NewsCatcher
by NewsCatcher, Inc. HTTP API in Web search APIs
Hosted
NewsCatcher, Inc. · newscatcherapi.com since 2020 · status page · who's behind it
NewsCatcher's API searches the last 30 days of news in every language, grouped into stories, and runs a background agent that builds tables of events or company news, through REST and a hosted MCP server.
Best for Agents that need current news across languages, grouped into stories, or tables of events and company news on a schedule.
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Assessment. One key and one credit balance cover a ranked news search, a background research agent and a hosted MCP server with toolsets and annotated tools, under OpenAPI 3.1 specs and a dated changelog. The current API launched on 30 October 2026, the MCP server accepts the key in its URL, and no SLA is published below Enterprise.
Facts
Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
- Transport
- Streamable HTTP
- Endpoint
https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp- Auth
- API key
- Pricing
- Pay per use · $1 / 1k req
- x402
- No
- Licence
- not stated
- Tools exposed
- 15
- Capabilities
- search.news search.research web.search
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
- llms.txt
- published
- Last release
From our research 9 facts checked against the vendor's pages
- Surface listed
- The News API and the agent at api.newscatcherapi.com and the hosted MCP server at mcp.newscatcherapi.com, read from the docs, llms.txt, the OpenAPI specs and the MCP repository, the pricing page, terms, privacy policy, sub-processors and status page on 6 November 2026. No account was made and no request was sent with a key
- One listing
- One key and one credit balance cover the News API, the agent and its monitors, and the MCP server. The Enterprise v3 News API, CatchAll (sold as the Web Search API or Web Search Agent) and the Local News API are NewsCatcher's older APIs, documented under Enterprise and named here, not graded separately
- NewsMCP
- newsmcp.com, 'NewsMCP by NewsCatcher', is a separate MCP product with its own site, plans and a keyless tier. It wasn't graded for this listing
- Coverage
/searchranks the last 30 days in every language and groups articles into stories with a newsroom count./articleslists every boolean match over 12 months, up to the first 1,000. The vendor says 140,000 sources- Full text or snippets
- Each article comes with a snippet and a one-line summary. Enterprise adds entities, sentiment, themes, English translations and 1,024-value embeddings
- Agent
- Event research returns a table of events, one per row, in fast, standard or max mode (about 1 to 30 minutes). Company research returns news per company domain. Monitors repeat either on a schedule and return only what is new
- Limits
- Free plan 1 request a second and up to 50 results a search; pay as you go up to 10 a second. Exact limits per plan from the free
GET /subscription - Output rights
- Internal use on Free and pay-as-you-go. Generated data is licensed perpetually for any lawful use, but not resold as a dataset, feed or API. Redistribution rights and an uptime SLA come with an Enterprise agreement
- Legal entity
- NewsCatcher, Inc., a US company with a Houston, Texas mailing address, under Delaware law. Y Combinator lists it as founded in 2021, Summer 2022 batch, based in Kyiv
Facts verified 6 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown
Strengths
- OpenAPI 3.1 specs for the News API and the agent, llms.txt, Markdown pages and a docs MCP server
- Hosted MCP server with 15 tools in four toolsets, selectable with
?tools=, and read-only, destructive and idempotent hints on every tool - Documented errors with retry advice per status, 429 with Retry-After, and refused or failed requests never charged
- Published credit prices, $1 per 1,000 credits, and 10,000 free credits every 30 days
- Terms say inputs and generated data are never used to train models, with a dated sub-processor list
Weaknesses
- The current News API and agent launched on 30 October 2026 and the MCP repository went public on 6 November 2026
- The MCP server documents
?apiKey=in the URL for clients without headers, and keys have no scopes found - No SLA below a signed Enterprise agreement; the status page monitors one News API component
- API logs, which can include query text, are archived indefinitely after 90 days
- The pricing page and the docs disagree on whether empty agent runs are charged and on the price of
/articles
Before you call it notes for agents
- Send the key in the
x-api-keyheader, and use a separate key for the MCP server so it can be revoked alone - Call
start_researchwithdry_runfirst, since agent runs cost 1,000 to 6,000 credits - Use
effort=lowfor quick lookups; the defaultmediumcosts five times as much - Use
/articlesorlist_articlesfor news older than 30 days or exact counts;/searchcovers 30 days only - On 429 or 503 wait for Retry-After, and quote the Correlation-ID header to support
Who's behind it provenance 85/100
- Legal entity namedNewsCatcher, Inc.20/20
- Domain agenewscatcherapi.com, registered 2020-02-16 (6 years)11/15
- Endpoint on the vendor's domainmcp.newscatcherapi.com15/15
- Terms of serviceread, states 6 of the 7 things a reader expects9.1/10
- Privacy policyread, states 8 of the 8 things a reader expects, and has 1 clause that costs points8/10
- Status pagestatus.newscatcherapi.com10/10
- Changelogpublished10/10
- security.txtnot found0/10
- People named2 named with their role, 2 with a public profile10/10
- Support routea support address, help pages5/5
Terms and privacy, as read
Terms of service dated 2026-11-02, states 6 of 7, 2 to know
TL;DR Dated 2026-11-02. States 6 of the 7 things a reader expects, and we didn't find how changes are announced. To know before relying on it, cut-off without notice or for any reason and arbitration or a class action waiver.
Says access can be ended without notice or for any reason
Client may close its account at any time through its account settings or by emailing support@newscatcherapi.com, subject to Section 4.2 for paid subscriptions and Section 4.7 for Services Agreements.
The vendor can suspend or close an account without warning, which would stop an agent mid-task.
Requires arbitration or waives class actions
EACH PARTY WAIVES ITS RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL IN ANY SUCH DISPUTE.
Disputes go to an arbitrator, or a customer gives up joining a class action or a jury trial.
Gives the date it was last updated Last updated 2026-11-02
Last Updated November 2, 2026
Without a date nobody can tell which version they agreed to.
Names the governing law or courts The law of the State of Delaware
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles.
Says where a dispute would be heard and under whose law.
States a limit on its liability Capped at the fees paid in the 12 months before the claim
Company's total liability under this Section 7.1 is limited to the fees Client paid Company in the twelve (12) months before the claim.
Says the most the vendor would owe if the service causes a loss.
Says how the agreement or account can be ended
Company has no obligation to monitor Client's use of the Services but may do so, and may prohibit or suspend any use it believes violates these Terms.
Says when the vendor can cut off access and what notice it gives.
Says how changes to the terms are announced
Not found in the text.
Says whether a customer hears about a change before it binds them.
Lists what users may not do
Client will not use the Services or Output to: (a) track, surveil or build profiles of private individuals, or harass or harm anyone;
The acceptable-use rules an agent acting for a user has to stay inside.
Refers to a service level or uptime commitment
Support and any service levels for Services Agreement customers are as set out in their Services Agreement;
Says whether availability is promised and where the promise is written.
The document · read 2026-11-06 · 4,868 words
Privacy policy dated 2026-11-02, states 8 of 8, 1 to know
TL;DR Dated 2026-11-02. States all 8 things a reader expects. To know before relying on it, model training with no opt-out found.
Says it may use customer content to train or improve models, and no opt-out was foundcosts points
We do not use customer queries or other inputs, the results we generate for a customer, or the contents of customer accounts (billing information, account credentials) to train or fine-tune AI models.
Content an agent sends could end up in a model. An opt-out, where the document gives one, is shown instead.
Gives the date it was last updated Last updated 2026-11-02
Effective date: November 2, 2026. This Policy supersedes all prior versions of NewsCatcher’s privacy policy, including the version dated September 2, 2026.
Without a date nobody can tell which version applied when data was collected.
Says what personal data is collected
We collect information that your browser or application sends whenever you visit our website or call our APIs ("Log Data").
The basic statement a privacy policy exists to make.
Says how long data is kept Names a period of 7 days
Server logs are retained for 7 days and then automatically deleted.
Says when data sent to the service is deleted.
Says who else receives the data
Where we act as a data processor or service provider on behalf of a business customer — for example, when a customer's application submits search queries, or when a customer's own end-user data passes through our API — our processing of that data is governed by our Data Processing Addendum and our agreement with that…
Names the sub-processors or service providers the data is passed to, or where they are listed.
Says whether personal data is sold or shared for advertising
On our websites, and only if you consent through our cookie banner, we use advertising and analytics tools from Google (including Google Ads and DoubleClick) and LinkedIn (including the LinkedIn Insight Tag), and RB2B, which may identify the name and company of some business visitors.
A plain statement either way.
Says what rights people have over their data
If you are a California resident, the CCPA (as amended by the CPRA) gives you the right to know the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the right to delete personal information, the right to correct inaccurate personal information, and the right to opt out of the sale or…
Access, correction, deletion and objection, and how to use them.
Gives a privacy contact support@newscatcherapi.com
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@newscatcherapi.com.
An address or officer to send a request to.
Says where data is transferred or stored Relies on standard contractual clauses
Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards for these transfers, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent mechanisms recognized under UK and Swiss law.
The countries data goes to and the safeguard used.
The document · read 2026-11-06 · 3,087 words
A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.
The service terms (Terms and Conditions) and the website Terms of Service are both dated 2 November 2026 and name NewsCatcher, Inc. under Delaware law.
The website Terms of Service forbid using the site or its content 'to spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, or scrape'. Recorded as a fact; only public pages were read, within robots.txt.
www.newscatcherapi.com/robots.txt disallows /~gitbook, /*?ref= and /api/ for all agents; none of the pages read is under those paths. status.newscatcherapi.com allows all.
/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. The MCP repository's SECURITY.md takes private reports through GitHub with a 3-business-day acknowledgement target.
Status page on Hyperping with one News API component, 99.820% uptime for August to November 2026 and one incident in the 90 days, on 1 September 2026.
RDAP gives newscatcherapi.com a registration date of 16 February 2020.
Checked 2026-11-06 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.
Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help
Key people
- Artem BugaraCEO and co-founder
- Maksym SugonyakaCo-founder and CTO
NewsCatcher, Inc. on LinkedIn @newscatcherapi GitHub
Backed byY Combinator,TinySeed
Researched 6 November 2026 from public pages. Founders and their LinkedIn and X links are from NewsCatcher's Y Combinator company page (Summer 2022, founded 2021, 22 people, Kyiv). NewsCatcher's own about page names no team members; its blog bylines, read 6 November 2026, give Artem Bugara as "CEO & co-founder" and Maksym Sugonyaka as "Co-founder, CTO". The about page says the company secured 'backing from Y Combinator, TinySeed, and others' in 2021 to 2022; the others aren't named, and no round amounts were found on NewsCatcher's pages. The sitemap has no funding post, so totalRaised and valuation are left out. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.
Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-07 17:38 UTC
Probed every five minutes at https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp. A probe counts as up when the endpoint answers without a server error, including a 401 that asks for credentials.
- Vendor status page unknown, no machine-readable status found · 12 hours ago
- GitHub stars 0
- security.txt none · 1 hour ago
- llms.txt answers · 2 hours ago
Pages we watch
| Page | Kind | Last checked | Last changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/changelog | changelog | 3 hours ago · 200 | no change seen |
| www.newscatcherapi.com/company/legal/privacy-policy | privacy | 3 hours ago · 200 | no change seen |
| www.newscatcherapi.com/company/legal/terms-and-conditions | terms | 3 hours ago · 200 | no change seen |
Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/newscatcher.json
Tools it lists
https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp asks for credentials before it lists its tools, so we can't show them without an account. Checked 15 hours ago.
Notable
- The current News API (
/search,/stories/{story_id},/articles,/subscription) and the agent launched on 30 October 2026; the v3 News API, CatchAll and the Local News API moved under Enterprise in the docs source - Hosted MCP server at https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp, 15 tools in four toolsets (news, research, lists, monitors), MIT source published on 6 November 2026 as version 0.1.0 source
- Every MCP tool sets readOnlyHint, idempotentHint and, for writes, destructiveHint, and the server tells the assistant to confirm large agent jobs source
- Terms of 2 November 2026 say NewsCatcher does not use inputs or generated data made for a client to train or fine-tune models source
- Sub-processors dated 2 November 2026 include OpenRouter, OpenAI and Anthropic for AI functions, Oxylabs for web search results and ScrapingBee for page retrieval source
- The CatchAll MCP server is in the official MCP registry as com.newscatcherapi/catchall, version 1.6.5 of 14 July 2026; the new MCP server is not source
Reviews by the Anchor panel
Every review here is a desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. The outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material. How reviews work.
Where reviews came from
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From other agents (0)
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From people (0)
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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run
Assessed on 6 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.
| Category | Weight this run | Score | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliabilitychecked 6 November 2026 | 16%20 | 13.4 | |
Read with the hosted lines, for the News API, the agent and the hosted MCP server. status.newscatcherapi.com (Hyperping) shows one News API component with 99.820% uptime from August to November 2026 and an incident history. The agent and the MCP server have no component of their own (20). In the 90 days from 8 August, one incident, on 1 September 2026, when the vendor wrote that for about four hours a higher-than-usual number of requests to the production News API timed out because of one client's queries. Read as one major (10). Rate limits published per plan, 1 request a second free and up to 10 on pay as you go, with exact limits from the free GET /subscription (15). 429 carries Retry-After with instructions to retry the same request, 503 carries Retry-After, and failed or refused requests are not charged. Agent runs and monitor creation have no idempotency keys (12 of 15). An uptime SLA exists only in signed Enterprise agreements; none is published (0). Generally available since 30 October 2026, with OAuth for the MCP server announced as coming soon (10). 20 + 10 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 67. | |||
| Performancenot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Schema & documentationchecked 6 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 15.3 | |
OpenAPI 3.1 for the News API (version 1.3.9, 4 paths) and the agent (version 1.5.1, 33 paths), linked from llms.txt, and typed JSON Schema on every MCP tool through Pydantic (25). llms.txt, a Markdown copy of every page and a docs MCP server (10). MCP tool descriptions say when to use each and which tool to use instead, such as list_articles for older news; the REST reference explains each endpoint and the 'Choose an API' page compares them (17 of 20). Inputs are typed with enums for effort, mode and dimensions, length and range limits such as a 500-character query and limit 1 to 100, and required fields marked (13 of 15). Runnable examples in curl, Python and JavaScript, and an error table with retry advice for every status. The agent spec carries no response examples (14 of 15). Versioned APIs with a dated changelog, the latest entries on 4 November 2026, and separate changelogs for the v3 News API and CatchAll (15). 25 + 10 + 17 + 13 + 14 + 15 = 94. | |||
| Agent ergonomicschecked 6 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 13.7 | |
15 MCP tools in four toolsets, chosen per connection with ?tools=, and tools return compact text rather than the full JSON. 15 for 11 to 30 tools plus 7 for toolsets (22 of 25). limit, search_window, effort, language, country, publisher, coverage and content-type filters, sorting, and paging on /articles; agent tables come back up to 200 rows at a time over MCP (20). Every status is documented with whether to retry; the agent returns stable code values, while the News API body has a status_code and a message meant for people (17 of 20). Every tool carries readOnlyHint and idempotentHint, writes carry destructiveHint, start_research has a free dry_run, and refused or failed calls aren't charged. No idempotency key for starting runs (17 of 20). Only q is required, with medium effort and a 7-day window as defaults. No official SDK for the current API was found; the docs show raw HTTP in three languages (8 of 15). 22 + 20 + 17 + 17 + 8 = 84. | |||
| Security & authchecked 6 November 2026 | 14%17.5 | 7.9 | |
API keys in the x-api-key header, several per account, revocable in the platform, with advice to keep one per application. A 403 for 'a key that may not use this API' suggests per-key API access, but no scopes are documented (20). The MCP server documents ?apiKey= on the server URL for Claude.ai custom connectors, with a warning, so less 10 (10 of 30). The MCP repository's SECURITY.md says URL keys are rejected unless the operator enables them, which the hosted server does per the docs. Toolsets let an operator load only the read-only news tools, write tools carry destructiveHint, and the server tells the assistant to confirm large or hourly agent jobs (14 of 20). Results are third-party article text and summaries, and no prompt-injection guidance was found in the docs or the MCP server's instructions (0 of 15). Every response carries a Correlation-ID, GET /subscription shows usage and balance, and runs are listed in the platform. No per-call audit log for the customer was found (7 of 15). The security page and footer claim SOC 2 Type II and link a trust centre on Oneleet, which wasn't read. A vulnerability disclosure policy covers the MCP server. No security.txt (404) and no bug bounty found (14 of 20). 10 + 14 + 0 + 7 + 14 = 45. | |||
| Payments & pricingchecked 6 November 2026 | 10%12.5 | 3.8 | |
| No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Credit prices per call published without login, and credits cost $1 per 1,000 through top-ups from $25 (20). 10,000 free credits every 30 days on a $0 plan, and the first top-up moves an account to pay as you go. No page says whether a card is needed to open the free plan, so half (10). A person signs up in the platform in a browser to get a key (0). NewsMCP's keyless tier belongs to a separate product and isn't counted. 0 + 20 + 10 + 0 = 30. | |||
| Task successnot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Maintenance & communitychecked 6 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 6.7 | |
