What NewsData.io News API does

NewsData.io, founded in 2018, operates a news aggregation API platform that delivers structured access to breaking and historical news from more than 101,604 sources spanning 206 countries and 89 languages. The company has indexed over 100 million articles, tracks more than 100,000 new articles daily, and retains approximately ten years of historical archive depth. Its primary surface is a REST API, with a WebSocket streaming product targeted for a 2026 release. Product lines include Breaking News API, Historical News API, Crypto News API, and a News Analysis tier that layers NLP-derived signals onto the underlying corpus.

The platform exposes NLP features (sentiment analysis, topic labeling, entity extraction, AI-generated summaries) and recent additions aimed at LLM consumption, including an MCP Server and LLMs.txt support, positioning news content for retrieval-augmented AI applications. Vertically packaged solutions — Media Intelligence, Market Intelligence, Risk & Compliance Monitoring, and Competitive Intelligence — move the offering beyond raw data access toward use-case-specific bundles.

The business runs on tiered subscription pricing: a free tier, Basic at $199.99/month, Professional at $349.99/month, and Corporate at $1,299.99/month. The stated customer base exceeds 5,000, drawn from developers integrating news into applications, PR and media-monitoring agencies, brand and marketing teams, financial services, and crypto/Web3 firms. The company is privately held with no disclosed funding, investor base, headcount, or revenue figures in the source material.

Name

NewsData.io News API

Legal name

NewsData.io

Website

https://newsdata.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

NewsData.io is a privately held news aggregation API platform serving 5,000+ customers with structured access to 101,604+ news sources across 206 countries and 89 languages, sold via tiered subscriptions from free to $1,299.99/month.

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), Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (51621)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

News & Content Aggregation Portals (BPAMAAAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Journalism & News Intelligence Publishers (Indexes, Election/Market Data) (MPAJADAK), Webhooks, Eventing & Message Streaming (BPAMAOAE), Question Answering & Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) (HDAAADAC)

Keywords

• News aggregation API
• Real-time news data
• Historical news archive
• Media monitoring API
• News sentiment analysis

Headquarters

HQ city

Noida

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Subscription API Access: Tiered subscription plans (Free, Basic, Professional, Corporate) providing API access with varying monthly credit allocations, feature access, and support levels. Revenue generated through recurring monthly subscriptions billed annually or monthly.
2. Usage-based API Credits: API consumption-based model where different endpoints consume varying credit amounts. Archive endpoint consumes 5 API credits per request. Higher-tier plans provide more monthly credits (200/day free, 20,000/month basic, 50,000/month professional, 1,000,000/month corporate).
3. Freemium Tier: Free tier with 200 API credits daily, limited features (Latest/Crypto/Market News APIs only, no historical data, no AI features) to drive developer adoption and product-led growth before conversion to paid tiers.
4. Enterprise Data Services: Custom historical data requests via 'Request Historical Data' feature for organizations requiring bulk data beyond standard API access.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

NewsData.io is a JSON-based REST API platform that aggregates real-time and historical news articles from over 101,604 sources across 206 countries in 89 languages, delivered through tiered subscription plans. The platform combines news aggregation with AI-powered text analysis (sentiment analysis, topic labeling, entity extraction, AI summaries) and packages these capabilities as standalone API products (Breaking News, Historical News, Crypto News, Google News alternative) and use-case solutions (Media Intelligence, Market Intelligence, Risk & Compliance Monitoring, Competitive Intelligence).

Product overview

NewsData.io is a comprehensive news data platform offering multiple specialized API products including Breaking News API (real-time live news from 101,604+ sources across 206 countries in 89 languages), Historical News API (10 years of archived data since January 2016), Crypto News API (cryptocurrency and blockchain news from 5,490+ sources), and News Analysis (text/sentiment analysis with topic labelling, entity extraction, and sentiment scoring). The platform also provides industry-specific solutions including Media Intelligence, Market Intelligence, Risk & Compliance Monitoring, and Competitive Intelligence. The core products integrate with Google News API, Bing News API, and Yahoo News API. Data is delivered via REST API with JSON responses, supporting features like AI tags, sentiment analysis, AI regions, and AI summaries. All API products are accessible through a unified API with tiered pricing plans (Free, Basic at $199.99/month, Professional at $349.99/month, and Corporate at $1,299.99/month).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Breaking News API: Real-time breaking news API service for accessing live news as it happens
• Historical News API
• Crypto News API
• Google News API
• News Analysis

