# Trawlia, free, POST /v1/search, Search, advanced, news: News API

> News is what Trawlia is mostly for, and where most of the work has gone. An agent that answers from the open web gets last year's article as readily as this morning's. Here it gets the story that is actually current.

Trawlia'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, Image, Full text.
We haven't run Trawlia through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 710 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.
[Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/financial-data-financialdata-net/69-monthly-premium-get-api-v1-latest-news/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.00089. Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan covers up to 77,760,000 searches a month at no extra cost.
[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/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-advanced-news
- [News API: 60+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://trawlia.co/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.trawlia.co/v1/search`, Search, advanced, news
- API key: with the plan, on https://trawlia.co/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://trawlia.co/docs/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Trawlia (https://trawlia.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Image: ✓
- Full text: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search, basic · Search, advanced · Search, basic, news · Extract

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: News is what Trawlia is mostly for, and where most of the work has gone. An agent that answers from the open web gets last year's article as readily as this morning's. Here it gets the story that is actually current.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Do not use Trawlia to: break the law, or help anyone else do so, collect personal data about individuals for surveillance, profiling, or harassment, reconstruct a bulk copy of any source we retrieve from, or resell raw results as a competing index, attack, overload, or probe the service or the sites it fetches from, evade credit limits, rate limits, or account suspension."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 500 calls a month
- Expires: unused credits do not roll over

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, search_depth "advanced", topic "news". Optional: max_results, include_raw_content, include_images, include_favicon, include_domains, exclude_domains, time_range, start_date, end_date, country, language, exact_match, include_usage, safe_search
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone old enough to enter a contract where they live, one account per person or organisation

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, query, page title, URL, page content, relevance score, published date, result ID, fetched, fetch error, redirected from, raw content, result images, favicon, response time, credits used

## Trawlia's plans (2)

- [Trawlia, free, POST /v1/search, Search, advanced, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-advanced-news/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Trawlia, $49 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/search, Search, advanced, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trawlia/49-monthly-scale-post-v1-search-search-advanced-news/llms.txt): $12.25 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## Trawlia's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/search`, Search, advanced, news: [Trawlia, free, POST /v1/search, Search, advanced, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-advanced-news/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search, basic, news: [Trawlia, free, POST /v1/search, Search, basic, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-basic-news/llms.txt)

## Trawlia's APIs (3)

- [Trawlia: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/trawlia/free/llms.txt)
- [Trawlia: web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-advanced/llms.txt)
- [Trawlia: web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-basic/llms.txt)
- [Trawlia: news API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, advanced, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-advanced-news/llms.txt)

## Trawlia: news API alternatives

- [Tavily, $220 monthly, Startup, POST /search, Search, advanced, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tavily/220-monthly-startup-post-search-search-advanced-news/llms.txt): $11.579 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScraperAPI, $49 monthly, Hobby, GET /structured/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scraperapi/49-monthly-hobby-get-structured-google-news/llms.txt): $12.25 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [1Lookup, $990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/1lookup/990-yearly/llms.txt): $12.375 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpWow, $1,500 yearly, Starter (annual), GET /search, Bing News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpwow/1500-yearly-starter-annual-get-search-bing-news/llms.txt): $12.50 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://trawlia.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://trawlia.co/docs/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://trawlia.co/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://trawlia.co/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://trawlia.co/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://trawlia.co/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing