# SerpKite, free: News API

> Google 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.

SerpKite's news API on its Free 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/serpkite/free
- [Best news API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://serpkite.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.serpkite.com/v1/news`
- API key: with the plan, on https://serpkite.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://serpkite.com/docs/endpoints/news
- Sold by: SerpKite (https://serpkite.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Extra fields: answer text, answer citations: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from 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 cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Google 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

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Terms 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 get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.70 s

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: country, language, location, uule, num, page, time, tbs, max_age, engine, include_domains, exclude_domains, boost_domains, start_date, end_date, include_answer
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## SerpKite's plans (5)

- [SerpKite, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpkite/free/llms.txt): $0.00 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
- [SerpKite, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpkite/50-pack/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpKite, $300 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpkite/300-pack/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpKite, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpkite/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete, live

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

- `POST /v1/news`: [SerpKite, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpkite/free/llms.txt)

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## SerpKite: news API alternatives

- [Ujeebu, $119 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/ujeebu/119-monthly/llms.txt): $0.595 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [FlashData, $499 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/499-monthly-pro-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $0.599 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SearchCans, $597 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchcans/597-pack/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $6,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/6000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.60 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 2026-10-28.

- https://serpkite.com
- https://serpkite.com/docs/caching
- https://serpkite.com/docs/credits-and-billing
- https://serpkite.com/docs/endpoints/news.md
- https://serpkite.com/docs/providers.md
- https://serpkite.com/docs/rate-limits
- https://serpkite.com/legal/acceptable-use
- https://serpkite.com/legal/terms
- https://serpkite.com/pricing