News APIs for AI agents, paid per call
Paid APIs for headlines, articles and news search, that an AI agent can call and pay for on the spot with x402, in USDC. We list 138, from 92 sellers. 127 are live and asking for payment correctly, and 76 delivered when we bought from them with real money. The typical price is $0.01 a call (half ask between $0.003 and $0.03).
The APIs
The first 30, in the same order as our search (GET /v1/discover?category=data.news, testnets left out): verified first, then probe score, then price.
Nobody can pay for a place here. Each name opens the full record: every check, every purchase, with dates.
| API | price | status | when we bought |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-Source News — newest headlines (134-feed tiered portfolio)free samplex402.professorsausages.com | $0.02 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-09-22 |
| Multi-Source News — Top AI News (high-signal only)free samplex402.professorsausages.com | $0.02 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-09-22 |
| Multi-Source News — Top Crypto/NFT News (high-signal only)free samplex402.professorsausages.com | $0.02 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-09-22 |
| Multi-Source News — keyword search over the multi-day archivefree samplex402.professorsausages.com | $0.03 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-09-22 |
| Multi-Source News — headline volume + sentiment timelinefree samplex402.professorsausages.com | $0.03 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-09-22 |
| HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse (hn-pulse)free samplehn-pulse-72343955726.us-central1.run.app | $0.01 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-10-19 |
| Tensorfeed — Premium Whats Newfree sampletensorfeed.ai | $0.02 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-09-01 |
| twitr.sh/api/tools/radar | $0.001 | verified | probes pass; not bought yet |
| vaunt-dispatch-production.up.railway.app/agent/x402/news-evidence | $0.001 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-10-06 |
| vaunt-dispatch-production.up.railway.app/agent/x402/sample | $0.001 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-10-05 |
| opendata402.com/v1/earthquakes | $0.001 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-11-01 |
| vaunt-dispatch-production.up.railway.app/agent/x402/scorecard | $0.001 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-11-01 |
| api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.trending_reels | $0.0012 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-11-01 |
| api.oblique.markets/api/v1/paid/bazaar-pulse | $0.002 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-09-08 |
| api.signalfuse.co/v1/sentiment/TSLA | $0.002 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-09-08 |
| api.signalfuse.co/v1/sentiment/HOOD | $0.002 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-10-06 |
| api.signalfuse.co/v1/sentiment/NVDA | $0.002 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-10-06 |
| nbu.navistri.com/v1/inflation | $0.002 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-11-01 |
| api.oblique.markets/api/v1/paid/bazaar-trending | $0.003 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-09-08 |
| api.zkrobotics.fr/x402/sentiment | $0.003 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-10-15 |
| x402.asterpay.io/v1/ai/sentiment | $0.004 | verified | probes pass; not bought yet |
| api.munition.io/v1/serper/news | $0.004 | verified | probes pass; not bought yet |
| api.oblique.markets/api/v1/paid/agent-return-context | $0.005 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-10-06 |
| x402-seller-0ay3.onrender.com/api/hn/top | $0.005 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-10-06 |
| datastand.dev/api/bazaar/trending | $0.005 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-10-15 |
| attention-trends.shopttyass-85f.workers.dev/top | $0.005 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-11-01 |
| stationfx.com/economic-data/labor/unemployment-rate | $0.005 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-11-01 |
| agentreader.dev/feed | $0.006 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-10-19 |
| mechamanda.com/api/polymarket/trending | $0.01 | verified | bought, delivered 2026-10-19 |
| x402.asterpay.io/v2/x402/ai/sentiment | $0.01 | verified | probes pass; not bought yet |
All of them, as data: api.nohumans.directory/v1/discover?category=data.news&limit=50. Live figures, as of 2026-11-07 02:39 UTC.
For agents
Search this kind of API from your agent, free, no key. MCP server https://api.nohumans.directory/mcp, tool
find_paid_service with {"category": "data.news", "query": "what you need"}, or REST:
GET https://api.nohumans.directory/v1/discover?category=data.news&q=<what you need>
Before paying any endpoint, check its record: how, and when not to pay.
Sell one
92 sellers already list News APIs here, at a typical $0.01 a call. Agents choose on evidence: a free sample, inputs they can read, and a purchase that delivered. Check yours free and list it · what x402 APIs charge and earn · build one with one prompt.
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