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TheNewsAPI
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thenewsapi.com
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2020
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TheNewsAPI (TheNewsAPI.com) is a private, UK-domiciled company founded in 2020 that operates a RESTful JSON API aggregating global news content from more than 40,000 sources across 50+ countries and 30+ languages, indexing over 1 million new articles per week. The platform exposes six distinct endpoints — Headlines, Top Stories, All News, Similar News, News by UUID, and Sources — supporting full-text search, filtering by country/language/category/source/date, relevance scoring, and similar-article discovery, with SDK examples provided in PHP, Python, Go, JavaScript, C#, and Java. Authentication is via API token delivered instantly at self-serve registration, and the underlying architecture is described as using proprietary caching technology to deliver fast response times across the indexed corpus.

The company operates a pure product-led growth, API-first go-to-market motion with no disclosed sales force. Its customer base is horizontal and self-serve, targeting individual developers, technical integrators, researchers/analysts, and businesses building news-adjacent applications (content platforms, SEO tools, media monitoring, mobile apps). Pricing is tiered on a freemium model: Free (100 requests/day), Basic ($19/month, $16 annual), Standard ($49/month, $41 annual), Pro ($79/month, $66 annual), plus a Custom enterprise tier with tailored limits and SLAs. Annual billing yields an approximately 20% discount. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, no funding rounds or parent company are reported, and the firm appears bootstrapped.

The business is privately held with no disclosed management team, partnerships, awards, patents, regulatory actions, or M&A activity in the available sources. Coverage is global with no disclosed geographic restrictions beyond UK governing law. The company is actively operating and has not announced any shutdown, acquisition, or IPO.

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TheNewsAPI is a UK-based, bootstrapped developer tool founded in 2020 that provides a RESTful JSON API aggregating news from 40,000+ sources across 50+ countries, sold to individual developers, researchers, and SMBs via a freemium subscription model with no enterprise sales motion.

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United Kingdom
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Europe
Markets served

Serves global market

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Keyword5 values
news aggregation API, real-time news feeds, global news data, headlines API service, article search API
Industry3 codes
PRIMARYMPACAKAA
News & Current Affairs Aggregators
Media, Entertainment & Sports/Digital Media & Content Platforms (Online Video, Podcasts, Creators)/Digital Content Aggregators & Discovery (Feed/Curated)
SECONDARYBPAMAAAI
News & Content Aggregation Portals
Business & Public Services/Web, Mobile & Digital Platforms/Search, Discovery & Web Portals
SECONDARYMPACAKAD
RSS/Feed Readers & Subscription Aggregators
Media, Entertainment & Sports/Digital Media & Content Platforms (Online Video, Podcasts, Creators)/Digital Content Aggregators & Discovery (Feed/Curated)
NAICS code2 codes
  • Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services519290
  • Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers51621
SIC code2 codes
  • Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc.7370
  • Services-Prepackaged Software7372
Product category
News Data API
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Revenue model3 records
1Subscription Plans
TypeSubscription Recurring
Description

Tiered subscription model with four levels: Free (no cost, limited requests), Basic ($19/month), Standard ($49/month), and Pro ($79/month). Annual billing provides approximately 20% discount. All plans offer recurring revenue through subscription charges. Upsell occurs when users need higher request limits or more articles per request.

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2Usage-Based API Access
TypeUsage Based
Description

Revenue tied to API usage through tiered request limits. Higher tiers provide more daily requests and more articles per request. Free tier allows 100 requests/day, Basic allows 2,500/day, Standard allows 10,000/day, and Pro allows 25,000/day.

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3Freemium Entry
TypeFreemium
Description

Free plan provides entry point for developers to test integration before converting to paid tiers. No billing details required for free tier, reducing friction in customer acquisition.

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Marketing channels4 records

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Cost components5 values
Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales
Pricing details5 tiers
1Free tier with basic access for testing and small-scale projects
ModelFreemiumBilling cadenceMonthly
Notes

$0/month. 100 API requests per day. 3 articles per news request. Includes: Headlines data, Top stories data, Real-time data, Historical data, Full source access, Full language access, Technical support.

