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Monthly request quotas vs a flat price per search1Lookup runs a news search for $0.015 from a $99 plan, where NewsAPI's production plans start at $449 a month ($359 billed yearly).
NewsAPI sells monthly quotas of requests and lets only a free development plan start under $449. 1Lookup sells the search itself: send a keyword and a country, and pay 3 credits for up to 10 recent articles, charged only when articles come back.
NewsAPI is a JSON search API over news articles, sold as monthly request quotas: Developer is free for 100 requests a day in development only, Business is $449 a month ($359 on yearly billing) for 250,000 requests, and Advanced is $1,749 ($1,399 yearly) for 2,000,000, with extra requests at $0.0018 or $0.0009. Any request counts as one whatever it returns, and one request can return up to 100 articles. 1Lookup returns up to 10 articles per search for 3 credits, about $0.015 on the Starter plan.
The NewsAPI search, priced per search
NewsAPI counts a request against a monthly quota whatever it returns. This is the news search as one page of results, with the price stated for one search.
1Lookup vs NewsAPI.org: the same criteria, side by side
Both products measured on identical criteria, with NewsAPI.org’s numbers taken from its own published pricing.
| Criteria | 1Lookup | NewsAPI.org |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Monthly plans with universal credits; core phone, email and IP lookups cost 1 credit, enrichment and intelligence products cost more | Monthly subscriptions sized by request quota: Developer $0 (100 requests per day, development only); Business $449 per month billed monthly ($359 per month when the page's yearly toggle is on) with 250,000 requests per month; Advanced $1749 per month billed monthly ($1399 per month on the yearly toggle) with 2,000,000 requests per month; Enterprise by quote. Business and Advanced bill a per-request price for extra requests. The page prints the yearly toggle as '20% discount' and shows the yearly figure as a per-month price 'billed yearly'. |
| Starting price | $99/mo for 20,000 credits ($4.95 per 1,000, down to $2.00 on Enterprise) | Business at $449 per month billed monthly ($359 per month billed yearly): 250,000 requests per month, real-time articles, search up to 5 years old, for production and published commercial projects. |
| Free option | Free single lookups via the online tools at 1lookup.io/tools, no account required | Developer, $0, 'totally free, start now': 100 requests per day, articles have a 24 hour delay, search articles up to a month old, CORS enabled for localhost, no extra requests available, no uptime SLA, basic support. Development and testing in a development environment only; it cannot be used in a staging or production environment (including internally). |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial on every plan: $5 of credits on Starter, $20 on Growth, Professional, and Enterprise, with no payment today | None published |
| Do credits expire? | Unused monthly credits roll over for 3 months; separately purchased credits last 1 year | Not published |
What NewsAPI.org costs at volume
| Volume | NewsAPI.org price | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| 250,000 requests a month (Business) | $449 a month on monthly billing, $359 a month billed yearly | $1.80 |
| 2,000,000 requests a month (Advanced) | $1,749 a month on monthly billing, $1,399 a month billed yearly | $0.87 |
NewsAPI's Business plan is $449 for 250,000 requests ($1.80 per 1,000) and Advanced is $1,749 for 2,000,000 ($0.87 per 1,000), billed monthly, with a request returning up to 100 articles. 1Lookup charges 3 credits per search that returns articles, $14.85 per 1,000 searches on Starter, for up to 10 articles each. It is the lower monthly bill up to about 28,333 searches, and NewsAPI is far cheaper for each article at volume.
Before you sign: NewsAPI.org and 1Lookup on the operational terms
The terms that decide what a year actually costs, rather than what the first month does. “Not listed” means we could not verify it on either product’s published pages, not that the answer is nothing.
| Term | 1Lookup | NewsAPI.org |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum commitment | None. Monthly plans with no contract and no minimum volume; cancel any time | Paid plans are pre-paid for a monthly or annual period and renew automatically unless cancelled before the period ends; cancellation can be done any time in the Account section, and access runs to the end of the paid period. |
| Going over your quota | Not listed | Business $0.0018 per extra request; Advanced $0.0009 per extra request; Developer has no extra requests available. The customer is alerted ahead of exceeding the quota and chooses automatic billing for excess usage or pausing until the next billing cycle; the terms say the card on file is charged 'another block of API requests' when the allocation is used up. |
| API access | Included on every plan and during the free trial; there is no tier that unlocks it | Every plan has API access; the Developer plan may be used in a development environment only, so production use needs Business or higher. |
| Rate limit | 1,000 requests per minute on standard accounts, with higher limits available on request | A 429 Too Many Requests (rateLimited) response is returned for too many requests within a window of time; no per-second or per-minute figure is printed on the pages read. |
| Uptime SLA | Not listed | Advanced: 99.95% uptime SLA. Developer and Business: 'No uptime SLA'. The terms say a plan that provides an SLA and misses its service levels may be eligible for a 25% credit towards future monthly service fees. |
| Support | Starter: Email Support; Growth: Priority Email & Chat Support; Professional: Chat + Live Meeting; Enterprise: Dedicated CSM | Developer: basic support. Business: email support. Advanced: priority email support. Enterprise: custom SLA and dedicated chat. |
NewsAPI.org fine print worth reading twice
Published terms that change what NewsAPI.org costs or what you can do with it. Each one links to the NewsAPI.org page it was read on, because a claim about somebody else’s contract should be checkable in one click.
