# ToolCall, pay as you go: News API

> 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.

ToolCall's x402 pay per call plan for the news API costs $10.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. ToolCall's docs list 2: Source, Date.
We haven't run ToolCall through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/99-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/answerline/top-up-from-1-starter-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.
[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 Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/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 the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://toolcall.click/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://toolcall.click/t/news/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://toolcall.click/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#/paths/~1t~1news~1search
- Sold by: ToolCall (https://toolcall.click?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $10.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- 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.

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: days
- Method: GET
- Path: /t/news/search

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- 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

## ToolCall's plans (1)

- [ToolCall, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## ToolCall's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /t/news/search`: [ToolCall, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ToolCall's APIs (7)

- [ToolCall: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ToolCall: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ToolCall: job postings API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ToolCall: local business search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ToolCall: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ToolCall: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ToolCall: web search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ToolCall: news API alternatives

- [Scavio, top-up from $25](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scavio/top-up-from-25/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Clair, $30 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/clair/30-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [YepAPI, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/yepapi/top-up/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Dappier, pay as you go, Per query, POST /app/v2/search, Get AI Article Recommendations (WISH-TV AI)](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/dappier/pay-as-you-go-per-query-post-app-v2-search-get-ai-article-recommendations-wish-tv-ai/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 83% 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 2026-11-09.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://toolcall.click?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://toolcall.click/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://toolcall.click/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://toolcall.click/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing