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SearchCans pricing and alternatives: news API

SearchCans'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 SearchCans's 6 plans
Call: POST /api/v1/search SearchCans's only call for this API
API: News API one of SearchCans's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The provider searches the news when you call.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 100 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send s to POST /api/v1/search. You set t to "google_news" and the Content-Type header to "application/json". You can also send country, p, page, d and html. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: businesses and developers, including individual developers, aged 18 or over. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SearchCans: news API alternatives

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

SearchCans, $1,680 packUjeebu, $1,285.20 yearlyValueSERP, $64,800 yearlySearch1API, $990 yearly, Professional (annual), POST /news, NewsFlashData, $499 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/queries/realtime
$ per 1,000 searches$0.56$0.535$0.54$0.55$0.599
Completeness67%67%67%67%67%
Billingpay firstyearlyyearlyyearlymonthly
Pay$1,680$1,285.20$64,800$990$499
Enough for3,000,000 calls200,000 calls a month10,000,000 calls a month150,000 calls a monthabout 833,333 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itbusinesses and developers, including individual developers, aged 18 or overanyone who is 18 or older, or 13 to 17 with a parent's or guardian's permissionanyoneanyoneanyone with legal capacity to enter into the agreement, a person under 16 may not create or use an account

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. searchcans.com/account-api
  2. searchcans.com/google-news-api
  3. searchcans.com/google-search-api
  4. searchcans.com/pricing
  5. searchcans.com/rate-limits
  6. searchcans.com/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
  • Image
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Google Search API · Google Shopping API · Google Images API · Google Videos API · Google Short Videos API · Bing Search API · Reader API · File Extraction API · Web Screenshot API
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchBuilt for media monitoring, PR tracking, and trend research. One POST returns real-time Google News headlines with source, publication date, snippet, and thumbnail — fresh stories indexed within minutes.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataData accessible through SearchCans may contain third-party content (such as text, images, and videos). [...] In some cases, public-domain content accessible to SearchCans may also be subject to intellectual property rights. If this is the case, you may not use it unless you are licensed to do so or are otherwise permitted by law. [...] Unless applicable by law or expressly permitted by the owner, you will not, and will not permit your end users or others acting on your behalf to, do any of the following with the Data returned from the API: Misrepresent the ownership or the source of the Data. Obscure, remove or change any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices. Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal notices, or other labels of the origin or source of material.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for100 calls, once
Rate limit
Concurrent1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendt "google_news", s, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: country, p, page, d, html
MethodPOST
Path/api/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itbusinesses and developers, including individual developers, aged 18 or over
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, news result position, news result title, news result source, news result link, news result date, news result ISO date, news result snippet, news result thumbnail

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