# Serper, free: News API

> Experience unparalleled speed with our industry-leading SERP API, delivering lightning-fast Google search results in 1-2 seconds, at an unbeatable price.

Serper's news API on its "2,500 free queries" plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
We rank 354 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/250-pack/llms.txt), [SerpBase](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpbase/100-monthly/llms.txt) and [treg](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/treg/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serper/free
- [Best news API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://serper.dev
- Request: `POST https://google.serper.dev/news`
- API key: with the plan, on https://serper.dev
- Its API docs: https://serper.dev
- Sold by: Serper (https://serper.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search · Images · Maps · Places · Videos · Shopping · Scholar · Patents · Autocomplete

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Experience unparalleled speed with our industry-leading SERP API, delivering lightning-fast Google search results in 1-2 seconds, at an unbeatable price.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: 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. 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. [...] Data accessible through Serper may contain third-party content (such as text, images, and videos). This content will remain the sole responsibility of those who make it available. In some cases, public-domain content accessible to Serper 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. [...] Permission is granted to download the materials (information or software) on the Serper website and Service for as long as your use case requires. This constitutes the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license, you may not: Modify, copy, prepare derivative works of, decompile, or reverse engineer any materials and software contained on the serper.dev website. Remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials. Register more than one account at any point in time. Mirror the materials on any other server as-is with no-value-added. Attempt to circumvent any restrictions or limits placed on your Serper API key or account.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 2,500 credits
- Enough for: 2,500 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.36 s

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: num, gl, hl, location
- Method: POST
- Path: /news

## About the plan

- Plan: 2,500 free queries
- Who can get it: businesses: its terms say "Serper is a business-to-business service and does not provide end-user (consumer) services"

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

search parameters, news result position, news result title, news result link, news result snippet, news result source, news result date, news result thumbnail, credits consumed

## Serper's plans (5)

- [Serper, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serper/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Serper, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serper/50-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Serper, $375 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serper/375-pack/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Serper, $1,250 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serper/1250-pack/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Serper, $3,750 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serper/3750-pack/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

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

- `POST /news`: [Serper, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serper/free/llms.txt)

## Serper's APIs (2)

- [Serper: news API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serper/free/llms.txt)
- [Serper: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /scholar](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serper/free-2500-free-queries-post-scholar/llms.txt)
- [Serper: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serper/free/llms.txt)

## Serper: news API alternatives

- [SerpBase, $3 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpbase/3-monthly/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Autom, $3,750 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/autom/3750-pack/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [PrismCrawl, $5 pack, Micro, POST /v1/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/prismcrawl/5-pack-micro-post-v1-google-news/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [CrawlerData, $3,750 pack, Ultimate, POST /v1/jobs](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crawlerdata/3750-pack-ultimate-post-v1-jobs/llms.txt): $0.30 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 2026-10-27.

- https://docs.crewai.com/en/tools/search-research/serperdevtool
- https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/blob/main/lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/serper_dev_tool/serper_dev_tool.py
- https://serper.dev
- https://serper.dev/terms