# Pullbay, free, GET /duckduckgo/news: News API

> Returns news articles for `term`. Use `time` to limit recency (`a`=any, `d`=day, `w`=week, `m`=month, `y`=year).

Pullbay's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Snippet, Image.
We haven't run Pullbay through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 618 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.05 per 1,000 searches or less.
[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.
[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 [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-news-article-v1-news-search/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/pullbay/free-get-duckduckgo-news
- [News API: 50+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://pullbay.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.pullbay.com/duckduckgo/news`
- API key: with the plan, on https://pullbay.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.pullbay.com/api-reference/duckduckgo?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#search-news-articles-via-duckduckgo
- Sold by: Pullbay (https://pullbay.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 70 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Returns news articles for `term`. Use `time` to limit recency (`a`=any, `d`=day, `w`=week, `m`=month, `y`=year).

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $1
- Enough for: 200 calls
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: term, region, safeSearch. Optional: offset, time
- Method: GET
- Path: /duckduckgo/news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

news result title, news result snippet, news result link, news result image, news result date, news result age, news result syndication source, news result is old, request ID, success, status, message, amount charged, currency, billable items

## Pullbay's plans (4)

- [Pullbay, free, GET /duckduckgo/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/pullbay/free-get-duckduckgo-news/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Pullbay, $9 monthly, Hobby, GET /duckduckgo/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/pullbay/9-monthly-hobby-get-duckduckgo-news/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Pullbay, $49 monthly, Builder, GET /duckduckgo/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/pullbay/49-monthly-builder-get-duckduckgo-news/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Pullbay, $199 monthly, Scale, GET /duckduckgo/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/pullbay/199-monthly-scale-get-duckduckgo-news/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live

## Pullbay's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /duckduckgo/news`: [Pullbay, free, GET /duckduckgo/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/pullbay/free-get-duckduckgo-news/llms.txt)
- `GET /google-news/search`: [Pullbay, free, GET /google-news/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/pullbay/free-get-google-news-search/llms.txt)

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- [Pullbay: news API pricing, 4 plans, GET /duckduckgo/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/pullbay/free-get-duckduckgo-news/llms.txt)
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## Pullbay: news API alternatives

- [Search1API, $99 monthly, Professional, POST /news, News, full](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/search1api/99-monthly-professional-post-news-news-full/llms.txt): $3.96 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/199-monthly/llms.txt): $3.98 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SearchApi, $40 monthly, Developer Plan, GET /api/v1/search?engine=bing_news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchapi/40-monthly-developer-plan-get-api-v1-search-engine-bing-news/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [cloro, $30 monthly, Lite, POST /v1/monitor/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/30-monthly-lite-post-v1-monitor-google-news/llms.txt): $4.00 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 2026-11-04.

- https://docs.pullbay.com/api-reference/duckduckgo?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.pullbay.com/documentation/plans-and-usage/plans.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.pullbay.com/documentation/plans-and-usage/rate-limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.pullbay.com/help-center?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.pullbay.com/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://pullbay.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing