Serper Google News

Low-cost Google search API with a news search type and 2,500 free queries

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What is Serper Google News?

Serper is a Google search API that many agent frameworks list as a default search tool, and it can return Google News results as well as web results. Signup needs no card and comes with 2,500 free queries, which third-party write-ups describe as a one-time allowance. Billing is in prepaid credits: one credit for up to 10 results, two for up to 100. A third-party pricing breakdown lists packs from $50 for 50,000 credits, valid for six months, and one report says the public pricing page was offline in mid-2026, so check the figures in your account. The company behind it publishes little about itself, and like any Google-scraping API it returns titles, snippets and links instead of article text.

Typical uses: AI & LLM apps, SEO, Marketing & PR. What sets it apart: About $1 per 1,000 Google queries on the entry pack, by third-party figures.

What does the Serper Google News API include?

REST APIJSON

Capability
Headlines & metadata
Web search index

Serper Google News pricing

Short answer: the pricing model is prepaid credit packs. Entry price: $50 credit pack (third-party listing).

Access model	What it means
Free trial	Time- or credit-limited trial before a paid plan
Pay-as-you-go	Billed per request or credit, with no monthly minimum

API prices and quotas change often. Check Serper Google News's own pricing page before you commit, and confirm that your use is covered by the licence.

Serper Google News pros and cons

Advantages	Things to consider
+2,500 free queries with no card is enough for a full prototype	-No article text or archive
+Per-query cost is among the lowest for Google results	-Credits expire six months after purchase
+Widely supported as a search tool in agent frameworks	-Little public information about the operator or official pricing
+Simple POST requests with a JSON body

Serper Google News vs alternatives

How Serper Google News compares to the other top News APIs.

API	Best for	Key difference	Rating	Compare
NewsCatcher	Developers who want clean, deduplicated news without writing...	Summaries, story clusters, entities and geotags arrive in the response, so the processing code you would otherwise write is already done	4.7	Full comparison
NewsData.io	Developers who want a working news call within...	A free allowance that refills daily, with country and language filters on every plan	4.6	Full comparison
Perigon	Indie developers and startups wanting enriched data at...	Entity, topic and cluster data from the $25 plan up, with all tiers priced publicly	4.5	Full comparison
NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry)	Developers building multilingual event or research tools.	Event records that join coverage of one story across languages	4.3	Full comparison
GNews	Small commercial apps needing a cheap, simple news...	Commercial rights and full article content for under €50 a month	4.3	Full comparison
Webz.io	Data engineers backfilling years of news for datasets.	History back to 2008 and the widest claimed source count here	4.2	Full comparison
Exa	RAG and agent developers needing semantic news retrieval.	Search by meaning with page text returned in the same request	4.2	Full comparison
Tavily	Agent builders adding a news tool in a...	Built-in LangChain and LlamaIndex integrations that return prompt-ready text	4.1	Full comparison
World News API	Location-aware apps on a small budget.	Latitude, longitude and radius filters from the $39 plan, plus a URL text extractor	4.1	Full comparison
NewsAPI.org	Learning projects and prototypes that follow existing tutorials.	The largest pile of tutorials, wrappers and answered questions of any news API	4.0	Full comparison
SerpApi Google News	Developers who need exactly what Google News ranks.	Google News rankings and story groupings as structured JSON	4.0	Full comparison
GDELT Project	Zero-budget data projects and research prototypes.	No key, no fee and global coverage refreshed every 15 minutes	3.9	Full comparison
Brave Search API	Developers replacing Bing News Search with an independent...	Results from its own crawler, independent of Google and Bing	3.9	Full comparison
Marketaux	Fintech developers needing ticker-tagged news cheaply.	Entity-level sentiment on every article, free plan included	3.9	Full comparison
Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment	Hobby quants wanting news sentiment beside price data.	Ticker and topic sentiment scores from the same key as market data	3.8	Full comparison
Massive (ex-Polygon.io) News	Trading-app developers already using Polygon or Massive data.	Per-ticker sentiment with a written reason, included in stock data plans	3.8	Full comparison
Mediastack	Low-traffic sites needing a cheap commercial headline feed.	Commercial use and historical news from $24.99 a month	3.8	Full comparison
Guardian Open Platform	Students and researchers needing free full-text articles.	Free full article bodies from a major newspaper, with editorial tags	3.8	Full comparison
Diffbot	Developers collecting news from a fixed list of...	Parser-free extraction from any article URL, linked to a Knowledge Graph	3.7	Full comparison
Finnhub	Personal fintech projects needing news and prices from...	A 60-calls-a-minute free key covering company news and market data	3.7	Full comparison
DataForSEO Google News	High-volume Google News rank tracking on a budget.	About $0.60 per 1,000 Google News result pages in the Standard queue	3.7	Full comparison
TheNewsAPI	Personal dashboards needing a cheap general feed.	Possibly the lowest paid entry price here, if third-party pricing is current	3.6	Full comparison
NYT Developer APIs	Students and historians working with Times metadata.	Searchable headlines and abstracts for every Times issue since 1851	3.5	Full comparison
Benzinga	Trading platforms needing a licensed market newswire.	Original market headlines with ratings and earnings events in one feed	3.5	Full comparison
Quantexa News API (Aylien)	Teams maintaining an existing Aylien integration.	Aylien's fine-grained entity and category tagging	3.4	Full comparison
APITube	Developers comparing coverage in a side-by-side trial.	Sentiment and entity filters offered on lower tiers	3.4	Full comparison
Currents API	Coursework and hackathons needing a free feed.	A free tier that tutorials and roundups often recommend	3.3	Full comparison

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Serper Google News FAQ

What is Serper Google News?

Low-cost Google search API with a news search type and 2,500 free queries

How much does Serper Google News charge?

Pricing model: prepaid credit packs. The cheapest paid access listed is $50 credit pack (third-party listing). Free access: yes, with limits.

Which formats and SDKs does Serper Google News support?

Serper Google News offers REST API, JSON.

Is Serper Google News right for enterprise?

Serper Google News lists no enterprise contract, so check SLA and support terms first. Main caveat: No article text or archive.

What are the best Serper Google News alternatives?

The best alternatives to Serper Google News depend on your use case. Top options are:

NewsCatcher: summaries, story clusters, entities and geotags arrive in the response, so the processing code you would otherwise write is already done
NewsData.io: a free allowance that refills daily, with country and language filters on every plan
Perigon: entity, topic and cluster data from the $25 plan up, with all tiers priced publicly

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