# TickerTick, free: News API

> The TickerTick API provides the latest stock news stories through a powerful query language. It covers all companies listed in US stock markets (around 10,000 tickers) and hundreds of top startups, drawing news from around ten thousand source websites.

TickerTick's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Snippet.
You get up to 432,000 calls a month.
We haven't run TickerTick through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 710 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 710 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 (financialdata.net)'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/tickertick/free
- [News API: 60+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://github.com/hczhu/TickerTick-API?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#terms-of-use
- Request: `GET https://api.tickertick.com/feed`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://github.com/hczhu/TickerTick-API?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#api-reference
- Sold by: TickerTick (https://tickertick.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Source: ✓
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: GET /tickers

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The TickerTick API provides the latest stock news stories through a powerful query language. It covers all companies listed in US stock markets (around 10,000 tickers) and hundreds of top startups, drawing news from around ten thousand source websites.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The API is free of commercial/non-commercial use. All endpoints have a rate limit of 10 requests per minute from the same IP address. The service enforces this. More precisely, an IP will be blocked for 30 seconds if more than 5 requests are sent within any 30 second time window.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 432,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: n, last
- Method: GET
- Path: /feed

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

article ID, article title, article URL, source site, published time, favicon URL, ticker tags, similar stories, description, tickers, last story ID

## TickerTick's plans (1)

- [TickerTick, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tickertick/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## TickerTick's calls (1)

- `GET /feed`: [TickerTick, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tickertick/free/llms.txt)

## TickerTick's APIs (1)

- [TickerTick: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tickertick/free/llms.txt)

## TickerTick: 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

## 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://github.com/hczhu/TickerTick-API?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://tickertick.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing