# AskNews Licensed news retrieval for LLM pipelines — prompt-ready context, archive back to 2023. *https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/asknews · Stock Market Data APIs* ## Facts ### At a glance | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | Emergent Methods | | Category | Stock Market Data APIs | | Job | news | | Website | https://asknews.app | | Pricing model | usage | | Free tier | true | | Open source | false | | Licence | none | | Self-hosted | false | | Tested hands-on | false | | Last updated | 2026-09-19 | ### Pricing | Tier | USD | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Pay as you go | 0 USD | month | | Pro | 7.99 USD | month | | Spelunker | 250 USD | month | | Analyst | 1000 USD | month | | Enterprise | on request | — | ### Coverage | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Asset classes | none | | Markets | global | | Works outside the US | true | | Data latency | none | | Platforms | web, library, cli | | AI features | research | ### Interfaces | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | API | true | | Webhooks | false | | Scripting | none | | Python | true | | Spreadsheet add-in | false | | MCP server | true | | Export | json | ### Capabilities Yes: alerts, news No: charting, screening, scanning, backtesting, automation, live_trading, paper_trading, portfolio_tracking, broker_import, tax_reporting, options_analysis *Verified: pricing 2026-09-19; capabilities 2026-09-19; coverage 2026-09-19.* ## What it is A news API written for the thing on the other end being a language model rather than a page. Ask in natural language and `GET /v1/news/search` returns either a prompt-optimised string you paste straight into a context window or structured dictionaries, your choice per call. The pitch is that you do not run a news RAG stack — Emergent Methods runs the crawling, licensing, cleaning and indexing, and sells the endpoint. Around the search endpoint sit DeepNews, an agentic research loop that plans and branches across news, Google, Wikipedia, X and Reddit; Stories, which clusters articles into evolving narratives; natural-language Alerts over news, X and Telegram; live web, Reddit and Wikipedia search; and a forecasting endpoint. Scopes are fixed on the key when you create it and checked at the gateway, so calling an endpoint your credential lacks returns a 403 that no retry will fix. ## Pricing Two meters. Credits pay for actions; tokens pay for the text those actions move, in three tiers called Lite, Standard and Advanced and priced per million. Pay as you go costs nothing a month and includes 25 credits plus 150,000 Lite and 150,000 Standard tokens, after which credits recharge at $0.025 and tokens at $5 and $12 a million. A card is required to begin even at zero. The paid plans buy a lower rate as much as a larger allowance: Pro at $7.99 drops credits to $0.02, Spelunker at $250 to $0.015 and doubles the rate limit, Analyst at $1,000 to $0.01 and quadruples it. Enterprise is advertised as low as $0.0015. Higher tiers also unlock tools rather than only volume — X and Charts and Websearch at Spelunker, Reddit and premium paywalled sources at Analyst — so a cheap plan is missing capability, not just headroom. ## Data & coverage The vendor claims over 200,000 global sources, more than 500,000 new articles indexed a day and 200 million historical articles, with a 99.9% SLA and sub-100ms real-time response. The archive starts in 2023. Articles come back enriched well past a headline: an English title beside the original, a summary, key points, full text, named entities across two dozen classes, a sentiment integer, a continent, a bias label from a seventeen-type taxonomy, a reporting-voice label from twelve, a page rank for the source, cluster distance and a ready-made markdown citation. Filters cover 50 languages, countries, continents, categories including Finance and Business, a geographic radius or polygon, and source allow- and block-lists. Geo-coordinates and the entity-relation graph are the exception: both are Analyst tier and above, which is the $1,000 plan. ## Integrations An MCP server and a CLI are the vendor's first two recommendations, ahead of raw HTTP. The CLI ships on npm as `@emergentmethods/asknews-cli` with a published agent skill manifest; SDKs are `asknews` on PyPI (0.14.3, September 2026, from Emergent Methods) and an equivalent TypeScript client, plus a LangChain integration. The OpenAPI spec, an `llms.txt` and per-page Markdown are all served, which is the least a product with this pitch could do and more than most manage. ## Limitations - **Self-serve plans are internal use only.