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ReefAPI pricing and alternatives: news API

ReefAPI's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 321 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.Scrappa, SerpBase and Serper are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of ReefAPI's 11 plans
Call: POST /bing/v1/news ReefAPI's only call for this API
API: News API one of ReefAPI's 13 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The provider searches the news when you call.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Snippet.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send q to POST /bing/v1/news. You can also send mkt, gl, hl, count and freshness. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ReefAPI: news API alternatives

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

ReefAPI, $1,200 yearlyScrappa, $10 packUjeebu, $999 monthlySerpBase, $500 packScrapingdog, $200 monthly, Pro, GET /google_news
$ per 1,000 searches$0.333$0.303$0.333$0.333$0.333
Completeness33%67%67%67%67%
Billingyearlypay firstmonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$1,200$10$999$500$200
Enough for300,000 calls a month33,000 calls3,000,000 calls a month1,500,000 calls600,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or overanyone who is 18 or older, or 13 to 17 with a parent's or guardian's permissionanyoneanyone

Every news API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-27.

  1. reefapi.com
  2. reefapi.com/_next/static/chunks/app/pricing/page-560e08c02e869119.js
  3. reefapi.com/bing-api
  4. reefapi.com/docs
  5. reefapi.com/docs/bing.md
  6. reefapi.com/pricing
  7. reefapi.com/refunds
  8. reefapi.com/terms

Product details

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

  • Source
  • Date, not in the answer
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet
  • 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: 584 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchBing News results for a keyword — article title, source, URL and snippet, sorted by recency.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou are solely responsible for how you use the data you retrieve and for ensuring your use complies with all applicable laws, third-party terms, and the rights of others (including data-protection, intellectual-property, and anti-spam laws) in your jurisdiction and your users'. You will not use the Service to break the law, infringe rights, send spam, or build a competing bulk-redistribution product. [...] Don't attempt to circumvent authentication, rate limits, or credit metering, don't probe, scan, or stress the Service except your own account within posted limits. [...] Where a source requires attribution, we surface it in the response meta, honor it.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for1,000 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: mkt, gl, hl, count, freshness
MethodPOST
Path/bing/v1/news
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

search engine, query, market, results on page, news result position, news result title, news result link, news result source, news result snippet

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