# typesearch, free, $5 free credit, POST /v1/search, Search the index, normal mode: News API

> News search API from $1.00 per 1,000 searches · results in JSON, with source and time

typesearch's $5 free credit plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. typesearch's docs list 3: Source, Date, Snippet.
We haven't run typesearch through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 956 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.50 or less per 1,000 searches. [See the best free news API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
[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), [Hydrafetch](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/99-monthly/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/typesearch/free-5-free-credit-post-v1-search-search-the-index-normal-mode
- [News API in 2026: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://typesearch.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.typesearch.ai/v1/search`, Search the index, normal mode
- API key: with the plan, on https://typesearch.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://typesearch.ai/docs/guides/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: typesearch (https://typesearch.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Repeat free: 10 minutes
- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Find similar coverage · Search a live site · Get contents · Create a custom index · Create a chart card from a query or your own data

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: News search API from $1.00 per 1,000 searches · results in JSON, with source and time

## Data

- Keep data: 30 days for excerpts and descriptions, links and headlines no limit
- Use data: In particular, don't: [...] resell or give others access to the raw index, whether by bulk-exporting results into a dataset or by offering the API, or a thin wrapper around it, as your own search or data service. [...] In particular: when you show results to people, show the source and link to the original article, don't rebuild, republish or redistribute articles from excerpts, don't keep excerpts or descriptions for more than 30 days (you may keep links and headlines), don't use results to train or fine-tune AI models, don't use typesearch to get around paywalls, logins or publishers' blocks, when we tell you that a publisher opted out, stop using the stored results from it within 30 days.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5
- Enough for: about 2,272 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, mode "normal". Optional: index, sources, include_domains, exclude_domains, countries, languages, sections, days, published_after, published_before, max_results, highlights, dedupe, tone, essential, questions, max_tokens, fresh, temporal, timezone
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: $5 free credit
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 who can enter into a binding contract

## The 67 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, search type, mode, queries, found, total results, result URL, result title, publisher name, source country, result language, published at, section, result snippet, relevance score, headline relevance, tone label, tone probabilities, tone basis, answers basis, answer type, answer probability, answer choice, answer probabilities, answer confidence, answer score, duplicate articles, date match, referenced date, found in, result data, matched queries, query groups, near misses, rejected results, diffusion by day, diffusion by source, first publisher, undated count, tone summary, essential excerpts, custom index, temporal expression, temporal window, temporal basis, temporal widened, index updated at, tokens used, model calls, cost in USD, headlines judged, headlines from memory, pages read directly, pages read in a browser, duration, token budget, budget used, budget exhausted, discovery status, discovery sites, discovery time, incomplete, cached at, warnings, read probability, read centrality, highlights

## typesearch's plans (6)

- [typesearch, free, $5 free credit, POST /v1/search, Search the index, normal mode](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/typesearch/free-5-free-credit-post-v1-search-search-the-index-normal-mode/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [typesearch, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search the index, normal mode](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/typesearch/top-up-from-20-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-the-index-normal-mode/llms.txt): $2.20 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [typesearch, $100 pack, Pay as you go, $100 top-up, POST /v1/search, Search the index, normal mode](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/typesearch/100-pack-pay-as-you-go-100-top-up-post-v1-search-search-the-index-normal-mode/llms.txt): $2.095 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [typesearch, $500 pack, Pay as you go, $500 top-up, POST /v1/search, Search the index, normal mode](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/typesearch/500-pack-pay-as-you-go-500-top-up-post-v1-search-search-the-index-normal-mode/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [typesearch, $50 monthly, Monthly credit plan, POST /v1/search, Search the index, normal mode](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/typesearch/50-monthly-monthly-credit-plan-post-v1-search-search-the-index-normal-mode/llms.txt): $2.20 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [typesearch, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/search, Search the index, normal mode](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/typesearch/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-search-search-the-index-normal-mode/llms.txt): 50% complete

## typesearch's calls (7)

- `POST /v1/similar`, Find similar coverage: [typesearch, free, $5 free credit, POST /v1/similar, Find similar coverage](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/typesearch/free-5-free-credit-post-v1-similar-find-similar-coverage/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/similar`, Find similar coverage, deep mode: [typesearch, free, $5 free credit, POST /v1/similar, Find similar coverage, deep mode](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/typesearch/free-5-free-credit-post-v1-similar-find-similar-coverage-deep-mode/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search/site`: [typesearch, free, $5 free credit, POST /v1/search/site](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/typesearch/free-5-free-credit-post-v1-search-site/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search the index, deep mode: [typesearch, free, $5 free credit, POST /v1/search, Search the index, deep mode](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/typesearch/free-5-free-credit-post-v1-search-search-the-index-deep-mode/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search the index, fast mode: [typesearch, free, $5 free credit, POST /v1/search, Search the index, fast mode](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/typesearch/free-5-free-credit-post-v1-search-search-the-index-fast-mode/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search the index, normal mode: [typesearch, free, $5 free credit, POST /v1/search, Search the index, normal mode](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/typesearch/free-5-free-credit-post-v1-search-search-the-index-normal-mode/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search the index, ultra mode: [typesearch, free, $5 free credit, POST /v1/search, Search the index, ultra mode](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/typesearch/free-5-free-credit-post-v1-search-search-the-index-ultra-mode/llms.txt)

## typesearch's APIs (1)

- [typesearch: news API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/search, Search the index, normal mode](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/typesearch/free-5-free-credit-post-v1-search-search-the-index-normal-mode/llms.txt)

## typesearch: news API alternatives

- [QuanticData, top-up from $5, Pay as you go top-up, POST /v1/serp, Google news search, rendered](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/quanticdata/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-top-up-post-v1-serp-google-news-search-rendered/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 24 hours
- [DataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/serp/google/news/live/advanced](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/dataforseo/top-up-from-50-pay-as-you-go-post-v3-serp-google-news-live-advanced/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Serply, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serply/5-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [API.SH, top-up from $15, Pay-as-you-go, GET /bing/v1/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/api-sh/top-up-from-15-pay-as-you-go-get-bing-v1-news/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 67% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://typesearch.ai/docs/guides/cost-control?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://typesearch.ai/docs/guides/enrichments?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://typesearch.ai/docs/guides/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://typesearch.ai/docs/modes?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://typesearch.ai/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://typesearch.ai/google-news-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://typesearch.ai/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://typesearch.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://typesearch.ai/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing