News · head-to-head
GNews vs The Guardian
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.
The Guardian's Open Platform serves the publication's own articles, tags, and section metadata across more than 1.9 million pieces of content, with a free Developer key limited to 1 call/second and 500 calls/day for non-commercial projects. A separate Commercial key removes those caps for a usage-based fee and adds images, audio, and video. Requests are authenticated with an API key and return JSON by default, with an XML format option available.
| GNews | The Guardian | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | API Key | API Key |
| Pricing | freemium | freemium |
| Formats | JSON | JSON, XML |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
The Guardian supports 2 response formats, while GNews offers fewer — pick The Guardian for more integration flexibility.