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ReefAPI pricing and alternatives: news API, POST /news-intel/v1/search

ReefAPI's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 412 plans by price. AllNewsAPI's $200 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.033. AllNewsAPI's $200 monthly plan covers up to 200,000 searches a day.Scrappa, Litescrape and TheNewsAPI are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of ReefAPI's 11 plans
Call: POST /news-intel/v1/search one of ReefAPI's 3 calls for this API
API: News API one of ReefAPI's 25 APIs

About this item

  • Live. ReefAPI searches the news when you call the API.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
  • 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 query to POST /news-intel/v1/search. You can also send timespan, start, end, language, country, sort, max, merge_google_news, dedup and similarity. 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 yearly, Enterprise yearly, POST /news-intel/v1/searchScrappa, $10 pack, Starter, GET /api/google/newsUjeebu, $999 monthlySerpBase, $500 packScrapingdog, $200 monthly, Pro, GET /google_news/v2
$ per 1,000 searches$0.333$0.303$0.333$0.333$0.333
Completeness67%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 2026-10-29.

  1. reefapi.com
  2. reefapi.com/_next/static/chunks/app/pricing/page-560e08c02e869119.js
  3. reefapi.com/docs
  4. reefapi.com/docs/news-intel.md
  5. reefapi.com/pricing
  6. reefapi.com/refunds
  7. 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
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet
  • Image
  • 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 pitchGlobal news search across GDELT (+ optionally merged Google-News-RSS), de-duplicated into one unified article shape. The core 'what's the news on X' call.
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 sendquery. Optional: timespan, start, end, language, country, sort, max, merge_google_news, dedup, similarity
MethodPOST
Path/news-intel/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

result title, result URL, publisher domain, source country, published at, language code, result snippet, image URL, publisher name, duplicate count, also reported by, total before dedup, removed duplicates, sources used

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