# Octen, free: News API

> Searches live news and returns ranked articles with model-ready highlights, images, and optional full content.

Octen's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns all 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image, Full text.
We rank 354 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/250-pack/llms.txt), [SerpBase](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpbase/100-monthly/llms.txt) and [treg](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/treg/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/octen/free
- [Best news API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://octen.ai/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.octen.ai/news-search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://octen.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.octen.ai/api-reference/news-search
- Sold by: Octen (https://octen.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓
- Full text: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from 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 pitch: Searches live news and returns ranked articles with model-ready highlights, images, and optional full content.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 minute
- Keep data: 24 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 data: your 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 for: about 1,666 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. 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
- Method: POST
- Path: /news-search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## Octen's plans (6)

- [Octen, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/octen/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 minute
- [Octen, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/octen/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 minute
- [Octen, $2,099 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/octen/2099-monthly/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 minute
- [Octen, $13,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/octen/13999-monthly/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 minute
- [Octen, $33,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/octen/33999-monthly/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 minute
- [Octen, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/octen/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, 1 minute

## Octen's calls for this API (1)

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

## Octen's APIs (2)

- [Octen: news API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/octen/free/llms.txt)
- [Octen: web search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /broad-search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/free-post-broad-search/llms.txt)
- [Octen: web search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /business-search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/free-free-post-business-search/llms.txt)
- [Octen: web search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /pulse-search, Pulse Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/free-free-post-pulse-search-pulse-search/llms.txt)
- [Octen: web search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /pulse-search, Pulse Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/free-free-post-pulse-search-pulse-search-full/llms.txt)
- [Octen: web search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/free-post-search/llms.txt)

## Octen: news API alternatives

- [SerpWow, $2,999 monthly, Infrastructure, GET /search, Google News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpwow/2999-monthly-infrastructure-get-search-google-news/llms.txt): $2.999 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [OpenWeb Ninja, pay as you go, GET /news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/openweb-ninja/pay-as-you-go-get-news/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SearchApi, $3,000 monthly, Octo 1M, Enhanced speed, GET /api/v1/search?engine=bing_news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchapi/3000-monthly-octo-1m-enhanced-speed-get-api-v1-search-engine-bing-news/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Nimble, pay as you go, POST /v2/serp](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/nimble/pay-as-you-go-post-v2-serp/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live

## 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.

- https://docs.octen.ai/api-reference/news-search.md
- https://docs.octen.ai/capabilities/news-search
- https://docs.octen.ai/capabilities/web-search
- https://docs.octen.ai/overview/pricing
- https://docs.octen.ai/resources/rate-limits
- https://octen.ai/pricing
- https://octen.ai/terms-of-service