# The Neural Ledger, free, GET /v1/search: News API

> Evidence-first geopolitical and market intelligence, available as a REST API and an MCP server.

The Neural Ledger's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Author.
We haven't run The Neural Ledger through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 745 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan and 5 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 searches of the 745 plans.
[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 Financial Data's $69 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/the-neural-ledger/free-get-v1-search
- [News API: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://theneuralledger.com/subscribe?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://theneuralledger.com/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://theneuralledger.com/subscribe?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developers.theneuralledger.com/api/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#get-v1-search
- Sold by: The Neural Ledger (https://theneuralledger.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Single story · Entity lookup · Entity stories · Impact path lookup · Impact path stories · Asset stories · Available filters · RSS feed · Atom feed · Market ticker values · Ledger AI Terminal answer · News stories

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Evidence-first geopolitical and market intelligence, available as a REST API and an MCP server.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Kullanıcılar hesap ve API erişim bilgilerini korumalı, plan limitlerine uymalı ve kötüye kullanım, izinsiz yeniden dağıtım, hizmete müdahale veya güvenlik kontrollerini aşma girişimlerinden kaçınmalıdır.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: page, page_size, cursor, offset, fields, include, sort, country, category, entity, impact_path, tag, published_since, published_until, updated_since, updated_until
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with an account

## The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

story ID, slug, title, excerpt, full text, category, country, author, published time, updated time, revision, verification state, truth probability, urgency score, impacted assets, impacted sectors, impact paths, entities, sources, claims, contradictions, entity suggestions, tag suggestions, impact path suggestions, total results, next cursor

## The Neural Ledger's plans (1)

- [The Neural Ledger, free, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-neural-ledger/free-get-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete

## The Neural Ledger's calls (2)

- `GET /v1/news`: [The Neural Ledger, free, GET /v1/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-neural-ledger/free-get-v1-news/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/search`: [The Neural Ledger, free, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-neural-ledger/free-get-v1-search/llms.txt)

## The Neural Ledger's APIs (1)

- [The Neural Ledger: news API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-neural-ledger/free-get-v1-search/llms.txt)

## The Neural Ledger: news API alternatives

- [The New York Times, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Scrappa, free, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpScraper.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [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
- [SERPpost, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serppost/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://developers.theneuralledger.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.theneuralledger.com/api/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.theneuralledger.com/guides/errors?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.theneuralledger.com/guides/pagination?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.theneuralledger.com/reference/data-types?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developers.theneuralledger.com/reference/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://theneuralledger.com/subscribe?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://theneuralledger.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing