specificationVersion: "0.1"
id: newscatcher-plans-pricing
name: Newscatcher Plans & Pricing
description: >
  Newscatcher offers separate pricing tracks for the Web Search (CatchAll) API
  and the News API. The Web Search API uses a self-service credit-based model
  with four published tiers. The News API (v3) is sold as an enterprise product
  with three NLP enrichment plan IDs; pricing is available on request via the
  sales team.
url: https://www.newscatcherapi.com/pricing
plans:
  # ── Web Search (CatchAll) API ────────────────────────────────────────────
  - id: catchall-individual
    name: Individual
    description: Free pay-as-you-go access to the CatchAll Web Search API with basic features.
    product: CatchAll Web Search API
    price:
      amount: 0
      currency: USD
      period: monthly
    features:
      - Pay-as-you-go credits (no monthly allocation)
      - 1 monitor slot
      - Daily query frequency
      - 2-week search depth
      - 100 max results per search
      - Lite and Base retrieval modes
      - 1 concurrent request
    limits:
      results_per_search: 100
      monitor_slots: 1
      concurrency: 1
      search_depth_weeks: 2

  - id: catchall-starter
    name: Starter
    description: Entry-level paid plan for developers and small teams using the CatchAll Web Search API.
    product: CatchAll Web Search API
    price:
      amount: 50
      currency: USD
      period: monthly
    features:
      - 6,000 monthly credits (unused credits roll over)
      - Up to 5 monitor slots
      - Daily query frequency
      - 1-month search depth
      - 300 max results per search
      - Lite and Base retrieval modes
      - 2 concurrent requests
      - Additional credits purchasable anytime
    limits:
      monthly_credits: 6000
      results_per_search: 300
      monitor_slots: 5
      concurrency: 2
      search_depth_months: 1

  - id: catchall-scale
    name: Scale
    description: Mid-tier plan for growing teams that need higher volume and more frequent monitoring.
    product: CatchAll Web Search API
    price:
      amount: 500
      currency: USD
      period: monthly
    features:
      - 60,000 monthly credits (unused credits roll over)
      - Up to 10 monitor slots
      - 6-hour query frequency
      - 3-month search depth
      - 1,000 max results per search
      - Lite and Base retrieval modes
      - 4 concurrent requests
      - Additional credits purchasable anytime
    limits:
      monthly_credits: 60000
      results_per_search: 1000
      monitor_slots: 10
      concurrency: 4
      search_depth_months: 3

  - id: catchall-enterprise
    name: Enterprise
    description: Custom enterprise plan with Deep Search mode, full archive access, and backfill capabilities.
    product: CatchAll Web Search API
    price:
      amount: custom
      currency: USD
      period: monthly
    features:
      - Custom monthly credits (unused credits roll over)
      - 10+ monitor slots
      - 6-hour query frequency
      - Full archive access with backfill
      - 1,000+ max results per search
      - Lite, Base, and Deep Search modes
      - 4+ concurrent requests
      - Dedicated support
    limits:
      results_per_search: 1000+
      monitor_slots: 10+
      concurrency: 4+
      search_depth: full_archive

  # ── News API (v3) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  - id: news-api-nlp
    name: NLP Plan
    description: >
      Foundational News API plan providing NLP enrichment including theme
      classification, named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, AI
      summaries, and clustering. Historical data back to 2019.
    product: News API v3
    plan_id: v3_nlp
    price:
      amount: contact_sales
      currency: USD
      period: monthly
    features:
      - Access to 120,000+ global news sources
      - NLP enrichment on articles indexed from July 2023
      - Theme classification across 16 categories
      - Named entity recognition
      - Sentiment analysis (-1.0 to 1.0 scale)
      - AI summaries
      - Article clustering
      - Up to 1,000 articles per request
      - Historical data from 2019
      - x-api-token header authentication
    contact: sales@newscatcherapi.com

  - id: news-api-iptc
    name: IPTC Tags Plan
    description: >
      Mid-tier News API plan adding standardized IPTC media topic tags and IAB
      advertising category hierarchies on top of the full NLP feature set.
    product: News API v3
    plan_id: v3_nlp_iptc_tags
    price:
      amount: contact_sales
      currency: USD
      period: monthly
    features:
      - All NLP Plan features
      - IPTC media topic tags
      - IAB advertising categories with hierarchical filtering
    contact: sales@newscatcherapi.com

  - id: news-api-embeddings
    name: Embeddings Plan
    description: >
      Premium News API plan incorporating all IPTC Tags features plus
      pre-computed 1024-dimensional vector embeddings per article for semantic
      search and custom recommendation systems.
    product: News API v3
    plan_id: v3_nlp_embeddings
    price:
      amount: contact_sales
      currency: USD
      period: monthly
    features:
      - All IPTC Tags Plan features
      - Pre-computed 1024-dimensional vector embeddings per article
      - Semantic search enablement
      - Custom recommendation system support
    contact: sales@newscatcherapi.com