The Developer plan cannot be used in a staging or production environment, including internally, so any live feature or internal tool needs a paid subscription starting at $449 per month.
Read it on NewsAPI.org’s siteWhen the included requests run out, the terms authorise charging the card on file for another block of API requests, and the terms refuse refunds of subscription fees for the current or previous periods unless previously agreed.
Read it on NewsAPI.org’s siteNo plan provides the full article content; users must fetch each article's URL themselves.
Read it on NewsAPI.org’s siteThe yearly toggle is labelled '20% discount' but is shown as a per-month price billed yearly, so the annual total has to be calculated by the buyer (12 x $359 = $4,308 for Business).
Read it on NewsAPI.org’s site
1Lookup
NewsAPI
Where 1Lookup wins
- A production plan from $99 a month, where NewsAPI's free plan is for development only and its first paid plan is $449
- A news search for $0.015 on Starter that returns up to 10 articles with the publication, time and link of each, the top stories marked and the leading publications counted
- Searches by country and language across 29 countries and 13 languages, with a search that finds no news costing nothing
- One balance for the search and for what follows it: the Website Scraper turns an article link into clean text, and unused credits roll over for 3 months
Where NewsAPI.org wins
- One request can return up to 100 articles (pageSize maximum 100) and is counted as one request whatever the number of results.
- Business and Advanced search articles up to 5 years old and serve new articles in real time.
- Large included quotas: 250,000 requests per month on Business and 2,000,000 on Advanced, with a per-request price for extra requests instead of a hard stop.
- Advanced carries a 99.95% uptime SLA, and the terms define a 25% credit towards future monthly fees if service levels are missed.
- Enterprise adds story clustering, 20 additional data-points per article, custom tagging and on-premise deployment.
- Annual subscriptions can be paid by invoice and ACH or bank transfer.
NewsAPI.org pricing and product facts verified against newsapi.org as of October 2026. Prices change; always confirm on the vendor’s site. 1Lookup numbers come from the live rate card.
Who this is for
A quick, honest read on which tool fits your use case.
Choose 1Lookup if: you run up to a few tens of thousands of news searches a month and want a production plan that starts well below $449 a month.
Consider NewsAPI instead if: you run hundreds of thousands of requests a month or need years of history: NewsAPI Business includes 250,000 requests and search up to 5 years back, and Advanced carries a 99.95% uptime SLA.
Frequently asked questions
What is NewsAPI used for?
Searching news articles and live top headlines from code. Developers and businesses use it to power news feeds, brand and competitor monitoring, alerts and research, with one endpoint to search everything and one for top headlines.
How does NewsAPI pricing work in 2026?
Monthly subscriptions sized by requests. Developer is $0 for 100 requests a day, with a 24-hour article delay, a one-month search window, and use limited to development, not staging or production. Business is $449 a month ($359 a month billed yearly) for 250,000 requests with real-time articles and search up to 5 years back, and Advanced is $1,749 ($1,399 yearly) for 2,000,000 requests. Extra requests cost $0.0018 on Business and $0.0009 on Advanced. A request returns up to 100 articles and counts once.
Can I use NewsAPI's free plan in production?
No. The Developer plan is for development and testing in a development environment only and cannot be used in staging or production, including internally. A live feature or an internal tool needs Business at $449 a month, or $359 a month billed yearly. 1Lookup's paid plans start at $99 a month.
How much does 1Lookup charge for a news search?
3 credits per search that returns articles, free when there is no news, for up to 10 articles. On the Starter plan ($99 a month for 20,000 credits) that is about $0.015 a search, 6,666 searches a month and $14.85 per 1,000. The Growth plan ($299 a month) covers 28,333 searches.
When is NewsAPI cheaper than 1Lookup?
Whenever you need more than 10 articles at a time, and at high volume. One NewsAPI request can return 100 articles, ten times a 1Lookup search, and Business's 250,000 requests for $449 work out to $1.80 per 1,000 requests, against $14.85 per 1,000 searches on 1Lookup's Starter plan. 1Lookup is the smaller bill only for a modest feed: its Growth plan, at $299, covers about 28,333 searches a month, and the next plan costs more than NewsAPI's Business plan.
Where does NewsAPI beat 1Lookup?
On scale, article count and history. It returns up to 100 articles in a request, offers 250,000 requests a month at one price, search up to 5 years back, an overage price instead of a stop, a 99.95% uptime SLA on Advanced with a 25% service credit, and story clustering and on-premise deployment on Enterprise. Annual plans can be paid by invoice and bank transfer.
Is NewsAPI worth it in 2026?
For a high-volume news product that needs years of history, yes. Check what the quota does not include before you start: no plan carries full article text, so each article's link has to be fetched separately; Business has no uptime SLA; and when included requests run out the card on file is charged for another block.