# Webz.io, free, GET /api/news: News API

> Search 3.5M+ daily news articles from 350K+ sources across 170+ languages and 200+ countries through one structured API.

Webz.io's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns all 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image, Full text.
In [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt), the best plan from Webz.io scores 52.6 out of 100. Webz.io ranks 46th of 62 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 710 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.
[Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/financial-data-financialdata-net/69-monthly-premium-get-api-v1-latest-news/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.00089. Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan covers up to 77,760,000 searches a month at no extra cost.
[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 Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 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/webz-io/free-get-api-news
- [News API: 60+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://webz.io/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.webz.io/api/news`
- API key: with the plan, on https://webz.io/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.webz.io/docs/webz/news-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Webz.io (https://webz.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓
- Full text: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: no limit
- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: News Search API · Blogs API · Forums API · Reviews API

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search 3.5M+ daily news articles from 350K+ sources across 170+ languages and 200+ countries through one structured API.

## Data

- Keep data: solely for the Term
- 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”

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5 a month
- Enough for: 10 pages a month
- Expires: not accumulative, renewed at the beginning of each month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: ts, size, sort, order, from, highlight, warning, allowNewsHistory, includeSyndicated, webz_reporter
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- 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

## Webz.io's plans (3)

- [Webz.io, free, GET /api/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/webz-io/free-get-api-news/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Webz.io, top-up, Scale, GET /api/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/webz-io/top-up-scale-get-api-news/llms.txt): $500.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Webz.io, contact us, High Volume, GET /api/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/webz-io/contact-us-high-volume-get-api-news/llms.txt): 100% complete

## Webz.io's calls (2)

- `GET /api/news`: [Webz.io, free, GET /api/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/webz-io/free-get-api-news/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/news/context`: [Webz.io, free, POST /api/news/context](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/webz-io/free-post-api-news-context/llms.txt)

## Webz.io's APIs (1)

- [Webz.io: news API pricing, 3 plans, GET /api/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/webz-io/free-get-api-news/llms.txt)

## Webz.io: news API alternatives

- [Trading Economics, $399 monthly, Professional Plan, GET /news, News by Type](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trading-economics/399-monthly-professional-plan-get-news-news-by-type/llms.txt): $79.80 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [apipick, $100 pack, 100,000 credits, POST /api/search/ap-news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apipick/100-pack-100000-credits-post-api-search-ap-news/llms.txt): $120.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [AskNews, top-up, Pay as you go, GET /v1/news/search, Search news archive](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/top-up-pay-as-you-go-get-v1-news-search-search-news-archive/llms.txt): $125.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [lobstr.io, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/lobstr-io/20-monthly/llms.txt): $200.00 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 2026-10-31.

- https://docs.webz.io/markdown/webz/news-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.webz.io/markdown/webz/news-api-post-fields?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.webz.io/markdown/webz/news-blogs-forums-errors-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.webz.io/markdown/webz/news-blogs-forums-pagination?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.webz.io/markdown/webz/news-blogs-forums-parameters?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://webz.io/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://webz.io/products/news-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://webz.io/tos/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing