generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: https://ground.news/subscribe
name: Ground News plans and pricing
description: >-
  Ground News sells a consumer news subscription, not API access. These are the tiers a
  reader can buy on the public pricing page; none of them includes, meters or mentions
  an API, and there is no developer or data plan of any kind. Recorded here so the
  commercial surface is captured honestly — api_access_included is false on every tier.
  The page currently renders a single-plan variant: its own page state declares
  availablePlans ["vantage"] under the feature flag "vantage-only-plan", so the
  historical multi-tier layout is being A/B-tested away and only Vantage is offered to
  an anonymous visitor from this probe's location. A free, no-account reading tier
  exists in practice — the site, the top-stories feed and the widget all render without
  login — but it is not itemised or priced on the page, so it is recorded as
  unpriced rather than assigned a price it does not publish.
product: Ground News subscription
currency: USD
plan_count: 2
metering: none
free_tier: true
api_access_included: false
api_plans: 0
pricing_variant: vantage-only-plan
plans:
- name: Free
  price: 0
  currency: USD
  period: null
  billing: none
  listed_on_pricing_page: false
  included: >-
    Reading the ground.news site, top stories, interest pages and the embeddable story
    widget without an account. Not itemised by the provider; recorded from observed
    anonymous access, not from a published feature list.
  quota: null
  overage: null
  api_quota: null
  api_access: false
- name: Vantage
  price: 8.33
  price_verbatim: '$8.33/month (billed annually)'
  currency: USD
  period: month
  billing: annual
  listed_on_pricing_page: true
  included:
  - Blindspot analysis
  - Global coverage map
  - Unlimited saved stories
  - Full coverage comparison
  - Ownership & funding transparency
  - Bias & factuality ratings
  - My News Bias dashboard
  quota: unlimited
  overage: null
  api_quota: null
  api_access: false
  terms_note: 'Page states "Cancel anytime. No hidden fees."'
other_commercial_surfaces:
- name: Group subscriptions
  url: https://ground.news/group-subscriptions
  pricing: not published
  note: Contact-form gate; no price, seat count or quota is published.
- name: Gift subscriptions
  url: https://ground.news/gift
  pricing: not published
- name: Affiliate program
  url: https://ground.news/affiliates
  pricing: not applicable
  note: Referral revenue share for creators, not a data or API commercial surface.
- name: Ground Education
  url: https://about.ground.news/contact-ground-ed
  pricing: not published
  note: >-
    Institutional/classroom program behind a contact form. The nearest thing to a
    data-licensing motion Ground News publishes, and it is a sales gate with no
    published terms.
x-evidence:
  fetched: '2026-08-13'
  url: https://ground.news/subscribe
  http_status: 200
  note: >-
    Price and feature list transcribed verbatim from the rendered pricing card;
    availablePlans and the pricing feature-flag key read from the page's own
    server-rendered state.