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2Entry-level paid plan for moderate usage
ModelSubscriptionBilling cadenceMonthly
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$19/month or $16/month if billed annually (20% discount). 2,500 API requests per day. 25 articles per news request.

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3Mid-tier plan for production applications
ModelSubscriptionBilling cadenceMonthly
Notes

$49/month or $41/month if billed annually (20% discount). 10,000 API requests per day. 100 articles per news request. Most popular plan.

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4High-volume plan for enterprise and high-traffic applications
ModelSubscriptionBilling cadenceMonthly
Notes

$79/month or $66/month if billed annually (20% discount). 25,000 API requests per day. 200 articles per news request.

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5Custom enterprise solution with tailored specifications
ModelSubscriptionBilling cadenceMulti-year contract
Notes

Custom daily requests limit, custom articles per request limit, custom SLA. Contact sales for pricing.

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B2B
Offering typeSoftware
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Core offering1 text field

TheNewsAPI sells a RESTful JSON API that aggregates global news content from over 40,000 sources across 50+ countries in 30+ languages, indexing more than one million new articles per week. Customers integrate the API into applications for topic research, news aggregation, content display, SEO enrichment, market monitoring, and competitive intelligence. Access is delivered through tiered subscription plans (Free, Basic, Standard, Pro) plus a Custom enterprise tier, billed monthly or annually.

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Functional benefit
Problem solved
Quantifiable outcome1 of 4 values shown
  • Access to 40,000+ news sources
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Product overview1 text field

TheNewsAPI is a unified news data platform offering a single core product: a RESTful JSON API that aggregates news content from over 40,000 sources across 50+ countries. The service indexes more than 1 million new articles weekly in 30+ languages. Access is provided through four subscription tiers (Free, Basic, Standard, Pro) plus Custom enterprise plans, differentiated by daily request limits (100 to 25,000) and articles per request (3 to 200). The API provides multiple endpoint types including Headlines, Top Stories, All News, Similar News, News by UUID, and Sources, with the Headlines endpoint requiring Standard tier or above.

Product and service1 record
1The News API
CategoryNews Data API
Description

A RESTful JSON API that aggregates global news content from over 40,000 sources across 50+ countries in 30+ languages, indexing more than 1 million new articles per week. It exposes endpoints for Headlines, Top Stories, All News, Similar News, News by UUID, and Sources, with full-text search, multi-dimensional filtering, relevance scoring, and UUID-based article retrieval, sold to developers and businesses on tiered subscriptions.

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Recent move6 records

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Expansion highlight5 records

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Peers10 records
1Newscatcher
TypeDirect peer
Description

A news search API offering real-time and historical article access with filtering and a freemium developer tier. Direct competitor with very similar positioning and pricing structure.

2GDELT Project
TypeEmerging player
Description

Open, freely available global news monitoring database updated in near real time. Overlaps with TheNewsAPI as a free multilingual news data source, though delivered as bulk datasets rather than a managed developer API.

3AYLIEN
TypeDirect peer
Description

News API with added NLP enrichment (entity extraction, sentiment, categorization) sold to enterprise research and risk-intelligence teams. Comparable in core news aggregation, differentiated by its analytics layer.

4Event Registry
TypeDirect peer
Description

Global news monitoring API that delivers articles, events, and trends across languages and countries. Directly comparable in multilingual news aggregation and developer API delivery.

5Webz.io
TypeDirect peer
Description

Provides dark-web, news, and blog data feeds via API and firehose, serving enterprise customers with large-scale web data needs. Comparable in the news/data-feed category, with a more enterprise-focused GTM.

6Newsriver
TypeEmerging player
Description

A news API aggregating articles from thousands of sources with filtering and a usage-based pricing model. Niche player with meaningful overlap in the developer-focused news API category.

7NewsAPI
TypeDirect peer
Description

The original and most-recognized news REST API, aggregating headlines and articles from thousands of sources worldwide with tiered freemium pricing. Direct one-to-one competitor to TheNewsAPI in product, customer base (developers), and GTM motion.

