# Stophy, free: News API

> Follow a story as it breaks

Stophy's Free plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Stophy's docs list 4 of the 6 fields on our checklist. 3 are in the plan's price: Date, Snippet, Image. 1 costs extra: Full text.
In [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt), the best plan from Stophy scores 66.3 out of 100. Stophy ranks 21st of 84 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 830 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.193 per 1,000 searches or less. [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.
[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/stophy/free
- [News API: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://stophy.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.stophy.dev/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://stophy.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.stophy.dev/api-reference/endpoint/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Stophy (https://stophy.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓
- Full text: ✓ costs more

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Extra fields: page markdown, page HTML, raw HTML, page links, screenshot, page metadata, scrape error: +$0.00 · page summary, extracted JSON: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 110 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Follow a story as it breaks

## Data

- Freshness: 15 minutes
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use Stophy to violate any law or regulation, infringe the rights of any third party, transmit malicious code, abuse or overload our infrastructure, or use the service in any way that creates legal liability for Stophy or other users. You are solely responsible for ensuring your use of Stophy and its outputs complies with applicable laws and any applicable third-party terms in your jurisdiction.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5,000 credits
- Enough for: 2,500 pages, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.61 s

## The call

- You send: query, sources "news". Optional: limit, tbs, location, country, maxAge, safe, timeout, ignoreInvalidURLs, scrapeOptions
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up, no card

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

article title, article URL, snippet, published at, image URL, rank, warning, credits used

## Stophy's plans (6)

- [Stophy, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/stophy/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 15 minutes
- [Stophy, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/stophy/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 15 minutes
- [Stophy, top-up from $100](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/stophy/top-up-from-100/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 15 minutes
- [Stophy, top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/stophy/top-up-from-500/llms.txt): $2.40 per 1,000, 67% complete, 15 minutes
- [Stophy, top-up from $2,000](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/stophy/top-up-from-2000/llms.txt): $1.80 per 1,000, 67% complete, 15 minutes
- [Stophy, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/stophy/contact-us/llms.txt): 50% complete, 15 minutes

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

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

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## Stophy: news API alternatives

- [cloro, $1,000 monthly, Business, POST /v1/monitor/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/cloro/1000-monthly-business-post-v1-monitor-google-news/llms.txt): $1.786 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
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- [SerpWow, $9,000 monthly, Infrastructure XL, GET /search, Bing News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpwow/9000-monthly-infrastructure-xl-get-search-bing-news/llms.txt): $1.80 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SearchApi, $900 monthly, Octo 500K, GET /api/v1/search?engine=bing_news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchapi/900-monthly-octo-500k-get-api-v1-search-engine-bing-news/llms.txt): $1.80 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://api.stophy.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.stophy.dev/api-reference/endpoint/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.stophy.dev/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.stophy.dev/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://stophy.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://stophy.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://stophy.dev/tos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing