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Scrapa pricing: news API

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Scrapa through our news API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 805 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.Alpaca's $99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. Alpaca's $99 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Alpaca's rate limit allows.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol}) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.The New York Times, Scrappa and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Scrapa plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of Scrapa's 6 plans
Call: POST /search Scrapa's only call for this API
API: News API one of Scrapa's 4 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Scrapa searches the news when you call the API.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Snippet.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 250 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the end of the billing month, plan credits do not roll over.
  • One call. You send query to POST /search. You set topic to "news". You can also send limit, timeRange, includeDomains, answer, proxy.pool, proxy.server and proxy.country. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: anyone with an account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Scrapa: news API alternatives

Scrapa alternatives: other news API providers by price

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

Scrapa, $99 monthlyOmkar Cloud, $148 monthly, Scale Plan, GET /google-search/newsHasData, $1,190 yearlyPerceptLayer, $199 packScale SERP, $4,999 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$0.99$0.987$0.992$0.995$0.9998
Completeness33%50%50%67%67%
Billingmonthlymonthlyyearlypay firstmonthly
Pay$99$148$1,190$199$4,999
Enough for100,000 pages a month150,000 calls a month100,000 calls a month200,000 calls5,000,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with an accountanyone aged 18 or over who is not in a country under a United States embargo or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted partiesanyonedevelopers and businesses, 18 or olderanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

  1. api.scrapa.app/v1/openapi.json
  2. docs.scrapa.app/en/guides/credits
  3. docs.scrapa.app/en/guides/search
  4. scrapa.app/en
  5. scrapa.app/en/pricing
  6. scrapa.app/en/terms

Product details

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

  • Source, not in the answer
  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet
  • Image, not in the answer
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Perpage of 10
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search20
Extra fieldsanswer: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Scrape a page · List a site's URLs · Start a batch · Start a browser session
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAsk for news and results come from a news index: dated journalism, freshest first, narrowed by `timeRange` to the last day, week or month.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataThe acceptable-use policy is part of these terms. In short: do not point this API at what the policy forbids, do not use it to collect personal data you have no basis to hold, do not resell raw proxy bandwidth, and do not try to reach anything on our network other than the API itself.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for250 pages a month
Expiresat the end of the billing month, plan credits do not roll over
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, topic "news". Optional: limit, timeRange, includeDomains, answer, proxy.pool, proxy.server, proxy.country
MethodPOST
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with an account
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, topic, engine used, proxy pool, bytes, cached, position, URL, page title, snippet, credits used, credits remaining, request ID, published at

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