8GNews
TypeDirect peer
Description

A developer-focused news search API providing access to articles from tens of thousands of sources with multilingual coverage. Competes head-to-head with TheNewsAPI on coverage breadth, pricing, and PLG onboarding.

9Bing News Search API
TypeBroad incumbent
Description

Microsoft's news search API bundled within Azure Cognitive Services, offering broad news coverage with enterprise-grade SLAs. Competes as a broad incumbent rather than a specialist news API.

10Mediastack
TypeDirect peer
Description

A REST news API serving real-time and historical articles with a free tier and paid plans, used by developers for news aggregation and monitoring. Closely comparable in architecture, pricing model, and target customer.

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Weaknesses4 records

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Competitive moat4 records

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Key risks5 records

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Key highlights5 records

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Segment3 records

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Ideal customer profile3 records

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Profile, Firmographic size, Sales motion, Sales cycle length, Buying structure, Purchase trigger, Buyer persona, Geography, Industry vertical, Primary use case, Description, Pain points, Evidence proof points, Target buyer

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Yes

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Has app

Feature5 records

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

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Name, Acquisition type, Announced date, Completed date, Status, Website, News

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Name, Round, Announced date, Lead investor, Website, News

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

TheNewsAPI

News Data APIthenewsapi.com

TheNewsAPI is a UK-based, bootstrapped developer tool founded in 2020 that provides a RESTful JSON API aggregating news from 40,000+ sources across 50+ countries, sold to individual developers, researchers, and SMBs via a freemium subscription model with no enterprise sales motion.

What TheNewsAPI does

TheNewsAPI (TheNewsAPI.com) is a private, UK-domiciled company founded in 2020 that operates a RESTful JSON API aggregating global news content from more than 40,000 sources across 50+ countries and 30+ languages, indexing over 1 million new articles per week. The platform exposes six distinct endpoints — Headlines, Top Stories, All News, Similar News, News by UUID, and Sources — supporting full-text search, filtering by country/language/category/source/date, relevance scoring, and similar-article discovery, with SDK examples provided in PHP, Python, Go, JavaScript, C#, and Java. Authentication is via API token delivered instantly at self-serve registration, and the underlying architecture is described as using proprietary caching technology to deliver fast response times across the indexed corpus.

The company operates a pure product-led growth, API-first go-to-market motion with no disclosed sales force. Its customer base is horizontal and self-serve, targeting individual developers, technical integrators, researchers/analysts, and businesses building news-adjacent applications (content platforms, SEO tools, media monitoring, mobile apps). Pricing is tiered on a freemium model: Free (100 requests/day), Basic ($19/month, $16 annual), Standard ($49/month, $41 annual), Pro ($79/month, $66 annual), plus a Custom enterprise tier with tailored limits and SLAs. Annual billing yields an approximately 20% discount. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, no funding rounds or parent company are reported, and the firm appears bootstrapped.

The business is privately held with no disclosed management team, partnerships, awards, patents, regulatory actions, or M&A activity in the available sources. Coverage is global with no disclosed geographic restrictions beyond UK governing law. The company is actively operating and has not announced any shutdown, acquisition, or IPO.

TheNewsAPI firmographics

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Name
TheNewsAPI
Legal name
TheNewsAPI.com
Website
https://thenewsapi.com
Company type
Private
Founded year
2020
Operating status
Operating
Short description
TheNewsAPI is a UK-based, bootstrapped developer tool founded in 2020 that provides a RESTful JSON API aggregating news from 40,000+ sources across 50+ countries, sold to individual developers, researchers, and SMBs via a freemium subscription model with no enterprise sales motion.
Ownership category
akta.pro rank

TheNewsAPI industry classification

Industry
Product category
News Data API
NAICS
Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (519290), Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (51621)
SIC
Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)
akta.pro industry
PRIMARYMPACAKAA
News & Current Affairs Aggregators
Media, Entertainment & Sports/Digital Media & Content Platforms (Online Video, Podcasts, Creators)/Digital Content Aggregators & Discovery (Feed/Curated)
SECONDARYBPAMAAAI
News & Content Aggregation Portals
Business & Public Services/Web, Mobile & Digital Platforms/Search, Discovery & Web Portals
SECONDARYMPACAKAD
RSS/Feed Readers & Subscription Aggregators
Media, Entertainment & Sports/Digital Media & Content Platforms (Online Video, Podcasts, Creators)/Digital Content Aggregators & Discovery (Feed/Curated)

Keywords

  • News aggregation API
  • Real-time news feeds
  • Global news data
  • Headlines API service
  • Article search API

Where TheNewsAPI is headquartered

Location

Headquarters

HQ city
Not specified
HQ country
United Kingdom
HQ region
Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

TheNewsAPI business model

Business model
GTM type
B2B
Offering type
Software
Cost components
Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

  1. Subscription Plans: Tiered subscription model with four levels: Free (no cost, limited requests), Basic ($19/month), Standard ($49/month), and Pro ($79/month). Annual billing provides approximately 20% discount. All plans offer recurring revenue through subscription charges. Upsell occurs when users need higher request limits or more articles per request.
  2. Usage-Based API Access: Revenue tied to API usage through tiered request limits. Higher tiers provide more daily requests and more articles per request. Free tier allows 100 requests/day, Basic allows 2,500/day, Standard allows 10,000/day, and Pro allows 25,000/day.
  3. Freemium Entry: Free plan provides entry point for developers to test integration before converting to paid tiers. No billing details required for free tier, reducing friction in customer acquisition.

Pricing tiers

ModelBillingPrice
FreemiumMonthlyFree tier with basic access for testing and small-scale projects
SubscriptionMonthlyEntry-level paid plan for moderate usage
SubscriptionMonthlyMid-tier plan for production applications
SubscriptionMonthlyHigh-volume plan for enterprise and high-traffic applications
SubscriptionMulti-year contractCustom enterprise solution with tailored specifications

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

TheNewsAPI product offering

Product offering

Core offering

TheNewsAPI sells a RESTful JSON API that aggregates global news content from over 40,000 sources across 50+ countries in 30+ languages, indexing more than one million new articles per week. Customers integrate the API into applications for topic research, news aggregation, content display, SEO enrichment, market monitoring, and competitive intelligence. Access is delivered through tiered subscription plans (Free, Basic, Standard, Pro) plus a Custom enterprise tier, billed monthly or annually.

Product overview

TheNewsAPI is a unified news data platform offering a single core product: a RESTful JSON API that aggregates news content from over 40,000 sources across 50+ countries. The service indexes more than 1 million new articles weekly in 30+ languages. Access is provided through four subscription tiers (Free, Basic, Standard, Pro) plus Custom enterprise plans, differentiated by daily request limits (100 to 25,000) and articles per request (3 to 200). The API provides multiple endpoint types including Headlines, Top Stories, All News, Similar News, News by UUID, and Sources, with the Headlines endpoint requiring Standard tier or above.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

  • The News API A RESTful JSON API that aggregates global news content from over 40,000 sources across 50+ countries in 30+ languages, indexing more than 1 million new articles per week. It exposes endpoints for Headlines, Top Stories, All News, Similar News, News by UUID, and Sources, with full-text search, multi-dimensional filtering, relevance scoring, and UUID-based article retrieval, sold to developers and businesses on tiered subscriptions.

Quantifiable outcome

  • Access to 40,000+ news sources
  • +3 more outcomes

Companies that use TheNewsAPI

Customer profile

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

TheNewsAPI technology and API

Technology

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API
Yes
API docs
API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

