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MarketNewsAPI is a stock news API: US headlines, press releases, and legal notices over REST, WebSocket, and MCP. Pro is $15 a month. The table below puts that next to other news APIs on price, the free tier, streaming, and summaries.

How do you compare a stock news API?

Compare the news product, not the whole vendor. Check the price, whether headlines are real time, whether a WebSocket exists, and whether each article includes tickers and a summary. MarketNewsAPI Pro is $15 a month, or $162 a year, with a 7-day trial. A card is required.

Price

MarketNewsAPI Pro is $15 a month, or $162 a year. The table lists each vendor's published entry price. Confirm it on their site before you buy.

Delivery

A stock news API is either polled over REST or pushed over a WebSocket. Pro includes both, plus MCP. The WebSocket column says what each vendor documents.

The product

This page compares the news. Some vendors also sell prices and fundamentals. That is a different product, and the write-ups say so.

Side by side

Stock news API pricing and features

API	Free plan	Entry price	WebSocket	AI summaries
MarketNewsAPI	100 requests/day, 15-min delay, 1 year of history	$15/mo Pro ($13.50/mo annual). 7-day trial, card required	Yes: 7 channel types, 3 connections	Yes, AI summary on every article
StockNewsAPI	No free plan (one-time 5-day, 100-call trial)	$19.99/mo Basic (20,000 calls/month)	Not listed	Not listed
Marketaux	100 requests/day, 3 articles per request	$29/mo Basic (2,500 requests/day, 20 articles/request)	Not listed (REST)	Not listed
NewsAPI.org	Developer: 100 requests/day, 24-hour delay, development use only	$449/mo Business (250,000 requests/month)	No	No
Finnhub	60 calls/minute, personal use, 1 year of company news	$49.99/mo market data plans (billed quarterly, personal-use license)	Yes, but real-time news over WebSocket requires premium access	No
Benzinga	Basic tier: headline, teaser and link (via AWS Data Exchange)	Not published (sales-quoted)	Yes	No
Alpha Vantage	25 requests/day (shared across all endpoints)	$49.99/mo (75 requests/minute)	No	Short summary from source
Financial Modeling Prep	Free/Basic: 250 API calls/day	Starter about $22/mo (news included; annual billing discounts the public tiers)	Not the product you buy for news streaming	Not listed on the news endpoints
Massive	Stocks Basic: 5 calls/min, end-of-day, about 2 years of history	Stocks Starter $29/mo (unlimited calls, 15-minute delayed, about 5 years)	WebSockets start on paid tiers. Real-time stocks is the Advanced tier.	Not a news-summary product
Tiingo	Starter $0, including a news API, with tight caps (on the order of 50 requests/hour and 1,000/day)	Power $30/mo ($300/yr) raises the request caps	Not published as a news WebSocket	Not listed
EODHD	Free package: 20 API calls/day	EOD Historical All-World $19.99/mo ($199/year)	Not sold as a news WebSocket	Not listed as an AI summary field
Intrinio	Free trial available; no permanent free news plan on the public page	Individual $150/mo	Streaming is part of the broader platform; NewsEdge is described as a real-time news stream	Not described as an AI summary on each item

Competitor details come from their public pricing and documentation pages, checked 2026-10-07. Plans change, so confirm on their site. Spot an error? Tell us and we'll fix it.

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Marketaux

Global financial news API with entity tagging across 80+ markets.

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NewsAPI.org

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Finnhub

Broad market-data platform with company and market news endpoints.

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Benzinga

Professional newswire with in-house editorial, delivered via API, TCP and WebSocket.

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Alpha Vantage

All-round market data API with a news endpoint.

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Financial Modeling Prep

A market-data API that includes a financial news feed alongside prices and fundamentals.

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Massive

Market data platform formerly known as Polygon.io. Stocks, options, and related feeds, priced per asset class.

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Tiingo

Low-cost end-of-day and IEX prices, with a news API included on the same account.

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EODHD

End-of-day prices, fundamentals, and a news feed, billed as API-call packages.

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Intrinio

Institutional market data with a NewsEdge feed bundled into the published plans.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I compare stock news APIs?

Compare the news product, not the whole vendor. Look at price, the free tier, whether news is real time, whether a WebSocket exists, and whether headlines include tickers and summaries. This page lists MarketNewsAPI next to vendors that also sell news. Some of them also sell prices and fundamentals. Those columns are labeled from their public pages, and plans change.

How much does MarketNewsAPI cost compared with other news APIs?

Pro is $15 a month, or $162 a year, which is $13.50 a month. A 7-day trial requires a card and includes real-time REST, WebSocket, and MCP. Free is 100 requests a day, delayed 15 minutes, with the full archive. Entry prices for the other APIs are in the table. Confirm those numbers on each vendor's site before you buy.

Which stock news APIs include a WebSocket?

MarketNewsAPI includes a real-time WebSocket on Pro and on the 7-day trial, with channels for ticker, type, keyword, and source. The comparison table shows whether each other vendor documents a news stream. A REST-only API means you poll. If the table says a stream is missing, treat that as what their public docs said on the date this page was checked.

Does MarketNewsAPI include stock prices and fundamentals?

No. MarketNewsAPI is a news API: headlines, press releases, and legal notices, with tickers, timestamps, summaries, and links. It does not sell quotes, fundamentals, or options. Some vendors on this page bundle news with market data. Pick them when you want one contract for prices and a news endpoint. Pick MarketNewsAPI when the news feed is the product.

Does MarketNewsAPI include AI summaries?

Yes. New articles include a short AI summary and named entities, plus tickers, timestamps, and a source URL. Press releases also include full text. A summary restates the story. It is not a rating or a trade signal. The table on this page notes whether each other vendor documents summaries, as of the check date printed here.

How current is this stock news API comparison?

Each vendor cell is taken from that vendor's public pricing and docs, and the check date is printed on this page. Plans change, so confirm the other price, free tier, and WebSocket before you buy. MarketNewsAPI Pro is $15 a month, or $162 a year, with a 7-day trial. A card is required.

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