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ScrapingBot.io pricing: news API

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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run ScrapingBot.io through our news API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 836 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.198 per 1,000 searches or less. See the best free news API plan.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. AnswerLine's Starter plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.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 ScrapingBot.io plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of ScrapingBot.io's 6 plans
Call: POST /api/v1/google ScrapingBot.io's only call for this API
API: News API one of ScrapingBot.io's 15 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Source, Date, Image.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 10 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send params.q to POST /api/v1/google. You set endpoint to "/news". You can also send params.gl, params.hl, params.num, params.page and params.tbs. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: anyone aged 16 or older, and old enough to enter a contract where they live. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ScrapingBot.io: news API alternatives

ScrapingBot.io alternatives: other news API providers by price

The table starts with ScrapingBot.io's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to ScrapingBot.io's.

ScrapingBot.io, $999.99 monthlyNewsMesh, $1,908 yearlyFlashData, $199 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/queriesUjeebu, $650 packScrapeBadger, $49 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/naver/news
$ per 1,000 searches$0.645$0.636$0.647$0.65$0.653
Completeness50%83%67%67%67%
Billingmonthlyyearlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$999.99$1,908$199$650$49
Enough for1,550,000 calls a month250,000 calls a monthabout 307,692 calls a month1,000,000 calls75,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveunknownliveunknown
Who can get itanyone aged 16 or older, and old enough to enter a contract where they liveanyoneanyone with legal capacity to enter into the agreement, a person under 16 may not create or use an accountanyone who is 18 or older, or 13 to 17 with a parent's or guardian's permissionanyone 18 or over

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

  1. scrapingbot.io
  2. scrapingbot.io/docs
  3. scrapingbot.io/docs/google
  4. scrapingbot.io/google
  5. scrapingbot.io/pricing
  6. scrapingbot.io/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, not in the answer
  • Image
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 50 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGoogle News results: headline, publisher, how long ago, link and image.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataScrapingBot returns publicly available data. You are responsible for what you collect and how you use it, [...] You agree not to use the service to: Access content behind a login, a paywall or other access controls, or any non-public or private data. Track, monitor, profile or harass individuals, build dossiers on people, or make decisions about people’s eligibility for jobs, credit, housing or insurance. Collect sensitive personal data (such as health, religion, political opinions, sexuality or biometrics) or children’s data. Send spam, or collect contact details for unsolicited messages. Break the law, infringe others’ rights, or collect data you have no right to use. Overload or disrupt any website, or our service, or try to get around our limits, billing or security. Resell or give away raw access to the API itself (for example, a public proxy for our endpoints). Building your own product on top of the data is fine.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for10 calls, once
Rate limit
Concurrent1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendendpoint "/news", params.q. Optional: params.gl, params.hl, params.num, params.page, params.tbs
MethodPOST
Path/api/v1/google
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone aged 16 or older, and old enough to enter a contract where they live
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

news result title, news result link, news result source, news result date, news result thumbnail, success, search parameters, credits used

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