# Unusual Whales, $99 monthly: News API

> The 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.

Unusual Whales's news API on its API Options Starter plan. It costs $3.96 per 1,000 searches. Unusual Whales's docs list 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date.
We haven't run Unusual Whales through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) 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](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.
[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.
[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/unusual-whales/99-monthly
- [News API: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://unusualwhales.com/pricing?product=api&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/news/headlines`
- API key: with the plan, on https://unusualwhales.com/pricing?product=api&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.unusualwhales.com/docs/api/news/news-headlines.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Unusual Whales (https://unusualwhales.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $3.96
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $99

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 100 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $3.96

## In their words

- Their pitch: The 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 data: no limit
- Use data: LICENSE. 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 get: 25,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 25,000 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: search_term, sources, ticker, major_only, limit, page
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/news/headlines

## About the plan

- Plan: API Options Starter
- Who can get it: Individuals, 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

## Unusual Whales's plans (15)

- [Unusual Whales, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/99-monthly/llms.txt): $3.96 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Unusual Whales, $150 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/150-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 33% complete
- [Unusual Whales, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/199-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 33% complete
- [Unusual Whales, $375 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/375-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 33% complete
- [Unusual Whales, $399 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/399-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 33% complete
- [Unusual Whales, $750 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/750-monthly/llms.txt): $0.156 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Unusual Whales, $3,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/3000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.625 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Unusual Whales, $1,020 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/1020-yearly/llms.txt): $1.70 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Unusual Whales, $1,500 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/1500-yearly/llms.txt): no limit, 33% complete
- [Unusual Whales, $1,980 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/1980-yearly/llms.txt): no limit, 33% complete
- [Unusual Whales, $3,780 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/3780-yearly/llms.txt): no limit, 33% complete
- [Unusual Whales, $3,960 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/3960-yearly/llms.txt): no limit, 33% complete
- [Unusual Whales, $7,500 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/7500-yearly/llms.txt): $0.128 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Unusual Whales, $30,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/30000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.514 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Unusual Whales, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/contact-us/llms.txt): 33% complete

## Unusual Whales's calls (1)

- `GET /api/news/headlines`: [Unusual Whales, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/99-monthly/llms.txt)

## Unusual Whales's APIs (1)

- [Unusual Whales: news API pricing, 15 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/unusual-whales/99-monthly/llms.txt)

## Unusual Whales: news API alternatives

- [Search1API, $99 monthly, Professional, POST /news, News, full](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/search1api/99-monthly-professional-post-news-news-full/llms.txt): $3.96 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/199-monthly/llms.txt): $3.98 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Exa, pay as you go, x402 or MPP, paid per request, POST /search, Search, instant, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/exa/pay-as-you-go-x402-or-mpp-paid-per-request-post-search-search-instant-news/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Pullbay, $199 monthly, Scale, GET /google-news/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/pullbay/199-monthly-scale-get-google-news-search/llms.txt): $4.00 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 2026-11-06.

- https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/openapi?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.unusualwhales.com/docs/api/news/news-headlines.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://api.unusualwhales.com/docs/conventions.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://unusualwhales.com/enterprise?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://unusualwhales.com/pricing?product=api&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://unusualwhales.com/public-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://unusualwhales.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing