# Siftwright, $29 monthly: News API

> Google News results as clean JSON, for any query

Siftwright's news API on its Starter plan. It costs $87.00 per 1,000 searches. Siftwright's docs list 3 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Source, Date, Snippet.
We haven't run Siftwright through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 794 plans we rank by price cost $1.10 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 2% of the 794 plans.
[Alpaca's $99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/99-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. Alpaca's $99 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Alpaca's rate limit allows.
[Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol})](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finage/49-monthly-simple-plan-get-news-cryptocurrency-symbol/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.
[The New York Times](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt) and [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/siftwright/29-monthly
- [News API: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://siftwright.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://siftwright.com/v1/google-news`
- API key: with the plan, on https://siftwright.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://siftwright.com/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#google-news
- Sold by: Siftwright (https://siftwright.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $87.00
- Per: call
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $29

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: POST /v1/youtube-transcript · POST /v1/screenshot · POST /v1/pqc-scan · POST /v1/contact-details · POST /v1/tech-stack · Apple App Store reviews endpoint (POST /v1/app-store-reviews) · POST /v1/ats-jobs · POST /v1/domain-whois

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Google News results as clean JSON, for any query

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You're responsible for how you use the tools and the data they return. Use them lawfully, respect the terms and rights of the websites and services you access, and don't use them to harm others or to collect personal data without a lawful basis.

## Plan

- Pay: $29
- You get: 10,000 results a month
- Enough for: about 333 calls a month
- Expires: end of billing period

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: maxItems, language, country
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/google-news

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter
- Who can get it: anyone

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

query, result title, result URL, publisher name, published at, result snippet, status, result count, credits used

## Siftwright's plans (4)

- [Siftwright, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/siftwright/29-monthly/llms.txt): $87.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Siftwright, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/siftwright/99-monthly/llms.txt): $59.40 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Siftwright, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/siftwright/299-monthly/llms.txt): $35.88 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Siftwright, $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/siftwright/999-monthly/llms.txt): $19.98 per 1,000, 50% complete, live

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

- `POST /v1/google-news`: [Siftwright, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/siftwright/29-monthly/llms.txt)

## Siftwright's APIs (5)

- [Siftwright: App Store review API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-review-apis/siftwright/29-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Siftwright: news API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/siftwright/29-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Siftwright: company open jobs API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/siftwright/29-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Siftwright: tech stack API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/siftwright/29-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Siftwright: domain WHOIS API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/siftwright/29-monthly/llms.txt)

## Siftwright: news API alternatives

- [Scale SERP, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/29-monthly/llms.txt): $29.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [NewsData.io, $199.99 monthly, Basic, GET /1/archive](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsdata-io/199-99-monthly-basic-get-1-archive/llms.txt): $49.998 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [QuanticData, $79 monthly, Growth, POST /scraper/collectors/google_news/run](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/quanticdata/79-monthly-growth-post-scraper-collectors-google-news-run/llms.txt): $63.20 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $960 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/lobstr-io/960-yearly/llms.txt): $80.00 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 2026-11-07.

- https://siftwright.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://siftwright.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://siftwright.com/google-news-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://siftwright.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://siftwright.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://siftwright.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing