XCrawl pricing: news API, POST /v1/serp, Baidu News Search

Name: XCrawl news API, POST /v1/serp, Baidu News Search
Brand: XCrawl
Price: 8 USD

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields

$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 584 plans by price. Serpent API's top-up from $500 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.Scrappa, ReefAPI and ScrapeUnblocker are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

Plan: Free Plan one of XCrawl's 6 plans

Call: POST /v1/serp, Baidu News Search one of XCrawl's 7 calls for this API

API: News API one of XCrawl's 8 APIs

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
3 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet.
Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 1,000 calls. Unused credits expire at the end of the 30-day trial.
One call. You send q to POST /v1/serp. You set engine to "baidu_news_search" and the Content-Type header to "application/json". You can also send ct, pn, rn, rtt, medium and no_cache. The call returns the news articles that match.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

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

	XCrawl, $999 monthly, Enterprise, POST /v1/serp, Baidu News Search	Ujeebu, $999 monthly	ScrapeBadger, $14,990 yearly, Volume, GET /v1/naver/news	ReefAPI, $1,200 yearly, Enterprise yearly, POST /news-intel/v1/search	SerpBase, $500 pack
$ per 1,000 searches	$0.333	$0.333	$0.333	$0.333	$0.333
Completeness	50%	67%	67%	67%	67%
Billing	monthly	monthly	yearly	yearly	pay first
Pay	$999	$999	$14,990	$1,200	$500
Enough for	3,000,000 calls a month	3,000,000 calls a month	3,750,000 calls a month	300,000 calls a month	1,500,000 calls
Freshness	unknown	live	unknown	live	live
Who can get it	individuals 18 or older and legal entities represented by natural persons, for personal or business use	anyone who is 18 or older, or 13 to 17 with a parent's or guardian's permission	anyone 18 or over	anyone	anyone

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-03.

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Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Scrape API · Search API · Map API · Crawl API

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Retrieve Baidu News search results and related suggestions based on a query.

Data
Keep data	no limit
Use data	"Customer shall not use the Services in violation of applicable laws or regulations or any third party rights (including intellectual property rights), or in any manner or for any purpose other than as set out in the intended use case (if applicable) provided to XCrawl", "When using the proxy services, the client shall not use the services to [...] 1.3 Distribute any illegal content or encourage any illegal activity [...] 1.5 Enhance or operate services that compete with the Services, or assist any other party in doing so. 1.6 Access, attack, crawl, or attempt to access any website, application, or system related to financial transactions, banking, securities, cryptocurrency exchanges, etc. 1.7 Access, disseminate, or participate in any content or activities involving pornography, gambling, drugs, violence, or other content that violates public morals, laws, or regulations. 1.8 Conduct any unauthorized scraping, collection, or use of data, especially content involving personal privacy, sensitive data, or protected information. 1.9 Engage in any illegal or criminal activity, such as money laundering, theft of trade secrets, or theft of personal information.", "When using the Data Services, Customer may not distribute, transmit, copy, publish, license, transfer or sell any Data to offer similar or competing products."

Rate limit
Concurrent	10
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	q, engine "baidu_news_search", Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: ct, pn, rn, rtt, medium, no_cache
Method	POST
Path	/v1/serp

About the plan
Plan	Free Plan
Who can get it	individuals 18 or older and legal entities represented by natural persons, for personal or business use

The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, search status, search parameters, news result title, news result link, news result date, news result snippet, news result source