Pick your depth of the archive
Every news story of all time, in real time. Start free; plans start at $0.55/month. Live TV is free for everyone.
Rule of thumb: a token is one story open, so about 100 tokens is an hour of active reading - $0.55 gets you about an hour a day.
Single Banana
Peel a little - taste the archive
$0
- 20 tokens a day - about 10 minutes of reading a day
- Last 7 days of archive
- Live feed delayed 15 min
- Headlines + snippets
- No bookmarks or alerts
Your current plan ✔
Create free accountBunch
For daily readers
$0.55/month
- 100 tokens a day - about an hour of reading a day
- Last 5 years of archive
- Live feed delayed 15 min
- 100 bookmarks
- Follow topics & people + daily /digest
- Premium themes
- My News Bias dashboard
Crate
For researchers & power readers
$1.99/month
- 250 tokens a day - about 2½ hours of reading a day
- Full archive back to 1800
- Live feed delayed 1 min
- Keyword & topic alerts + RSS
- Side-by-side comparison
- CSV/JSON export (1,000 rows)
- API key (60 req/min)
- Collections, unlimited bookmarks
Banana Tree
The whole grove, instantly
$4.99/month
- Unlimited tokens - all-day reading, no daily cap
- Full archive back to 1800
- Live feed with no delay
- Everything in Crate
- Webhook alerts
- Bulk export (10,000 rows)
- API 600 req/min
- Auto daily/weekly briefing
Upgrading replaces the remaining time on your current plan with 30 days of the higher plan. When a plan expires you return to Free automatically - nothing is deleted. Pay by card (Stripe) or USDC on Base.
Compare plans
| Single Banana | Bunch | Crate | Banana Tree | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price / month | Free | $0.55 | $1.99 | $4.99 |
| Tokens per day | 20 | 100 | 250 | Unlimited |
| In reading time | About 10 minutes | About an hour | About 2½ hours | No daily cap |
| Archive depth | Last 7 days | Last 5 years | Full (back to 1800) | Full (back to 1800) |
| Live feed delay | 15 min | 15 min | 1 min | None - instant |
| Headlines + snippets | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bookmarks | — | 100 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Collections | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Topic follows + /digest | — | ✓ up to 5 | ✓ up to 25 | ✓ unlimited |
| Premium themes | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| My News Bias reading dashboard | — | ✓ | ✓ + blindspots you missed | ✓ + blindspots you missed |
| Historical timeline & On-this-day deep view | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Keyword / topic alerts (in-app + RSS) | — | — | ✓ up to 25 | ✓ up to 100 |
| Side-by-side cluster comparison | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| CSV / JSON export | — | — | 1,000 rows | 10,000 rows |
| Read-only API key | — | — | 60 req/min | 600 req/min |
| Webhook alerts | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Auto daily/weekly briefing per followed topics | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Live TV (Agenda Free TV) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tokens: a typical active hour (about 60 stories, a few topic pages and timeline days, ~16 searches) uses about 100 tokens, so reading-time figures are estimates. Search costs 2; opening a story, a topic page or a timeline day costs 1. Allowances reset daily (America/New_York). Billed monthly in USD. Banana News stores headlines, snippets and links - not full articles. Feed delay = how long fresh live-feed items are held back.