Webz.io pricing: news API, GET /
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GET / one of Webz.io's 2 callsAbout this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- All 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image, Full text.
- Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit a month, enough for 10 pages.
- One call. You send
qtoGET /. You can also sendapi/ news ts,size,sort,order,from,highlight,warning,allowNewsHistory,includeSyndicatedandwebz_. The call returns the news articles that match.reporter - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: solely for the Term. Use data: with conditions.
Webz.io: news API alternatives
Webz.io alternatives: every news API provider ranked
The table starts with Webz.io's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Webz.io's.
| Webz.io, top-up, Scale, GET /api/news | Trading Economics, $399 monthly, Professional Plan, GET /news, News by Type | apipick, $100 pack, 100,000 credits, POST /api/search/ap-news | AskNews, top-up, Pay as you go, GET /v1/news/search, Search news archive | lobstr.io, $20 monthly | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $500.00 | $79.80 | $120.00 | $125.00 | $200.00 |
| Completeness | 100% | 33% | 50% | 83% | 67% |
| Billing | pay first | monthly | pay first | pay first | monthly |
| Pay | any amount | $399 | $100 | any amount | $20 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 5,000 calls a month | about 833 calls | as many as you pay for | 100 calls a month |
| Freshness | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | live |
| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 years old, or under a parent's or legal guardian's supervision | anyone | anyone | anyone at least 18 years old | professionals, not consumers |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.
- docs.webz.io/markdown/webz/news-api
- docs.webz.io/markdown/webz/news-api-post-fields
- docs.webz.io/markdown/webz/news-blogs-forums-errors-limits
- docs.webz.io/markdown/webz/news-blogs-forums-pagination
- docs.webz.io/markdown/webz/news-blogs-forums-parameters
- webz.io/pricing/
- webz.io/products/news-api/
- webz.io/tos/
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Source
- Date
- Author
- Snippet
- Image
- Full text
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
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| Per | page of 100 |
| Billing | free |
| Most per search | no limit |
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| Start fee | $0.00 |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: News Search API · Blogs API · Forums API · Reviews API |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Search 3.5M+ daily news articles from 350K+ sources across 170+ languages and 200+ countries through one structured API. |
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| Keep data | solely for the Term |
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| Use data | a limited, non-transferable, non-sub-licensable, non-exclusive license, solely for the Term (as defined below), and solely for the purpose of: (a) your internal use to obtain, investigate and analyze the Data Derivatives generated from use of the RESTFul API, and/or (b) of providing business value to your clients without transferring any of the Data Derivatives to any third parties [...] You may not and shall not permit others to make any commercialization of the Crawler Services, RESTful API, and the Data Derivatives contained therein and/or transfer, assign, sub-license, disclose, share, access to and of the RESTful API, and the Data Derivatives contained therein to any third party, including without limitation to any of your affiliates or clients. [...] you may not use any of the Data Derivatives to compete with Webz.io by offering the RESTful API, and/or any Data Derivatives contained therein or otherwise provided to you by Webz.io by any means, without Webz.io’s express written permission. [...] Without the express written permission of Webz.io, you agree that you will not, whether by yourself or anyone on your behalf: a. interfere with or violate any other Website and/or Services or user’s right to privacy or other rights, or harvest or collect personally identifiable information about visitors or users of the Website, the Services, the RESTful API, and/or the Data Derivatives contained therein without their express and informed consent [...], b. transfer or assign your Account’s log-in credentials, even temporarily, to a third party, c. use the RESTful API, and any of the Data Derivatives contained therein for any illegal, unauthorized or other improper purposes, d. automatically gather Content or any other information, material and data available on or provided by the Website and/or Services, where applicable, by using a catch all filter such as – a star (*), which gathers all the data, or a filter based on a data vertical such as “site_type:news” or by using a catch all filter based on a language such as “language:english”, e. use Content or any other information, material and data available on or provided by the Website and/or Services for AI training (LLM purposes) , if such use is prohibited with respect to such Content, including where the “AI_allow” field included thereunder appears as “false” |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | $5 a month |
| Enough for | 10 pages a month |
| Expires | not accumulative, renewed at the beginning of each month |
| Per second | 1 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | q. Optional: ts, size, sort, order, from, highlight, warning, allowNewsHistory, includeSyndicated, webz_reporter |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /api/news |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 years old, or under a parent's or legal guardian's supervision |
The 72 fields the plan's answer can hold
total results, more results available, next page URL, requests left, warnings, article ID, article URL, title, full title, body, summary, author name, published at, crawled at, updated at, language, sentiment, categories, topics, position in thread, external links, external images, internal images, rating, breaking news, Webz Reporter article, AI training allowed, has canonical URL, highlighted text, highlighted title, highlighted thread title, related articles URL, source domain, source host, source section, source section title, source name, content type, source categories, country, image, thread published at, performance score, domain rank, domain rank updated at, licensing agency, Facebook likes, Facebook shares, Facebook comments, VK shares, social counts updated at, replies count, participants count, people mentioned, locations mentioned, organizations mentioned, entity sentiment, tickers mentioned, ticker exchange, syndicated, syndication ID, first syndicated, trust category, top news lists, political bias, source type, source city, source state, source country, source domain type, source agency, source organization name