# AskNews, $250 monthly: Web search API

> The AskNews Web Search endpoint lets you reach out beyond news to find relevant information across the web.

AskNews's web search API on its Spelunker plan. It costs $62.50 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Date.
We haven't run AskNews through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt), [Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt) and [Exa](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/top-up-from-5-developer-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/asknews/250-monthly
- [Web search API: 30+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://my.asknews.app/en/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.asknews.app/v1/chat/websearch`
- API key: with the plan, on https://my.asknews.app/en/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.asknews.app/en/websearch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: AskNews (https://asknews.app?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Date: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $62.50
- Per: call
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $250

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: /news (last 48 hours) · /news (archive) · /wiki · /autofilter · /stories · /graph

## Overage

- $ per 1,000 searches: $75.00
- Units cap: soft

## In their words

- Their pitch: The AskNews Web Search endpoint lets you reach out beyond news to find relevant information across the web.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no 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 get: 20,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 4,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: 5

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: queries. Optional: lookback, start_datetime, end_datetime, engine, domains, strict, offset
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/chat/websearch

## About the plan

- Plan: Spelunker
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## AskNews's plans (3)

- [AskNews, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/asknews/250-monthly/llms.txt): $62.50 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [AskNews, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/asknews/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $45.455 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [AskNews, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/asknews/contact-us/llms.txt): 17% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/chat/websearch`: [AskNews, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/asknews/250-monthly/llms.txt)

## AskNews's APIs (2)

- [AskNews: news API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/news/search, Search news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/top-up-pay-as-you-go-get-v1-news-search-search-news/llms.txt)
- [AskNews: news API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/news/search, Search news archive](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/top-up-pay-as-you-go-get-v1-news-search-search-news-archive/llms.txt)
- [AskNews: web search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/asknews/250-monthly/llms.txt)

## AskNews: web search API alternatives

- [SocialCrawl, £49 pack, Growth, GET /v1/web/search, Search the web, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/socialcrawl/49-pack-growth-get-v1-web-search-search-the-web-full/llms.txt): $39.205 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [suprsonic, $29 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/search, Web Search, deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/suprsonic/29-monthly-pro-post-v1-search-web-search-deep/llms.txt): $43.50 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [QuanticData, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/quanticdata/79-monthly/llms.txt): $63.20 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Thunderbit, $3,000 yearly, Pro, POST /search, Search and Distill, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/thunderbit/3000-yearly-pro-post-search-search-and-distill-full/llms.txt): $81.875 per 1,000, 50% 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 2026-11-04.

- https://asknews.app/api/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.asknews.app/api/spec?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.asknews.app/en/rate-limiting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.asknews.app/en/websearch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.asknews.app/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://my.asknews.app/en/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing