# TheNewsAPI, free, GET /v1/news/top: News API

> Get free access to search worldwide news and top stories from over 40,000 sources in 50+ countries.

TheNewsAPI's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
We rank 412 plans by price. [AllNewsAPI's $200 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/allnewsapi/200-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.033. AllNewsAPI's $200 monthly plan covers up to 200,000 searches a day.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/250-pack/llms.txt), [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) and [TheNewsAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/79-monthly-pro-monthly-get-v1-news-all/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/free-get-v1-news-top
- [Best news API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.thenewsapi.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.thenewsapi.com/v1/news/top`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.thenewsapi.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.thenewsapi.com/documentation#top-stories
- Sold by: TheNewsAPI (https://www.thenewsapi.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 20,000
- Also pays for: from the same budget: All News (GET /v1/news/all) · Similar News · News by UUID

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get free access to search worldwide news and top stories from over 40,000 sources in 50+ countries.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests a day
- Enough for: 100 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 100
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.57 s

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: search, search_fields, locale, categories, exclude_categories, domains, exclude_domains, source_ids, exclude_source_ids, language, published_before, published_after, published_on, sort, limit, page
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/news/top

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, results returned, page size, page number, news result ID, news result title, news result description, news result keywords, news result snippet, news result link, news result image, news result language, news result date, news result source, news result category, relevance score, news result locale

## TheNewsAPI's plans (8)

- [TheNewsAPI, free, GET /v1/news/top](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/free-get-v1-news-top/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [TheNewsAPI, $19 monthly, Basic, monthly, GET /v1/news/top](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/19-monthly-basic-monthly-get-v1-news-top/llms.txt): $0.253 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [TheNewsAPI, $49 monthly, Standard, monthly, GET /v1/news/top](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/49-monthly-standard-monthly-get-v1-news-top/llms.txt): $0.163 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [TheNewsAPI, $79 monthly, Pro, monthly, GET /v1/news/top](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/79-monthly-pro-monthly-get-v1-news-top/llms.txt): $0.105 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [TheNewsAPI, $192 yearly, Basic, yearly, GET /v1/news/top](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/192-yearly-basic-yearly-get-v1-news-top/llms.txt): $0.21 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [TheNewsAPI, $492 yearly, Standard, yearly, GET /v1/news/top](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/492-yearly-standard-yearly-get-v1-news-top/llms.txt): $0.135 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [TheNewsAPI, $792 yearly, Pro, yearly, GET /v1/news/top](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/792-yearly-pro-yearly-get-v1-news-top/llms.txt): $0.087 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [TheNewsAPI, contact us, Custom, GET /v1/news/top](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/contact-us-custom-get-v1-news-top/llms.txt): 67% complete

## TheNewsAPI's calls (2)

- `GET /v1/news/all`: [TheNewsAPI, free, GET /v1/news/all](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/free-get-v1-news-all/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/news/top`: [TheNewsAPI, free, GET /v1/news/top](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/free-get-v1-news-top/llms.txt)

## TheNewsAPI's APIs (1)

- [TheNewsAPI: news API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/news/top](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/free-get-v1-news-top/llms.txt)

## TheNewsAPI: news API alternatives

- [YepAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/yepapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [AllNewsAPI, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/allnewsapi/9-monthly/llms.txt): $0.06 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $300,000 yearly, Nova Pro, GET /google_news/v2](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingdog/300000-yearly-nova-pro-get-google-news-v2/llms.txt): $0.114 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [AnswerLine, top-up from $1,900, Max, POST /v1/async/task](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/answerline/top-up-from-1900-max-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt): $0.14 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Litescrape, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $0.15 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 2026-10-29.

- https://www.thenewsapi.com
- https://www.thenewsapi.com/documentation
- https://www.thenewsapi.com/faq
- https://www.thenewsapi.com/pricing
- https://www.thenewsapi.com/tos