What newsapi.ai does

NewsAPI.ai, operated by Event Registry d.o.o. and headquartered in Ljubljana, Slovenia, provides a REST API and adjacent platform modules that deliver real-time and historical news content from over 150,000 publishers across 60+ languages, with archive data extending back to 2014. The product is built on a proprietary NLP pipeline that performs entity recognition and disambiguation, event/article clustering, near-duplicate detection, sentiment analysis, and social-media scoring, and exposes these enrichments alongside a 5,000+ topic taxonomy for filtering and retrieval.

The commercial product surface consists of the core News API plus three companion modules: ER Monitor (real-time monitoring of companies, people, and products), ER Intelligence (an AI-powered intelligence layer for data-driven decisions), and ER Compare (benchmarking and comparison analytics). Developer adoption is supported through Python and Node.js SDKs, a sandbox environment, and detailed documentation. Named customers span technology (Spotify, IBM, Huawei), professional services (Accenture), financial media (Bloomberg), development finance (World Bank Group), and chemicals (BASF), indicating use across media monitoring, risk monitoring, market intelligence, data mining, and news aggregation use cases.

Monetization combines a freemium tier (2,000 free tokens for evaluation), usage-based and subscription API plans with publicly posted pricing, custom enterprise contracts for platform access with SLA provisions, and a referral program paying 10% recurring commissions to partners. The go-to-market is API-first and developer-centric, augmented by direct enterprise sales for larger deployments. Revenue, funding, and headcount trends are not publicly disclosed; the company appears privately held without external venture or private equity investment on record.

Name

newsapi.ai

Legal name

Event Registry d.o.o.

Website

https://newsapi.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry d.o.o.) provides a REST API and platform modules that deliver real-time and historical news from 150,000+ publishers in 60+ languages, enriched with NLP-based entity recognition, sentiment, and event clustering for developers and enterprises in media monitoring, risk, market intelligence, and research.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

News Data API

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929), Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (519290), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518210)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

News & Current Affairs Aggregators (MPACAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Journalism & News Intelligence Publishers (Indexes, Election/Market Data) (MPAJADAK), Generative AI & LLM Solutions Services (RAG, Agents, Copilots) (BPAEAHAG)

Keywords

• News api
• Media monitoring
• News analytics
• Sentiment analysis api
• Entity recognition

Headquarters

HQ city

Ljubljana

HQ country

Slovenia

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. News API Subscriptions: Monthly subscription plans with pay-per-usage model. Free tier provides 2,000 tokens for evaluation. Paid plans offer tiered token volumes with custom pricing. Subscriptions renew monthly with non-refundable fees.
2. Usage-based API Access: Token-based usage where customers consume API calls. Final cost depends on actual number of tokens used. Progressive credit system for referrals.
3. Enterprise Platform Access: Custom enterprise contracts for platform (web interface) access with custom quotes based on organizational needs. Includes SLA provisions for enterprise clients.
4. Referral Program: Partners earn 10% of referred client's monthly plan cost for up to 12 months. Credit applied to invoices for existing customers or paid annually/semi-annually for non-customers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Newsapi.ai (operated by Event Registry d.o.o.) provides a REST-based news API and analytics platform that delivers real-time and archive news content from 150,000+ publishers in 60+ languages. Each article is enriched with NLP-driven metadata including entity recognition and disambiguation, event clustering, sentiment analysis, social media scoring, and categorization across a 5,000+ topic taxonomy, enabling developers and enterprises to integrate structured news intelligence into their own products.

Product overview

NewsAPI.ai offers a unified news intelligence platform consisting of a core REST API product and three companion platform modules (ER Monitor, ER Intelligence, ER Compare). The API provides access to real-time and archive news from 150,000+ publishers worldwide, enriched with NLP-powered entity extraction, categorization, sentiment analysis, and event clustering. Developer support includes Python and Node.js SDKs, a sandbox testing environment, and comprehensive documentation. The platform is designed for use cases including media monitoring, risk monitoring, market intelligence, and data mining.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ER Monitor: Real-time news monitoring product for tracking companies, people, and products
• ER Intelligence
• ER Compare

Products and services

• News API Primary REST API product providing developers and enterprises with access to real-time and archive news content from 150,000+ publishers worldwide in 60+ languages, enriched with NLP-extracted entities, categories, sentiment, and event clustering.
• ER Monitor Real-time news monitoring platform for tracking companies, people, and products, built on the underlying news API dataset.
• ER Intelligence AI-powered intelligence platform for data-driven decisions and operations, integrating news data with PR decisions and organizational workflows.
• ER Compare Comparison and analytics tool for benchmarking news and media intelligence metrics across sources and topics.
• Python SDK Python software development kit for integrating with the News API, distributed on GitHub under the event-registry-python repository.
• Node.js SDK Node.js software development kit for integrating with the News API, distributed on GitHub under the event-registry-node-js repository.
• Sandbox Interactive testing environment where developers can create example queries, see results, and get reproducible code samples for the News API.

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature8 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• NewsAPI.org: Direct competitor offering a developer-focused news REST API with similar headline-level retrieval across tens of thousands of publishers. Closest 1:1 alternative for raw news access via API.
• AYLIEN: News intelligence API providing entity extraction, sentiment, and categorization over aggregated news content. Directly competes with NewsAPI.ai's NLP-enriched offering for enterprise and developer buyers.
• GDELT Project: Open global event database monitoring news worldwide with event-coded records. Comparable as a large-scale news-derived data source, often used by researchers and analysts as an alternative to commercial news APIs.
• Webz.io: Provides firehose and API access to global news and dark web data with enrichment. Directly comparable to NewsAPI.ai in serving enterprise intelligence and risk-monitoring use cases over aggregated news content.

Broad incumbents

• Meltwater: Established media and social intelligence platform offering news monitoring, analytics, and PR workflows at enterprise scale. Broader incumbent with overlapping news aggregation capabilities bundled into a wider intelligence suite.
• Cision: Global PR and media intelligence provider combining news monitoring with distribution and analytics. Comparable as a broader incumbent addressing enterprise media monitoring and communications workflows.
• LexisNexis: Large-scale news and business information aggregator with deep archives and enterprise analytics. Overlaps with NewsAPI.ai in providing licensed, enriched news content for corporate research and risk use cases.

Emerging players

• Dataminr: Real-time event and risk detection platform combining news, social, and other signals for enterprise alerting. Comparable as an AI-driven news intelligence provider targeting enterprise risk and corporate security buyers.
• RavenPack: News analytics platform with NLP enrichment tailored for financial market intelligence. Comparable in applying AI over news for entity, sentiment, and event signals consumed by financial and enterprise customers.
• AlphaSense: Enterprise market intelligence platform combining proprietary research, news, and transcripts with AI-powered search. Adjacent competitor for corporate strategy and market intelligence buyers who might otherwise consume NewsAPI.ai-derived workflows.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/EventRegistry/event-registry-python
• Xx.com/newsapiai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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