News API pricing: what should news data cost?
News API pricing is all over the map, and the sticker price rarely tells the whole story. What you're really paying for is some mix of request volume, history depth, enrichment and source attribution. Here's how to read a pricing page — and what ours costs.
What actually drives the price
- Request volume — calls per day or per month, and how many articles each call returns.
- History window — last 24 hours vs. weeks vs. a full archive.
- Enrichment depth — raw text, or scored/classified/clustered data you don't have to process yourself.
- Attribution & full text — source names, links and article bodies are often gated separately.
The traps to watch for
Three catch people out: quotas quoted per month (so a busy day drains you fast), "free" tiers that return only stripped headlines you can't build on, and paying for raw text that still leaves you to build scoring, dedup and classification. The real cost of a "cheap" raw API is the pipeline you have to write around it.
How we price it
NewsAgent Data prices on volume and access, not on tricks:
- Free — 100 requests/day of the full enriched schema (urgency, lean, topic/country tags, clusters), no card. Source names/links and full text are the paid part. See what the free tier includes.
- Developer — $29/mo — higher daily volume, source names & links, longer history. The same schema, just bigger limits.
- Higher tiers add volume, history and support.
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \ "https://api.newsagentdata.com/v1/feed?min_score=6&days=1"
How to choose
Prototype on the free tier with the real schema; move up only when you need volume, attribution or history. Because the schema is identical across tiers, upgrading never means rewriting your code. Full ladder on the pricing page, and a feature-by-feature look in the news API comparison.