# ScriptMasterLabs, pay as you go: News API

> Google News RSS headlines for agent news pulse.

ScriptMasterLabs's x402 pay per call plan for the news API costs $1.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. ScriptMasterLabs's docs list 1: Source.
We haven't run ScriptMasterLabs through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
We rank 881 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.30 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 54% of the 881 plans.
[Alpaca's $99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/99-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/answerline/top-up-from-1-starter-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.
[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 Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) and [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-news-article-v1-news-search/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scriptmasterlabs.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://mcp-x402.onrender.com/x402/news-headlines`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://mcp-x402.onrender.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#/paths/~1x402~1news-headlines
- Sold by: ScriptMasterLabs (https://scriptmasterlabs.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Source: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $1.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Google News RSS headlines for agent news pulse.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may not use our services to violate law, infringe rights, gain unauthorized access, distribute malware, interfere with service operation, evade usage limits, abuse payment systems, or misrepresent identity or authorization. [...] Third-party names and services remain subject to their respective owners' terms.

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: q, limit, gl, hl
- Method: GET
- Path: /x402/news-headlines

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base (x402)

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

result count, title, URL, source, published, query, timestamp

## ScriptMasterLabs's plans (1)

- [ScriptMasterLabs, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 17% complete

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

- `GET /x402/news-headlines`: [ScriptMasterLabs, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ScriptMasterLabs's APIs (4)

- [ScriptMasterLabs: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScriptMasterLabs: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScriptMasterLabs: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, GET /v1/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-scrape/llms.txt)
- [ScriptMasterLabs: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, GET /api/web/read-markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-web-read-markdown/llms.txt)
- [ScriptMasterLabs: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, GET /api/web/extract-once](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-web-extract-once/llms.txt)
- [ScriptMasterLabs: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, GET /x402/web-fetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x402-web-fetch/llms.txt)
- [ScriptMasterLabs: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, GET /x402/web-markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x402-web-markdown/llms.txt)
- [ScriptMasterLabs: web search API pricing, 2 plans, GET /api/web/research/once](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-web-research-once/llms.txt)
- [ScriptMasterLabs: web search API pricing, 2 plans, GET /x402/web-search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x402-web-search/llms.txt)

## ScriptMasterLabs: news API alternatives

- [Scrappa, pay as you go, x402, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $50 monthly, Ultra monthly, POST /news-intel/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/50-monthly-ultra-monthly-post-news-intel-v1-search/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpKite, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpkite/10-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 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 2026-11-09.

- https://mcp-x402.onrender.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mcp-x402.onrender.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://scriptmasterlabs.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://scriptmasterlabs.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://squeezeos-api.onrender.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing