FAQ's

NEWZ ARABIA is a powerful and easy-to-use REST API interface collecting news and information  from thousands of sources worldwide and delivering it within milliseconds in lightweight, programmatically usable JSON format. Data is gathered every minute from more than 500000 popular sources across a variety of categories, including business, sports, education, and many more. 

After processing millions of data updates & data points, only the most relevant searches are selected for delivery. These are unique and strategic updates that your teams should be aware of.

The Newz Arabia – API is a product built and operated by Z5.AI, a global leader in microservices APIs running more than 150 microservices (API’s) in the fields of Machine Learning, Big Data, NLP etc.

This API service is hosted on amazon AWS platforms (with data centers hosted across the globe), a highly scalable and highly available technical infrastructure capable of dealing with millions of API requests per minute. No matter which volume you are looking to process, our system has got you covered.

Each time the API is used to access or search data, a minimum of 1 API request is counted towards your monthly allowed API request volume. Depending on the options you use, some queries may consume more than 1 API request. For more information, please refer to our API documentation. (hyperlink)

We understand that volumes change and fluctuate from time to time, which is why each of the subscription plans we offer comes with a safety buffer of 20%. This means you will be able to make 120% of your monthly allocated API request volume during a limited number of months. In addition, you will be notified via email as you reach 75%, 90% and 100% of your quota.

The Newz Aarabia is built on top of a highly available cloud infrastructure, leading to an uptime of nearly 99.95%. 

Your subscription plan requirements primarily depend on the monthly volume of API requests you would like to process through the Newz Arabia – API. If you are able to stay below 500 monthly API requests, you are fine staying on the Free Plan. If you require more advanced features, as mentioned in the plans, the higher plans will be the way to go. In case you need a higher volume than what is offered on the website, you can always reach out to get a quote (hyperlink).

Payments can be made using any major credit card, including Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diner’s Club, Discover, as well as using your PayPal account. For large contracts with annual / monthly billing, payment via bank transfer is offered as well.

Yes, choosing to pay yearly will even reduce the price of your subscription by 20%. You can choose annual billing during the signup or checkout process.

In order to change your billing frequency from monthly to yearly or from yearly to monthly, you will be required to downgrade your account back to the Free Plan.

Step 1: Navigate to the Subscription page, click “Downgrade” in the Free Plan section and confirm your downgrade. Downgrades are not effective immediately, your premium subscription will remain active until the end of the current billing period.

Step 2: Once your billing period ends and your account downgrade has become effective, navigate back to the Subscription page and click “Upgrade” in your preferred subscription plan’s section. You will now be asked to choose a new billing frequency.

If you need any assistance changing your billing frequency, please do not hesitate to contact us.

When a payment error occurs, you have 1 week or 10% of your quota opted, before the cancellation of your subscription, during this period you will receive 2 emails from our team. On the 1st day of the 3rd week, your subscription will be cancelled and reverted to FREE.

The enterprise plan also incorporates the white label solutions (optional) offered. You can contact us here (hyperlink) for enterprise plan queries. For partnership queries please refer to our Partner Section