# Percall API, pay as you go: News API

> Search real-time breaking news, market events, and press releases across major global publications.

Percall API's Pay per request plan for the news API costs $10.00 per 1,000 searches. Percall API's docs list 2 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Date, Snippet.
We haven't run Percall API through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 830 plans we rank by price cost $1.193 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 14% of the 830 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.
[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/percall-api/pay-as-you-go
- [News API: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://percallapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://percallapi.com/news`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://percallapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Percall API (https://percallapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $10.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search real-time breaking news, market events, and press releases across major global publications.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call
- You get: 1 request
- Enough for: 1 call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: count
- Method: GET
- Path: /news

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per request
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account: each call is paid in USDC on Base (eip155:8453)

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, total results, article title, URL, snippet, publisher, published date, extra snippets

## Percall API's plans (1)

- [Percall API, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/percall-api/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

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

- `GET /news`: [Percall API, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/percall-api/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Percall API's APIs (4)

- [Percall API: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/percall-api/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Percall API: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/percall-api/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Percall API: phone validation API pricing, 1 plan, GET /carrier-lookup](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/percall-api/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-carrier-lookup/llms.txt)
- [Percall API: phone validation API pricing, 1 plan, GET /caller-id](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/percall-api/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-caller-id/llms.txt)
- [Percall API: web search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/percall-api/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Percall API: news API alternatives

- [Scavio, top-up from $25](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scavio/top-up-from-25/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Clair, $30 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/clair/30-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [YepAPI, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/yepapi/top-up/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Tavily, pay as you go, x402, paid per request](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/pay-as-you-go-x402-paid-per-request/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 83% 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://access402.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://percallapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://percallapi.com/.well-known/ard.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://percallapi.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://percallapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing