There are a ton of News APIs out there, so I created a list of all of them broken down by whether or not they had a free tier.
NewsMesh
Real-time news aggregation API with ML-powered enrichment. Get articles categorized by topic, with named entity extraction (people, organizations) and country relevance scoring from thousands of global sources.
Has Free Tier? Yes
Free Requests Per Month: ~1,500 (50/day)
Free Articles Per Request: 25
Note: 24-hour delay, 7 days history on free tier
Athena News API
Enriched, structured news data from over 50,000 global sources, designed to help you streamline analysis, enhance applications, and drive smarter decisions.
Has Free Tier? Yes
Free Requests Per Month: 100
Free Articles Per Request: 25
Note: Title + description only, 30-day history
Currents
Currents News API provides a comprehensive solution for curating global news and delivering it in a parsable format.
Has Free Tier? Yes
Free Requests Per Month: 600
Free Articles Per Request: Not specified
Note: Partial access to articles, 3 months history
Finlight
Get Real-Time News and Deep Insights with our Financial News API.
Has Free Tier? Yes
Free Requests Per Month: 5,000
Free Articles Per Request: Not specified
Note: 12-hour delay on free tier
gNews
A powerful REST News API to search for current and historical articles and get trending news in over 22 languages across 30 countries from 60,000+ sources.
Has Free Tier? Yes
Free Requests Per Month: ~3,000 (100/day)
Free Articles Per Request: 10
Note: Non-commercial use only, 12-hour delay
NewsAPI.ai
Easy to integrate news API that you can use in your products and services to obtain access to real-time as well as archive news content.
Has Free Tier? Yes
Free Requests Per Month: 2,000 searches
Free Articles Per Request: 100
Note: Last 30 days only on free tier
NewsCatcher
Clean, Enriched, Ready-to-Use News Data.
Has Free Tier? Limited
Free Requests Per Month: Must contact sales
Free Articles Per Request: Unknown
Note: Free access for researchers and students
News Data Hub
Access 34M+ Articles from 2,300+ Sources - The Most Affordable News API for Developers.
Has Free Tier? Yes
Free Requests Per Month: ~3,000 (100/day)
Free Articles Per Request: Up to 100
Note: Non-commercial only, 48-hour delay, limited fields
Perigon
Real-time news API and web content data — structured and enriched by AI, primed for LLMs.
Has Free Tier? Yes
Free Requests Per Month: Limited (free tier available)
Free Articles Per Request: Not specified
Note: Also offers 15-day free trial
The News API
Get free access to search worldwide news and top stories from over 40,000 sources in 50+ countries.
Has Free Tier? Yes
Free Requests Per Month: ~3,000 (100/day)
Free Articles Per Request: 3
Quantexa
News API is the most efficient, effective, and accurate way to access global news at scale.
Has Free Tier? No
Free Requests Per Month: N/A
Free Articles Per Request: N/A
Note: Enterprise-focused, contact sales
Webz.io
Access big structured news data feeds in 170+ languages from millions of news sites.
Has Free Tier? No
Free Requests Per Month: N/A
Free Articles Per Request: N/A
Note: News API Lite available for non-commercial use
World News API
The World News API gives you access to thousands of news sources in over 86 languages from over 210 countries. News are semantically tagged allowing for semantic news search like never before.
Has Free Tier? Yes
Free Requests Per Month: ~1,500 (50 points/day)
Free Articles Per Request: Varies by endpoint
Note: Requires backlink to World News API
What News APIs have you tried? I'd love to hear about your experience in the comments!
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