GNews vs Mediastack

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.

mediastack (now operated under APILayer) aggregates live and historical news and blog articles from thousands of worldwide sources into a single JSON REST endpoint keyed by an access_key parameter. Its free plan is capped at 100 calls/month with delayed news data and HTTP-only access — HTTPS, real-time delivery, and historical search all require moving to a paid Standard plan or higher.