# Tavily, free, Keyless access, POST /search, Search, basic, news: News API

> news is useful for retrieving real-time updates, particularly about politics, sports, and major current events covered by mainstream media sources.

Tavily's news API on its Keyless access plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Snippet.
Tavily limits how many calls you get, but doesn't say how many.
We rank 354 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/250-pack/llms.txt), [SerpBase](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpbase/100-monthly/llms.txt) and [treg](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/treg/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-basic-news
- [Best news API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/keyless.md
- Request: `POST https://api.tavily.com/search`, Search, basic, news
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search
- Sold by: Tavily (https://www.tavily.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: Tavily Extract

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: news is useful for retrieving real-time updates, particularly about politics, sports, and major current events covered by mainstream media sources.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "solely for Customer’s internal business purposes, including for integration with Customer Applications", "Customer will not, in whole or in part: [...] (ii) license, sublicense, resell, distribute, lease, rent, lend, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of the Services (provided, that integration of the Services in Customer Applications in accordance with this Agreement will not constitute a violation of this subsection), [...] (v) access the Services in order to build a competitive product or service, (vi) compete with Tavily or its business, [...] (viii) use any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering or extraction methods through the Services (provided, that reasonable use of Tavily APIs in accordance with this Agreement will not constitute a violation of this subsection), [...] (x) disclose to any third party any performance information or analysis relating to the Services, [...] (xv) use the Services or the Output in any manner that is dangerous, high-risk or violates applicable law, (xvi) use the Services or the Output to make automated decisions without human oversight that have a significant adverse impact on individual rights in high-risk areas such as employment, healthcare, finance, legal, housing, insurance or social benefits", "Customer shall comply with, and shall ensure that all Users, end users of Customer Applications, and any third parties accessing the Service, and/or accessing or using the Output, comply with Tavily's Acceptable Use Policy"

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, search_depth "basic", topic "news". Optional: chunks_per_source, max_results, time_range, start_date, end_date, include_published_date, filter_by_published_date, max_age_hours, include_answer, include_raw_content, include_images, include_image_descriptions, include_favicon, include_domains, exclude_domains, include_domains_mode, language, filter_by_language, auto_parameters, exact_match, include_usage, safe_search
- Method: POST
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Keyless access
- Who can get it: anyone, no account and no API key

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, query, answer, query images, query image descriptions, page title, URL, snippet, relevance score, raw content, published date, favicon, result images, result image descriptions, result ID, selected parameters, response time, credits used

## Tavily's plans (9)

- [Tavily, free, Keyless access, POST /search, Search, basic, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-basic-news/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Tavily, free, Researcher, POST /search, Search, basic, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/free-researcher-post-search-search-basic-news/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Tavily, pay as you go, POST /search, Search, basic, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-basic-news/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Tavily, pay as you go, x402, paid per request](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/pay-as-you-go-x402-paid-per-request/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Tavily, $30 monthly, Project, POST /search, Search, basic, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/30-monthly-project-post-search-search-basic-news/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Tavily, $100 monthly, Bootstrap, POST /search, Search, basic, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/100-monthly-bootstrap-post-search-search-basic-news/llms.txt): $6.667 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Tavily, $220 monthly, Startup, POST /search, Search, basic, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/220-monthly-startup-post-search-search-basic-news/llms.txt): $5.79 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Tavily, $500 monthly, Growth, POST /search, Search, basic, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/500-monthly-growth-post-search-search-basic-news/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Tavily, contact us, Enterprise, POST /search, Search, basic, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/contact-us-enterprise-post-search-search-basic-news/llms.txt): 33% complete, live

## Tavily's calls for this API (4)

- `POST /search`, Search, advanced, news: [Tavily, free, Keyless access, POST /search, Search, advanced, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-advanced-news/llms.txt)
- `POST /search`, Search, basic, news: [Tavily, free, Keyless access, POST /search, Search, basic, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-basic-news/llms.txt)
- `POST /search`, Search, fast, news: [Tavily, free, Keyless access, POST /search, Search, fast, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-fast-news/llms.txt)
- `POST /search`, Search, ultra-fast, news: [Tavily, free, Keyless access, POST /search, Search, ultra-fast, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-ultra-fast-news/llms.txt)

## Tavily's APIs (2)

- [Tavily: web search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-advanced/llms.txt)
- [Tavily: web search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /search, Search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-basic/llms.txt)
- [Tavily: web search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-fast/llms.txt)
- [Tavily: web search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /search, Search, ultra-fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-ultra-fast/llms.txt)
- [Tavily: news API pricing, 9 plans, POST /search, Search, basic, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-basic-news/llms.txt)

## Tavily: news API alternatives

- [SerpWow, $1,200 monthly, Volume, GET /search, Google News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpwow/1200-monthly-volume-get-search-google-news/llms.txt): $4.80 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [OpenWeb Ninja, pay as you go, GET /local-headlines](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/openweb-ninja/pay-as-you-go-get-local-headlines/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Search1API, $99 pack, Pay as you go, $99 (+20% bonus), POST /news, News, full](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/search1api/99-pack-pay-as-you-go-99-20-bonus-post-news-news-full/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SearchApi, $500 monthly, BigData Plan, Enhanced speed, GET /api/v1/search?engine=bing_news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchapi/500-monthly-bigdata-plan-enhanced-speed-get-api-v1-search-engine-bing-news/llms.txt): $5.00 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 2026-10-29.

- https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits.md
- https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search
- https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/openapi.json
- https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/keyless.md
- https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/rate-limits.md
- https://docs.tavily.com/faq/faq.md
- https://tavily.com/acceptable-use-policy
- https://tavily.com/terms
- https://www.tavily.com/pricing