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Search1API pricing and alternatives: news API, POST /news, News

Search1API's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 321 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.Scrappa, SerpBase and Serper are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Search1API's 11 plans
Call: POST /news, News one of Search1API's 2 calls for this API
API: News API one of Search1API's 5 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The provider searches the news when you call.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. 3 are in the plan's price: Date, Snippet, Image. 1 costs extra: Full text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 100 calls. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send query to POST /news. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Search1API: news API alternatives

The table starts with Search1API's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Search1API's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Search1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /news, NewsFlashData, $1,999 monthly, Business, POST /v1/queries/realtimeSerpBase, $50 packUjeebu, $3,229.20 yearlyValueSERP, $108,000 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$0.416$0.40$0.40$0.449$0.45
Completeness67%67%67%67%67%
Billingyearlymonthlypay firstyearlyyearly
Pay$4,990$1,999$50$3,229.20$108,000
Enough for1,000,000 calls a month5,000,000 calls a month125,000 calls600,000 calls a month20,000,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone with legal capacity to enter into the agreement, a person under 16 may not create or use an accountanyoneanyone who is 18 or older, or 13 to 17 with a parent's or guardian's permissionanyone

Every news API provider we score, ranked

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.

  1. api.search1api.com/openapi.json
  2. blog.s1.dev/pages/acceptable-use
  3. blog.s1.dev/pages/terms
  4. s1.dev/docs/basic/news
  5. s1.dev/docs/essentials/credits-and-limits.md
  6. s1.dev/pricing.md
  7. s1.dev/docs/essentials/credits-and-limits
  8. search1api.com
  9. search1api.com/pricing

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
  • Full textcosts more
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search50
Extra fieldspage content: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search · Ask · Maps · Crawl · Screenshot · Sitemap · Trending · Extract · DeepCrawl
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch recent news across multiple sources with site, language, and time filters, plus optional full page content.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data"Our Products must not be used to transmit, distribute or store any material in violation of any applicable law. This includes but isn't limited to: any material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and any material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat or violates export control laws.", "Our Products must not be used for the purpose of sending unsolicited bulk or commercial messages in violation of the laws and regulations applicable to your jurisdiction (\"spam\").", "Our Products must not be used for the purpose of running unconfirmed mailing lists or telephone number lists (\"messaging lists\")." [...] "Our Products must not be used to access any account or electronic resource where the group or individual attempting to gain access does not own or is not authorized to access the resource", "Our Products must not be used for the purpose of intentionally or recklessly introducing viruses or malicious code into our Products and systems.", "Our Products must not be used for purposely engaging in activities designed to harass another group or individual.", "Other activities considered unethical, exploitative, and malicious include: Obtaining (or attempting to obtain) services from us with the intent to avoid payment, [...] Any act or omission in violation of consumer protection laws and regulations, Any violation of a person's privacy.", "Our Products may not be used by any person or entity, which is involved with or suspected of involvement in activities or causes relating to illegal gambling, terrorism, narcotics trafficking, arms trafficking [...]", "We provide our facilities with the assumption your use will be \"business as usual\", as per our offer schedule. If your use is considered to be excessive, then additional fees may be charged, or capacity may be restricted."
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for100 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second3.33
Batch50
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: search_service, max_results, crawl_results, image, include_sites, exclude_sites, language, time_range
MethodPOST
Path/news
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

search parameters, page title, URL, snippet, published date, result type, repository stars, repository language, comment count, story URL, points, images

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