AskNews
Officially listedA licensed news data API built for AI agents, LLMs, and RAG pipelines.
AskNews
AskNews is 'AI-oriented licensed news infrastructure' from Emergent Methods, turning real-time and historical news — paywalled content included — into structured context that LLMs, agents, and forecasting systems can use directly. Its core promise is blunt: give your AI a news API it can finally trust.
Core Capabilities
- News API: Large-scale real-time retrieval; officially under 100ms response after prompt optimization, returning enriched data with summaries, sentiment, and entities
- DeepNews: Self-learning, iterative agentic deep research across multiple sources, reaching depths of 4+ layers
- Knowledge graph: Query associations among people, places, and events in natural language — billed as the world's largest news knowledge graph
- Data enrichment: Every data point carries Wikidata entities, geocoordinates, sentiment, bias, and more; officially 400% more extraction than competitors
- MCP/CLI/SDK: One line to connect MCP clients like Claude and Cursor, plus a REST API and Python/TypeScript/PHP SDKs
- Unified toolbox: One call covers paid news, the open web, X, Wikipedia, Google, and Reddit
Use Cases AI/LLM application and agent developers, quantitative forecasting and intelligence teams, geopolitical risk and OSINT analysts, disinformation-detection research institutions, and newsrooms needing story research and fact-checking.
Unique Advantages Most news APIs cover only public content, and general search returns only the open web. AskNews' moat is doing both 'licensed paywalled content' and 'AI-native structuring' at once — crawlers die at paywalls, traditional APIs just dump raw data. Officially it cuts data preparation cost by 80% and speeds time to production 5x.
Editorial Review In the 'AI-oriented licensed news infrastructure' niche, AskNews is highly complete overall, with standout developer experience, open source transparency (GLiNER News, Flowdapt), and forecasting-scenario endorsements. Note that its performance and scale claims mostly come from official self-testing, mainstream independent reviews are scarce, and advanced plans are not cheap. Developers centered on LLMs/agents and professional intelligence research teams should evaluate it first.
Pricing
### 💰 定价模式：免费增值（订阅 + 按量） **起步价**：免费（Pay as you go $0/月起） #### 主要方案 - **免费层 / Pay as you go**：$0 - 阅读精选故事 + 25 credits、150K Lite/Standard tokens 的按量 API - **Pro**：$7.99/月 - 500 credits/月、2M bonus tokens，个人 API 访问 - **Spelunker**：$250/月 - 20,000 credits/月、10M tokens，团队深度研究、双倍限流 - **Analyst**：$1,000/月 - 110,000 credits、45M tokens，生产级容量、4x 限流 - **Enterprise**：联系定制 - credit 低至 $0.0015/个，限流最高 5000 RPS #### 试用/其他信息 新账户钱包起始含 $5；加卡不等于充值钱包；学术用途通常可在 Limited License 下免费申请（邮件说明项目即可）。 — Visit website
FAQ
Is AskNews free?
It offers a permanent free tier and a Pay as you go plan from $0; the Pro plan is $7.99/month, and new account wallets include a $5 starting credit. Academic use can usually apply for free access.
What can AskNews be used for?
It is an AI-oriented licensed news API giving LLMs/agents/RAG structured context from real-time and historical news, and supports agentic deep research, alert monitoring, knowledge graph queries, and news forecasting.
Where does AskNews' news data come from?
Licensed sources including paywalled content, the open web, X, Wikipedia, Google, and Reddit; officially 200,000+ global sources, 500K+ new articles daily, and 200M+ historical articles.
Which developer integration options does AskNews support?
REST API, CLI, Python/TypeScript/PHP SDKs, an MCP Server that connects directly to Claude, Cursor, and similar clients, plus official LangChain Retriever and Tool integrations.
How does AskNews differ from ordinary news APIs?
Ordinary news APIs return raw public data you must process yourself; AskNews leads with licensed paywalled content + AI-native enrichment, outputting LLM-ready structured context with entity, sentiment, and bias metadata attached.
How does AskNews differ from Perplexity?
Perplexity often returns older news skewed toward Q&A consumption; AskNews supplies fresher, more structured news context — the Metaculus team even migrated all its internal bots from Perplexity to AskNews.
Is AskNews suitable for ordinary users?
The free tier lets ordinary users read curated stories and chat with AI, but advanced capabilities like DeepNews, the knowledge graph, and Newsplunker custom dashboards lean toward technical and professional analysts, with some learning curve.
Are AskNews' advanced plans expensive?
Pro at just $7.99/month is friendly, but Spelunker at $250/month and Analyst at $1,000/month pressure small/mid teams, and stories/graph/reddit features are locked to higher plans.