- https://newsdata.io/openapi.json
- https://newsdata.io/pricing
- https://newsdata.io/terms