Products and services

• Breaking News API Real-time breaking news API that provides live top headlines from global news sources as soon as they are published online, with access to the past 48 hours of articles and timeframe parameters from 1 to 2880 minutes. Designed for developers and applications requiring immediate access to breaking news.
• Historical News API Search API for historical news, headlines, topics, and keywords from a database of 101,604+ news sources archived over the past 10 years (since January 2016) from 206 countries. Accessed via the News Archive endpoint with support for date range filtering and Boolean search operators.
• Google News API Google News API alternative integrated with Google News for fetching topics, headlines, trending stories, URLs, and more from Google Searches. Serves developers who relied on Google's now-discontinued native News API.
• Crypto News API Cryptocurrency-focused news API that provides crypto news and blog data from 5,490+ reliable sources, with sentiment analysis, AI tags, and data in JSON, CSV, or XLSX formats. Tracks 10,000+ currencies for trading signals and market intelligence.
• News Analysis (Text Analysis) Text and sentiment analysis tool that transforms historical and real-time news data from global sources into actionable insights using topic labelling, entity extraction, sentiment analysis, and AI summary generation. Available to Professional and Corporate plan subscribers.
• Media Intelligence Real-time news and blog monitoring solution across 206+ countries and 89+ languages that provides crisis detection 90 minutes early, sentiment tracking, and category intelligence. Targets PR agencies and brand teams managing multi-account monitoring and reputation risk.
• Market Intelligence Business signals extraction solution that monitors 101,604+ news sources for market shifts, competitor moves, and industry trends with trend velocity analysis and first-mover advantage detection. Targets investment firms and analysts requiring early market intelligence.
• Risk & Compliance Monitoring Real-time risk monitoring solution for detecting geopolitical shifts, regulatory changes, legal threats, and brand risks from 101,604+ news sources with instant response capabilities. Designed for compliance, legal, and risk management teams in regulated industries.
• Competitive Intelligence Real-time competitor tracking solution that monitors pricing changes, acquisitions, executive moves, and product launches from 101,604+ news sources with 60-minute pre-announcement detection. Targets sales and strategy teams seeking competitive advantage.

Quantifiable outcome

• Detect negative stories 90 minutes before mainstream pickup (Media Intelligence)
• +7 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability4 records

Feature11 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Google News APIcoreTechnology or IntegrationNewsData.io integrates with Google News API to provide access to topics, headlines, trending stories, URLs, and more from Google Searches. Since Google discontinued its native News API, NewsData.io serves as a replacement alternative for developers seeking similar functionality.
• Bing News APIcoreTechnology or IntegrationNewsData.io is equipped with Bing News API for easy access to the latest news, articles, and images published worldwide. Complements the platform's own news aggregation capabilities.
• Yahoo News APIcoreTechnology or IntegrationYahoo API features help leverage Yahoo search engine capabilities for up-to-date news published across the globe. Another major search engine news integration.
• PostmancoreTechnology or IntegrationOfficial Postman collection available for NewsData.io API, allowing developers to instantly import and begin testing requests without writing any code. Simplifies API adoption and testing workflow.
• GitHub (newsdataapi)coreTechnology or IntegrationOfficial GitHub presence for the company with MCP Server implementation and integration code. Enables developer community access to source code and contribution opportunities.
• LLM ProviderscoreTechnology or IntegrationNewsData.io provides LLMs.txt file for AI model integration, enabling large language models to access and utilize NewsData.io API documentation and capabilities.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• NewsAPI.org: Direct competitor offering a similar REST news API with global source coverage. NewsData.io explicitly compares itself to NewsAPI.org in its marketing collateral on coverage, pricing, and full-content access, making it the closest like-for-like substitute.
• AYLIEN: News API and intelligence platform combining global news aggregation with NLP-powered analysis (sentiment, entity extraction, classification). Highly comparable on the AI-augmented news intelligence layer and target developer/enterprise audience.
• Webhose.io: API-first web and news data provider with multi-language coverage and structured access to articles. Competes directly in the developer-tier news API market with comparable use cases for media monitoring and analytics.

Emerging players

• GDELT Project: Open global event database monitoring news across 100+ languages with real-time updates. Overlaps with NewsData.io on global, multi-language news monitoring for research, analytics, and trend detection use cases.
• Aylien News API / Primer.ai: AI-native platform providing real-time news and event intelligence with NLP enrichment for defense, finance, and government use cases. Comparable on the AI-augmented news intelligence layer serving high-stakes enterprise and institutional customers.

Broad incumbents

• Meltwater: Established media and social intelligence platform serving PR, communications, and enterprise brand monitoring. Competes with NewsData.io's Media Intelligence solution at the higher end with much broader datasets and enterprise sales motion.
• Dataminr: Real-time event and news detection platform combining global news, social, and public data for risk, compliance, and corporate security use cases. Direct competition for NewsData.io's Risk & Compliance Monitoring solution at enterprise scale.
• AlphaSense: Market intelligence and search platform for enterprises with extensive financial, news, and broker research content. Competes with NewsData.io's Market Intelligence solution for investment research and corporate strategy customers.
• Cision / PR Newswire: Incumbent PR, communications, and media intelligence provider with deep enterprise penetration in PR agencies and corporate communications. Overlaps with NewsData.io's Media Intelligence and brand monitoring use cases at enterprise scale.
• Bing News / Microsoft News APIs: First-party news search API from Microsoft integrated into NewsData.io's offering. Represents both a source partner and a potential competitor offering news data at scale with broader Azure ecosystem distribution.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/newsdataapi
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/newsdata-io
• Xx.com/newsdataio

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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