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Reduck News API pricing

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Reduck through our news API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 1,022 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.35 or less per 1,000 searches. 334 news API plans on our price sheet are free. TickerTick's free plan scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 64.9 out of 100.Alpaca's $99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches, with no charge per call. You get as many searches as Alpaca's rate limit allows. AnswerLine's Starter plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol}) covers any number of searches, and costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.Scrappa, Hydrafetch and SignalShelf are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Reduck plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Starter one of Reduck's 4 plans
Call: POST /run Reduck's only call for this API
API: News API one of Reduck's 64 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Reduck searches the news when you call the API.
  • 3 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Source, Date, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests a month. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send script.args.query to POST /run. You set script.host to "news.google.com", script.slug to "search_news" and script.handle to "reduck". You can also send script.args.when, script.args.count, script.args.country, script.args.language and browser. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or older with a Reduck account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Reduck: news API alternatives

Reduck alternatives: other news API providers by price

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

Reduck, $20 monthlyArch Tools, $49 monthlySiftwright, $999 monthlyx402node, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /serp/newsXynaptic, pay as you go
$ per 1,000 searches$20.00$19.60$19.98$20.00$20.00
Completeness50%33%50%33%33%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlypay as you gopay as you go
Pay$20$49$999per callper call
Enough for1,000 calls a month2,500 calls a month50,000 calls a monthas many as you pay foras many as you pay for
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or older with a Reduck accountanyone aged 18 or over with a valid email addressanyoneanyone with a wallet paying USDC on Base or Solana (x402), no account or API keyanyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base, Polygon or Solana (x402), with no account or API key

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-12.

  1. docs.reduck.ai/core-concepts
  2. mcp.reduck.ai/openapi.json
  3. reduck.ai/explore/scripts/reduck/linkedin.com/get_profile.md
  4. reduck.ai/explore/scripts/reduck/news.google.com/search_news.md
  5. reduck.ai/llms.txt
  6. reduck.ai/pricing
  7. reduck.ai/terms-of-service

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Source
  • Date
  • Author
  • Snippet, not in the answer
  • Image, not in the answer
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 1,382 other Reduck calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch Google News for articles by keyword and return each result's title, source, publish time, byline and Google News article link, up to count articles. complete says whether these are all the results Google News has for the query. An empty list means the search matched nothing. Supports a recency filter (when, for example 7d) and the country and language edition. Google often refuses these searches from managed browsers, so run it on your own browser.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou shall not: Violate any applicable law or third-party rights. Access computer systems without authorization or circumvent security measures. Collect or process sensitive personal data (health, financial, government IDs) without proper authorization. Send spam, distribute malware, or engage in fraud or phishing. Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Services. Overburden or interfere with our systems or networks. Sell, rent, or sublicense access to the Services. Scrape third-party websites in violation of their terms, or bypass rate limits, paywalls, or robots.txt directives. Create multiple Accounts to circumvent restrictions. Access other users' Accounts or data without authorization. Transmit harmful code, viruses, or malicious software through the Services. Attempt unauthorized access to Our systems, networks, or infrastructure. [...] Certain uses of the Services involve elevated risk and are prohibited, including but not limited to interactions with financial platforms (banking, investments, payments), social media accounts, e-commerce platforms, or any services where automated actions may trigger transactions, account restrictions, content publication, or irreversible operations. [...] You are solely responsible for complying with the terms of service and policies of third-party websites you access through the Services, and for ensuring you have the legal right to automate interactions with them. [...] strictly for your internal or personal use of the Services.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 requests a month
Enough for100 calls a month
Rate limit
Concurrent4
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
The call
You sendscript.host "news.google.com", script.slug "search_news", script.handle "reduck", script.args.query. Optional: script.args.when, script.args.count, script.args.country, script.args.language, browser
MethodPOST
Path/run
About the plan
PlanStarter
Who can get itanyone 18 or older with a Reduck account
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, result count, Google News ID, Google News URL, result title, publisher name, published at, authors

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