Currents API vs Graphs for Coronavirus API

Two free News APIs compared on access, reliability and developer ratings, using data from our daily health checks.

The verdict

Choose Currents API if its data fits your use case better; on access and reliability it's level with Graphs for Coronavirus API.
Choose Graphs for Coronavirus API if you want to start without an API key.

	Currents API	Graphs for Coronavirus API
What it does	Real-time and historical global news with multilingual support.	Each Country separately and Worldwide Graphs for Coronavirus. Daily updates.
Provider	Currents News API	corona.dnsforfamily.com
API key	Required	Not needed
HTTPS	Yes	Yes
CORS (browser calls)	Yes	Yes
Status today	Online · 1072 ms	Last check failed
Uptime (30 days)	Up	Down
Developer rating	Not rated yet	Not rated yet
Price	Free / free tier	Free / free tier

Real-time and historical global news with multilingual support.

Get a free Currents News API key and access real-time JSON news data, latest-news feeds, keyword search, 26M+ articles, and 250 daily requests.

Strengths

Each Country separately and Worldwide Graphs for Coronavirus. Daily updates.

Strengths

Prototyping or a tutorial? Pick the one that needs no API key.
Calling from a web page? You need CORS. Otherwise route requests through your own server or a serverless function.
Going to production? Favour HTTPS, a strong uptime record and a provider with clear rate limits and terms. Check each API's docs before you commit.
Still unsure? Both are free to try: send one request to each and compare the data you get back.

Currents API requires an API key; Graphs for Coronavirus API doesn't, so Graphs for Coronavirus API is quicker to try.