# Outscraper, free: News API

> Collect Google News headlines, snippets, publish times, and article links for any topic. The first 50 searches each month are free.

Outscraper's news API on its Free Tier plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Snippet.
We rank 504 plans by price. [Serpent API's top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500-scale-get-api-news-bing-news-search/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) and [TheNewsAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/79-monthly-pro-monthly-get-v1-news-all/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/outscraper/free
- [Best news API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://outscraper.com/pricing/
- Request: `GET https://api.outscraper.cloud/google-search-news`
- API key: with the plan, on https://outscraper.com/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://app.outscraper.cloud/api-docs#tag/google/GET/google-search-news
- Sold by: Outscraper (https://outscraper.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Collect Google News headlines, snippets, publish times, and article links for any topic. The first 50 searches each month are free.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit in its public terms (the Global Services Agreement that governs them is given only at sign-up or on request)
- Use data: You 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 get: 50 requests a month
- Enough for: 50 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 20
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook

## The call

- You send: query, async. Optional: pagesPerQuery, uule, language, region, tbs, fields, ui, format, webhook
- Method: GET
- Path: /google-search-news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Tier
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Outscraper's plans (3)

- [Outscraper, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/outscraper/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Outscraper, pay as you go, Medium Tier](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/outscraper/pay-as-you-go-medium-tier/llms.txt): $9.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Outscraper, pay as you go, Business Tier](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/outscraper/pay-as-you-go-business-tier/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

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

- `GET /google-search-news`: [Outscraper, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/outscraper/free/llms.txt)

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## Outscraper: news API alternatives

- [NewsMesh, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsmesh/29-monthly/llms.txt): $5.80 per 1,000, 83% complete, 1 hour
- [1Lookup, $1,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/1lookup/1999-monthly/llms.txt): $5.997 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Search1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /news, News, full](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/search1api/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-news-news-full/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), $3,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/3000-monthly/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 83% 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 2026-10-31.

- https://app.outscraper.cloud/api-docs#tag/email-related/GET/email-validator
- https://app.outscraper.cloud/api-docs#tag/google/GET/google-search-news
- https://app.outscraper.cloud/api-docs-data.json
- https://outscraper.com/bulk-email-list-cleaning-api/
- https://outscraper.com/email-address-validator-api/
- https://outscraper.com/email-address-validator/
- https://outscraper.com/faq/
- https://outscraper.com/google-news-api/
- https://outscraper.com/pricing/
- https://outscraper.com/terms-of-service/