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PerceptLayer pricing and alternatives: news API

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 529 plans by price. Serpent API's top-up from $500 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.Scrappa, Litescrape and PrismCrawl are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of PerceptLayer's 11 plans
Call: GET /v1/google-news/news PerceptLayer's only call for this API
API: News API one of PerceptLayer's 14 APIs

About this item

  • Live. PerceptLayer searches the news when you call the API.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You call GET /v1/google-news/news. Every input is optional: q, gl, hl, topic_token, kgmid, publication_token, section_token, story_token, so, start, page.
  • Who can get it: developers and businesses, 18 or older. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

PerceptLayer: news API alternatives

The table starts with PerceptLayer's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to PerceptLayer's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

PerceptLayer, $2,999 packFlashData, $499 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/queries/realtimeSerpKite, $300 packSearchCans, $597 packValueSERP, $6,000 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$0.60$0.599$0.60$0.60$0.60
Completeness67%67%67%67%67%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay firstpay firstmonthly
Pay$2,999$499$300$597$6,000
Enough for5,000,000 callsabout 833,333 calls a month500,000 calls995,000 calls10,000,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itdevelopers and businesses, 18 or olderanyone with legal capacity to enter into the agreement, a person under 16 may not create or use an accountanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)businesses and developers, including individual developers, aged 18 or overanyone

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 2026-11-01.

  1. docs.perceptlayer.com/credits
  2. docs.perceptlayer.com/errors
  3. docs.perceptlayer.com/rate-limits
  4. perceptlayer.com
  5. perceptlayer.com/apis/google-news/news
  6. perceptlayer.com/blog/google-news-api.md
  7. perceptlayer.com/legal/restricted-endpoints
  8. perceptlayer.com/legal/terms
  9. perceptlayer.com/llms.txt
  10. perceptlayer.com/openapi.json
  11. perceptlayer.com/pricing
  12. perceptlayer.com/pricing.md

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
  • Image
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 1,658 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchNews from Google News as JSON. 1 credit per successful call.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou are responsible for how you use results: having a lawful basis and any permissions you need, and meeting the laws and third-party terms that apply to your use, including rules on attribution, retention, deletion, republishing and text-and-data-mining or AI opt-outs. Within those limits, you may use results in your own applications, websites, reports and analysis: store and cache them, show them to your users, combine them with other data and analyse them, including with AI. You may not sell or redistribute results as a standalone dataset or data feed without our written agreement. [...] Some endpoints return social media content, data about identifiable people, or SEO and traffic data. They are marked "Needs terms" and only work after you accept these terms in your dashboard. [...] What you confirm: you have a lawful basis, such as legitimate interest, for processing any personal data you receive, and you collect only what you need for that purpose, you will not use the data to identify, track or contact individuals without their consent where consent is required, you will keep personal data only as long as you need it, keep it secure, and act on access, correction, deletion and objection requests as the law requires, you will respect the rights of content creators and the platform terms that legally apply to you when you store or republish content. What you may not do: use the data to decide a person's eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance or education, or for background or tenant screening, monitor or track a specific individual's location, movements or activity, build or sell profiles of private individuals, use the data for surveillance, or supply it to anyone for that purpose.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for1,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: q, gl, hl, topic_token, kgmid, publication_token, section_token, story_token, so, start, page
MethodGET
Path/v1/google-news/news
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itdevelopers and businesses, 18 or older
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

result position, result title, result URL, result type, result snippet, result date, published at, publisher name, story token, publisher token, thumbnail URL, publisher icon URL

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