Currents vs GNews

Currents API returns real-time and historical global news as JSON, with search filterable by language, keyword, country, category, and date range. A free account includes 1,000 requests/day — enough for prototyping — before paid plans raise the ceiling for production traffic. Authentication is a single API key passed on every request.

GNews mirrors Google News rankings across roughly 80,000 sources, exposing search and top-headlines endpoints filterable by category, language, and country. The free plan is capped at 100 requests/day with articles delayed 12 hours and results limited to the last 30 days; paid tiers add same-day articles, a multi-year archive back to 2020, and higher daily caps. Every response is JSON, authenticated with a single API-key query parameter.