TheNewsAPI partnerships and signals

Strategic signal

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

TheNewsAPI competitors and assessment

Company assessment

Direct peers

  • Newscatcher: A news search API offering real-time and historical article access with filtering and a freemium developer tier. Direct competitor with very similar positioning and pricing structure.
  • AYLIEN: News API with added NLP enrichment (entity extraction, sentiment, categorization) sold to enterprise research and risk-intelligence teams. Comparable in core news aggregation, differentiated by its analytics layer.
  • Event Registry: Global news monitoring API that delivers articles, events, and trends across languages and countries. Directly comparable in multilingual news aggregation and developer API delivery.
  • Webz.io: Provides dark-web, news, and blog data feeds via API and firehose, serving enterprise customers with large-scale web data needs. Comparable in the news/data-feed category, with a more enterprise-focused GTM.
  • NewsAPI: The original and most-recognized news REST API, aggregating headlines and articles from thousands of sources worldwide with tiered freemium pricing. Direct one-to-one competitor to TheNewsAPI in product, customer base (developers), and GTM motion.
  • GNews: A developer-focused news search API providing access to articles from tens of thousands of sources with multilingual coverage. Competes head-to-head with TheNewsAPI on coverage breadth, pricing, and PLG onboarding.
  • Mediastack: A REST news API serving real-time and historical articles with a free tier and paid plans, used by developers for news aggregation and monitoring. Closely comparable in architecture, pricing model, and target customer.

Emerging players

  • GDELT Project: Open, freely available global news monitoring database updated in near real time. Overlaps with TheNewsAPI as a free multilingual news data source, though delivered as bulk datasets rather than a managed developer API.
  • Newsriver: A news API aggregating articles from thousands of sources with filtering and a usage-based pricing model. Niche player with meaningful overlap in the developer-focused news API category.

Broad incumbents

  • Bing News Search API: Microsoft's news search API bundled within Azure Cognitive Services, offering broad news coverage with enterprise-grade SLAs. Competes as a broad incumbent rather than a specialist news API.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

TheNewsAPI financial estimates

Financial estimate

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

TheNewsAPI leadership team

Management profile

Number of profiles

TheNewsAPI funding detail

Funding detail

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

TheNewsAPI M&A and investment

M&A and investment

M&A

Investments

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

Frequently asked questions about TheNewsAPI

What does TheNewsAPI do?

TheNewsAPI sells a RESTful JSON API that aggregates global news content from over 40,000 sources across 50+ countries in 30+ languages, indexing more than one million new articles per week. Customers integrate the API into applications for topic research, news aggregation, content display, SEO enrichment, market monitoring, and competitive intelligence. Access is delivered through tiered subscription plans (Free, Basic, Standard, Pro) plus a Custom enterprise tier, billed monthly or annually.

Is TheNewsAPI a public or private company?

TheNewsAPI is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.

When was TheNewsAPI founded?

TheNewsAPI was founded in 2020.

Where is TheNewsAPI based?

TheNewsAPI is headquartered in Not specified, United Kingdom, in the Europe region.

How does TheNewsAPI make money?

Three revenue lines are on record. Subscription Plans are the primary driver. The others are usage-Based API Access and freemium Entry.

Who are TheNewsAPI's main competitors?

Direct peers on record are Newscatcher, AYLIEN, Event Registry, Webz.io, NewsAPI, GNews and Mediastack. Emerging players are GDELT Project and Newsriver. Bing News Search API is listed as a broad incumbent.

Does TheNewsAPI have an API?

Yes. RESTful API providing access to news data including top stories, real-time news feeds, and historical news data. Returns JSON formatted responses. Authentication via API token passed as a GET parameter. Available endpoints: Headlines (Standard plan+), Top Stories (all plans), All News (all plans), Similar News (all plans), News by UUID (all plans), Sources (all plans). Supports filtering by country, language, category, source, publication date. Advanced search with query syntax (+, |, -, ", *) for title and body text search. Response includes UUID, title, description, keywords, snippet, URL, image URL, language, published_at, source, categories, locale, and relevance_score. Developer documentation is at www.thenewsapi.com/documentation.

What industry is TheNewsAPI in?

TheNewsAPI's product category is News Data API. Its primary akta.pro industry code is MPACAKAA, News & Current Affairs Aggregators, with a secondary code of BPAMAAAI, News & Content Aggregation Portals. Its NAICS code is 519290 and its SIC code is 7370.

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