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Licensed news infrastructure for AI
AskNews turns licensed, real-time, and historical news into context your LLMs, agents, and forecasting systems can effectively use.
$ asknews research "Investigate the effect of Fed rate policy on Nvidia and AMD"
AI companies raise token prices to cover development costs
Fed signals rate pause, tech stock lead the rally
Chipmakers rethink capex as borrowing costs shift
Startups see cheaper credit as financing costs cool
Rare earth elements carry the AI boom—but at what cost?
The problem
Scrapers spin under paywalls. Search engines return noise. Traditional APIs hand you raw data instead of answers.
Ships the moment a paywall shows up.
Returns whatever is publicly available.
Hands back raw data. You still do the work.
But you already built a news layer for your AI: AskNews.
AI-native platform
AskNews organizes global news into structured, reliable context your systems can reason with, not just links to skim.
Real-time search and retrieval at scale.
Agentic deep research for complex questions and strategic analysis.
Monitor topics, companies, and events as they happen.
Query the past across years and decades.
See how people, places, and events connect.
Plug straight into agentic workflows.
Built for developers
Getting started
API, DeepNews, Alerts, or Forecasting.
Search a topic, company, or historical event.
Add models or move to a higher tier as traffic grows.
Why teams switch
Cleaner context, stronger retrieval, and a continuously updated view of the stories, entities, and events that matter.
Track how a story spreads, who is involved, and how it all connects.
How do we compare?
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 |
Trusted in the field
Pricing
Access trusted AI-powered news intelligence in the way that suits your needs.
Start without a subscription and add pre-paid credits as needed.
A low-cost plan for personal API access and deeper research.
For teams and power users who need more depth and volume.
Professional API capacity for production research workflows.
Turn intelligence into impact
Join the teams building smarter agents, sharper forecasts, and more reliable research with AskNews.
Get your API key$ asknews research "Investigate the effect of Fed rate policy on Nvidia and AMD"
AI companies raise token prices to cover development costs
Fed signals rate pause, tech stock lead the rally
Chipmakers rethink capex as borrowing costs shift
Startups see cheaper credit as financing costs cool
Rare earth elements carry the AI boom—but at what cost?
