Datacircle

World News API pricing and alternatives: news API

World News API's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026

Is World News API yours? Write to us about this page. We invite selected tool providers to our WhatsApp group.

50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 412 plans by price. AllNewsAPI's $200 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.033. AllNewsAPI's $200 monthly plan covers up to 200,000 searches a day.Scrappa, Litescrape and TheNewsAPI are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of World News API's 4 plans
Call: GET /search-news World News API's only call for this API
API: News API one of World News API's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. All 3 cost extra: Author, Image, Full text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits a day, enough for 50 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You call GET /search-news. Every input is optional.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

World News API: news API alternatives

The table starts with World News API's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to World News API's.

World News API, $1,779 monthlyHasData, $119 monthlyDataBlue, $3,289 yearlyZenserp, $1,439.88 yearlyDataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/serp/google/news/task_post, Setting Google News SERP Tasks (priority queue)
$ per 1,000 searches$1.186$1.19$1.192$1.20$1.20
Completeness50%50%83%67%67%
Billingmonthlymonthlyyearlyyearlypay first
Pay$1,779$119$3,289$1,439.88$50
Enough for50,000 calls a day100,000 calls a month230,000 calls a month100,000 calls a monthabout 41,666 calls
Freshnessunknownlive5 minutesliveunknown
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyone at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into the Terms of Serviceanyoneanyone not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraine

Every news API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. raw.githubusercontent.com/ddsky/world-news-api-clients/main/world-news-api-openapi-3.json
  2. worldnewsapi.com
  3. worldnewsapi.com/docs/quotas-and-rate-limiting/
  4. worldnewsapi.com/docs/search-news/
  5. worldnewsapi.com/pricing/
  6. worldnewsapi.com/terms/

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Source, not in the answer
  • Date, not in the answer
  • Authorcosts more
  • Snippet, not in the answer
  • Imagecosts more
  • Full textcosts more
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search10,100
Extra fieldsarticle ID, title, text, summary, URL, image URL, video URL, publish date, authors, category, language, source country, sentiment: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Top News · Retrieve News · Extract News · Extract News Links · Search News Sources · Website to RSS Feed · Get Geo Coordinates
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch and filter news by text, date, location, category, language, and more. The API returns a list of news articles matching the given criteria.
Data
Keep dataYou may not scrape the World News API or in any way attempt to copy or store the information it provides, including any derived, hashed, or transformed data. With prior written permission from World News API, you may cache user-requested data to improve performance (for a maximum of 1 hour).
Use dataYou may use the data provided by the World News API as part of your website, application, or other project, but you cannot use World News API data to create a site or application meant to provide the same experience as World News API. [...] You may not resell any data received via the World News API.
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 credits a day
Enough for50 calls a day
Rate limit
Per second1
Concurrent1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.58 s
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: text, text-match-indexes, source-country, language, min-sentiment, max-sentiment, earliest-publish-date, latest-publish-date, news-sources, authors, categories, entities, location-filter, sort, sort-direction, offset, number
MethodGET
Path/search-news
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

offset, number, total results

Best GTM APIs