The short answer
GNews combines daily request quotas with plan-specific article limits. World News API reports points charged for search and results. Check full-content rights and date coverage before normalizing either into cost per usable article.
| Provider | A good reason to choose it | Important caveat |
|---|---|---|
| GNews | A compact article-search integration that needs a documented step from delayed evaluation to real-time paid access. | Free responses have delayed, truncated content and a shorter archive. GNews is a third-party service, not an official Google API; publisher rights still apply. |
| World News API | A filtered news application that can budget using a documented points-per-request and per-result model. | Search points and article counts are different units. A text field being available does not grant unrestricted redistribution of the publisher's article. |
Side-by-side differences
| Requirement | GNews | World News API |
|---|---|---|
| Search workflow | Keyword search and a separate top-headlines endpoint | Text, date, geographic and entity-related filters |
| Article body | Truncated on Free; full content listed on paid tiers | Article text and metadata in search responses |
| Archive access | Free recent window; paid archive since 2020 | Date-bounded search; archive coverage needs validation |
| Pagination | Plan-dependent result limits; check search endpoint pagination | number and offset |
| Production access | Plan-dependent freshness and production entitlement | Account points and content-use terms |
| Cost driver | Requests per day and articles per request | Base request points plus per-result points |
Pricing: make the units comparable
| Provider | Billing model | What to check |
|---|---|---|
| GNews | Daily request quotas and results-per-request tiers | The official plan table separates daily calls, page size, archive and full content. Compare the same paid tier rather than treating free delayed results as equivalent. |
| World News API | Points for requests and returned results | Search News is documented as 1 point plus 0.01 points per returned result. Check daily quota and other endpoint charges separately. Checked October 28, 2026. |
For 10,000 usable articles, track duplicate rate, results per page and paid units. A request returning ten truncated articles is not equivalent to one returning a hundred licensed full-text records. Include the production-plan minimum in the comparison.
For a buying decision, calculate total spend divided by accepted outputs at your expected volume. Keep free evaluation access, paid production access, annual commitments and overages separate. We have not measured a cost or speed winner for this pair.
What changes in the integration?
| GNews | World News API | |
|---|---|---|
| Method and URL | GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/search | GET https://api.worldnewsapi.com/search-news |
| Authentication | API key in apikey | x-api-key header or api-key parameter |
| Inputs | q, lang, country, max, from/to and apikey | text, language, source-countries, date filters, number and offset |
| Output | totalArticles and articles with title, source, URL, timestamps and plan-dependent content. | news records and availability/pagination metadata; quota usage in response headers. |
GNews: migration check
Retest date bounds and query operators. A different maximum article count per request can change both cost and the completeness of your collection.
World News API: migration check
Map hyphenated parameter names explicitly and persist quota headers. Offset paging and provider availability limits should not be treated as a guaranteed complete export.
How to test them fairly
- Prepare a fixed set of entity names, ambiguous names, exact phrases and multilingual topics. Pin the publication window and record the retrieval time.
- Score a blinded sample for topic relevance and entity precision. Count unique stories separately from syndicated copies and repeated URLs.
- Measure publication-to-availability delay on a monitored source set. Article timestamps alone do not reveal when the provider indexed them.
- Check missing bodies, truncation, source URLs and archive cutoffs on the exact plan. Store metadata and hashes where article-storage rights are not established.
- Record requests, pagination, credits or points per usable article. Confirm publisher rights and permitted storage/redistribution independently of API access.
Record the plan, request settings, time window and acceptance rules with every run. That makes a later result interpretable when a vendor changes a model, source set or pricing tier.
Prefer a common request format?
POST /api/v1/news/searchReview the request contract and tell us the coverage you need. Access requires enablement; this endpoint does not execute or bill requests yet.
View endpoint and request accessSources and review dates
Documentation reviewed October 28, 2026. These are integration and plan comparisons, not measured speed or accuracy rankings. Availability, licensing and prices should be confirmed for the chosen plan.
- GNews API and plan feature table
- GNews pricing
- World News API search reference and point cost
- World News API authentication
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