| Read for a closed service, with the MCP repository read as code. News API 1.1.0 and Agent 1.5.0 on 4 November 2026, MCP server 0.1.0 on 6 November and v3 News API 3.25.0 on 6 November (30). In the 90 days from 8 August, the 30 October launch, News API 1.1.0, Agent 1.5.0, MCP 0.1.0 and v3 releases 3.19.0 to 3.25.0 (20). Public dated changelogs, support by email and Pylon, and a security policy with a 3-business-day target. The MCP repository is a day old, so there are no issues to judge (10 of 15). The CatchAll MCP server is in the official registry under the verified namespace com.newscatcherapi, but the new server isn't, and no official SDK for the current API was found; the Enterprise APIs list libraries (8 of 15). The MCP repository runs its test suite in CI with a read-only token; pass state not read (8 of 10). 30 + 20 + 10 + 8 + 8 = 76. | |||
| Transparency & trusteditorial 73, provenance 85checked 6 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 6.9 | |
| The API is closed under terms of 2 November 2026 naming NewsCatcher, Inc., and the MCP server is MIT, so between the two bands (20 of 30). The terms say inputs and generated data are not used to train models, a DPA applies automatically, and the privacy policy gives retention periods (server logs 7 days, API logs with query text 90 days, then archived indefinitely, billing records about seven years). They agree with each other, but indefinite archives of query logs hold it back (22 of 30). The terms promise 30 days' email notice before a paid product or API version is discontinued, with refunds of unused credits, and the v3 News API has a migration guide (15 of 20). A sub-processor list dated 2 November 2026 with each provider's location and the data it handles. The MCP repository deploys to Vercel and can send pseudonymised analytics to PostHog, and neither appears on the list (16 of 20). 20 + 22 + 15 + 16 = 73. | |||
| Negative events | ≤15 | None recorded | 0 |
| Total | 67.5 · B | ||
Weight is the published weight, and the figure under it is that category's share of the 100 points in this run. A pending category has no score and adds nothing. What changes when it's scored.
Score history no moves since it was graded
Every time a number on this listing moved, and what moved it: a change of terms or pricing, an outage, the vendor's own release, new evidence, or our own correction. A score can't change without an entry here. Every listing's changes · JSON · RSS
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Graded 67.5 B methodology v0.7
Fix list 21 items, the biggest gain first
Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on NewsCatcher. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.
You're lucky. As part of the beta, your first month is free.
What we couldn't check
- Judgement call on category. Listed in search, which covers search engines and research endpoints, with search.news first. Its main job is news search and research over a news index, and no news-specific category exists.
- Judgement call on scope. One listing covers the News API, the agent, monitors and the MCP server, which share one key and one credit balance. The Enterprise v3 News API, CatchAll and the Local News API are named in details. NewsMCP (newsmcp.com) is a separate product with its own site and a keyless tier, left for its own listing.
- The pricing page says empty or failed agent searches are free and lists 'Everything' at 15 credits a page, while the docs (changelog of 4 November 2026) say a run that finds nothing is still charged and
/articlescosts 5 credits a call. - unchecked: whether a card is needed to open the free plan; no page we read says either way.
- unchecked: the Oneleet trust centre behind the SOC 2 Type II claim, which wasn't read.
- The MCP repository's CHANGELOG says the hosted server is deployed on Vercel and can send pseudonymised PostHog analytics; neither Vercel nor PostHog is on the sub-processor list dated 2 November 2026.
- The status page's single component is named News API; whether it monitors the new API launched on 30 October or the Enterprise v3 API isn't stated.
- firstReleased is the year Y Combinator gives for the company's founding, 2021; the about page says its startup-focused APIs launched in 2021 and 2022. The current API dates from 30 October 2026.
- The website Terms of Service forbid spidering, crawling or scraping the site. Recorded as a fact; only public pages were read within robots.txt.
- GitHub star counts weren't read, since the GitHub API refused us for its rate limit.
Sources 19
- llms.txt newscatcherapi.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Docs overview newscatcherapi.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Credits and pricing newscatcherapi.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Rate limits newscatcherapi.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Errors newscatcherapi.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Authentication newscatcherapi.com · seen 2026-11-06
- MCP server docs newscatcherapi.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Changelog newscatcherapi.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Enterprise plans newscatcherapi.com · seen 2026-11-06
- OpenAPI specs and v3 changelog github.com · seen 2026-11-06
- MCP server repository, SECURITY.md and CHANGELOG github.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Pricing page newscatcherapi.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Terms and Conditions newscatcherapi.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Terms of Service (website) newscatcherapi.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Privacy policy newscatcherapi.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Sub-processors newscatcherapi.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Status page and history status.newscatcherapi.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Official MCP registry search registry.modelcontextprotocol.io · seen 2026-11-06
- Y Combinator company page ycombinator.com · seen 2026-11-06
Probe metrics
Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.
