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.

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

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: 200

Finlight
Get Real-Time News and Deep Insights with our Financial News API

  • Has Free Tier? Yes
  • Free Requests Per Month: 10,000
  • Free Articles Per Request: Up to 1,000

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: 3,100
  • Free Articles Per Request: 10

News API
Locate articles and breaking news headlines from news sources and blogs across the web with our JSON API.

  • Has Free Tier? Yes
  • Free Requests Per Month: 3,100
  • Free Articles Per Request: 100

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: Free tier limited to 2,000 tokens for lifetime of account.
  • Free Articles Per Request: 100

News Catcher
Clean, Enriched, Ready-to-Use News Data

  • Has Free Tier? Unknown
  • Free Requests Per Month: Must submit form; unclear if access is always granted.
  • Free Articles Per Request: Unknown

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: 6,200
  • Free Articles Per Request: 10

NewsData.io
Get live breaking news or search historical news data for the past 6 years (since January 2018) from 83279+ sources using NewsData.io API.

  • Has Free Tier? Yes
  • Free Requests Per Month: 6,200
  • Free Articles Per Request: 10

Perigon
Real-time news API and web content data — structured and enriched by AI, primed for LLMs.

  • Has Free Tier? No
  • Free Requests Per Month: NA
  • Free Articles Per Request: Unknown

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: 3,100
  • 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: NA
  • Free Articles Per Request: Unknown

Webz
Access big structured news data feeds in 170+ languages from millions of news sites.

  • Has Free Tier? No
  • Free Requests Per Month: NA
  • Free Articles Per Request: Unknown

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: 1,550
  • Free Articles Per Request: Unknown