What News API does

News API operates a JSON REST API that returns search results for live and historic news articles aggregated from over 150,000 worldwide sources across 14 languages and 55 countries. The service indexes publicly available web pages using proprietary aggregation technology organized into three primary endpoints (everything search, top headlines) and exposes SDKs in Python, Node.js, Java, C#, PHP, and Ruby.

The company sells access through a four-tier subscription: a free Developer tier (limited to development environments, 100 requests/day, 24-hour article delay), a Business plan at $449/month (250,000 requests, real-time access, 99.95% uptime SLA), an Advanced plan at $1,749/month (2,000,000 requests, priority support), and a custom-priced Enterprise plan with unlimited requests, on-premise deployment, article enrichment with 20 additional data-points, story clustering, custom classifications, and dedicated chat support. Annual billing offers a 20% discount and overage requests are sold in blocks.

Go-to-market is fully self-serve and product-led for the lower tiers — developers register, receive an API key, and integrate without sales interaction — with a quote-based consultative process reserved for Enterprise deployments. The company is privately held, headquartered under UK governing law, operates with 11–50 employees, and shows no disclosed venture funding, parent company, M&A, or leadership transitions; it serves a 500,000+ developer community spanning startup customers in AI/media, political advocacy, and ESG analytics.

Name

News API

Legal name

News API

Website

https://newsapi.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

News API provides a JSON REST API enabling developers to search and retrieve live and historic news articles from over 150,000 worldwide sources across 14 languages and 55 countries, used by 500,000+ developers in applications spanning news aggregation, NLP, ESG analytics, and AI/media products.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

News Data API

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

News & Current Affairs Aggregators (MPACAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

News Agencies & Wire Services (General & Specialized) (MPAJADAE)

Keywords

• News aggregation API
• REST API services
• Developer data APIs
• News data feeds
• JSON news search

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Subscription Plans: Tiered subscription model with four levels: Free Developer tier for development/testing, Business tier at $449/month for production commercial projects, Advanced tier at $1,749/month for larger projects, and Enterprise tier with custom pricing for premium data and bespoke solutions. Revenue primarily from monthly/annual subscription fees with per-request overage charges on paid plans.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

News API provides a REST API that returns JSON search results for current and historic news articles from over 150,000 worldwide news sources and blogs across 14 languages and 55 countries. The service is sold through tiered subscription plans including a free Developer tier for development/testing, Business at $449/month, Advanced at $1,749/month, and custom Enterprise pricing, enabling developers and businesses to integrate news search, headlines, and publisher data into their applications.

Product overview

News API is a unified news search and aggregation platform delivered as a REST API service. The core product provides JSON-based access to over 150,000 worldwide news sources across 14 languages and 55 countries. The offering spans four subscription tiers: a free Developer Plan for development/testing, Business ($449/month) and Advanced ($1,749/month) plans for production use with escalating request limits and SLA guarantees, and a custom Enterprise Plan with unlimited requests and enhanced data enrichment. The API is accessible via three main endpoints: /v2/everything for article search and discovery, /v2/top-headlines for breaking news retrieval, and /v2/top-headlines/sources for publisher information. Country-specific APIs provide pre-configured access for 54 countries with optional category filters. The service is complemented by unofficial client libraries in Python, Node.js, Java, C#, PHP, and Ruby.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• News API Core Service A REST API platform providing JSON search results for current and historic news articles aggregated from over 150,000 worldwide news sources and blogs across 14 languages from 55 countries. Sold via subscription tiers with API key authentication and SDK availability in Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and C#.
• /v2/everything Endpoint Endpoint for searching and analyzing hundreds of millions of articles with advanced filtering including keywords, exact-match phrases, Boolean operators (AND/OR/NOT), date ranges, domain inclusions and exclusions, language filtering, and sorting by relevancy, popularity, or publication date.
• /v2/top-headlines Endpoint Endpoint for retrieving live top and breaking headlines by country (54 countries), category (business, entertainment, health, science, sports, technology), source, or keyword. Designed for news tickers and real-time headline applications.
• /v2/top-headlines/sources Endpoint Endpoint returning information about available news publishers including name, description, category, language, and country for top headlines retrieval, enabling developers to discover and select publishers for headline queries.

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• AYLIEN: Provides news API and text analytics APIs for accessing, enriching, and analyzing news content. Directly competes with News API in delivering structured news data to developers and enterprises via REST APIs.
• Webz.io (formerly Webhose.io): Offers web and news data feeds via APIs and firehoses, aggregating content from millions of sources across multiple languages. Closely comparable to News API's core aggregation and access model.
• GNews: Provides a news search API with global source coverage and similar tiered pricing structure. Competes head-to-head with News API for developer-led adoption of news data.
• Diffbot: Provides structured web data extraction APIs including news articles, products, and discussions. Overlaps with News API in offering programmatic access to cleaned, structured web content.
• ContextualWeb: Operates a news search API serving real-time news from thousands of sources. Comparable to News API in delivering developer-friendly news query and retrieval APIs.

Broad incumbents

• Meltwater: A large, established media intelligence platform offering news monitoring, social listening, and analytics. Operates in the same news-data space but at the enterprise/PR/analyst tier rather than the developer API tier.
• Cision (PR Newswire): Major media intelligence and communications platform providing news distribution, monitoring, and analysis. Adjacent to News API but focused on enterprise PR workflows rather than developer-first access.
• AlphaSense: Enterprise market intelligence platform that ingests news, transcripts, and proprietary content for search and analysis. Comparable in using news as a data layer, but oriented to enterprise research rather than developer APIs.

Emerging players

• Apify: Provides a web scraping and automation platform that includes news scraping actors and APIs. Adjacent to News API by enabling customers to build or consume news extraction, including potential alternatives to News API's dataset.
• GDELT Project: Open global database monitoring worldwide news events in real time across 100+ languages. Comparable in breadth of multilingual news coverage but offered as a free research dataset rather than a paid commercial API.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/newsapiorg
• GitHubgithub.com/News-API-gh

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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