What happened to the Bing News Search API?

Microsoft retired the Bing Search APIs, including the Bing News Search API, in 2025. Applications that depended on it no longer receive results and need to migrate to a different news API.

What is the best Bing News Search API alternative?

For teams that want more than headlines, APITube is the strongest replacement: a real-time news API over 300,000+ sources that returns entities, sentiment, source authority, and story clusters, with streaming and a hosted MCP server. It is the alternative built for AI and agent workloads, not just keyword search.

How do I migrate from the Bing News Search API to APITube?

Get a free APITube API key, point your requests at https://api.apitube.io/v1/news/everything, map the query parameters, and map the response fields (below). The free plan lets you validate the migration before you commit.

How do the query parameters map?

The Bing query q maps to the APITube title (or query) filter; the Bing count maps to per_page; market and language map to language.code; and a freshness or date window maps to a published-at date range. Other filters — entity, category, sentiment, source — have no Bing equivalent and are new capabilities.

How do the response fields map?

Bing returned a value array of results, each with a name, url, and description. In APITube that is the results array, each with title, href, and body, plus source.domain. On top of that, every APITube article adds entities, sentiment, categories, and an Open PageRank source score.

What does APITube add over the Bing News Search API?

Beyond search, APITube adds per-entity sentiment, entities linked to Wikipedia and Wikidata, source bias and Open PageRank authority, story clustering, real-time streaming, webhooks, a fact-check endpoint, and a hosted MCP server for AI agents — the structured context an LLM needs to ground and cite.

Are there other Bing News Search API alternatives?

Yes. NewsAPI.org, GNews, and NewsData.io are other options, and they work well if all you need is a plain headlines feed. Choose APITube when you need enriched, AI-ready context — entities, sentiment, source authority, and an MCP server — rather than just article links.

Is there a free plan to test the migration?

Yes. APITube has a free plan that returns the full enriched schema — entities, sentiment, and categories — so you can validate your migration from the Bing News Search API against real data before you scale.

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The Bing News Search API is retired — migrate to APITube

Last updated: August 23, 2026

Microsoft retired the Bing Search APIs, including the Bing News Search API, in 2025. This guide shows where to migrate and how: APITube is a real-time news API with richer, AI-ready data and a free plan to test the move.

Realtime news articles from 177 countries

in 60 languages

Why migrate here

A replacement that does more than headlines

The Bing News Search API was retired by Microsoft in 2025, so teams relying on it need a replacement. APITube is a real-time news API you can migrate to: it covers 300,000+ sources across 59 languages and, unlike a plain headlines endpoint, returns structured, attributed context — entities, sentiment, source authority, story clustering, streaming, and a hosted MCP server.

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Real-time news across 300,000+ sources

Entities, sentiment, and source authority on every article

Story clustering for related coverage

Streaming (SSE + WebSocket) and webhooks

Hosted MCP server for AI agents

Free plan to test the migration

59 languages, 177+ countries

More than 300,000+ sources

APITube is trusted by teams around the world to help them build and deliver amazing digital experiences faster than ever before.

Last updated: 4s ago
Total sources: 300.000k
Requests yesterday: 28.450
Articles added yesterday: 132.503k
Total articles: 3.85b

Features

Don’t waste time on complex features

Complex features made simple. Our API provides a simple way to access news articles from around the world. We provide a simple, consistent, and easy-to-use API to access news articles from thousands of sources.

News API

Export data in many formats
Industry Monitoring
Brand Monitoring
Market Intelligence
Risk Management
Competitive Intelligence
Media Monitoring
Sentiment Analysis
Trend Analysis
Story Grouping
Forecasting social trends
Multi-language Support
Audience Engagement
Geographical Analysis
Real-time Breaking News
Historical Data Access
Custom News Feeds
News Aggregation
Content Filtering
Over 50 integrations

Extract Additional Data

Industries
Locations
Persons
Organizations
Brands
Events
Disasters
Diseases
Links
Media
Images & Videos
Hashtags
Authors
Source
Duplicate Detection
Publisher Rank
Article Sentiment
Readability Score
Language Detection
and more

Analysis

Sentiment Analysis
Analysis of public opinion
Categorization
Financial Analysis
Trend Analysis
Story Grouping
Content Summarization
Entity Recognition
Keyword Extraction
Topic Modeling
Event Detection
Named Entity Recognition
Text Classification
Controversy Detection
Trust Score Analysis
Engagement Metrics
Source Bias Detection
Quality Ranking
Spam Detection
Emotion Detection

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Search by Date Range
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Search by Category
Search by Industry
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Search by Story
Search by Publisher Rank
Search by Language
Search by Entity
Search by Keywords
Boolean Search
Proximity Search
Faceted Search
Range Queries
Search by Author
Search by Media Type
Search by Breaking News
Search by Read Time
+ over 65 more filters

Frequently asked questions

: Microsoft retired the Bing Search APIs, including the Bing News Search API, in 2025. Applications that depended on it no longer receive results and need to migrate to a different news API.
: For teams that want more than headlines, APITube is the strongest replacement: a real-time news API over 300,000+ sources that returns entities, sentiment, source authority, and story clusters, with streaming and a hosted MCP server. It is the alternative built for AI and agent workloads, not just keyword search.
: Get a free APITube API key, point your requests at https://api.apitube.io/v1/news/everything, map the query parameters, and map the response fields (below). The free plan lets you validate the migration before you commit.
: The Bing query q maps to the APITube title (or query) filter; the Bing count maps to per_page; market and language map to language.code; and a freshness or date window maps to a published-at date range. Other filters — entity, category, sentiment, source — have no Bing equivalent and are new capabilities.
: Bing returned a value array of results, each with a name, url, and description. In APITube that is the results array, each with title, href, and body, plus source.domain. On top of that, every APITube article adds entities, sentiment, categories, and an Open PageRank source score.
: Beyond search, APITube adds per-entity sentiment, entities linked to Wikipedia and Wikidata, source bias and Open PageRank authority, story clustering, real-time streaming, webhooks, a fact-check endpoint, and a hosted MCP server for AI agents — the structured context an LLM needs to ground and cite.
: Yes. NewsAPI.org, GNews, and NewsData.io are other options, and they work well if all you need is a plain headlines feed. Choose APITube when you need enriched, AI-ready context — entities, sentiment, source authority, and an MCP server — rather than just article links.
: Yes. APITube has a free plan that returns the full enriched schema — entities, sentiment, and categories — so you can validate your migration from the Bing News Search API against real data before you scale.