# RavenPack, free: News API

> Easily find the most relevant information from trusted sources and your own data. Use it to power agents that give accurate, real-time answers.

RavenPack's Starter plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. RavenPack's docs list 2: Source, Date.
We haven't run RavenPack through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 940 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.50 or less per 1,000 searches. [See the best free news API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
[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/ravenpack/free
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://bigdata.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.bigdata.com/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://bigdata.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.bigdata.com/api-reference/search/search-documents?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: RavenPack (https://www.ravenpack.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Find by details (companies) · Find by details (people) · Private Company Overview · Private Company Funding Rounds · Get Subsidiaries

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Easily find the most relevant information from trusted sources and your own data. Use it to power agents that give accurate, real-time answers.

## Data

- Keep data: You may not (a) store, cache, retain, or archive the underlying Bigdata Content itself beyond the moment of Consumption [...] retain and keep the derivative output that the Chatbot or your Connected Model produces from that inference
- Use data: a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, one-time, per-Consumption right to use Bigdata Content and/or Files to ground the reasoning of the Chatbot or your Connected Model at inference time (a “Grounding Right”) [...] You shall not, whether directly, through the Chatbot, through the API, or through a Connected Model: 1. use any plan purchased through the Bigdata.com website other than for the individual use of one natural person [...] 2. use the Services, Bigdata Content or any Response to build, power or operate any product or service of any kind. Such use requires a separate enterprise agreement with Bigdata.com [...] 7. rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense, assign, distribute, publish, transfer, or otherwise make available Bigdata.com, or any Bigdata Content, in whole or in part, 8. use the Services or Bigdata Content to create, train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve any new or existing AI, machine-learning, or software model [...] 9. systematically download, scrape, harvest, or extract Bigdata Content [...] 10. copy, store, archive, cache, or create a database of Bigdata Content, in whole or in part [...] 11. use Searches or Responses to develop models, products, or services that compete with Bigdata.com

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $10

## Rate limit

- Per second: 8.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: search_mode "fast", one of query.text, query.texts or query.filters. Optional: query.context, query.external_search, query.ranking_params, query.max_chunks, query.auto_enrich_filters, response_detail, include_audit
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up, no credit card required

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

document ID, title, published at, URL, document type, source ID, source name, source rank, chunk number, chunk text, relevance, sentiment, detected entities and topics

## RavenPack's plans (6)

- [RavenPack, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/ravenpack/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [RavenPack, $50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/ravenpack/50-monthly/llms.txt): 33% complete
- [RavenPack, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/ravenpack/200-monthly/llms.txt): 33% complete
- [RavenPack, $480 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/ravenpack/480-yearly/llms.txt): 33% complete
- [RavenPack, $1,920 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/ravenpack/1920-yearly/llms.txt): 33% complete
- [RavenPack, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/ravenpack/contact-us/llms.txt): 33% complete

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

- `POST /v1/search`: [RavenPack, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/ravenpack/free/llms.txt)

## RavenPack's APIs (6)

- [RavenPack: company discovery API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/ravenpack/free/llms.txt)
- [RavenPack: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/ravenpack/free/llms.txt)
- [RavenPack: company funding API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/ravenpack/free/llms.txt)
- [RavenPack: company hierarchy API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/ravenpack/free/llms.txt)
- [RavenPack: news API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/ravenpack/free/llms.txt)
- [RavenPack: people search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/ravenpack/free/llms.txt)

## RavenPack: news API alternatives

- [Scrappa, free, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Hydrafetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpScraper.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [ReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/free-post-news-intel-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [NAVER Cloud, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/naver-cloud/free/llms.txt): $0.00 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://bigdata.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://bigdata.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://bigdata.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.bigdata.com/api-reference/search/search-documents.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.bigdata.com/api-rest/authentication.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.bigdata.com/api-rest/rate_limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.bigdata.com/getting-started/bigdata_pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing