# Newsfilter, free: News API

> The query API allows you to search and filter articles in our entire news corpus.

Newsfilter's news API on its Starter plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
We haven't run Newsfilter through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 618 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.05 per 1,000 searches or less.
[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.
[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 [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-news-article-v1-news-search/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsfilter/free
- [News API: 50+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://newsfilter.io/api-plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.newsfilter.io/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://newsfilter.io/api-plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developers.newsfilter.io/docs/news-query-api-request-response-formats.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Newsfilter (https://newsfilter.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 5
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 10,000
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The query API allows you to search and filter articles in our entire news corpus.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 hour
- Keep data: "It is prohibited to use, store, reproduce, display, modify, transmit or distribute the data contained in this website without the explicit prior written permission of we and/or the data provider"
- Use data: "It is prohibited to use, store, reproduce, display, modify, transmit or distribute the data contained in this website without the explicit prior written permission of we and/or the data provider. All intellectual property rights are reserved by the providers and/or the exchange providing the data contained in this website."

## Plan

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

## Rate limit

- Per day: 100
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: queryString, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: from, size
- Method: POST
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, total results relation, start index, page size, sort order, article ID, title, snippet, URL, image URL, published date, source ID, source name, ticker symbols, industries, sectors

## Newsfilter's plans (4)

- [Newsfilter, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsfilter/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 1 hour
- [Newsfilter, $35 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsfilter/35-monthly/llms.txt): $1.167 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Newsfilter, $65 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsfilter/65-monthly/llms.txt): $0.217 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Newsfilter, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsfilter/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete

## Newsfilter's calls (1)

- `POST /search`: [Newsfilter, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsfilter/free/llms.txt)

## Newsfilter's APIs (1)

- [Newsfilter: news API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsfilter/free/llms.txt)

## Newsfilter: news API alternatives

- [PrismCrawl, $100 pack, Growth, POST /v1/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/prismcrawl/100-pack-growth-post-v1-google-news/llms.txt): $0.21 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [TheNewsAPI, $192 yearly, Basic, yearly, GET /v1/news/top](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/192-yearly-basic-yearly-get-v1-news-top/llms.txt): $0.21 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $15,000 yearly, Business Pro, GET /google_news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingdog/15000-yearly-business-pro-get-google-news/llms.txt): $0.215 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Searlo, $399 pack, Growth, GET /search/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searlo/399-pack-growth-get-search-news/llms.txt): $0.222 per 1,000, 67% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://developers.newsfilter.io/docs/news-query-api-authentication.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.newsfilter.io/docs/news-query-api-endpoint.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.newsfilter.io/docs/news-query-api-overview.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.newsfilter.io/docs/news-query-api-request-response-formats.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.newsfilter.io/docs/stock-market-news-api-introduction.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://newsfilter.io/api-plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing