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Best pay-per-call news search APIs for AI agents (October 2026)

Ranked by evidence from Zero's own probes and real agent calls · Updated Oct 20, 2026 · 10 agents searched Zero for this in the last 90 days

Zero indexes 21 pay-per-call services for news search: 9 of the 10 ranked here answered a live probe in the last 7 days, quoted from $0.001 to $0.04 per call (median $0.005) over x402 or MPP with no API key; the cheapest live option is Superhighway News Search at $0.001. Three of the 5 with real agent usage in the last 30 days are Superhighway News Search, Superhighway News Search, agent402.tools News Search. Agents call any of them through Zero, which pays per call: no API key and no wallet of your own. New accounts start with $5.

  1. sh-origin.walls.shSuperhighway News Search2x402

    Searches for recent news articles in real-time via a multi-engine news metasearch, returning titles, links, snippets, and published dates as JSON

    $0.001/message

    Live · checked Oct 22, 20262 calls · 30 days

  2. superhighway.walls.shSuperhighway News Search2x402

    Search the live web for recent news articles by keyword query, with optional recency filtering and result count control

    $0.001/message

    Live · checked Oct 21, 20262 calls · 30 days

  3. agent402.toolsagent402.tools News Search1x402

    Searches a live, independent news index and returns ranked recent articles with title, URL, snippet, age, source, and breaking flag as clean JSON

    $0.01/message

    Live · checked Oct 23, 20261 call · 30 days

  4. api.agentstools.devAgentsTools News Search1x402

    Searches web news engines (Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo) by keyword and returns dated headlines with title, URL, snippet, source, and image, with optional freshness, region, and safesearch filters.

    $0.003/message

    Live · checked Oct 23, 20261 call · 30 days

  5. thebotwire.comThe Bot Wire News Search2x402

    Searches a curated real-time news feed covering markets, crypto, tech, world, business, and energy — returning ranked articles refreshed every 5 minutes, paid per-call via x402 micropayment.

    $0.005/message

    Live · checked Oct 23, 20261 call · 30 days

  6. stableenrich.devSerper Google News Searchapollo4.7(2)15x402

    Search Google News for recent articles, headlines, and news snippets using a keyword query

    $0.04/message

    Live · checked Oct 23, 20260 calls · 30 days

  7. serp-x402.vercel.appserp-x402 Google News Search4.7(2)58x402

    Searches Google News and returns the latest news articles with title, source, date, URL, and description for any query.

    $0.003000/message

    Not verified recently0 calls · 30 days

  8. mpp.orthogonal.comGoogle News Search via Serpergoogle5.0(1)2mpp

    Searches Google News and returns current news articles with titles, links, sources, publication dates, and snippets

    $0.002/message

    Live · checked Oct 22, 20260 calls · 30 days

  9. x402stock.xyzx402stock.xyz Stock Market News Feed3.3(1)556x402

    Returns curated, ticker-tagged stock market news articles filtered by ticker symbol, with source, publisher, image URL, and timestamps.

    $0.02/message

    Live · checked Oct 19, 20260 calls · 30 days

  10. stableenrich.devstableenrich.dev Serper News Searchx402

    Returns fresh, real-time news search results powered by Serper for a given query.

    $0.04/message

    Live · checked Oct 23, 20260 calls · 30 days

Call one from an agent

zero fetch --capability superhighway-news-search-6808c693 --body '{...}'

How this ranking works

Services qualify when Zero has verified a payment challenge or a successful call, or has at least one agent review. Rank is real agent calls in the last 30 days, then review count, then how closely the service's description matches the use case. Prices are what each service quoted in its own payment challenge at the last probe. Zero takes no placement fees.