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Outscraper pricing and alternatives: news API

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 504 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 Tier one of Outscraper's 3 plans
Call: GET /google-search-news Outscraper's only call for this API
API: News API one of Outscraper's 8 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Snippet.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 requests a month.
  • One call. You send query and async to GET /google-search-news. You can also send pagesPerQuery, uule, language, region, tbs, fields, ui, format and webhook. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. Or the provider sends the answer to your webhook.
  • Who can get it: anyone who adds a payment method. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Outscraper: news API alternatives

The table starts with Outscraper's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Outscraper's.

Outscraper, pay as you go, Business TierNewsMesh, $29 monthly1Lookup, $1,999 monthlySearch1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /news, News, fullNewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), $3,000 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$6.00$5.80$5.997$6.00$6.00
Completeness33%83%67%67%83%
Billingpay as you gomonthlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Paymonthly$29$1,999$5$3,000
Enough foras many as you pay for5,000 calls a monthabout 333,333 calls a monthas many as you pay for500,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknown1 hourliveliveunknown
Who can get itanyone who adds a payment methodanyoneanyone with a business name and a working business email addressanyoneanyone with a company or academic email address

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 2026-10-31.

  1. app.outscraper.cloud/api-docs#tag/email-related/GET/email-validator
  2. app.outscraper.cloud/api-docs#tag/google/GET/google-search-news
  3. app.outscraper.cloud/api-docs-data.json
  4. outscraper.com/bulk-email-list-cleaning-api/
  5. outscraper.com/email-address-validator-api/
  6. outscraper.com/email-address-validator/
  7. outscraper.com/faq/
  8. outscraper.com/google-news-api/
  9. outscraper.com/pricing/
  10. outscraper.com/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, not in the answer
  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet
  • Image, not in the answer
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchCollect Google News headlines, snippets, publish times, and article links for any topic. The first 50 searches each month are free.
Data
Keep datano limit in its public terms (the Global Services Agreement that governs them is given only at sign-up or on request)
Use dataYou may not use our products for any illegal or unauthorized purpose nor may you, in the use of the Service, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws). In addition to other prohibitions as set forth in the Terms of Service, you are prohibited from using the site, its content, or content obtained via the site: (a) for any unlawful purpose, (b) to solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts, (c) to violate any international, federal, provincial or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances, (d) to infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others, (e) to harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability, [...] (i) against Outscraper or in a way that can harm Outscraper.
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 requests a month
Enough for50 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second20
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling or webhook
The call
You sendquery, async. Optional: pagesPerQuery, uule, language, region, tbs, fields, ui, format, webhook
MethodGET
Path/google-search-news
About the plan
PlanFree Tier
Who can get itanyone who adds a payment method
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, result position, result title, result snippet, result date, result URL

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