Tapline News API pricing

Name: Tapline news API
Brand: Tapline

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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Tapline through our news API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 1,022 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.35 or less per 1,000 searches. 334 news API plans on our price sheet are free. TickerTick's free plan scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 64.9 out of 100.Alpaca's $99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches, with no charge 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, and costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.Scrappa, Hydrafetch and SignalShelf are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

Plan: Free one of Tapline's 7 plans

Call: GET /v1/brave-search/news Tapline's only call for this API

GET /v1/brave-search/newsFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: News API one of Tapline's 25 APIs

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Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
3 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Source, Snippet, Image.
Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 20 calls.
One call. You send query to GET /v1/brave-search/news. You can also send cursor, country, safe_search, freshness, date_from, date_to and search_language. The call returns the news articles that match.
Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Tapline: news API alternatives

Tapline alternatives: other news API providers by price

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

	Tapline, $499 monthly	ScrapeUnblocker, €1,000 monthly	SERPHouse, $49.99 monthly, Regular, POST /bing-news	Search1API, $499 pack, Pay as you go, $499 (+60% bonus), POST /news, News	Unusual Whales, $3,000 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches	$0.624	$0.619	$0.625	$0.625	$0.625
Completeness	50%	67%	67%	67%	33%
Billing	monthly	monthly	monthly	pay first	monthly
Pay	$499	€1,000	$49.99	$499	$3,000
Enough for	800,000 calls a month	1,818,000 calls a month	80,000 calls a month	798,400 calls	160,000 pages a day
Freshness	unknown	live	live	live	unknown
Who can get it	anyone at least 18 years old	anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.")	anyone	anyone	Pre-revenue startups building on its data

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

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The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Source
Date, not in the answer
Author, not in the answer
Snippet
Image
Full text, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000 searches	$0.00
Per	call
Billing	free

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: 458 other Tapline calls

Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	News articles with their source, thumbnail, and a relative age.

Data
Keep data	no limit
Use data	The Services provide market-data and analytics outputs for your internal business, research, and analytical purposes. [...] You agree to use the Services only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You shall not, and shall not permit anyone acting on your behalf to: (a) use the Services to access, collect, or attempt to collect data that is not publicly available, including data behind authentication, login, or paywall barriers, or data you are not authorized to access, (b) use the Services in a manner that infringes, misappropriates, or violates the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or contractual or terms-of-service rights of any third party, (c) use the Services to collect, assemble, or process personal data in violation of any applicable data-protection or privacy law, (d) resell, sublicense, redistribute, or make the Services or substantial portions of the data outputs available to a third party as a standalone product, or use the Services to build a competing data product, (e) interfere with, disrupt, place an undue load on, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, our systems, or the systems of any third party, including via denial-of-service activity, the introduction of malware, or probing security vulnerabilities, (f) reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code of the Services, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law, (g) use the Services for any fraudulent, deceptive, harassing, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful activity, or in any way that could damage the reputation of Tapline or our payment providers, or (h) use the Services in violation of any applicable law, regulation, sanctions regime, or governmental order.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	100 credits
Enough for	20 calls, once

Rate limit
Per second	1
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	query. Optional: cursor, country, safe_search, freshness, date_from, date_to, search_language
Method	GET
Path	/v1/brave-search/news

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	anyone at least 18 years old

The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

news result position, news result title, news result link, news result snippet, news result source, news result thumbnail

Tapline News API pricing

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