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PacketStream pricing: news API

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$2.50per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run PacketStream through our news API benchmark yet.Half of the 836 plans we rank by price cost $1.198 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 35% of the 836 plans.Alpaca's $99 monthly plan 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 costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol}) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.The New York Times, Scrappa and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest PacketStream plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Search API PacketStream's only plan
Call: POST /v1/search PacketStream's only call for this API
API: News API one of PacketStream's 7 APIs

About this item

  • Live. PacketStream searches the news when you call the API.
  • 3 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Source, Date, Image.
  • A balance you top up. You pay $50 or more. You spend the whole balance on calls. $50 is enough for 20,000 calls. Calls stop once your credit runs out. The balance never expires.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/search. You set type to "news". You can also send country, language and page. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

PacketStream: news API alternatives

PacketStream alternatives: other news API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planPacketStream, top-up from $50Scavio, $500 monthlyValueSERP, $25 packSearchApi, $250 monthly, BigData Plan, GET /api/v1/search?engine=bing_newsFastAF, $10 pack
$ per 1,000 searches$2.50$2.50$2.50$2.50$2.50
Completeness50%33%67%67%50%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay firstmonthlypay first
Pay$50$500$25$250$10
Enough for20,000 calls200,000 calls a month10,000 calls100,000 calls a month4,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally able to enter the agreement ("You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter this agreement")anyoneanyoneanyoneBusinesses and developers acting for purposes relating to their trade, business, craft or profession

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

  1. packetstream.io/docs/search-api
  2. packetstream.io/docs/search-api/errors-limits
  3. packetstream.io/docs/search-api/parameters
  4. packetstream.io/docs/search-api/responses
  5. packetstream.io/pricing
  6. packetstream.io/search-api
  7. packetstream.io/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, not in the answer
  • Snippet, not in the answer
  • Image
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$2.50
Percall
Billingpay first
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Batch searches · Fetch API
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$2.50
In their words
Their pitchUp to 10 news articles
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use the Services only for lawful purposes and only where you have any permission required by law, contract, or the operator of a target system. You may not use or help others use the Services to: commit fraud, deceive others, impersonate a person or organization, or manipulate PacketStream balances, measurements, referrals, trials, payments, or payouts, gain unauthorized access to accounts, systems, devices, networks, or data, or defeat access controls or security measures, distribute malware, interfere with services, conduct denial-of-service activity, scan for vulnerabilities without authorization, or compromise credentials, send spam or unlawful communications, harass or stalk others, or collect, use, or disclose personal data unlawfully, infringe intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights, conduct unlawful financial, payment, marketplace, government, or regulated activity, circumvent PacketStream restrictions, monitoring, metering, authentication, or safety controls, or violate applicable law or cause PacketStream, a Packeter, a reseller, or another person to violate applicable law. You may not copy, modify, sell, sublicense, reverse engineer, bypass, or create derivative works from the Services or software except where applicable law expressly permits it.
Plan
Pay$50
You get$50
Enough for20,000 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second20
Concurrent32
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, type "news". Optional: country, language, page
MethodPOST
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanSearch API
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally able to enter the agreement ("You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter this agreement")
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, search parameters, query, engine, country code, page number, news result position, news result title, news result link, news result source, news result date, news result thumbnail, credits consumed, credits remaining, response time

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