# The Guardian, free: News API

> The Open Platform is a public web service for accessing all the content the Guardian creates, categorised by tags and section.

The Guardian's news API on its Developer plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns all 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image, Full text.
You get up to 15,000 calls a month.
We rank 584 plans by price. [Serpent API's top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500-scale-get-api-news-bing-news-search/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-news-article-v1-news-search/llms.txt) and [ScrapeUnblocker](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapeunblocker/299-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-guardian/free
- [Best news API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/access/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://content.guardianapis.com/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://open-platform.theguardian.com/access/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/documentation/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: The Guardian (https://open-platform.theguardian.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- 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

## The Guardian's plans (2)

- [The Guardian, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-guardian/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [The Guardian, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-guardian/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete

## The Guardian's calls (1)

- `GET /search`: [The Guardian, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-guardian/free/llms.txt)

## The Guardian's APIs (1)

- [The Guardian: news API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-guardian/free/llms.txt)

## The Guardian: news API alternatives

- [Scrappa, free, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/free-post-news-intel-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapeunblocker/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [NAVER Cloud, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/naver-cloud/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## 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.

- https://open-platform.theguardian.com/access/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://open-platform.theguardian.com/documentation/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://open-platform.theguardian.com/documentation/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.theguardian.com/open-platform/terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing