# World News API, free: News API

> Search and filter news by text, date, location, category, language, and more. The API returns a list of news articles matching the given criteria.

World News API's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check. All 3 cost extra: Author, Image, Full text.
We rank 412 plans by price. [AllNewsAPI's $200 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/allnewsapi/200-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/250-pack/llms.txt), [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) and [TheNewsAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/79-monthly-pro-monthly-get-v1-news-all/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/world-news-api/free
- [Best news API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://worldnewsapi.com/pricing/
- Request: `GET https://api.worldnewsapi.com/search-news`
- API key: with the plan, on https://worldnewsapi.com/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/search-news/
- Sold by: World News API (https://worldnewsapi.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Author: ✓ costs more
- Image: ✓ costs more
- Full text: ✓ costs more

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 10,100
- Extra fields: article ID, title, text, summary, URL, image URL, video URL, publish date, authors, category, language, source country, sentiment: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Top News · Retrieve News · Extract News · Extract News Links · Search News Sources · Website to RSS Feed · Get Geo Coordinates

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search 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 data: You 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 data: You 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 get: 50 credits a day
- Enough for: 50 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.58 s

## The call

- You send: nothing 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
- Method: GET
- Path: /search-news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

offset, number, total results

## World News API's plans (4)

- [World News API, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/world-news-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [World News API, $39 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/world-news-api/39-monthly/llms.txt): $2.60 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [World News API, $379 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/world-news-api/379-monthly/llms.txt): $2.527 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [World News API, $1,779 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/world-news-api/1779-monthly/llms.txt): $1.186 per 1,000, 50% complete

## World News API's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /search-news`: [World News API, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/world-news-api/free/llms.txt)

## World News API's APIs (2)

- [World News API: news API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/world-news-api/free/llms.txt)
- [World News API: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, GET /extract-news, Extract News](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/world-news-api/free-get-extract-news-extract-news/llms.txt)
- [World News API: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, GET /extract-news, Extract News, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/world-news-api/free-get-extract-news-extract-news-full/llms.txt)

## World News API: news API alternatives

- [HasData, $119 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hasdata/119-monthly/llms.txt): $1.19 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $3,289 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/datablue/3289-yearly/llms.txt): $1.192 per 1,000, 83% complete, 5 minutes
- [Zenserp, $1,439.88 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/zenserp/1439-88-yearly/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [DataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/serp/google/news/task_post, Setting Google News SERP Tasks (priority queue)](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/dataforseo/top-up-from-50-pay-as-you-go-post-v3-serp-google-news-task-post-setting-google-news-serp-tasks-priority-queue/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 67% complete

## 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.

- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ddsky/world-news-api-clients/main/world-news-api-openapi-3.json
- https://worldnewsapi.com
- https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/quotas-and-rate-limiting/
- https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/search-news/
- https://worldnewsapi.com/pricing/
- https://worldnewsapi.com/terms/