Bing News Plans Pricing
Machine-readable plans and pricing for the Bing News Search API. The API was part of Bing Search Services (retired August 11, 2025). Historical tiers included a free F1 tier (1,000 transactions/month) and paid S1 tier (~$7 per 1,000 transactions). Values below reflect the last published pricing before retirement.
Bing News Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Bing News Search on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 2 plans, covering freemium and paid tiers, with named plans including Free (F1), Standard (S1).
Tagged areas include News, Search, Microsoft, Bing, and Headlines.
Plans
Free entry tier for the Bing News Search API. Provided 1,000 transactions per month at no cost. Suitable for evaluation and low-volume prototyping. This tier was available via Azure AI Services before the API's retirement on August 11, 2025.
- News Search Endpoint
- News Category Endpoint
- Trending Topics Endpoint
- JSON Responses
- Community Support
Paid production tier for the Bing News Search API. Priced at approximately $7 per 1,000 transactions with higher rate limits. Supported all three News Search endpoints with up to 100 QPS. This tier was available via Azure AI Services before the API's retirement on August 11, 2025.
- News Search Endpoint
- News Category Endpoint
- Trending Topics Endpoint
- JSON and JSON-LD Responses
- Image Thumbnails
- Publisher Metadata
- Azure Support
- SLA