About AskNews
AskNews — AskNews is re-imagining how news is consumed by humans and LLMs alike. It provides human editorial boosted by AI-powered insights to minimize bias and build a transparent view of current events. AskNews offers an API product that provides LLM apps with rich news context at low-latency. It also offers tools and services to help users access and interact with the news, including a chat interface, analyst dashboard, and publisher monetization options.
Top use cases
- Integrating premium news data into applications
- Harnessing enriched news analytics
- Monetizing content without giving it away
- Monitoring global transparent news
- Summarizing stories
- Generating custom insights
- Writing newsletters
- Misinformation detection
- Geopolitical and security risk analysis
- Sports analytics
Built for
Key features
- AI-powered insights
- Diverse coverage
- Comprehensive global insights
- Structured data and powerful APIs
- Sentiment analysis
- Source diversity analysis
- Geo-contextualized insights
- Real-time trend detection
- StoryGraphs™️
- RedditPerspective™️
Pros & cons
Pros
- Minimizes bias through human editorial and AI insights
- Provides rich news context for LLM applications
- Offers diverse perspectives and global insights
- Provides tools for deeper understanding and trend detection
- Offers a free tier for basic usage
- Committed to transparency and open-source software
Cons
- Full API access requires a paid plan
- Some features are limited to specific subscription tiers
- The Spelunker plan is relatively expensive
Pricing
AskNews Reader & Analyst - Free
$0/ month
Read AskNews briefs, Chat with open-source models, HeadsUpDisplay™️, EventTracker™️
AskNews Reader & Analyst - Pro Reader
$1.60/ month
Read full AskNews stories, Chat with the smartest LLMs, StoryGraph™️, RedditPerspective™️, Support transparent news
AskNews Reader & Analyst - Spelunker
$250/ month
All Reader features plus: Newsplunker™️ dashboard, DeepNews™️, Graph Chat with millions of articles, Auto updating Share-links, Custom instant news alerts, Custom threat monitoring, Limited API access, Limited license
AskNews Developer API - API trial
Access to Analyst tier features, Boost your real-time information stream, Ground your application with LLM-ready synthetic data, Set up a trial that suits your needs
AskNews Developer API - Analyst
$100/ month
API Access - 50k calls (50 documents per call), API Access - Unlimited requests, API Access - Latest News, API Access - News Archive, API Access - Chat - 40M tokens included, API Access - DeepNews™️ - 40M tokens included, API Access - Stories, API Access - Knowledge Graphs, AP…
AskNews Developer API - Enterprise
All Analyst features plus: Unlimited API Access, API Access - Politics time-series analytics, API Access - Reddit on-demand calls, White glove engineering, Custom branding and White Labeling, Custom documents included in knowledge graphs, Confidential hosting, Volume based sea…
Frequently asked questions
What is AskNews?
AskNews is a platform that provides human-edited news enhanced with AI insights to minimize bias and offer a transparent view of current events. It offers both a reader/analyst interface and an API for integrating news data into applications.
What is Newsplunker?
Newsplunker is AskNews' analyst dashboard, providing high-level analytics and business insights.
Does AskNews offer an API?
Yes, AskNews offers a powerful API that allows developers to seamlessly integrate its extensive news index into their applications.
Is AskNews free?
AskNews offers a forever-free tier that includes access to AskNews briefs and chat with open-source models.
What is RedditPerspective™️?
RedditPerspective™️ is a tool offered by AskNews to understand the different perspectives on events as reported by various sources.
What is StoryGraph™️?
StoryGraph™️ is a tool offered by AskNews to explore news with conversational AI, identify inconsistencies, and build custom StoryGraphs™️.
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