ToolCall pricing: news API
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33% complete: 2 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$10.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run ToolCall through our news API benchmark yet.We rank 881 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.30 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 14% of the 881 plans.Alpaca's $99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. Alpaca's $99 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Alpaca's rate limit allows. AnswerLine's Starter plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/ news/ cryptocurrency/ {symbol}) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.Scrappa, SerpScraper.dev and ReefAPI are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: x402 pay per call ToolCall's only plan
Call:
GET / t/ news/ search ToolCall's only call for this APIAPI: News API one of ToolCall's 7 APIs
- Domain WHOIS API
- Email verification API
- Job postings API
- Local business search API
- News API
- Web scraping API
- Web search API
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 2 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Source, Date.
- Nothing to buy first. You pay per call.
- One call. You send
qtoGET /. You can also sendt/ news/ search days. The call returns the news articles that match. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.
ToolCall: news API alternatives
ToolCall alternatives: other news API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planToolCall, pay as you go | Scavio, top-up from $25 | Clair, $30 monthly | YepAPI, top-up | Dappier, pay as you go, Per query, POST /app/v2/search, Get AI Article Recommendations (WISH-TV AI) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 |
| Completeness | 33% | 33% | 67% | 33% | 83% |
| Billing | pay as you go | pay first | monthly | pay first | pay as you go |
| Pay | per call | $25 | $30 | any amount | per call |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 2,500 calls | 3,000 calls a month | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | unknown | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base (x402), with no account or API key | anyone | anyone at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract | anyone | anyone with a Dappier account and API key, at least 18 years of age or at least 13 with legal parental or guardian consent |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Source
- Date
- Author, not in the answer
- Snippet, not in the answer
- Image, not in the answer
- Full text, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 searches | $10.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Also pays for | nothing else |
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| Their pitch | Recent news headlines for any company, topic or query: deduplicated titles with source, link and publish date from a broad news index. Window configurable 1-30 days. |
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| Keep data | no API terms |
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| Use data | no API terms |
| Pay | per call |
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| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | q. Optional: days |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /t/news/search |
| Plan | x402 pay per call |
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| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base (x402), with no account or API key |
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold
query, result count, title, source, URL, published at