Finnhub
Market-data API with free company news at 60 calls a minute
Founded: 2018 | New York, USA | Team: Not publicly disclosed
Headlines & metadataFinancial newsStreaming/webhooks
What is Finnhub?
Finnhub is a New York fintech founded in 2018, according to CB Insights, with staff reported in New York, Mumbai, Sydney and Ho Chi Minh City. It sells stock, forex and crypto data over REST and WebSocket, and news is one endpoint among many. The free key is generous on rate (60 calls a minute) and returns a year of North American company news plus general market headlines, but it is for personal, non-commercial use, and low-latency news streaming is a premium feature. Official SDKs cover Python, Go, JavaScript and more. Commercial bundles are priced on the site, with All-in-One listed at $1,000 a month.
Typical uses: Financial services, Research & academia. What sets it apart: A 60-calls-a-minute free key covering company news and market data.
What does the Finnhub API include?
REST APIJSONWebSocketPython SDKNode.js SDKGo SDK
| Capability |
|---|
| Headlines & metadata |
| Financial news |
| Streaming/webhooks |
Finnhub pricing
Short answer: the pricing model is free key; paid market-data bundles. There is no public entry price, so expect to request a quote.
| Access model | What it means |
|---|---|
| Free tier | Permanent free allowance, usually with request, history or commercial-use limits |
| Monthly plans | Self-serve subscription with published quotas |
API prices and quotas change often. Check Finnhub's own pricing page before you commit, and confirm that your use is covered by the licence.
Finnhub pros and cons
| Advantages | Things to consider |
|---|---|
| +The free rate limit is high for a no-cost key | -Headlines and summaries only |
| +News, quotes and fundamentals share one key | -Free key is non-commercial |
| +Official SDKs in many languages | -Low-latency news costs extra |
| +WebSocket for streaming quotes |
Finnhub vs alternatives
How Finnhub compares to the other top News APIs.
| API | Best for | Key difference | Rating | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NewsCatcher | Developers who want clean, deduplicated news without writing... | Summaries, story clusters, entities and geotags arrive in the response, so the processing code you would otherwise write is already done | 4.7 | Full comparison |
| NewsData.io | Developers who want a working news call within... | A free allowance that refills daily, with country and language filters on every plan | 4.6 | Full comparison |
| Perigon | Indie developers and startups wanting enriched data at... | Entity, topic and cluster data from the $25 plan up, with all tiers priced publicly | 4.5 | Full comparison |
| NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry) | Developers building multilingual event or research tools. | Event records that join coverage of one story across languages | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| GNews | Small commercial apps needing a cheap, simple news... | Commercial rights and full article content for under €50 a month | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| Webz.io | Data engineers backfilling years of news for datasets. | History back to 2008 and the widest claimed source count here | 4.2 | Full comparison |
| Exa | RAG and agent developers needing semantic news retrieval. | Search by meaning with page text returned in the same request | 4.2 | Full comparison |
| Tavily | Agent builders adding a news tool in a... | Built-in LangChain and LlamaIndex integrations that return prompt-ready text | 4.1 | Full comparison |
| World News API | Location-aware apps on a small budget. | Latitude, longitude and radius filters from the $39 plan, plus a URL text extractor | 4.1 | Full comparison |
| NewsAPI.org | Learning projects and prototypes that follow existing tutorials. | The largest pile of tutorials, wrappers and answered questions of any news API | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| SerpApi Google News | Developers who need exactly what Google News ranks. | Google News rankings and story groupings as structured JSON | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| GDELT Project | Zero-budget data projects and research prototypes. | No key, no fee and global coverage refreshed every 15 minutes | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| Brave Search API | Developers replacing Bing News Search with an independent... | Results from its own crawler, independent of Google and Bing | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| Serper Google News | Agent prototypes needing cheap Google News lookups. | About $1 per 1,000 Google queries on the entry pack, by third-party figures | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| Marketaux | Fintech developers needing ticker-tagged news cheaply. | Entity-level sentiment on every article, free plan included | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment | Hobby quants wanting news sentiment beside price data. | Ticker and topic sentiment scores from the same key as market data | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Massive (ex-Polygon.io) News | Trading-app developers already using Polygon or Massive data. | Per-ticker sentiment with a written reason, included in stock data plans | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Mediastack | Low-traffic sites needing a cheap commercial headline feed. | Commercial use and historical news from $24.99 a month | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Guardian Open Platform | Students and researchers needing free full-text articles. | Free full article bodies from a major newspaper, with editorial tags | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Diffbot | Developers collecting news from a fixed list of... | Parser-free extraction from any article URL, linked to a Knowledge Graph | 3.7 | Full comparison |
| DataForSEO Google News | High-volume Google News rank tracking on a budget. | About $0.60 per 1,000 Google News result pages in the Standard queue | 3.7 | Full comparison |
| TheNewsAPI | Personal dashboards needing a cheap general feed. | Possibly the lowest paid entry price here, if third-party pricing is current | 3.6 | Full comparison |
| NYT Developer APIs | Students and historians working with Times metadata. | Searchable headlines and abstracts for every Times issue since 1851 | 3.5 | Full comparison |
| Benzinga | Trading platforms needing a licensed market newswire. | Original market headlines with ratings and earnings events in one feed | 3.5 | Full comparison |
| Quantexa News API (Aylien) | Teams maintaining an existing Aylien integration. | Aylien's fine-grained entity and category tagging | 3.4 | Full comparison |
| APITube | Developers comparing coverage in a side-by-side trial. | Sentiment and entity filters offered on lower tiers | 3.4 | Full comparison |
| Currents API | Coursework and hackathons needing a free feed. | A free tier that tutorials and roundups often recommend | 3.3 | Full comparison |
Finnhub FAQ
What is Finnhub?
Market-data API with free company news at 60 calls a minute
How much does Finnhub charge?
Pricing model: free key; paid market-data bundles. No public entry price is listed, so pricing comes through a quote. Free access: yes, with limits.
Which formats and SDKs does Finnhub support?
Finnhub offers REST API, JSON, WebSocket, Python SDK, Node.js SDK, Go SDK.
Is Finnhub right for enterprise?
Finnhub lists no enterprise contract, so check SLA and support terms first. Main caveat: Headlines and summaries only.
What are the best Finnhub alternatives?
The best alternatives to Finnhub depend on your use case. Top options are:
- NewsCatcher: summaries, story clusters, entities and geotags arrive in the response, so the processing code you would otherwise write is already done
- NewsData.io: a free allowance that refills daily, with country and language filters on every plan
- Perigon: entity, topic and cluster data from the $25 plan up, with all tiers priced publicly
Compare Finnhub with other News APIs
Finnhub vs NewsCatcher Finnhub vs NewsData.io Finnhub vs Perigon Finnhub vs NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry) Finnhub vs GNews Finnhub vs Webz.io Finnhub vs Exa Finnhub vs Tavily Finnhub vs World News API Finnhub vs NewsAPI.org Finnhub vs SerpApi Google News Finnhub vs GDELT Project Finnhub vs Brave Search API Finnhub vs Serper Google News Finnhub vs Marketaux Finnhub vs Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment Finnhub vs Massive (ex-Polygon.io) News Finnhub vs Mediastack Finnhub vs Guardian Open Platform Finnhub vs Diffbot Finnhub vs DataForSEO Google News Finnhub vs TheNewsAPI Finnhub vs NYT Developer APIs Finnhub vs Benzinga Finnhub vs Quantexa News API (Aylien) Finnhub vs APITube Finnhub vs Currents API
Verify all details directly with Finnhub before making a decision.