# ValueSERP, free: News API

> Get real-time and reliable search data from the world’s best value SERP API – VALUE SERP

ValueSERP's news API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
We rank 354 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/250-pack/llms.txt), [SerpBase](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpbase/100-monthly/llms.txt) and [treg](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/treg/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/free
- [Best news API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://trajectdata.com/serp/value-serp-api/pricing/
- Request: `GET https://api.valueserp.com/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://trajectdata.com/serp/value-serp-api/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://docs.trajectdata.com/valueserp/search-api/searches/google/news
- Sold by: ValueSERP (https://www.valueserp.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Google Search · Google Images · Google Videos · Google Places · Google Shopping · Google Place Details · Google Map Place Details · Google Product Details · Google Product Reviews · Google Product Online Sellers

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get real-time and reliable search data from the world’s best value SERP API – VALUE SERP

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: a limited, non-exclusive, personal, non-transferrable, non-sublicensable, non-assignable license to access and use the Service [...] solely for your personal use on a Device that you own or control. [...] You may not: (i) cause, permit or authorize the modification, copying, creation of derivative works, translation, reverse engineering, decomplication, disassembly, or hacking of the Service, (ii) sell, assign, rent, lease, or grant rights in the Service, including, without limitation, through sublicense, to any other person or entity, or (iii) use the Service for any unlawful, prohibited, abnormal, or unusual activity as determined by ScraperAPI [...] All products and services sold by or received from ScraperAPI are intended to be used for personal purposes only, and you may not sell or resell any products or services you purchase or otherwise receive from ScraperAPI.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q, search_type "news". Optional: location, location_auto, uule, google_domain, gl, hl, lr, cr, time_period, time_period_min, time_period_max, nfpr, filter, safe, page, max_page, tbs, sort_by, show_duplicates, exclude_if_modified, device, mobile_type, tablet_type, include_html, skip_on_incident, hide_base64_images, cookie, include_fields, exclude_fields
- Method: GET
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 29 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, credits used, credits consumed, credits remaining, credits reset at, created at, processed at, total time taken, request URL, HTML URL, JSON URL, location auto message, search parameters, total results, time taken, query displayed, original query yields zero results, top stories, news result position, news result title, news result link, news result domain, news result source, news result date, news result ISO date, news result snippet, news result thumbnail, news result block position, pagination

## ValueSERP's plans (23)

- [ValueSERP, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/25-pack/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $56 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/56-monthly/llms.txt): $2.24 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $105 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/105-monthly/llms.txt): $2.10 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $175 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/175-monthly/llms.txt): $1.75 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $240 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/240-monthly/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $575 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/575-monthly/llms.txt): $1.15 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $1,800 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/1800-monthly/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $3,500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/3500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.70 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $6,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/6000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $10,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/10000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $600 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/600-yearly/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $1,128 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/1128-yearly/llms.txt): $1.88 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $1,896 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/1896-yearly/llms.txt): $1.58 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $2,592 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/2592-yearly/llms.txt): $1.08 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $6,216 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/6216-yearly/llms.txt): $1.036 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $10,800 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/10800-yearly/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $19,440 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/19440-yearly/llms.txt): $0.81 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $37,800 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/37800-yearly/llms.txt): $0.63 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $64,800 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/64800-yearly/llms.txt): $0.54 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $108,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/108000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.45 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete, live

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

- `GET /search`: [ValueSERP, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/free/llms.txt)

## ValueSERP's APIs (2)

- [ValueSERP: news API pricing, 23 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/free/llms.txt)
- [ValueSERP: SERP API pricing, 23 plans, GET /search, Google Images](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/valueserp/free-trial-get-search-google-images/llms.txt)
- [ValueSERP: SERP API pricing, 23 plans, GET /search, Google Places](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/valueserp/free-trial-get-search-google-places/llms.txt)
- [ValueSERP: SERP API pricing, 23 plans, GET /search, Google Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/valueserp/free-trial-get-search-google-search/llms.txt)
- [ValueSERP: SERP API pricing, 23 plans, GET /search, Google Shopping](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/valueserp/free-trial-get-search-google-shopping/llms.txt)
- [ValueSERP: SERP API pricing, 23 plans, GET /search, Google Videos](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/valueserp/free-trial-get-search-google-videos/llms.txt)

## ValueSERP: news API alternatives

- [Search1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /news, News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/search1api/4990-yearly-enterprise-annual-post-news-news/llms.txt): $0.416 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Ujeebu, $3,229.20 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/ujeebu/3229-20-yearly/llms.txt): $0.449 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $90 monthly, Standard, GET /google_news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingdog/90-monthly-standard-get-google-news/llms.txt): $0.45 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [FlashData, $999 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/999-monthly-scale-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $0.50 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 2026-10-27.

- https://docs.trajectdata.com/valueserp/-2P6-4NlHRx7tWcejsBlY
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/valueserp/getting-started/send-requests
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/valueserp/search-api/pagination
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/valueserp/search-api/results/google/news
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/valueserp/search-api/searches/common
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/valueserp/search-api/searches/google/news
- https://trajectdata.com/serp/value-serp-api/pricing/
- https://trajectdata.com/traject-data-terms-of-service/
- https://www.valueserp.com