Pricing & changes
Pay per use $1 / 1k req Prepaid credits at $1 per 1,000 (top-ups from $25, valid 12 months). Search costs 1, 5 or 10 credits by effort, a story 1, `/articles` 5 per call. Agent runs 1,000 to 6,000 credits. 10,000 free credits every 30 days. Failed and refused requests aren't charged.
Prices
| Item | Price | Unit | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| News search, low effort | $1 | per 1,000 requests | 1 credit a search at $1 per 1,000 credits |
| News search, medium effort (default) | $5 | per 1,000 requests | 5 credits |
| News search, high effort | $10 | per 1,000 requests | 10 credits |
| Articles listing | $5 | per 1,000 requests | 5 credits a call per the docs; the pricing page says 15 a page |
| Agent event research, fast run | $1 | per transaction | 1,000 credits, 50 rows included; standard $3, max $6 |
| Credit | $0.001 | per credit | Top-ups from $25 for 25,000 credits, valid 12 months |
Compared across listings on the price index.
Recent changes
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Connect
First request
curl -X POST "https://api.newscatcherapi.com/news-api/search" \
-H "x-api-key: $NEWSCATCHER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"q": "hurricane recovery florida", "limit": 5}'Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http newscatcher https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp --header "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"MCP client configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"newscatcher": {
"headers": {
"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
},
"url": "https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp"
}
}
}Through letme picks today, calling later
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Machine-readable
| Similar tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | x402 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tavily API + MCP Tavily | BB | 77.1 | web.search search.research search.news | partial |
| You.com APIs You.com | BB | 76.1 | web.search search.research search.news | partial |
| Valyu Valyu | B | 69.3 | web.search search.research search.news | no |
| Exa API + MCP Exa | B | 67.8 | web.search search.research search.news | yes |
| Parallel Search and Task APIs Parallel Web Systems | BB | 75 | web.search search.research | partial |
| Perplexity Search API Perplexity | BB | 70.2 | web.search search.research | no |
Machine-readable
- JSON
/api/v1/tools/newscatcher.json· historyhistory.json· badge/badges/newscatcher.svg· changes feed/feeds/tools/newscatcher.xml - Markdown
/tools/newscatcher.md· slim/tools/newscatcher.min.md(or sendAccept: text/markdown) - What the fix list covers
/fixes/newscatcher.md·/fixes/newscatcher.json· the whole listPOST /api/v1/fix-list - From a terminal
anchor tool newscatcher --md(the CLI) · over MCPget_tool {"slug": "newscatcher"}at/mcp, no key - Directory index
/api/v1/tools.json· site index/llms.txt - No HTTP
dig +short TXT newscatcher.grade.anchorterminal.com(the grade as a DNS record, for a sandbox where names still resolve; how)
For vendors
Verify this listing
For the vendorIs this your product? Link to this page from your own site or README, then tell us where. It shows people and agents that the listing is yours and that you know it's here. It never changes a grade, rank or review.
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Add the badge or a link
On a light page On a dark page <a href="https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher"><img src="https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/newscatcher.svg" alt="NewsCatcher on Anchor Terminal" height="20"></a>[](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher)<a href="https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher">NewsCatcher on Anchor Terminal</a>It counts on a page on newscatcherapi.com or one of its subdomains, or the README at the root of github.com/Newscatcher/newscatcher-mcp.
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Tell us where it is
We read it once now and again every week. If the link is missing two weeks in a row the listing says so, and a later check puts it back.
Agents send the same to POST /api/v1/verify as {"slug": "newscatcher", "url": "…"}, or call the verify_listing tool at /mcp. Ten checks an hour from one address. What we check. To announce the listing, get sharing assets for social media.
Share this listing
For the vendorGet sharing assets for social media. Two images say NewsCatcher is listed on Anchor Terminal, with your logo and this page's address, one for a dark feed and one for a light one. They carry no grade or score, so they stay right when a score moves.
Link the post to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher. The logo is the one on this listing. If it's wrong or out of date, send us the right one.