What are API Credits and how are they consumed?

Credits are the currency for API usage. Each API request consumes 1 credit regardless of the number of results returned. Subscription plans include a monthly credit allowance (e.g., 10K, 50K, 100K credits). Credits reset monthly on your billing date. All features — sentiment, entities, full article body — are included at no extra credit cost.

What is included in the free plan?

The free plan includes 200 credits per day, resetting at 00:00 UTC. You get full access to all API features: all data fields, filters, export formats, and enrichment (sentiment, entities, categories). The only limitation is the daily credit cap. Perfect for testing, prototyping, and small projects.

How does Pay-as-You-Go pricing work?

Pay-as-You-Go lets you top up your account balance and pay $0.01 per API request. No monthly commitment, no expiration. Ideal for variable usage or projects that do not fit monthly plans. Minimum top-up is $1 (100 credits). Your balance persists until used.

Can I upgrade or downgrade my plan anytime?

Yes, change your plan anytime from your dashboard. Upgrades take effect immediately with prorated billing. Downgrades apply at the next billing cycle. When upgrading, unused credits from your old plan carry over and are added to your new allowance.

Do unused credits roll over to the next month?

Yes, unused credits roll over to the following month on paid plans. This means you never lose credits you have paid for. Credits accumulate until used, giving you flexibility for months with higher usage.

What happens if I exceed my monthly credit limit?

When you exhaust your monthly credits, API requests will return an error until your next billing cycle or until you upgrade. We send email alerts at 80% and 100% usage. You can also enable auto-upgrade or switch to Pay-as-You-Go for overflow usage.

Are there any hidden fees or feature restrictions?

No hidden fees. All plans include full access to every feature: sentiment analysis, entity extraction, all 65+ filters, historical data, all export formats, and webhooks. The only difference between plans is the credit allowance. Enterprise plans add dedicated support and custom SLAs.

How do I cancel my subscription?

Cancel anytime from your account settings — no phone calls or emails required. Your access continues until the end of the current billing period. Any remaining credits stay in your account and can be used with Pay-as-You-Go or if you resubscribe later.

Pricing for News API data access

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Plans	Free	Basic	Professional popular	Corporate
Pricing	$0 /month /year For development and testing. Select	$99 /month $959 /year For small projects and startups. Select	$199 /month $1919 /year For production and commercial projects. Select	$599 /month $4999 /year For large scale projects and enterprises. Select
Compare conditions for each plan
API Requests How many API Requests can be used per month	200 requests/day	20,000 requests/month	50,000 requests/month	300,000 requests/month
Results per 1 request How many results can be obtained per 1 request	10 articles per request	200 articles per request	200 articles per request	500 articles per request
Rate Limit Maximum requests per minute	50 requests/min	50 requests/min	50 requests/min	200 requests/min
Real-Time Access	Real-Time Access 12h delay	Real-Time Access	Real-Time Access	Real-Time Access
Full article content Access to full article content
Article Images
Sources Access	50k	300k	500k+	500k+
Historical data	1 month	12 months
Trends API Track trending topics, entities, and categories over time		Basic	Advanced	Advanced
Export & Integration
Available data export formats Available data export formats	JSON only	JSON, JSONL, XML, CSV, RSS, XLSX, Parquet	JSON, JSONL, XML, CSV, RSS, XLSX, Parquet	JSON, JSONL, XML, CSV, RSS, XLSX, Parquet
MCP Server Model Context Protocol support for AI assistants integration
Postman Collection
SDK (20+ languages) Postman Collection
Support & SLA
Support	Community	Email	Priority Email	Dedicated + Phone
Response Time		48h	12h	2h
SLA Uptime		99%	99.5%	99.9%
API Logs Retention	7 days	30 days	90 days	1 year
Onboarding Call
Choose your plan	Select	Select	Select	Select

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Frequently asked questions

: Credits are the currency for API usage. Each API request consumes 1 credit regardless of the number of results returned. Subscription plans include a monthly credit allowance (e.g., 10K, 50K, 100K credits). Credits reset monthly on your billing date. All features — sentiment, entities, full article body — are included at no extra credit cost.
: The free plan includes 200 credits per day, resetting at 00:00 UTC. You get full access to all API features: all data fields, filters, export formats, and enrichment (sentiment, entities, categories). The only limitation is the daily credit cap. Perfect for testing, prototyping, and small projects.
: Pay-as-You-Go lets you top up your account balance and pay $0.01 per API request. No monthly commitment, no expiration. Ideal for variable usage or projects that do not fit monthly plans. Minimum top-up is $1 (100 credits). Your balance persists until used.
: Yes, change your plan anytime from your dashboard. Upgrades take effect immediately with prorated billing. Downgrades apply at the next billing cycle. When upgrading, unused credits from your old plan carry over and are added to your new allowance.
: Yes, unused credits roll over to the following month on paid plans. This means you never lose credits you have paid for. Credits accumulate until used, giving you flexibility for months with higher usage.
: When you exhaust your monthly credits, API requests will return an error until your next billing cycle or until you upgrade. We send email alerts at 80% and 100% usage. You can also enable auto-upgrade or switch to Pay-as-You-Go for overflow usage.
: No hidden fees. All plans include full access to every feature: sentiment analysis, entity extraction, all 65+ filters, historical data, all export formats, and webhooks. The only difference between plans is the credit allowance. Enterprise plans add dedicated support and custom SLAs.
: Cancel anytime from your account settings — no phone calls or emails required. Your access continues until the end of the current billing period. Any remaining credits stay in your account and can be used with Pay-as-You-Go or if you resubscribe later.

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Dallas Snack
Backend Architect , TechBridge Solutions
Python, Node, Go — we use all three. APITube works seamlessly with each. Rate limits are generous for our scale.
Marcelino Hamwi
Data Science Lead , Predictive Edge
The historical data access let us backtest 5 years of news sentiment against market movements.
Andrew Price
Content Operations Manager , BuzzMetrics
Automated our entire news curation workflow. Team now focuses on analysis instead of data collection.
Zhào Yì
Analytics Director , GlobalTrend Research
Multilingual support is critical for us. 60+ languages with consistent data quality across all of them.
Radjesh Kishna
Engineering Manager , InfoStream Technologies
Cut our news infrastructure costs by 60%. The pay-as-you-go model perfectly matches our variable traffic.
J Silo
Founder , MediaWatch Startup
Started on the free tier, now on Corporate. Scaled from MVP to 10K users without changing a line of integration code.
Willie Mills
PR Intelligence Analyst , ReputationGuard
Brand monitoring across 180 countries. We catch mentions within minutes, not hours.
Mitchell Davis
Full Stack Developer , Rapid Deploy Labs
Clean JSON, predictable pagination, proper HTTP codes. Finally an API that follows REST conventions correctly.
M Hundir
VP of Engineering , Streamline AI
Replaced 3 different news vendors with APITube. Better coverage, lower cost, single integration point.

Jake Helmold
Investigative Journalist , The Daily Chronicle
I track 200+ entities across 60 languages. What took my team a week now takes minutes.
Chris Bates
Lead Data Engineer , Meridian Analytics
Reduced our news pipeline build time from 3 weeks to 2 days. The structured data format eliminated 90% of our parsing code.
Sally Stevens
Product Manager , NewsFlow Inc.
We process 50K+ articles daily through APITube. The sentiment analysis alone saved us $40K/year on manual tagging.
Spencer Chasmar
Senior Developer , Insight Systems
Integration took 4 hours. Documentation is excellent — every endpoint works exactly as described.
Lavern Pindar
CTO , DataPulse Media
Switched from building our own scraper. Now we get 500K sources instead of 2K, with zero maintenance overhead.
Don Pippert
Head of Research , QuantView Capital
The entity extraction and industry tagging improved our trading signals accuracy by 23%.

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APITube has transparent and non-occluded prices. Stability Start off with 200 credits per day, and upgrade at any time. Every plan entails the full access to NLP enrichment: the sentiment analysis, the entity extraction, the topic categorization, and 65+ search filters.

The credits not used are carried forward at the end of the month - no useless value. Pay-as-you-go option included with a variable workload of 0.01 per request. Enterprise plans also allow being used on a high-volume basis with custom integrations and dedicated support.

Compare the pricing: when competitors either charge more for sentiment analysis or historical data, in APITube there is no need to do it because all capabilities are included in all plans. A range of affiliate SDKs in 20+ languages, export formats and full documentation adopted at no extra cost.

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