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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesIn our news API benchmark, The New York Times scores 89.2 out of 100 on this plan.Half of the 618 plans we rank by price cost $1.05 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan and 2 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 searches of the 618 plans.The New York Times, Scrappa and ReefAPI are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free The New York Times's only plan
Call: GET /svc/search/v2/articlesearch.json The New York Times's only call
API: News API The New York Times's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image.
  • Nothing to pay. You get up to 15,000 calls a month.
  • One call. You call GET /svc/search/v2/articlesearch.json. Every input is optional: q, begin_date, end_date, fq, page, sort.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

The New York Times: news API alternatives

The New York Times alternatives: every news API provider ranked

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

This planThe New York Times, freeScrappa, free, GET /api/google/newsReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/searchScrapeUnblocker, freePerceptLayer, freeNewsfilter, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness83%67%67%67%67%67%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0€0$0$0
Enough for15,000 calls a month500 calls a month1,000 calls500 calls, once1,000 calls a month100 pages a day
Freshnessunknownlivelivelivelive1 hour
Who can get itnon-commercial use only: anyone who signs in to the developer portal, registers an app and enables the API on it for its key, commercial use goes to nytlicensing.comanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone 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 olderanyone

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.

  1. developer.nytimes.com/docs/articlesearch-product/1/overview
  2. developer.nytimes.com/docs/articlesearch-product/1/routes/articlesearch.json/get
  3. developer.nytimes.com/docs/articlesearch-product/1/types/Article
  4. developer.nytimes.com/faq
  5. developer.nytimes.com/get-started
  6. developer.nytimes.com/terms

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, not in the answer
Score
Overall score89.2
Price score100
Accuracy score90
Cost to get started score100
Bundle score88
Performance score34
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Perpage of 10
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search1,000
Also pays forArchive: 500 requests a day, 5 a minute · Books: 500 requests a day, 5 a minute · Most Popular: 500 requests a day, 5 a minute · Semantic: 500 requests a day, 5 a minute · Times Newswire: 500 requests a day, 5 a minute · TimesTags: 500 requests a day, 5 a minute · Top Stories: 500 requests a day, 5 a minute
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchUse the Article Search API to look up articles by keyword. You can refine your search using filters.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataSubject to the restrictions set forth in these Terms of Use, you may use the NYT APIs [...]. If your product or service uses or is based upon the NYT APIs, then YOU SHALL comply with the attribution guidelines found at https://developer.nytimes.com/branding. [...] You may only create a single API key per application or service and such API key must accompany all web services requests coming from that application or service. [...] You SHALL NOT create any script or other automated tool that attempts to create multiple API keys. [...] YOU SHALL NOT: (i) use the NYT APIs for any commercial purpose (including, but not limited to, (1) developing a software product or training a machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) system or (2) providing archived or cached data sets containing Content [...] to another person or entity) or in any product or service that competes with products or services offered by NYT. [...], (ii) use the NYT APIs, or any Content accessed using the NYT APIs or otherwise, to develop a software product or train a machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) system, (iii) use the NYT APIs, or any Content accessed using NYT APIs or otherwise, to provide archived or cached data sets containing Content to another person or entity, (iv) use the NYT APIs in any manner or for any purpose that violates any law or regulation, any right of any person, including but not limited to intellectual property rights, rights of privacy, or rights of personality, or in any manner inconsistent with the NYTimes.com Terms of Service or these Terms of Use, (v) sell, lease, share, transfer, or sublicense the NYT APIs or access or access codes thereto or derive income from the use or provision of the NYT APIs, whether for direct commercial or monetary gain or otherwise, without NYT's prior, express, written permission, (vi) use the NYT APIs in a manner that exceeds reasonable request volume, constitutes excessive or abusive usage, or otherwise fails to comply or is inconsistent with any part of the NYT API documentation located within https://developer.nytimes.com as determined by NYT in its sole discretion, or (vii) use the NYT APIs in connection with or to promote any products, services, or materials that constitute, promote or are used primarily for the purpose of dealing in: spyware, adware, or other malicious programs or code, hate materials (e.g. Nazi memorabilia) or materials urging acts of terrorism or violence, hacking/surveillance/interception/descrambling equipment, gambling items or non-transferable items such as airline tickets or event tickets. Our APIs are for non-commercial use only.
Plan
Pay$0
Enough for15,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per day500
Per second0.083
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.30 s
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: q, begin_date, end_date, fq, page, sort
MethodGET
Path/svc/search/v2/articlesearch.json
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itnon-commercial use only: anyone who signs in to the developer portal, registers an app and enables the API on it for its key, commercial use goes to nytlicensing.com
The 32 fields the plan's answer can hold

status, copyright, article URL, article URI, headline, kicker, print headline, snippet, byline, published at, source, desk, section name, document type, type of material, word count, print page, print section, keyword name, keyword value, keyword rank, multimedia caption, multimedia credit, default image URL, default image width, default image height, thumbnail URL, thumbnail width, thumbnail height, total results, offset, time taken

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