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AskNews

Licensed news infrastructure for AI

Monthly visits
5.9K
Pricing
Freemium
Pay as you go, Personal API, Spelunker, Enterprise
Added
Jul 11 2024

About AskNews

AskNews delivers a unified news layer that combines licensed reporting with broader web sources to support AI workflows. It targets teams and developers who build AI-enabled research, forecasting, and decision-support tools by providing structured, reliable context rather than raw links.

AskNews presents an AI-native platform with tools for real-time search, deep research, alerts, historical news, a knowledge graph, and agent integrations. The system is designed to plug into agent workflows and scale across multiple teams and use cases.

AskNews emphasizes structured context and rapid retrieval, aiming to reduce data preparation work and improve reliability of AI-driven research. It integrates news, web, and social sources into a single research surface for AI systems.

AskNews outlines multiple delivery channels and integrations, including a CLI, API, and SDKs, with emphasis on licenses, provenance, and model-ready data to support production use across organizations.

Use cases

  • AI forecasting and risk analysis with licensed news context
  • Misinformation detection and research using high-quality data
  • Real-time alerts and recurring research briefs

Key features

  • Real-time search and retrieval at scale.
  • Agent-ready data with structured context
  • Knowledge graph showing connections between people, places, and events
  • DeepNews for iterative, deep research
  • Enrichments with higher data quality

Pros and cons

Pros

Licensed data foundation with royalties paid to publishers
Fast, AI-ready context rather than raw data

Pricing

Pay as you go
$0
month
  • 25 credits included
  • 150,000 Lite tokens included
  • 150,000 Standard tokens included
  • Add a card and start with included usage—no initial top-up required.
Personal API
$7.99
month
  • 500 credits included per month
  • 2M bonus tokens included per month
  • 100 bonus credits per month
  • 20% lower credit recharge rates
  • Deep research
  • Spelunker
Spelunker
$250
month
  • 20,000 credits included per month
  • 10M bonus tokens included per month
  • 3,333 bonus credits per month
  • 40% lower credit recharge rates
  • Double rate limit
  • Exclusive Tools (X, Charts, Websearch)
Enterprise
Contact us
  • Custom credits
  • Custom lite/standard/advanced tokens
  • Enterprise SLA
  • White glove engineering
  • Dedicated support

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Frequently asked questions

What is AskNews?
AskNews is a platform providing AI-ready, licensed news context from thousands of sources for AI workflows.
Who is AskNews for?
It is built for developers and teams building AI-enabled research, forecasting, and decision-support tools.
What does it cost?
Pricing is available per plan with pay-as-you-go option.

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