# Scale SERP, free: News API

> Get Real-Time Data with the Most Complete Google Search API – Scale Serp API

Scale SERP's news API on its Free tier plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
We rank 354 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/250-pack/llms.txt), [SerpBase](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpbase/100-monthly/llms.txt) and [treg](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/treg/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/free
- [Best news API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/pricing/
- Request: `GET https://api.scaleserp.com/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/searches/google/news
- Sold by: Scale SERP (https://www.scaleserp.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from 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 cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get Real-Time Data with the Most Complete Google Search API – Scale Serp API

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: a 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 get: 125 credits a month
- Enough for: 125 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q, 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
- Method: GET
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free tier
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## Scale SERP's plans (14)

- [Scale SERP, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/29-monthly/llms.txt): $29.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $83 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/83-monthly/llms.txt): $8.30 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/199-monthly/llms.txt): $3.98 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $599 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/599-monthly/llms.txt): $2.396 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $1,699 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/1699-monthly/llms.txt): $1.699 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $4,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/4999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.9998 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $276 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/276-yearly/llms.txt): $23.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $792 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/792-yearly/llms.txt): $6.60 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $1,908 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/1908-yearly/llms.txt): $3.18 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $5,748 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/5748-yearly/llms.txt): $1.916 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $16,308 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/16308-yearly/llms.txt): $1.359 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $47,988 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/47988-yearly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete, live

## Scale SERP's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /search`: [Scale SERP, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/free/llms.txt)

## Scale SERP's APIs (2)

- [Scale SERP: news API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/free/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-autocomplete/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Images](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-images/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Places](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-places/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Scholar](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-scholar/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-search/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-search-full/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Shopping](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-shopping/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Videos](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-videos/llms.txt)

## Scale SERP: news API alternatives

- [FlashData, $49 monthly, Micro, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/49-monthly-micro-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $0.784 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpKite, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpkite/50-pack/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Zenserp, $4,799.88 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/zenserp/4799-88-yearly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $19,440 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/19440-yearly/llms.txt): $0.81 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## 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.

- https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/response-codes
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/results/google/news
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/searches/common
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/searches/google/news
- https://trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/
- https://trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/pricing/
- https://trajectdata.com/traject-data-terms-of-service/
- https://www.scaleserp.com