Currents API vs NewsData 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 NewsData API for its data: News data API for live-breaking news and headlines from reputed news sources.

	Currents API	NewsData API
What it does	Real-time and historical global news with multilingual support.	News data API for live-breaking news and headlines from reputed news sources.
Provider	Currents News API	NewsData.io
API key	Required	Required
HTTPS	Yes	Yes
CORS (browser calls)	Yes	Unknown
Status today	Online · 1072 ms	Online · 1229 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

News data API for live-breaking news and headlines from reputed news sources.

Our Free News API enables you with easy integration & limitless access to millions of news sources. Sign up now to get a free API Key

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.