# SignalShelf, free: News API

> Google News results (up to 100)

SignalShelf's Free plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. SignalShelf's docs list 2: Source, Date.
We haven't run SignalShelf through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
[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. [AnswerLine's Starter plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/answerline/top-up-from-1-starter-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.
[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.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [Hydrafetch](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/99-monthly/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/signalshelf/free
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://signalshelf.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://signalshelf.dev/v1/google/news`
- API key: with the plan, on https://signalshelf.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://signalshelf.dev/docs/web/google/news?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: SignalShelf (https://signalshelf.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 135 other SignalShelf calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Google News results (up to 100)

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Don'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 get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 1,000 calls
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: time_range, limit, language, region, freshness
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/google/news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## SignalShelf's plans (6)

- [SignalShelf, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/signalshelf/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [SignalShelf, $19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/signalshelf/19-pack/llms.txt): $0.95 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [SignalShelf, $79 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/signalshelf/79-pack/llms.txt): $0.79 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [SignalShelf, $299 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/signalshelf/299-pack/llms.txt): $0.598 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [SignalShelf, $499 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/signalshelf/499-pack/llms.txt): $0.499 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [SignalShelf, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/signalshelf/contact-us/llms.txt): 33% complete, stored

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

- `GET /v1/google/news`: [SignalShelf, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/signalshelf/free/llms.txt)

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## SignalShelf: news API alternatives

- [Sugra API, $25 monthly, Dev, GET /api/v1/gdelt/articles](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/sugra-api/25-monthly-dev-get-api-v1-gdelt-articles/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 17% complete, stored
- [Search1API, $499 monthly, Enterprise, POST /news, News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/search1api/499-monthly-enterprise-post-news-news/llms.txt): $0.499 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [CyberWareX, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cyberwarex/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.499 per 1,000, 50% complete, 15 minutes
- [GNews, €959.99 yearly, Business, billed yearly, GET /api/v4/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gnews/959-99-yearly-business-billed-yearly-get-api-v4-search/llms.txt): $0.592 per 1,000, 83% complete, stored

## 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.

- https://signalshelf.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/docs/batch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/docs/caching?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/docs/errors?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/docs/quickstart?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/docs/web/google/news?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/platforms/google-maps?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
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