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SignalShelf pricing: news API

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run SignalShelf through our news API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 956 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.50 or less per 1,000 searches. See the best free news API plan.Alpaca's $99 monthly plan 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. AnswerLine's Starter plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol}) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.Scrappa, Hydrafetch and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest SignalShelf plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of SignalShelf's 6 plans
Call: GET /v1/google/news SignalShelf's only call for this API
API: News API one of SignalShelf's 8 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get articles SignalShelf saved earlier. SignalShelf doesn't say how old the data is.
  • 2 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Source, Date.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send query to GET /v1/google/news. You can also send time_range, limit, language, region and freshness. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SignalShelf: news API alternatives

SignalShelf alternatives: other news API providers by price

The table starts with SignalShelf's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to SignalShelf's.

SignalShelf, $499 packSugra API, $25 monthly, Dev, GET /api/v1/gdelt/articlesSearch1API, $499 monthly, Enterprise, POST /news, NewsCyberWareX, $499 monthlyGNews, €959.99 yearly, Business, billed yearly, GET /api/v4/search
$ per 1,000 searches$0.499$0.167$0.499$0.499$0.592
Completeness33%17%67%50%83%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlymonthlyyearly
Pay$499$25$499$499€959.99
Enough for1,000,000 calls5,000 calls a day1,000,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a month5,000 calls a day
Freshnessstoredstoredlive15 minutesstored
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where they live, and able to enter a contractindividuals only, at least 18 years old and not subject to U.S. sanctionsanyoneanyoneanyone at least 18 years old

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

  1. signalshelf.dev
  2. signalshelf.dev/acceptable-use
  3. signalshelf.dev/docs/batch
  4. signalshelf.dev/docs/caching
  5. signalshelf.dev/docs/errors
  6. signalshelf.dev/docs/quickstart
  7. signalshelf.dev/docs/web/google/news
  8. signalshelf.dev/platforms/google-maps
  9. signalshelf.dev/pricing
  10. signalshelf.dev/terms

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, 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
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 135 other SignalShelf calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGoogle News results (up to 100)
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit
Use dataDon't use SignalShelf to: Harass, stalk, dox or target individuals, or build profiles of private people. Collect data about children, or sensitive data such as health, religion, politics or sexuality, to make decisions about individuals. Send spam or unsolicited messages to people found through the API. Break the law, including data protection, consumer protection and intellectual property laws. Resell raw API access as a competing API, share your key publicly, or create multiple accounts to collect free credits. Attack, overload or try to bypass the limits of the service.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for1,000 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: time_range, limit, language, region, freshness
MethodGET
Path/v1/google/news
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where they live, and able to enter a contract
The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

result title, publisher name, published at, Google News URL

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