Student and Education Access

Students, researchers, and teachers working on an academic project can get the Essential plan for free with academic access: real-time articles, historical data since 2020, and full article content, for learning and research.

What you get

Academic access gives you the limits and features of the Essential plan at no cost, so you can research and build real projects. You can't use it for commercial purposes.

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Academic access

1,000 requests per day
Up to 25 articles per request
Real-time articles
Historical data since 2020
Full article content
CORS for all origins
All 80,000+ sources
Email support

Apply in minutes

Fill in the form with the email address of your GNews API account; an institutional address makes the review faster. Once we approve your request, your account gets the Essential plan for free.

Build with real news data

Use real-world news data in your academic projects: dashboards, news apps, trend analyses, or machine learning experiments.

Build, test, and learn

From journalism theses to data science models, work with the same API professionals use, at no cost.

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FAQ

No. The Free plan never asks for payment details. You add a payment method only when you start a paid plan or its free trial.
Students, researchers, and teaching staff working on an academic project, a thesis, or coursework at a recognized institution. We review each request, and an account with an institutional email address is the quickest to approve.
The Essential plan, free of charge: 1,000 requests per day, up to 25 articles per request, real-time articles, historical data since 2020, full article content, all sources, browser requests from any origin, and email support.
Access runs until the date in your approval email, set from your project. Then your account moves to the Free plan.
  1. Sign up for a free account.
  2. Fill in the application form with the email address of your GNews API account. An institutional email address makes the review faster.
  3. Describe your project or research and your institution.

We review each request by hand and reply by email once your plan is ready.

No. Academic access is free, so you can't use the data for commercial purposes. If your project starts earning revenue or ships as a commercial product, move to a paid plan: write to contact@gnews.io and we'll help with the switch.
You keep your Free account, and you can reply to our email with more detail about your project or institution so we can review it again. Paid plans, each with a 10-day free trial, are on the Pricing page.

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academic access

Tell us about your academic project or research and your institution. We review each request and reply by email.

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