News API

newsapi.org

A REST API that returns JSON search results for current and historic news articles and headlines published by worldwide news sources and blogs.

The News API API uses api key authentication; has freemium pricing; offers a free tier (Developer plan: totally free, 100 requests per day, articles have 24 hour delay, articles up to a month old, development/testing only); rate limits: Developer plan: 100 requests per day; Business: 250,000 requests/month included; Advanced: 2,000,000 requests/month included. Verified 2026-07-12 with per-field source links.

Media & Content Verified 2026-07-12 high confidence

Base URL

https://newsapi.org/v2

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Auth

api_key

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Free tier

Developer plan: totally free, 100 requests per day, articles have 24 hour delay, articles up to a month old, development/testing only

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Pricing model

freemium

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Pricing

Developer: $0 (dev/testing only); Business: $449/month (250,000 requests/month, $0.0018 per extra request); Advanced: $1749/month (2,000,000 requests/month, $0.0009 per extra request); Enterprise: contact for quote

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Rate limits

Developer plan: 100 requests per day; Business: 250,000 requests/month included; Advanced: 2,000,000 requests/month included

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OpenAPI spec

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MCP server

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