# x402 Atlas, pay as you go: News API

> Global news article search by GDELT — normalized fulltext search across worldwide media (query syntax: phrases, OR, sourcecountry, theme, tone) returned as a clean snake_case envelope.

x402 Atlas's x402 pay per call plan for the news API costs $5.00 per 1,000 searches. x402 Atlas's docs list 2 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Date, Image.
We haven't run x402 Atlas through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
We rank 851 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.20 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 24% of the 851 plans.
[Alpaca's $99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/99-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. Alpaca's $99 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Alpaca's rate limit allows. [AnswerLine's Starter plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/answerline/top-up-from-1-starter-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.
[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 Alpaca's $99 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/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go
- [News API in 2026: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://gdelt.use.x402atlas.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://gdelt.use.x402atlas.com/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://gdelt.use.x402atlas.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: x402 Atlas (https://x402atlas.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $5.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 250
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Global news article search by GDELT — normalized fulltext search across worldwide media (query syntax: phrases, OR, sourcecountry, theme, tone) returned as a clean snake_case envelope.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: maxrecords, sort, timespan
- Method: GET
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC from a wallet (x402)

## The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, URL, image URL, source country, language, published date

## x402 Atlas's plans (1)

- [x402 Atlas, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## x402 Atlas's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /search`: [x402 Atlas, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## x402 Atlas's APIs (14)

- [x402 Atlas: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /french-company-data](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-french-company-data/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /entity/{lei}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-entity-lei/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: local business search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /apple/local](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-apple-local/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: local business search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /local](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-local/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: local business search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-search/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: eBay search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/ebay-search-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: Instagram post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: Instagram profile API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: job postings API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: SERP API pricing, 1 plan, GET /analyze](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-analyze/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: SERP API pricing, 1 plan, GET /google-search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-google-search/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: App Store review API pricing, 1 plan, GET /reviews](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-review-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-reviews/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: App Store review API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v2/product/{product_id}/reviews](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-review-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v2-product-product-id-reviews/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: web search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-search/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: web search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /search/advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-search-advanced/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: web search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /search/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-search-bulk/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: X profile API pricing, 1 plan, GET /user-about](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-user-about/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: X profile API pricing, 1 plan, GET /user-details](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-user-details/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: X post API pricing, 1 plan, GET /user-media](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-user-media/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: X post API pricing, 1 plan, GET /user-replies](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-user-replies/llms.txt)
- [x402 Atlas: X post API pricing, 1 plan, GET /user-tweets](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/x402-atlas/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-user-tweets/llms.txt)

## x402 Atlas: news API alternatives

- [AnyCrawler, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/anycrawler/20-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Search1API, $99 pack, Pay as you go, $99 (+20% bonus), POST /news, News, full](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/search1api/99-pack-pay-as-you-go-99-20-bonus-post-news-news-full/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [GloryCloud, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/glorycloud/5-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Pullbay, $9 monthly, Hobby, GET /google-news/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/pullbay/9-monthly-hobby-get-google-news-search/llms.txt): $5.00 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 2026-11-08.

- https://gdelt.use.x402atlas.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://gdelt.use.x402atlas.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://gdelt.use.x402atlas.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://gdelt.use.x402atlas.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://twitter.use.x402atlas.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://twitter.use.x402atlas.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://x402atlas.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://x402atlas.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing