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You.com pricing and alternatives: news API

You.com's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesHalf of the 354 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan is the cheapest of the 354 plans.Scrappa, SerpBase and treg are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of You.com's 6 plans
Call: POST /mcp?profile=free one of You.com's 4 calls for this API
API: News API one of You.com's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Image.
  • Nothing to pay. You get up to 3,000 calls a month.
  • One call. You send query to POST /mcp?profile=free. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: anyone: no API key, no account, no credit card. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

You.com: news API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

This planYou.com, free, POST /mcp?profile=freeScrappa, free, GET /api/google/newsSerpBase, freetreg, freeSerpKite, freeHasData, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness33%67%67%0%67%50%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for3,000 calls a month500 calls a month500 callsabout 2,389 calls, once1,000 calls a month100 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownlivelive
Who can get itanyone: no API key, no account, no credit cardanyone 18 or overanyonea new account once its email is verified, for one team (aliases of one inbox share one), 16 or overanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)anyone

Every news API provider we score, ranked

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.

  1. you.com/docs/administration/billing.md
  2. you.com/docs/administration/machine-payments.md
  3. you.com/docs/agents/mcp-server.md
  4. you.com/docs/api-reference/search/v1-search.md
  5. you.com/docs/guides/search/live-news.md
  6. you.com/pricing
  7. you.com/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Source, not in the answer
  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet, not in the answer
  • Image
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search1,000
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Web Search API automatically returns news articles alongside web results whenever your query has news intent—breaking events, recent announcements, trending topics.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree that you will not, and will not allow or assist anyone else to, use the Services for any illegal, unauthorized, malicious or harmful activities (“Prohibited Conduct”). Prohibited Conduct includes, but is not limited to: modifying, copying, sublicensing, leasing, selling or otherwise distributing any of our Services, reverse engineering, decompiling or attempting to discover the source code or underlying components of our Services, automatically or programmatically extracting data or Output [...] except when you are accessing our Services via a you.com API key or where we otherwise explicitly permit it, developing any products or services that compete with our Services, including the development or training of any artificial intelligence, machine learning algorithms or large language models, crawling, scraping, or otherwise harvesting data or information from our Services other than as may be expressly permitted, interfering with or disrupting our Services, including circumvent any rate limits or restrictions. Subject to your compliance with these Terms of Service, we assign to you all of our right, title, and interest, if any, in and to Outputs
Plan
Pay$0
Enough for3,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per day100
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.40 s
The call
You sendquery. Optional: count, freshness, offset, country, language, safesearch, knowledge, include_domains, exclude_domains, boost_domains, strict_operators, extraction.extraction_mode, extraction.extraction_source, extraction.highlights.total_max_tokens, extraction.full_page.extraction_formats, crawl_timeout
MethodPOST
Path/mcp?profile=free
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone: no API key, no account, no credit card
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, query, response time, page title, URL, description, thumbnail URL, published date

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