# rankur, $98 monthly: News API

> With our API you can receive your search results, metric results and summarized trend info as structured data and process them in your own software tool.

rankur's Agency plan for the news API costs $653.333 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. rankur's docs list 2: Source, Author.
We haven't run rankur through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
We rank 956 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.50 or less per 1,000 searches. 7 of the 956 plans cost more per 1,000 searches than this plan.
[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.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [Hydrafetch](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/99-monthly/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/rankur/98-monthly
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://rankur.com/plans-pricing.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.rankur.com/add_search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://rankur.com/plans-pricing.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://rankur.com/social-media-monitoring-api.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#newsearch
- Sold by: rankur (https://rankur.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Source: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $653.333
- Per: call
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $98

## Charges

- Also pays for: Echo Service: 10,000 calls per 24h · Get Saved Searches: 10,000 calls per 24h · Get Search Results: 10,000 calls per 24h · Get Sentiment Widget Data: 10,000 calls per 24h · Get Timeline Widget Data: 10,000 calls per 24h

## In their words

- Their pitch: With our API you can receive your search results, metric results and summarized trend info as structured data and process them in your own software tool.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Users and customers are responsible for their compliance with these terms and will procure that each User complies with the Twitter Terms of Service (https://twitter.com/tos), Youtube Terms of Service, (https://www.youtube.com/t/terms), and Google Privacy Policy and has the right, interest, and permissions, to make the customer data available to Rankur for processing. [...] It is prohibited to our customers to use obtained data in a way that is outside the author's reasonable expectations.

## Plan

- Pay: $98
- You get: 150 keywords a month
- Enough for: 150 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 100
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling

## The call

- You send: name, query. Optional: "news", "images", "web", "forums", "videos", "reviews", "facebook", "twitter" or "gplus" in sources, languages, countries, excluded_domains, excluded_twitter_profiles
- Method: GET
- Path: /add_search

## About the plan

- Plan: Agency
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

source, sentiment, mention text, author name, author username, author influence score

## rankur's plans (2)

- [rankur, $98 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/rankur/98-monthly/llms.txt): $653.333 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [rankur, $298 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/rankur/298-monthly/llms.txt): $99.333 per 1,000, 33% complete

## rankur's calls (1)

- `GET /add_search`: [rankur, $98 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/rankur/98-monthly/llms.txt)

## rankur's APIs (1)

- [rankur: news API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/rankur/98-monthly/llms.txt)

## rankur: news API alternatives

- [TrawlingWeb, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trawlingweb/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $202.554 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Webz.io, top-up, Scale, GET /api/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/webz-io/top-up-scale-get-api-news/llms.txt): $500.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Messari, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/messari/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $550.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Trading Economics, $99 pack, Professional Plan, 1-week trial, GET /news, Latest News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trading-economics/99-pack-professional-plan-1-week-trial-get-news-latest-news/llms.txt): $990.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://rankur.com/api.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://rankur.com/author-privacy-policy.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://rankur.com/plans-pricing.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://rankur.com/social-media-monitoring-api.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://rankur.com/terms-and-conditions.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing