# PacketStream, top-up from $50: News API

> Up to 10 news articles

PacketStream's Search API plan for the news API costs $2.50 per 1,000 searches. PacketStream's docs list 3 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Source, Date, Image.
We haven't run PacketStream through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/99-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/answerline/top-up-from-1-starter-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.
[Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol})](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finage/49-monthly-simple-plan-get-news-cryptocurrency-symbol/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.
[The New York Times](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt) and [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50
- [News API in 2026: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://packetstream.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.packetstream.io/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://packetstream.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://packetstream.io/docs/search-api/parameters?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: PacketStream (https://packetstream.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $2.50
- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Batch searches · Fetch API

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $2.50

## In their words

- Their pitch: Up to 10 news articles

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 for: 20,000 calls
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 20
- Concurrent: 32
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, type "news". Optional: country, language, page
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Search API
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## PacketStream's plans (1)

- [PacketStream, top-up from $50](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live

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

- `POST /v1/search`: [PacketStream, top-up from $50](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt)

## PacketStream's APIs (7)

- [PacketStream: Google AI Mode scraper API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/google-ai-mode-scraper-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt)
- [PacketStream: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt)
- [PacketStream: search autocomplete API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt)
- [PacketStream: SERP API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt)
- [PacketStream: Local business search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt)
- [PacketStream: Google Shopping search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt)
- [PacketStream: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt)

## PacketStream: news API alternatives

- [Scavio, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scavio/500-monthly/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/25-pack/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SearchApi, $250 monthly, BigData Plan, GET /api/v1/search?engine=bing_news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchapi/250-monthly-bigdata-plan-get-api-v1-search-engine-bing-news/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [FastAF, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/fastaf/10-pack/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 50% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://packetstream.io/docs/search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://packetstream.io/docs/search-api/errors-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://packetstream.io/docs/search-api/parameters?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://packetstream.io/docs/search-api/responses?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://packetstream.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://packetstream.io/search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://packetstream.io/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing