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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$3.96per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Unusual Whales through our news API benchmark yet.Half of the 805 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 27% of the 805 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.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.The New York Times, Scrappa and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
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Plan: API Options Starter one of Unusual Whales's 15 plans
Call: GET /api/news/headlines Unusual Whales's only call
API: News API Unusual Whales's only API

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  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $99 a month for 25,000 requests, enough for 25,000 pages. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You call GET /api/news/headlines. Every input is optional: search_term, sources, ticker, major_only, limit, page.
  • Who can get it: Individuals, for non-professional personal use. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Unusual Whales: news API alternatives

Unusual Whales alternatives: other news API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

This planUnusual Whales, $99 monthlySearch1API, $99 monthly, Professional, POST /news, News, fullScale SERP, $199 monthlyExa, pay as you go, x402 or MPP, paid per request, POST /search, Search, instant, newsPullbay, $199 monthly, Scale, GET /google-news/search
$ per 1,000 searches$3.96$3.96$3.98$4.00$4.00
Completeness33%67%67%100%67%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlypay as you gomonthly
Pay$99$99$199per call$199
Enough for25,000 pages a month25,000 calls a month50,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for49,750 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownlive
Who can get itIndividuals, for non-professional personal useanyoneanyoneAI agents paying in USDC over x402 or MPP, no Exa account or API key neededanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

  1. api.unusualwhales.com/api/openapi
  2. api.unusualwhales.com/docs/api/news/news-headlines.md
  3. api.unusualwhales.com/docs/conventions.md
  4. unusualwhales.com/enterprise
  5. unusualwhales.com/pricing?product=api
  6. unusualwhales.com/public-api
  7. unusualwhales.com/terms

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
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$3.96
Perpage of 100
Billingmonthly
$ a month$99
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 100 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$3.96
In their words
Their pitchThe official Unusual Whales API and MCP Server gives you 100+ endpoints for options flow, dark pool, congressional trading, Greek exposure, volatility, stock fundamentals, technical indicators, CME futures, and more. Connect via REST, WebSocket, Kafka, or MCP.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataLICENSE. Subject to your active subscription and payment of the applicable fees, Unusual Whales grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the API and the Data for your own personal, internal use, and only as permitted by your subscription tier (including any applicable rate limits and concurrency limits). [...] RESTRICTIONS. Except as expressly permitted in writing by Unusual Whales, you shall not: (a) redistribute, resell, rent, lease, lend, sublicense, time-share, publish, broadcast, or otherwise share the Data or any data derived from the Data with any third party, (b) decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or attempt to derive the methods, formulas, or algorithms underlying the API or Data, (c) use the API or Data to build, market, or support any product or service that competes with Unusual Whales, (d) share, transfer, or expose your API token or credentials, or access the API other than through your own account, or (e) circumvent, disable, or exceed any rate limit, quota, or other technical restriction. Redistribution of Data includes the distribution of derived data. NON-PROFESSIONAL USE, ENTERPRISE LICENSES. The standard, self-serve API is strictly for non-professional, personal use.
Plan
Pay$99
You get25,000 requests a month
Enough for25,000 pages a month
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: search_term, sources, ticker, major_only, limit, page
MethodGET
Path/api/news/headlines
About the plan
PlanAPI Options Starter
Who can get itIndividuals, for non-professional personal use
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, source name, published date, tickers, sentiment, tags, major news flag, metadata

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