# PerceptLayer, free: News API

> News from Google News as JSON. 1 credit per successful call.

PerceptLayer's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
We rank 529 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 [PrismCrawl](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/prismcrawl/200-pack-pro-post-v1-google-news/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/free
- [Best news API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://perceptlayer.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.perceptlayer.com/v1/google-news/news`
- API key: with the plan, on https://perceptlayer.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://perceptlayer.com/apis/google-news/news
- Sold by: PerceptLayer (https://perceptlayer.com)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 1,658 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: News from Google News as JSON. 1 credit per successful call.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: q, gl, hl, topic_token, kgmid, publication_token, section_token, story_token, so, start, page
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/google-news/news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: developers 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

## PerceptLayer's plans (11)

- [PerceptLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, $15 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/15-pack/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/59-pack/llms.txt): $1.18 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, $199 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/199-pack/llms.txt): $0.995 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, $399 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/399-pack/llms.txt): $0.798 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, $699 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/699-pack/llms.txt): $0.699 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, $2,999 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/2999-pack/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, $5,999 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/5999-pack/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, $14,999 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/14999-pack/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, $29,999 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/29999-pack/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/google-news/news`: [PerceptLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/free/llms.txt)

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## PerceptLayer: news API alternatives

- [FlashData, $499 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/499-monthly-pro-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $0.599 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpKite, $300 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpkite/300-pack/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SearchCans, $597 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchcans/597-pack/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $6,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/6000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 67% 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 2026-11-01.

- https://docs.perceptlayer.com/credits
- https://docs.perceptlayer.com/errors
- https://docs.perceptlayer.com/rate-limits
- https://perceptlayer.com
- https://perceptlayer.com/apis/google-news/news
- https://perceptlayer.com/blog/google-news-api.md
- https://perceptlayer.com/legal/restricted-endpoints
- https://perceptlayer.com/legal/terms
- https://perceptlayer.com/llms.txt
- https://perceptlayer.com/openapi.json
- https://perceptlayer.com/pricing
- https://perceptlayer.com/pricing.md