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NewsBlur pricing
NewsBlur publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 30 August 2026, NewsBlur pricing is free across 4 published tiers. 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
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
NewsBlur 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 Tier | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Premium Pro | $29/month | 3 | +$29/month, 3 more features |
| Premium | $36/year | 3 | +$7/year, 3 more features |
| Premium Archive | $99/year | 3 | +$63/year, 3 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free Tier
FreeThe entry tier. It covers follow up to 64 sites, real-time rss updates, train stories by author, tag, title, public blurblog sharing.
Premium Pro
$29/monthOver Free Tier, this tier adds:
- All Archive features plus up to 10000 sites
- Feeds fetched every 5 to 15 minutes
- Regex training, priority support
Premium
$36/yearOver Premium Pro, this tier adds:
- Follow up to 1024 sites
- 5x more frequent updates
- River of News, search, saved stories with tags
Premium Archive
$99/yearOver Premium, this tier adds:
- Follow up to 4096 sites
- Web feeds from any website
- Story clustering, daily briefing, full archive and search
Where NewsBlur stops being free
Free Tier, Free
- Follow up to 64 sites
- Real-time RSS updates
- Train stories by author, tag, title
- Public blurblog sharing
Premium Pro, $29/month
The first thing you pay for:
- All Archive features plus up to 10000 sites
- Feeds fetched every 5 to 15 minutes
- Regex training, priority support
What the product covers
The full NewsBlur 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
- Intelligence training
- Story sharing
- Original site view
- Text view
- Blurblogs
Integrations
- Instapaper
- Evernote
Platform
- Web support
- Ios support
- Android support
People bring NewsBlur in for reading rss feeds with training that filters by author, tag or title, archiving full article content from followed sites, following a large number of feeds with fast refresh. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to NewsBlur 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NewsBlur (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| NetNewsWire | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs NewsBlur |
| Reeder | Free, then $10/year | Per user per month | - | vs NewsBlur |
| GlobeNewswire | On request | usage-based | - | vs NewsBlur |
| ConvertKit | Free, then $33/month | freemium | - | vs NewsBlur |
| Inoreader | Free, then $7.5/month | freemium | - | vs NewsBlur |
| Ghost | Free, then $15/month | - | - | vs NewsBlur |
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 NewsBlur badges page.
Before you pay for NewsBlur
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: 4 tiers between Free and $99/year, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
NewsBlur runs on web, ios, android, and is published by NewsBlur of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the NewsBlur review, and the rest of the category is under best news tools.
NewsBlur pricing questions
- How much does NewsBlur cost?
- NewsBlur publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Free Tier up to $99/year for Premium Archive. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does NewsBlur have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free Tier tier costs nothing and covers follow up to 64 sites, real-time rss updates, train stories by author, tag, title. Paying starts at $29/month for Premium Pro.
- What is the difference between Free Tier and Premium Pro on NewsBlur?
- Premium Pro costs $29/month against Free, and adds all archive features plus up to 10000 sites, feeds fetched every 5 to 15 minutes, regex training, priority support.
- Is the Premium Archive plan on NewsBlur worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is follow up to 4096 sites, web feeds from any website, story clustering, daily briefing, full archive and search. It costs $99/year against $29/month for Premium Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which news tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 news tools listed alongside NewsBlur have a free tier: NetNewsWire, Reeder, ConvertKit, Inoreader, Ghost.
- What am I actually paying for with NewsBlur?
- The record lists 12 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for reading rss feeds with training that filters by author, tag or title, archiving full article content from followed sites, following a large number of feeds with fast refresh.
- Does NewsBlur charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 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 NewsBlur 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 NewsBlur against before paying?
- The closest news tools in this directory are NetNewsWire, Reeder, GlobeNewswire, ConvertKit. Each has a side-by-side comparison with NewsBlur covering price, platforms and features.