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SerpWow pricing and alternatives: news API, GET /search, Google News Top Stories

SerpWow's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026

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$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 Trial one of SerpWow's 12 plans
Call: GET /search, Google News Top Stories one of SerpWow's 5 calls for this API
API: News API one of SerpWow's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. SerpWow searches the news when you call the API.
  • None of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author, Snippet and 2 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits a month, enough for 100 calls.
  • One call. You send q to GET /search. You set engine to "google" and search_type to "news_top_stories". The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SerpWow: news API alternatives

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

SerpWow, $86,400 yearly, Infrastructure XL (annual), GET /search, Google News Top StoriesSearchApi, $2,800 monthly, Octo 2M, GET /api/v1/search?engine=google_news_lightZenserp, $149.99 monthlySerply, $15 packOpenWeb Ninja, $75 monthly, Ultra, GET /news
$ per 1,000 searches$1.44$1.40$1.50$1.50$1.50
Completeness0%67%67%50%67%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$86,400$2,800$149.99$15$75
Enough for5,000,000 calls a month2,000,000 calls a month100,000 calls a month10,000 calls50,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone, a minor with a parent's permission

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. docs.trajectdata.com/serpwow/search-api/getting-started/send-requests
  2. docs.trajectdata.com/serpwow/search-api/google/news-top-stories
  3. docs.trajectdata.com/serpwow/search-api/results/google/news-top-stories
  4. docs.trajectdata.com/serpwow/search-api/searches/common
  5. docs.trajectdata.com/serpwow/wdKjorsUBhVLnAM71RIpO
  6. trajectdata.com/discover-serpwow-api/
  7. trajectdata.com/serp/serp-wow-api/
  8. trajectdata.com/traject-data-terms-of-service/
  9. serpwow.com

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, not in the answer
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet, not in the answer
  • Image, not in the answer
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Google Search · Google News · Google Images · Google Videos · Google Places · Google Shopping · Google Scholar · Google Autocomplete · Bing Search · Bing News · Bing Images · Yahoo Search · Yahoo News · Baidu Search · Yandex Search · Naver Search · Naver News · Google Reverse Image · Google Trends · Google Place Details · Google Map Place Details · Google Place Photos · Google Place Reviews · Google Place Products · Google Place Posts · Google Product Details · Google Product Reviews · Google Product Online Sellers · Google Product Specifications · Amazon Search · eBay Search
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchEasily extract real-time results from Google and other leading engines with our flexible, developer-friendly API.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataa limited, non-exclusive, personal, non-transferrable, non-sublicensable, non-assignable license to access and use the Service [...] solely for your personal use on a Device that you own or control. [...] You may not: (i) cause, permit or authorize the modification, copying, creation of derivative works, translation, reverse engineering, decomplication, disassembly, or hacking of the Service, (ii) sell, assign, rent, lease, or grant rights in the Service, including, without limitation, through sublicense, to any other person or entity, or (iii) use the Service for any unlawful, prohibited, abnormal, or unusual activity as determined by ScraperAPI [...] All products and services sold by or received from ScraperAPI are intended to be used for personal purposes only, and you may not sell or resell any products or services you purchase or otherwise receive from ScraperAPI.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits a month
Enough for100 calls a month
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq, engine "google", search_type "news_top_stories". Optional: url, device, mobile_type, tablet_type, include_html, skip_on_incident, cookie, include_fields, exclude_fields, output, csv_fields
MethodGET
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree Trial
Who can get itanyone
The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, credits used, credits consumed, credits remaining, credits reset at, created at, processed at, total time taken, request URL, HTML URL, JSON URL, location auto message, top story title, top story link, top story full coverage link, top story date, top story written by, top story related story title, top story related story link, top story related story source, top story related story date, top story related story written by

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