# x402serps, free: News API

> x402serps returns real-time news results from a third-party search provider: title, url, snippet, source and date.

x402serps's news API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Snippet.
We haven't run x402serps through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
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/x402serps/free
- [News API: 60+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://x402serps.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://x402serps.com/api/v1/news`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://x402serps.com/google-news-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: x402serps (https://x402serps.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Source: ✓
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: POST /api/v1/search · POST /api/v1/extract · POST /api/v1/images · POST /api/v1/places · POST /api/v1/shopping · POST /api/v1/scholar · POST /api/v1/videos

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: x402serps returns real-time news results from a third-party search provider: title, url, snippet, source and date.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 hour
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Acceptable use: No unlawful use, fraud, harassment, or infringement of others' rights. No attempts to overload, probe, or bypass payment or rate limits of the service. Do not use the extract endpoint to target private, internal, or access-restricted resources, or sites whose terms forbid automated access. No use to build or train a competing bulk search index by mass scraping of results. You are responsible for complying with the terms of websites whose content you retrieve.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 25 requests
- Enough for: 25 pages, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: num, freshness, dateFrom, dateTo, tbs, gl, hl, page
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/news

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, search provider, position, article title, URL, snippet, source name, date

## x402serps's plans (5)

- [x402serps, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/x402serps/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, 1 hour
- [x402serps, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/x402serps/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, 1 hour
- [x402serps, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/x402serps/5-pack/llms.txt): $3.636 per 1,000, 33% complete, 1 hour
- [x402serps, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/x402serps/20-pack/llms.txt): $3.333 per 1,000, 33% complete, 1 hour
- [x402serps, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/x402serps/100-pack/llms.txt): $3.077 per 1,000, 33% complete, 1 hour

## x402serps's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/v1/news`: [x402serps, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/x402serps/free/llms.txt)

## x402serps's APIs (6)

- [x402serps: image search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/x402serps/free/llms.txt)
- [x402serps: Local business search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/x402serps/free/llms.txt)
- [x402serps: news API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/x402serps/free/llms.txt)
- [x402serps: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/x402serps/free/llms.txt)
- [x402serps: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/x402serps/free/llms.txt)
- [x402serps: web search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/x402serps/free/llms.txt)

## x402serps: news API alternatives

- [Octen, $33,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/octen/33999-monthly/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 minute
- [Nimble, pay as you go, POST /v2/serp/batch](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/nimble/pay-as-you-go-post-v2-serp-batch/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [OpenWeb Ninja, pay as you go, GET /news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/openweb-ninja/pay-as-you-go-get-news/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SearchApi, $3,000 monthly, Octo 1M, Enhanced speed, GET /api/v1/search?engine=google_news_light](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchapi/3000-monthly-octo-1m-enhanced-speed-get-api-v1-search-engine-google-news-light/llms.txt): $3.00 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 2026-11-05.

- https://x402serps.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://x402serps.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://x402serps.com/google-news-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://x402serps.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://x402serps.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://x402serps.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing