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AskNews pricing: web search API

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17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$62.50per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run AskNews through our web search API benchmark yet.Half of the 569 plans we rank by price cost $3.992 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 5% of the 569 plans.browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.browserfoundry by keirolabs, Context.dev and Exa are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Spelunker one of AskNews's 3 plans
Call: GET /v1/chat/websearch AskNews's only call for this API
API: Web search API one of AskNews's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. AskNews searches the web when you call the API.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Date.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $250 a month for 20,000 credits, enough for 4,000 calls. Calls keep working once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send queries to GET /v1/chat/websearch. You can also send lookback, start_datetime, end_datetime, engine, domains, strict and offset. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

AskNews: web search API alternatives

AskNews alternatives: every web search API provider ranked

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

This planAskNews, $250 monthlySocialCrawl, £49 pack, Growth, GET /v1/web/search, Search the web, fullsuprsonic, $29 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/search, Web Search, deepQuanticData, $79 monthlyThunderbit, $3,000 yearly, Pro, POST /search, Search and Distill, full
$ per 1,000 searches$62.50$39.205$43.50$63.20$81.875
Completeness17%33%33%33%50%
Billingmonthlypay firstmonthlymonthlyyearly
Pay$250£49$29$79$3,000
Enough for4,000 calls a monthabout 1,666 pagesabout 666 calls a month1,250 pages a monthabout 36,641 calls a year
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years oldanyone 18 or overanyoneanyoneanyone with a Thunderbit account who is at least 18 years old, or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction if greater

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

  1. asknews.app/api/terms
  2. docs.asknews.app/api/spec
  3. docs.asknews.app/en/rate-limiting
  4. docs.asknews.app/en/websearch
  5. docs.asknews.app/llms.txt
  6. my.asknews.app/en/plans

Product details

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

  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text, not in the answer
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$62.50
Percall
Billingmonthly
$ a month$250
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: /news (last 48 hours) · /news (archive) · /wiki · /autofilter · /stories · /graph
Overage
$ per 1,000 searches$75.00
Units capsoft
In their words
Their pitchThe AskNews Web Search endpoint lets you reach out beyond news to find relevant information across the web.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data"Restrictions on Use: You may use the content from AskNews for personal, non-commercial purposes only. You are not permitted to copy, reproduce, redistribute, sell, broadcast, rent, share, modify, or otherwise exploit any of the content on AskNews without express written permission from us." [...] "API data access prohibits any recreation of news articles and/or competition with news publishers." [...] "Internal use is available on non-enterprise plans. Commercial redistribution and product use require Enterprise."
Plan
Pay$250
You get20,000 credits a month
Enough for4,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second1
Concurrent5
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendqueries. Optional: lookback, start_datetime, end_datetime, engine, domains, strict, offset
MethodGET
Path/v1/chat/websearch
About the plan
PlanSpelunker
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, URL, source name, published date, key points, raw text, citation key, LLM summary, next offset

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