AskNews

AskNews is positioned as a news layer for AI systems. The website says it organizes global news into structured, reliable context rather than links, and offers live and historical news search, DeepNews multi-step research with cited sources, scheduled alerts and recurring reports, web, X, Reddit, and Wikipedia search, a WebUI for browsing data, developer docs, Python, TypeScript and PHP SDKs, an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT or agents, and an AskNews CLI. The page states real-time news access responds in under 100 ms, a 99.9% service SLA, about 500k new articles per day, and over 200M historical articles. It also lists Knowledge Graph, Wikidata entity enrichment, and sentiment and bias scoring features. Pricing ranges from a $0/month pay-as-you-go plan to a $1,000/month Professional plan, with an Enterprise option; the page also lists personal, Spelunker and Enterprise tiers.

Key features

• Live News Search with real-time coverage from licensed sources
• Historical News Search with archived coverage from licensed sources
• DeepNews multi-step deep research agent with cited sources
• Alerts for scheduled monitoring and recurring reports
• Web Search combining live results into LLM-ready context
• Wikipedia Search over the full Wikipedia corpus
• WebUI for browsing and analyzing AskNews data in a browser
• REST API with documentation and quickstart guides
• Python, TypeScript and PHP SDKs
• MCP Server for Claude, ChatGPT or agents
• AskNews CLI for research and API calls from a terminal or coding agent
• Knowledge Graph showing relationships between people, places, and events
• Enrichments including Wikidata entities, geo-coordinates, bias and sentiment scores
• Real-time news access with responses under 100 ms, as stated on the page

Best suited for

• Teams building AI agents that need current news context
• Research and analysis workflows requiring cited news sources
• Forecasting and risk analysis work
• Monitoring topics, companies, and events with alerts and reports
• Developers integrating news data into applications via API, SDK, or MCP

Pricing

Plans listed on the page: Pay as you go at $0/month; Personal API Pro at $7.99/month; Deep research Spelunker at $250/month; Professional Analyst at $1,000/month; and Enterprise with contact-us pricing. The page also states credits from as low as $0.0015/credit for Enterprise.