# ScrapeMole, pay as you go: News API

> News articles for a query: headline, URL, publisher, published time, snippet and image, sortable by relevance or date, with freshness filter (hour/day/week/month).

ScrapeMole's news API on its Pay per call over x402 plan. It costs $2.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
We haven't run ScrapeMole through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 710 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 34% of the 710 plans.
[Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/financial-data-financialdata-net/69-monthly-premium-get-api-v1-latest-news/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.00089. Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan covers up to 77,760,000 searches a month at no extra cost.
[Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol})](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finage/49-monthly-simple-plan-get-news-cryptocurrency-symbol/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan.
[The New York Times](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt) and [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go
- [News API: 60+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapemole.pages.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://search.scrapemole.workers.dev/v1/news`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://search.scrapemole.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScrapeMole (https://scrapemole.pages.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $2.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: News articles for a query: headline, URL, publisher, published time, snippet and image, sortable by relevance or date, with freshness filter (hour/day/week/month).

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with the law and with the terms of the sites the data comes from. Do not use the API to build profiles of individuals, for spam, or to infringe copyright (transcripts are provided for analysis, search, accessibility and research, do not republish them as your own content).

## Plan

- Pay: per call
- You get: 1 request
- Enough for: 1 call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: count, page, market, sort, freshness
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/news

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per call over x402
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, results on page, page number, sort order, freshness filter, news result position, news result title, news result link, news result domain, news result source, news result published at, news result snippet, news result thumbnail, search engine, request URL

## ScrapeMole's plans (1)

- [ScrapeMole, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## ScrapeMole's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/news`: [ScrapeMole, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ScrapeMole's APIs (11)

- [ScrapeMole: web search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Bluesky profile API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: search autocomplete API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Hacker News search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Bluesky post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-post-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Hacker News comment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Telegram channel post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-post-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: YouTube channel video API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ScrapeMole: news API alternatives

- [DataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/serp/google/news/live/advanced](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/dataforseo/top-up-from-50-pay-as-you-go-post-v3-serp-google-news-live-advanced/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Serply, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serply/5-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $600 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/600-yearly/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SearchApi, $500 monthly, Scale Plan, GET /api/v1/search?engine=bing_news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchapi/500-monthly-scale-plan-get-api-v1-search-engine-bing-news/llms.txt): $2.00 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 2026-11-05.

- https://scrapemole.pages.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://scrapemole.pages.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://scrapemole.pages.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://search.scrapemole.workers.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://search.scrapemole.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing