Licensed news infrastructure for AI

The News API your AI can finally trust.

AskNews turns licensed, real-time, and historical news into context your LLMs, agents, and forecasting systems can effectively use.

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cli.sh

$ asknews research "Investigate the effect of Fed rate policy on Nvidia and AMD"

Technology30 Sources

AI companies raise token prices to cover development costs

5 min agoOpenAI Anthropic Gemini

Finance55 Sources

Fed signals rate pause, tech stock lead the rally

2 min agoFED S&P 500 Oracle Adbe

Technology70 Sources

Chipmakers rethink capex as borrowing costs shift

15 min agoNvidia AMD Qualcomm

Business210 Sources

Startups see cheaper credit as financing costs cool

1 day agoABN AMRO Revolut

Environment480 Sources

Rare earth elements carry the AI boom—but at what cost?

8 days agoCerium Ytrium Chatgpt

Technology30 Sources

AI companies raise token prices to cover development costs

5 min agoOpenAI Anthropic Gemini

Finance55 Sources

Fed signals rate pause, tech stock lead the rally

2 min agoFED S&P 500 Oracle Adbe

Technology70 Sources

Chipmakers rethink capex as borrowing costs shift

15 min agoNvidia AMD Qualcomm

Business210 Sources

Startups see cheaper credit as financing costs cool

1 day agoABN AMRO Revolut

Environment480 Sources

Rare earth elements carry the AI boom—but at what cost?

8 days agoCerium Ytrium Chatgpt

Used in the field

From the UK Cabinet Office and Frontier AI Labs to organizations across insurance, intelligence, private equity, and hedge funds.

Built on trusted, licensed sources

The problem

Most teams cobble together a news layer.

Scrapers spin under paywalls. Search engines return noise. Traditional APIs hand you raw data instead of answers.

Web scraping

Ships the moment a paywall shows up.

Generic AI search

Returns whatever is publicly available.

Traditional news APIs

Hands back raw data. You still do the work.

But you already built a news layer for your AI: AskNews.

AI-native platform

One news layer. Every workflow.

AskNews organizes global news into structured, reliable context your systems can reason with, not just links to skim.

News API

Real-time search and retrieval at scale.

DeepNews

Agentic deep research for complex questions and strategic analysis.

Alerts

Monitor topics, companies, and events as they happen.

Historical News

Query the past across years and decades.

Knowledge Graph

See how people, places, and events connect.

MCP/CLI for Agents

Plug straight into agentic workflows.

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Enrichments

400% more enrichments/extractions than competitors.

Every AskNews datapoint arrives with the context models need—not a raw article your team still has to process. Real-time news access responds in under 100 ms.

Under 100 ms real-time response

Technology42 sources · 18 sec ago

Chipmakers expand US capacity as AI infrastructure demand accelerates

AskNews resolves the article into structured, model-ready context as it arrives.

Wikidata entitiesNVIDIA · Q76

Geo-coordinates37.7749° N, 122.4194° W

BiasCenter · 0.08

SentimentPositive · 0.74

Reporting VoiceAnalytical

Graph RelationshipsNVIDIA → TSMC → Arizona

Key PointsToken optimized · 3 points

One toolbox

Every source your research needs. One API.

Reach paywalled news, the open web, X, Wikipedia, Google, and Reddit through one consistent AskNews toolbox—without stitching together six separate integrations.

Bring licensed reporting and the broader web into the same research workflow, then let AskNews retrieve, connect, and structure the evidence.

Paywalled news

Open web

Wikipedia

Google

Research traversalself-learning

Competitors

QDepth 1

One pass. One result set. Research stops here.

DeepNews

Depth 1

NewsPaywalled news

Depth 2

NewsPaywalled newsWebOpen web

Depth 3

NewsPaywalled newsWebOpen webXX

Depth 4

NewsPaywalled newsWebOpen webXXWikiWikipedia

Iterates, learns, branches, and verifies

Depth

Research that keeps going when others stop.

DeepNews performs self-learning iterative research across paywalled news, open web content, X, Wikipedia, and much more, to reach never-before-seen research depth and breadth.

Built for developers

Simple to integrate. Powerful at scale.

CLI
REST API
Python & TypeScript SDKs
MCP for agents
Comprehensive docs

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Getting started

From query to production in just three steps.

01
Pick your path
API, DeepNews, Alerts, or Forecasting.
02
Run a real query
Search a topic, company, or historical event.
03
Scale up
Add models or move to a higher tier as traffic grows.

Why teams switch

What licensed data actually buys you.

Cleaner context, stronger retrieval, and a continuously updated view of the stories, entities, and events that matter.

80%: less spent on data preparation
78%: more reliable research context
5x: faster time to production
500K+: new articles indexed every day

Explore the Knowledge Graph

Track how a story spreads, who is involved, and how it all connects.

Green Hydrogen

Ursula von der Leyen

European Commission

Brussels

North Sea

Germany

Siemens Energy

IEA

Fatih Birol

PeoplePlacesOrganizations

Mentions over timeVolume · Sentiment

How do we compare?

Licensed access. Structured for AI. Nobody else does both.

Everyone else works with whatever is public. AskNews works with licensed and automatically structures for AI use.

Approach	The problem	AskNews
Scraping	Breaks constantly, can’t reach paywalled sources	Fast response, legal API calls
Generic AI search	Misses everything behind a paywall	Access paywalled sources
Traditional news APIs	Hands back noisy article dumps	Filter or machine-fit in a single request
Legacy media platforms	Built for a person on a dashboard	AI-first access with MCP, CLI, SDKs

Customer proof

Trusted where the news becomes a decision.

From the UK Cabinet Office and Frontier AI Labs to organizations across insurance, intelligence, private equity, and hedge funds.

Nathan AckermanPresident & CEO at Riley Risk Inc.

"Our analysts are saving valuable time doing geopolitical and security risk analysis for our clients with AskNews' impressive knowledge graphs and forecast tools."

Claudia TietzeCEO & Creative Technologist at Farallon, LLC

"You solve a lot of problems that plague other news-based intelligence product. I put the same queries into Newsplunker as my other OSINT tools. Newsplunker does real research, the other tools struggle."

Tom LiptayDirector of Forecasting at Metaculus

"The majority of winners of the Q3 forecasting tournament used AskNews. That's why our staff converted all of our in-house bots from Perplexity to AskNews for the Q4 tournament."

David SchmeltzlePresident at BizBudding

"When we needed a news API for our sports analytics platform ProMatchups, AskNews was the clear choice. The quality of the data and the ease of use is unmatched."

Marc GraczykCEO at Infinite Games

"Our use-case demands the highest quality data without any sacrifices. AskNews takes this 10 steps further."

Alessandro AmaroCo-founder & CPO at Desia

"We're going into production with AskNews. Your data has much better results quality and latency than the competition."

Arash AminiPostdoctoral Fellow, UAutonomy Lab, University of Texas at Austin

"Our research into misinformation detection with CrediRAG required the highest quality data source. We landed on AskNews and it far exceeded our expectations."

Carolyn MeinelForecasting Expert & President at BestWorld

"After weeding out the most important components for forecasting accuracy, we've identified AskNews as a vital asset and are now quickly climbing the leaderboard in the Metaculus Q4 tournament."

Matthew GranadeLLM developer

"AskNews is a core component of my application, providing high-quality news context when it matters most."

Phil GodzinStaff Software Engineer at JW Player

"In order to win the Q4 Metaculus forecasting tournament, I used great context engineering (AskNews) to make sure the AI used the most up-to-date information."

Joe SegalRAG Specialist

"I would like to thank AskNews for helping my application achieve incredible business insights."

Krasimir AtanasovValue Hunter

"I really liked the AskNews API and the search capabilities."

BohdanNewsplunker enthusiast

"I really love your product ."

Janna LuEvaluating LLMs on Real-World Forecasting Against Expert Forecasters

"An LLM does better when fed news articles from AskNews over Perplexity, mostly because the news articles are more up-to-date. Perplexity sometimes would return news articles that are a few years old, which could be helpful but often confuses the model."

PascaleLeidos

"This tool is saving me countless hours for research. I wish I could give it a second endorsement!"

99.9%: Service SLA
200,000+: Global sources
500K+: New articles per day
200M+: Historical articles

Pricing

Find the right plan for you

Access trusted AI-powered news intelligence in the way that suits your needs.

No subscription

Pay as you go

Start free with included API usage — add a card, no initial top-up required.

$0/month

25 credits included
150,000 Lite tokens included
150,000 Standard tokens included

Personal API

Pro

A low-cost plan for personal API access and deeper research.

$7.99/month

500 credits included per month
2M bonus tokens included per month
100 bonus credits per month
20% lower credit recharge rates

Deep research

Spelunker

For teams and power users who need more depth and volume.

$250/month

20,000 credits included per month
10M bonus tokens included per month
3,333 bonus credits per month
40% lower credit recharge rates
Double rate limit
Exclusive Tools (X, Charts, Websearch)

Professional

Analyst

Professional API capacity for production research workflows.

$1,000/month

110,000 credits included
45M bonus tokens included
10,000 bonus credits
60% lower credit recharge rates
4x rate limit
Exclusive Tools (Reddit)
Premium data

Commercial scale

Enterprise

Commercial licensing, custom usage, support, and deployment terms.

As low as $0.0015/credit
Rate-limits as high as 5000 RPS
Enterprise support and SLAs

Compare all plans and features

Turn intelligence into impact

Give your AI systems the news layer they deserve.

Join the teams building smarter agents, sharper forecasts, and more reliable research with AskNews.

Get your API key

cli.sh

$ asknews research "Investigate the effect of Fed rate policy on Nvidia and AMD"

Technology30 Sources

AI companies raise token prices to cover development costs

5 min agoOpenAI Anthropic Gemini

Finance55 Sources

Fed signals rate pause, tech stock lead the rally

2 min agoFED S&P 500 Oracle Adbe

Technology70 Sources

Chipmakers rethink capex as borrowing costs shift

15 min agoNvidia AMD Qualcomm

Business210 Sources

Startups see cheaper credit as financing costs cool

1 day agoABN AMRO Revolut

Environment480 Sources

Rare earth elements carry the AI boom—but at what cost?

8 days agoCerium Ytrium Chatgpt

Technology30 Sources

AI companies raise token prices to cover development costs

5 min agoOpenAI Anthropic Gemini

Finance55 Sources

Fed signals rate pause, tech stock lead the rally

2 min agoFED S&P 500 Oracle Adbe

Technology70 Sources

Chipmakers rethink capex as borrowing costs shift

15 min agoNvidia AMD Qualcomm

Business210 Sources

Startups see cheaper credit as financing costs cool

1 day agoABN AMRO Revolut

Environment480 Sources

Rare earth elements carry the AI boom—but at what cost?

8 days agoCerium Ytrium Chatgpt

Licensed sources Structured context Global coverage Production-ready Agent-native Real-time

The News API your AI can finally trust.

Most teams cobble together a news layer.

Web scraping

Generic AI search

Traditional news APIs

One news layer. Every workflow.

News API

DeepNews

Alerts

Historical News

Knowledge Graph

MCP/CLI for Agents

400% more enrichments/extractions than competitors.

Chipmakers expand US capacity as AI infrastructure demand accelerates

Every source your research needs. One API.

Research that keeps going when others stop.

Simple to integrate. Powerful at scale.

From query to production in just three steps.

Pick your path

Run a real query

Scale up

What licensed data actually buys you.

Licensed access. Structured for AI. Nobody else does both.

Trusted where the news becomes a decision.

Find the right plan for you

Pay as you go

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Pro

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Spelunker

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Analyst

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Enterprise

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Give your AI systems the news layer they deserve.

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