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Scale SERP pricing and alternatives: news API

Scale SERP'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 354 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.Scrappa, SerpBase and treg are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free tier one of Scale SERP's 14 plans
Call: GET /search Scale SERP's only call for this API
API: News API one of Scale SERP's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Scale SERP 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 125 credits a month, enough for 125 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send q to GET /search. You set search_type to "news". The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Scale SERP: news API alternatives

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

Scale SERP, $47,988 yearlyFlashData, $49 monthly, Micro, POST /v1/queries/realtimeSerpKite, $50 packZenserp, $4,799.88 yearlyValueSERP, $19,440 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$0.80$0.784$0.80$0.80$0.81
Completeness67%67%67%67%67%
Billingyearlymonthlypay firstyearlyyearly
Pay$47,988$49$50$4,799.88$19,440
Enough for5,000,000 calls a month62,500 calls a month62,500 calls500,000 calls a month2,000,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone with legal capacity to enter into the agreement, a person under 16 may not create or use an accountanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)anyoneanyone

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. docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/response-codes
  2. docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/results/google/news
  3. docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/searches/common
  4. docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/searches/google/news
  5. trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/
  6. trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/pricing/
  7. trajectdata.com/traject-data-terms-of-service/
  8. scaleserp.com

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: Google Search · Google Images · Google Videos · Google Scholar · Google Autocomplete · Google Places · Google Place Details · Google Place Photos · Google Place Reviews · Google Place Products · Google Place Posts · Google Shopping · Google Product · Google Product Details · Google Product Reviews · Google Product Online Sellers · Google Product Specifications
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet Real-Time Data with the Most Complete Google Search API – Scale Serp API
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataa limited, non-exclusive, personal, non-transferrable, non-sublicensable, non-assignable license to access and use the Service [...] solely for your personal use on a Device that you own or control. [...] You may not: (i) cause, permit or authorize the modification, copying, creation of derivative works, translation, reverse engineering, decomplication, disassembly, or hacking of the Service, (ii) sell, assign, rent, lease, or grant rights in the Service, including, without limitation, through sublicense, to any other person or entity, or (iii) use the Service for any unlawful, prohibited, abnormal, or unusual activity as determined by ScraperAPI [...] All products and services sold by or received from ScraperAPI are intended to be used for personal purposes only, and you may not sell or resell any products or services you purchase or otherwise receive from ScraperAPI.
Plan
Pay$0
You get125 credits a month
Enough for125 calls a month
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq, search_type "news". Optional: location, location_auto, uule, google_domain, gl, hl, lr, cr, time_period, time_period_min, time_period_max, nfpr, filter, safe, page, max_page, tbs, sort_by, show_duplicates, exclude_if_modified, device, mobile_type, tablet_type, include_html, skip_on_incident, hide_base64_images, cookie, include_fields, exclude_fields
MethodGET
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree tier
Who can get itanyone
The 39 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, credits used, credits consumed, credits remaining, credits reset at, created at, processed at, total time taken, request URL, HTML URL, JSON URL, location auto message, search parameters, total results, time taken, query displayed, original query yields zero results, top story position, top story title, top story link, top story visible initially, top story source, top story date, top story ISO date, top story thumbnail, top story is video, top story is live, top story block position, news result position, news result title, news result link, news result domain, news result source, news result date, news result ISO date, news result snippet, news result thumbnail, news result block position, pagination

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