** Redistribution and putting the content into a product require Enterprise. The plan matrix says it in one line and it governs everything else. - **The archive begins in 2023**, which is short for a backtest and is the single biggest gap against the finance-first APIs in this category. - **No security identifiers.** Entities are NER classes; there is no ticker, ISIN or exchange anywhere in the schema, and the `Finance` category is a topic filter, not an instrument map. - **The published terms of service do not match the product.** Dated 5 January 2024, they grant content for "personal, non-commercial purposes only" and bar redistribution, while the plan page sells commercial API tiers — a website agreement never rewritten for the API. The clause that does read as written for it says API access prohibits recreating news articles or competing with news publishers. - **Cost is hard to predict.** The bill depends on how much text a query happened to pull back. - Sentiment is a single integer per article, with no published scale or model description. ## Alternatives [Bigdata.com](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/bigdata-com) is the same idea from a finance-native vendor, with premium news back to 2000 and a licence that forbids storing anything at all. For a feed that names the security instead of the organisation, [Finlight](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/finlight) and [Marketaux](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/marketaux) both resolve tickers, over corpora a fraction of the size — and both start at $29 a month, which is more than AskNews charges for Pro. [TickerTick](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/tickertick) is free, needs no key, and is the right answer when the budget is zero and the corpus can be shallow. Compare it against the rest of the [market data APIs](https://stockmarketstack.com/categories/market-data-apis). ## FAQ ### Can I put AskNews content in front of my own users? Not on a self-serve plan. The plan comparison marks content usage rights "Limited" on Pay as you go, Pro, Spelunker and Analyst alike, with one line explaining it — internal use is available on non-enterprise plans, and commercial redistribution and product use require Enterprise. That is a pricing decision, not a technicality, and it is the first thing to settle if the output is going anywhere a customer can see. ### How far back does the archive go? To 2023. The docs say so plainly and frame it around back-testing — pass `historical=true` with `start_timestamp` and `end_timestamp` to reconstruct what was knowable on a date without leaking future data into the test. For anything older than 2023 this is the wrong tool. ### Does AskNews tag tickers? No. The article schema's entity types are named-entity classes — Person, Organization, Location, Money, Law, Product and eighteen more — with no ticker, ISIN or exchange field anywhere. There is a `Finance` category filter and a per-article integer sentiment, but resolving an organisation to a listed security is your job. ### What are credits and tokens? Two meters, both live. A credit pays for an action — a search, a research run — and a token pays for the text that action moved, priced per million in three tiers named Lite, Standard and Advanced. A plan includes some of each; past the included amount, pre-paid wallet credits cover the rest at the plan's rate. Higher plans buy a lower rate as much as a bigger allowance. ### Is the forecasting endpoint giving me trade ideas? It is a general question-forecasting endpoint, aimed at the kind of probabilistic question a Metaculus tournament asks, and the vendor's own headline proof is forecasting-tournament bots rather than trading. Nothing here is a price target or a stock recommendation, and there is no equity model behind it. ## Also worth comparing - [Bigdata.com](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/bigdata-com.md) — RavenPack's self-serve retrieval API over premium news and filings, billed per token. - [Benzinga News API](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/benzinga-news-api.md) — Licensed US stock newswire over REST, TCP, WebSocket or webhook, priced by contract. - [finlight](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/finlight.md) — Financial news API resolving companies to tickers, ISINs and FIGIs, plus a stream. - [GDELT Project](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/gdelt.md) — Free global news tone and volume every 15 minutes — with no ticker anywhere in it. - [Marketaux](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/marketaux.md) — Global financial news over REST, tagged to entities and scored for sentiment per entity. - [NewsAPI.ai](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/newsapi-ai.md) — Global news API with Wikipedia-grounded entity tagging and event clustering.