Pricing
Every plan includes every capability. Higher tiers buy request volume, archive depth and rate limit — they do not unlock features that were being withheld from you.
Free
$0 forever
Evaluation and small production workloads.
- 1,000 requests / month
- 30 days of history
- 2 requests / second
Build
$29 per month
A live product with real but modest traffic.
- 50,000 requests / month
- 1 year of history
- 10 requests / second
Scale
$199 per month
Production systems and monitoring workloads.
- 500,000 requests / month
- 5 years of history
- 50 requests / second
Archive
$799 per month
Research and backtesting over deep history.
- 2,000,000 requests / month
- Full archive
- 200 requests / second
Every plan starts in the console — sign up free, then upgrade when you need the volume. No card required for the free tier.
Included on every plan, including the free one
Feature-gated pricing forces an evaluation decision before you have the information to make it. You pick a tier, build against what it exposes, discover in production that the capability you actually needed lives two tiers up, and rewrite. That wastes your quarter and usually costs us the account anyway. Better that you find out on day one.
How to estimate what you will spend
Estimate from distinct queries rather than from users. A monitoring workload issues a predictable number of scheduled requests regardless of how many people read the output, so its cost is flat and easy to forecast a year ahead. An interactive workload scales with sessions instead, and the usual surprise there is retries: an agent that reformulates a query three times before it answers has cost you three requests, and that multiplier is invisible in testing because you were watching one query at a time.
Requests past your plan allowance are billed at a published per-request rate rather than failing closed. An alerting pipeline that stops at the quota is worse than useless on the one day something actually happens. If you would rather it stopped, you can set a hard ceiling and it will.
What the rest of the market charges
Only some vendors publish prices at all. These are the published figures, captured from their own pricing pages on 2026-07-29 — where a row says pricing is not published, that is not an omission on our part.
| Vendor | Entry paid tier | Free tier |
|---|---|---|
| Unzoi | $29/mo | 1,000 requests/mo, no delay, all capabilities |
| NewsAPI.org | $449/mo | 100 requests/day, 24-hour delay, development use only |
| Newsdata.io | $199.99/mo | 200 credits/day (10 articles each), delayed 12 hours |
| TheNewsAPI | $16/mo | No free tier published |
Prices change. If a figure here disagrees with a vendor's own page, theirs is correct and this table is stale — tell us and we will re-measure.
Why we publish the numbers
Quote-only pricing costs you a week to discover something you could have read in ten seconds. It also increasingly means being left out of the decision entirely: when someone asks an assistant to compare news APIs, the vendors with a public price table are the ones that appear in the answer, and the ones without are described as "contact sales" and skipped. Better to be compared on the number than absent from the comparison.
Beyond the published tiers, pricing depends mostly on archive depth and sustained query volume, and the contact form routes those to a person rather than into a sequence.