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SerpKite pricing and alternatives: news API

SerpKite'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 354 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.Scrappa, SerpBase and treg are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of SerpKite's 5 plans
Call: POST /v1/news SerpKite's only call for this API
API: News API one of SerpKite's 4 APIs

About this item

  • Live. SerpKite searches the news when you call the API.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send q to POST /v1/news. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SerpKite: news API alternatives

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

SerpKite, $300 packUjeebu, $119 monthlyFlashData, $499 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/queries/realtimeSearchCans, $597 packValueSERP, $6,000 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$0.60$0.595$0.599$0.60$0.60
Completeness67%67%67%67%67%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$300$119$499$597$6,000
Enough for500,000 calls200,000 calls a monthabout 833,333 calls a month995,000 calls10,000,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)anyone who is 18 or older, or 13 to 17 with a parent's or guardian's permissionanyone with legal capacity to enter into the agreement, a person under 16 may not create or use an accountbusinesses and developers, including individual developers, aged 18 or overanyone

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 2026-10-28.

  1. serpkite.com
  2. serpkite.com/docs/caching
  3. serpkite.com/docs/credits-and-billing
  4. serpkite.com/docs/endpoints/news.md
  5. serpkite.com/docs/providers.md
  6. serpkite.com/docs/rate-limits
  7. serpkite.com/legal/acceptable-use
  8. serpkite.com/legal/terms
  9. serpkite.com/pricing

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
Most per search100
Extra fieldsanswer text, answer citations: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Google Images · Google Videos · Google Maps · Google Places · Google Place Details · Google Reviews · Google Shopping · Google Scholar · Google Patents · Google Autocomplete · Webpage to Markdown · Custom Search (CSE-compatible) · Answer · Extract · Map · Crawl · Research · Monitors · Google Search · Batch requests
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGoogle News results for a query: headline, source, publish date, snippet and thumbnail. Combine with `time` to watch a topic over the last hour, day or week.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataTerms of Service, 6: "Results. Results reflect third-party content (titles, snippets, links, image URLs). We don't grant you any rights in that content beyond what the law allows. You are responsible for how you use, store and publish results, including any personal data or copyrighted material they contain." Acceptable Use Policy (part of the Terms), "You may not": "Resell, sublicense or provide raw API access (or a thin wrapper around it) to third parties, including as a competing search, SERP or scraping API." "Build a public search engine or bulk dataset of results that substitutes for the underlying search engine." [...] "Create multiple accounts, or use disposable emails or aliases, to obtain additional free credits." [...] "Stalking, harassment, doxxing, or people-search that profiles private individuals without a lawful basis." [...] "Building contact lists for cold outreach, bulk email or SMS, or other unsolicited marketing." "Running an OSINT or people-search service that aggregates, searches or exposes data about individuals, or reselling or distributing personal data found through results." [...] "Infringing intellectual property, for example republishing copyrighted content or licensed images found through results." "Use the Service, including /webpage, to access content behind a login, paywall or access control" [...] "Use SerpKite to extract content from sites whose content the search engine displays under license, for example bulk-extracting Reddit threads through search results." "Using results inside your own product, where results are part of a larger service you provide, is fine."
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for1,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.70 s
The call
You sendq. Optional: country, language, location, uule, num, page, time, tbs, max_age, engine, include_domains, exclude_domains, boost_domains, start_date, end_date, include_answer
MethodPOST
Path/v1/news
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

search parameters, result position, result title, result URL, publisher domain, result snippet, result date, published at, publisher name, image URL, request ID, credits used, cached, cached at, engine used, provider route, response time, parse quality, URLs resolved

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