Currents API vs Mediastack 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 you want to call it from browser JavaScript.
Choose Mediastack API for its data: Free, Simple REST API for Live News & Blog Articles.

	Currents API	Mediastack API
What it does	Real-time and historical global news with multilingual support.	Free, Simple REST API for Live News & Blog Articles.
Provider	Currents News API	Mediastack
API key	Required	Required
HTTPS	Yes	Yes
CORS (browser calls)	Yes	Unknown
Status today	Online · 1072 ms	Online · 848 ms
Uptime (30 days)	Up	Up
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

Free, Simple REST API for Live News & Blog Articles.

Access real-time headlines with our Live News API. Get global news and blog articles from 7,500+ sources in one place. Try Mediastack for free today!

Strengths

Prototyping or a tutorial? Pick the one that needs no API key (neither does, so compare their free tiers).
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.

Both require authentication (apiKey and apiKey).

Currents API supports CORS, so front-end JavaScript can call it directly. Call the other from a server.