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NewsMesh pricing and alternatives: news API

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields

$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 502 plans by price. Serpent API's top-up from $500 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.Scrappa, Litescrape and TheNewsAPI are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of NewsMesh's 8 plans
Call: GET /v1/search NewsMesh's only call
API: News API NewsMesh's only API

About this item

  • A copy at most 24 hours old. You get articles NewsMesh saved earlier.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 25 requests a day. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send q to GET /v1/search. You can also send searchIn, from, to, category, sources, excludeSources, country, sourceCountry, limit, sortBy and cursor. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: anyone, for development and testing only. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

NewsMesh: news API alternatives

The table starts with NewsMesh's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to NewsMesh's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

NewsMesh, $1,908 yearlySERPHouse, $49.99 monthly, Regular, POST /yahoo-newsValueSERP, $37,800 yearlySearch1API, $190 yearly, Basic (annual), POST /news, NewsFlashData, $199 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/queries/realtime
$ per 1,000 searches$0.636$0.625$0.63$0.633$0.647
Completeness83%67%67%67%67%
Billingyearlymonthlyyearlyyearlymonthly
Pay$1,908$49.99$37,800$190$199
Enough for250,000 calls a month80,000 calls a month5,000,000 calls a month25,000 calls a monthabout 307,692 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone with legal capacity to enter into the agreement, a person under 16 may not create or use an account

Every news API provider we score, ranked

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.

  1. newsmesh.co
  2. newsmesh.co/docs
  3. newsmesh.co/pricing
  4. newsmesh.co/terms

Product details

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

  • Source
  • Date
  • Author
  • Snippet
  • Image
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Get Trending Articles · Get Latest Articles · Get Single Article
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReal-time news data, structured for AI agents, RAG pipelines and apps.
Data
Freshness24 hours
Keep datano limit
Use dataYour subscription grants you a limited, non-exclusive license to access and use the API according to these terms. [...] You agree not to use the API to: (1) violate any laws or regulations, (2) infringe on intellectual property rights, (3) transmit harmful code or malware, (4) attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems, or (5) resell or redistribute the API data without authorization. [...] The Free plan is for development and testing purposes only. It may not be used in any production, staging, or live end-user facing environment. Production use, automated systems, and scheduled polling require a paid plan. [...] The Starter, Growth and Pro plans, and enterprise agreements, include commercial use rights.
Plan
Pay$0
You get25 requests a day
Enough for25 calls a day
Rate limit
Per day25
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: searchIn, from, to, category, sources, excludeSources, country, sourceCountry, limit, sortBy, cursor
MethodGET
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone, for development and testing only
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

article ID, title, description, link, image URL, published date, source, category, topics, people, authors, country relevance, next cursor

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