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9 WickedAPI alternatives in 2026

The best alternatives to WickedAPI for news APIs: Scrappa, Hydrafetch and SerpScraper.dev, by our benchmark. WickedAPI's website is wickedapi.com.

News API alternatives

Scrappa, Hydrafetch and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

On our WickedAPI plan pages, we compare each WickedAPI plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 searches first.

Provider and plan$ per 1,000 searches
CrustAPI, top-up from $10$1.00
ReefAPI, $50 monthly, Ultra monthly, POST /news-intel/v1/search$1.00
Scrappa, pay as you go, x402, GET /api/google/news$1.00
ScriptMasterLabs, pay as you go$1.00
SerpKite, $10 pack$1.00

Compare every news API plan: News API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

Web search API alternatives

ScrapeNest, Clawifi and Desearch are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

On our WickedAPI plan pages, we compare each WickedAPI plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 searches first.

Provider and plan$ per 1,000 searches
DataGait, top-up from $1, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search, balanced$10.00
Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Hobby, POST /v2/search, Search$10.00
Spidra, $5 pack, 500 credit top-up, POST /search, Search$10.00
browserfoundry by keirolabs, $10 pack, Starter Pack, POST /api/v2/search/content$10.00

Compare every web search API plan: Web search API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

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