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Google News pricing
Google News publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the news tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, Google News pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Free
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Google News plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where Google News stops being free
Free, Free
- Personalized news feed
- Full coverage feature
- Local news
- Fact check labels
- Cross-device sync
No paid tier on record
Google News lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Google News feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- AI-powered curation
- Full coverage
- Local news
- Topic following
- Newsstand
Integrations
- Google account
- Google Assistant
- Chrome
- Android
Platform
- Web support
- Ios support
- Android support
People bring Google News in for news consumption, topic tracking, local news, research. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Google News are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in News
Too few news tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google News (this page) | Free | free | - | |
| NetNewsWire | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Google News |
| Reeder | Free, then $10/year | Per user per month | - | vs Google News |
| GlobeNewswire | On request | usage-based | - | vs Google News |
| ConvertKit | Free, then $33/month | freemium | - | vs Google News |
| Inoreader | Free, then $7.5/month | freemium | - | vs Google News |
| Ghost | Free, then $15/month | - | - | vs Google News |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Google News badges page.
Before you pay for Google News
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Google News runs on web, ios, android, and is published by Google LLC of Mountain View, CA. The full record is on the Google News review, and the rest of the category is under best news tools.
Google News pricing questions
- How much does Google News cost?
- Google News publishes a single tier, Free, at Free.
- Does Google News have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers personalized news feed, full coverage feature, local news.
- Which news tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 news tools listed alongside Google News have a free tier: NetNewsWire, Reeder, ConvertKit, Inoreader, Ghost.
- What am I actually paying for with Google News?
- The record lists 12 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for news consumption, topic tracking, local news.
- Does Google News charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Google News prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Google News against before paying?
- The closest news tools in this directory are NetNewsWire, Reeder, GlobeNewswire, ConvertKit. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Google News covering price, platforms and features.