# The New York Times, free: News API

> Use the Article Search API to look up articles by keyword. You can refine your search using filters.

The New York Times's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image.
You get up to 15,000 calls a month.
In [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt), 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt) and [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-news-article-v1-news-search/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free
- [News API: 50+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://developer.nytimes.com/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.nytimes.com/svc/search/v2/articlesearch.json`
- API key: with the plan, on https://developer.nytimes.com/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developer.nytimes.com/docs/articlesearch-product/1/routes/articlesearch.json/get?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: The New York Times (https://developer.nytimes.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 89.2
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 90
- Cost to get started score: 100
- Bundle score: 88
- Performance score: 34

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 1,000
- Also pays for: Archive: 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 pitch: Use the Article Search API to look up articles by keyword. You can refine your search using filters.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject 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 for: 15,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 500
- Per second: 0.083
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.30 s

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: q, begin_date, end_date, fq, page, sort
- Method: GET
- Path: /svc/search/v2/articlesearch.json

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: non-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

## The New York Times's plans (1)

- [The New York Times, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete

## The New York Times's calls (1)

- `GET /svc/search/v2/articlesearch.json`: [The New York Times, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt)

## The New York Times's APIs (1)

- [The New York Times: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt)

## The New York Times: 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
- [Newsfilter, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsfilter/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 1 hour

## 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://developer.nytimes.com/docs/articlesearch-product/1/overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.nytimes.com/docs/articlesearch-product/1/routes/articlesearch.json/get?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.nytimes.com/docs/articlesearch-product/1/types/Article?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.nytimes.com/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.nytimes.com/get-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://developer.nytimes.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing