Newstex pricing: news API, GET / x402/ trending
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$10.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Newstex through our news API benchmark yet.We rank 851 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.20 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 14% of the 851 plans.Alpaca's $99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. Alpaca's $99 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Alpaca's rate limit allows. AnswerLine's Starter plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/ news/ cryptocurrency/ {symbol}) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.The New York Times, Scrappa and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: x402 pay per call Newstex's only plan
Call:
GET / x402/ trending one of Newstex's 2 callsGET /Pay as you go, x402 pay per call$10.00 per 1,000x402/ search GET /Pay as you go, x402 pay per call$10.00 per 1,000x402/ trending
API: News API Newstex's only API
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 1 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Date.
- Nothing to buy first. You pay per call.
- One call. You call
GET /. Every input is optional:x402/ trending publication_,id q,limit,cursor,published_,after published_.before - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.
Newstex: news API alternatives
Newstex alternatives: other news API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planNewstex, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /x402/trending | Scavio, top-up from $25 | Clair, $30 monthly | YepAPI, top-up | Percall API, pay as you go | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 |
| Completeness | 17% | 33% | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| Billing | pay as you go | pay first | monthly | pay first | pay as you go |
| Pay | per call | $25 | $30 | any amount | per call |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 2,500 calls | 3,000 calls a month | as many as you pay for | 1 call |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | unknown | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC from a wallet (x402) | anyone | anyone at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract | anyone | anyone, with no account: each call is paid in USDC on Base (eip155:8453) |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Source, not in the answer
- Date
- Author, not in the answer
- Snippet, not in the answer
- Image, not in the answer
- Full text, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 searches | $10.00 |
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| Per | page, size not stated |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Also pays for | nothing else |
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| $ per 1,000 | $10.00 |
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| Their pitch | Pay-per-use access to licensed news via the x402 protocol (USDC on Base). Public and unauthenticated — a funded wallet is the only credential. |
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| Keep data | no API terms |
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| Use data | no API terms |
| Pay | per call |
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| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | nothing required. Optional: publication_id, q, limit, cursor, published_after, published_before |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /x402/trending |
| Plan | x402 pay per call |
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| Who can get it | anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC from a wallet (x402) |
The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold
story ID, title, published date, URL, language