The Guardian pricing: news API

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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 584 plans by price. Serpent API's top-up from $500 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.Scrappa, ReefAPI and ScrapeUnblocker are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

Plan: Developer one of The Guardian's 2 plans

Call: GET /search The Guardian's only call

GET /searchFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: News API The Guardian's only API

News API

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
All 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image, Full text.
Nothing to pay. You get up to 15,000 calls a month.
One call. You send q to GET /search. The call returns the news articles that match.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: 24 hours. Use data: with conditions.

The Guardian: news API alternatives

The Guardian alternatives: every news API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

	This planThe Guardian, free	Scrappa, free, GET /api/google/news	ReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/search	ScrapeUnblocker, free	PerceptLayer, free	NAVER Cloud, free
$ per 1,000 searches	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Completeness	100%	67%	67%	67%	67%	33%
Billing	free	free	free	free	free	free
Pay	$0	$0	$0	€0	$0	$0
Enough for	15,000 calls a month	500 calls a month	1,000 calls	500 calls, once	1,000 calls a month	775,000 calls a month
Freshness	unknown	live	live	live	live	unknown
Who can get it	Non-commercial use only: student dissertations, hackathons, nonprofit app developers	anyone 18 or over	anyone	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.")	developers and businesses, 18 or older	Customers with a NAVER Cloud Platform account who agree to the NAVER Cloud Platform service terms and the AI·Naver API terms

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

Product details

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

Source
Date
Author
Snippet
Image
Full text

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

Charges
Most per search	no limit
Also pays for	nothing else

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	The Open Platform is a public web service for accessing all the content the Guardian creates, categorised by tags and section.

Data
Keep data	24 hours
Use data	(i) Access, copy, publish, distribute and display the OP Content in electronic form on Your Website(s). (ii) Make OP Content available to Your Website’s end users for their personal use only. [...] You will: (i) Retain the full headline, byline and copyright notice from the original OP Content supplied. [...] (iv) Include a link to the original article published on www.theguardian.com in all OP Content published on Your Website. [...] (vi) Include a “Powered by The Guardian” logo (or such other Guardian logo as we may require from time to time) on the same webpage as any republished OP Content, or any tool or function that is based on OP Content. You will not: (i) Edit, adapt, translate or otherwise alter the OP Content. [...] (v) Use OP Content in any printed format. [...] This licence is personal to you and Your Website(s). You may not use the OP Content in conjunction with any website to which an API key has not been registered. [...] You will not: (i) use, copy, scrape, reproduce, alter, modify, collect, mine and/or extract the Content API, OP Content or Guardian Digital Network: (A) for any machine learning, machine learning language models and/or artificial intelligence-related purposes (including the training or development of such technologies), (B) for any text and data aggregation, analysis or mining purposes (including to generate any patterns, trends or correlations), or (C) with any machine learning and/or artificial intelligence technologies to generate any data or content or to synthesise or combine with any other data or content. [...] You may make OP Content available to end users of Your Website strictly for their personal and non-commercial use only [...]. [...] You may not syndicate or otherwise charge a fee for access to OP Content.

Plan
Pay	$0
Enough for	15,000 calls a month

Rate limit
Per day	500
Per second	1
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	q. Optional: query-fields, section, reference, reference-type, tag, rights, ids, production-office, lang, star-rating, from-date, to-date, use-date, page, page-size, order-by, order-date, show-fields, show-tags, show-section, show-blocks, show-elements, show-references, show-rights
Method	GET
Path	/search

About the plan
Plan	Developer
Who can get it	Non-commercial use only: student dissertations, hackathons, nonprofit app developers

The 45 fields the plan's answer can hold

search status, user tier, total results, start index, page size, current page, total pages, sort order, content ID, content type, section ID, section name, published at, result title, result URL, API URL, hosted content, pillar ID, pillar name, trail text, headline, show in related content, article text, last modified, has story package, relevance score, standfirst, short URL, thumbnail, word count, commentable, premoderated comments, allows user-generated content, byline, publication, internal page code, production office, hide adverts, live blogging now, comment close date, star rating, tags, content blocks, references, rights