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ZenRows pricing and alternatives: news API

ZenRows's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 354 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.Scrappa, SerpBase and treg are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free (agent storefront) one of ZenRows's 36 plans
Call: GET /v1/ one of ZenRows's 2 calls for this API
API: News API one of ZenRows's 12 APIs

About this item

  • Live. ZenRows searches the news when you call the API.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Author, Image.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 5,000 credits.
  • One call. You send url to GET /v1/. You can also send mode, extract, extract_fields, proxy_country, wait_for and session_id. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: AI agents whose human verifies an email. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ZenRows: news API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planZenRows, free (agent storefront)Scrappa, free, GET /api/google/newsSerpBase, freeSerpKite, freeScrapeUnblocker, freelobstr.io, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness67%67%67%67%67%67%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0€0$0
Enough fornot published500 calls a month500 calls1,000 calls a month500 calls, once1 call a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itAI agents whose human verifies an emailanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.")professionals, not consumers

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 2026-10-28.

  1. agents.zenrows.com/llms.txt?src=body-text
  2. agents.zenrows.com/zcj/ual7m94zw5th/manifest.json
  3. docs.zenrows.com/fetch/api-reference.md
  4. docs.zenrows.com/first-steps/agentic-payments.md
  5. zenrows.com/legal/terms
  6. zenrows.com/pricing
  7. zenrows.com/scrape/google-news
  8. zenrows.com/scrape/linkedin-profile

Product details

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

  • Source
  • Date
  • Author
  • Snippet, not in the answer
  • Image
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Extract · LinkedIn profile scraper · LinkedIn company scraper · LinkedIn post scraper · LinkedIn jobs scraper · Google Search scraper · Google Images scraper · Google Scholar scraper · Google Shopping scraper · Google Maps scraper · Bing scraper
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Zenrows Google News scraper turns a Google News search or topic URL into structured data: headline, publisher, author, publish time, position, article link, thumbnail and publisher icon for every story.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataThe Client acknowledges and agrees to use the Services for its own use and will comply with the restrictions set out in this section. [...] The Client, with respect to the Services [...] shall not (including encouraging, facilitating, or causing any other party to do so) do any of the following: Use the Services for unlawful purposes or in a manner that violates the law, morality, good faith, or public order, Use the Services in a manner that breaches these Terms of Service or applicable regulations, Use the Services to gain an undue advantage, including any unlawful activities such as accessing government websites to obtain appointments, collecting data from third parties, or gathering information from websites for any unlawful, abusive, or misleading purposes, or in a manner inconsistent with good faith or generally accepted practices, Copy/reproduce, lend, sell, rent, sublicense, broadcast, distribute, edit, transfer to third parties, as well as adapt the Services or any part thereof in any way, [...] Otherwise, use the Service in violation of copyright or other laws. [...] IT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED TO COLLECT DATA OR URLS FROM THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES FOR PURPOSES THAT ARE UNLAWFUL, ABUSIVE OR IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE LAW, GOOD FAITH AND GENERALLY ACCEPTED CUSTOMS AND PRACTICES.
Plan
Pay$0
You get5,000 credits
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendurl. Optional: mode, extract, extract_fields, proxy_country, wait_for, session_id
MethodGET
Path/v1/
About the plan
PlanFree (agent storefront)
Who can get itAI agents whose human verifies an email
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, result position, result title, publisher name, authors, published at, Google News URL, thumbnail URL, publisher icon URL, full HTML

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