Webz.io pricing: news API, POST /
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$0.00per 1,000 searchesIn our news API benchmark, 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 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 (/
Plan: Free one of Webz.io's 3 plans
Call:
POST / one of Webz.io's 2 callsAPI: News API Webz.io's only API
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
- Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit a month, enough for 1,000 pages.
- One call. You send
querytoPOST /. You set theapi/ news/ context Content-Typeheader to "application/json". The call returns the news articles that match. - 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, POST /api/news/context | AnyCrawler, $20 monthly | Search1API, $99 pack, Pay as you go, $99 (+20% bonus), POST /news, News, full | GloryCloud, $5 monthly | Pullbay, $9 monthly, Hobby, GET /google-news/search | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 |
| Completeness | 67% | 50% | 67% | 0% | 67% |
| Billing | pay first | monthly | pay first | monthly | monthly |
| Pay | any amount | $20 | $99 | $5 | $9 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 4,000 calls a month | 19,800 calls | 1,000 calls a month | 1,800 calls a month |
| Freshness | unknown | unknown | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 years old, or under a parent's or legal guardian's supervision | anyone | anyone | anyone | anyone |
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-search-api-endpoints
- docs.webz.io/markdown/webz/news-search-api-errors-limits
- docs.webz.io/markdown/webz/news-search-api-filters
- docs.webz.io/markdown/webz/news-search-api-parameters
- docs.webz.io/markdown/webz/news-search-api-response-format
- webz.io/pricing/
- webz.io/products/news-api/
- webz.io/products/news-search-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, not in the answer
- Snippet
- Image
- Full text, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | page of 10 |
| Billing | free |
| Start fee | $0.00 |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: News API · Blogs API · Forums API · Reviews API |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Search global news in natural language and retrieve relevant articles and passages to power AI agents, RAG, and intelligence products. |
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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 | 1,000 pages a month |
| Expires | not accumulative, renewed at the beginning of each month |
| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| Median | 0.89 s |
| You send | query, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: k, score_gte, score_lte, allow_multiple_chunks_per_article, filters.language, filters.country, filters.category, filters.sentiment, filters.published_from, filters.published_to, filters.domain, filters.exclude_domain, filters.topic, filters.person, filters.organization, filters.location, filters.ticker, filters.political_bias, filters.trust_category, filters.domain_rank_gte, filters.domain_rank_lte, filters.source_type |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /api/news/context |
| 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 29 fields the plan's answer can hold
query, total results, requests left, credits used, match score, article ID, article URL, title, published at, summary, image, matching chunk ID, matching chunk index, matching chunk text, language, country, categories, sentiment, source domain, content type, topics, people mentioned, organizations mentioned, locations mentioned, tickers mentioned, source type, political bias, trust category, domain rank