# Newstex, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /x402/trending: News API

> Pay-per-use access to licensed news via the x402 protocol (USDC on Base). Public and unauthenticated — a funded wallet is the only credential.

Newstex's x402 pay per call plan for the news API costs $10.00 per 1,000 searches. Newstex's docs list 1 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Date.
We haven't run Newstex through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/99-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/answerline/top-up-from-1-starter-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.
[Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol})](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finage/49-monthly-simple-plan-get-news-cryptocurrency-symbol/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.
[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 [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newstex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x402-trending
- [News API in 2026: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://static.newstex.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://mcp.newstex.com/x402/trending`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://mcp.newstex.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Newstex (https://www.newstex.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Date: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $10.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $10.00

## In their words

- 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.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: publication_id, q, limit, cursor, published_after, published_before
- Method: GET
- Path: /x402/trending

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- 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

## Newstex's plans (1)

- [Newstex, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /x402/trending](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newstex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x402-trending/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 17% complete

## Newstex's calls (2)

- `GET /x402/search`: [Newstex, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /x402/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newstex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x402-search/llms.txt)
- `GET /x402/trending`: [Newstex, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /x402/trending](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newstex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x402-trending/llms.txt)

## Newstex's APIs (1)

- [Newstex: news API pricing, 1 plan, GET /x402/trending](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newstex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x402-trending/llms.txt)

## Newstex: news API alternatives

- [Scavio, top-up from $25](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scavio/top-up-from-25/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Clair, $30 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/clair/30-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [YepAPI, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/yepapi/top-up/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Percall API, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/percall-api/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mcp.newstex.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://static.newstex.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.newstex.com/terms-of-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing