# XDive, free: News API

> Search the web, news or images and get ranked results.

XDive's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Snippet.
We haven't run XDive 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/xdive/free
- [News API: 60+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://xdive.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://xdive.dev/api/orgs/{id}/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://xdive.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://xdive.dev/docs/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: XDive (https://xdive.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Repeat free: never
- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: Scrape one URL · Batch scrape up to 100 URLs · Start a crawl · Extract structured data from up to 10 URLs · Generate llms.txt for a site · Parse an uploaded document · from the same budget: Research a question

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the web, news or images and get ranked results.

## Data

- Freshness: 10 minutes
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: break the law, or use the Service to harm, harass, defraud or mislead anyone, fetch, store or process content you have no right to, or breach the terms, access controls or robots.txt of the sites you fetch [...] use the Service to attack, overload or probe third-party systems, to reach private or internal networks, or to evade security measures such as logins, paywalls or CAPTCHAs you are not entitled to bypass, collect personal data without a lawful basis, or use results to make decisions about people that the law restricts, use the residential proxy, the connectors or the browser features outside the access your organization was granted, resell or share the Service in a way that circumvents quotas or per-key budgets, create accounts to dodge limits, or interfere with the Service or other users, reverse-engineer the Service's non-public parts, or use it to build a directly competing service by systematically copying its output. [...] Pages we fetch belong to their publishers. We give you no rights in them. Check that you may use what you collect.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: sources ["news"]
- Method: POST
- Path: /orgs/{id}/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 16 and old enough to form a binding contract where they live, access may be invitation-only (XDive can approve, hold or reject sign-ups)

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

query, search engine, result ID, result rank, page title, URL, snippet, published date

## XDive's plans (3)

- [XDive, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xdive/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, 10 minutes
- [XDive, contact us, Enterprise](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xdive/contact-us-enterprise/llms.txt): 33% complete, 10 minutes
- [XDive, contact us, Pro](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xdive/contact-us-pro/llms.txt): 33% complete, 10 minutes

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

- `POST /orgs/{id}/search`: [XDive, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xdive/free/llms.txt)

## XDive's APIs (4)

- [XDive: image search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/xdive/free/llms.txt)
- [XDive: news API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xdive/free/llms.txt)
- [XDive: web search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/xdive/free/llms.txt)
- [XDive: web scraping API pricing, 3 plans, POST /orgs/{id}/batch/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/xdive/free-post-orgs-id-batch-scrape/llms.txt)
- [XDive: web scraping API pricing, 3 plans, POST /orgs/{id}/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/xdive/free-post-orgs-id-scrape/llms.txt)

## XDive: news API alternatives

- [Scrappa, free, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/free-post-news-intel-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapeunblocker/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 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://xdive.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://xdive.dev/docs/scrape?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://xdive.dev/docs/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://xdive.dev/docs/usage?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://xdive.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://xdive.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://xdive.dev/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://xdive.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing