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Octen pricing and alternatives: news API

Octen's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026

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100% complete: all 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 354 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.Scrappa, SerpBase and treg are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Octen's 6 plans
Call: POST /news-search Octen's only call for this API
API: News API one of Octen's 2 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 minute old. You get articles Octen saved earlier.
  • All 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image, Full text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit once, enough for about 1,666 calls.
  • One call. You send query to POST /news-search. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Octen: news API alternatives

The table starts with Octen's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Octen's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.

Octen, top-up from $5SerpWow, $2,999 monthly, Infrastructure, GET /search, Google NewsOpenWeb Ninja, pay as you go, GET /newsSearchApi, $3,000 monthly, Octo 1M, Enhanced speed, GET /api/v1/search?engine=bing_newsNimble, pay as you go, POST /v2/serp
$ per 1,000 searches$3.00$2.999$3.00$3.00$3.00
Completeness100%67%67%67%0%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay as you gomonthlypay as you go
Pay$5$2,999monthly$3,000monthly
Enough foras many as you pay for1,000,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for1,000,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for
Freshness1 minutelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyone, a minor with a parent's permissionanyoneanyone who signs up

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 2026-10-27.

  1. docs.octen.ai/api-reference/news-search.md
  2. docs.octen.ai/capabilities/news-search
  3. docs.octen.ai/capabilities/web-search
  4. docs.octen.ai/overview/pricing
  5. docs.octen.ai/resources/rate-limits
  6. octen.ai/pricing
  7. octen.ai/terms-of-service

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
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Pulse Search · Broad Search · Web Search · Image Search · Video Search · Business Search · Place Search · Extract · Embedding · VL Embedding · Answer · Deep Research · Grounded Generation · Auto Search
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearches live news and returns ranked articles with model-ready highlights, images, and optional full content.
Data
Freshness1 minute
Keep data24 hours: a cache to improve your application's performance may not persist longer, no permanent storing, archiving or database of the output built as a substitute for its services
Use datayour internal business purposes or integration into your applications as its documentation permits, no competing search engine or AI model developed or trained on it, no resale, lease, sublicense or distribution of the services without its written consent, Octen may name you and show your logo as a customer
Plan
Pay$0
You get$5
Enough forabout 1,666 calls, once
Rate limit
Per second10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: count, include_domains, exclude_domains, time_basis, time_range, start_time, end_time, language, highlight.enable, highlight.max_tokens, full_content.enable, full_content.max_tokens, subjects.enable, subjects.count, subjects.max_sub_news
MethodPOST
Path/news-search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

original query, page title, URL, highlight, full content, author or website name, published date, last crawled date, favicon URL, cover image URL, cover image description, image URL, image description, subject name, subject summary, subject start date, subject latest article date, subject top article, subject sub-event articles, number of subject search queries, request ID, latency, warning, number of search queries, billable full content results

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