Currents API vs Spaceflight News 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 Spaceflight News API.
Choose Spaceflight News API if you want to start without an API key, faster responses.

	Currents API	Spaceflight News API
What it does	Real-time and historical global news with multilingual support.	The Spaceflight News API lets you add space related news to your apps.
Provider	Currents News API	Spaceflight News API
API key	Required	Not needed
HTTPS	Yes	Yes
CORS (browser calls)	Yes	Yes
Status today	Online · 1072 ms	Online · 493 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

The Spaceflight News API lets you add space related news to your apps.

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; Spaceflight News API doesn't, so Spaceflight News API is quicker to try.