News index APIs for company news
Dedicated news APIs index press releases, wires and company newsrooms rather than searching the open web. They are measured here on exactly the same questions as the general search engines, so the two mechanisms can be compared on one task rather than described.
The best general web search endpoint on the same questions, Exa (type=deep), answers 99.2% against 69.0% for the strongest news index. On this task a general engine is the more accurate choice.
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News index APIs for company news, all metrics
2 endpoints, ranked by extracted-answer accuracy on 129 questions.
| Rank | Vendor | Endpoint & configuration | Accuracy | AR@1 | AR@5 | Latency | Snippet tokens | Total $ | Official docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PredictLeadscompany news events | GET /api/v3/companies/{domain}/news_eventscategories[] · paginated | 69.0% | 62.0% | 72.1% | 651ms | 302 | $5.23 | Official docs |
| 2 | Seltznews index | POST /v1/searchscope=news | 66.7% | 31.8% | 63.6% | 330ms | 2,915 | $0.82 | Official docs |
Web search APIs for company news, same questions
Measured on the identical question set with the same judge, ranked separately because it is a different mechanism.
| Rank | Vendor | Endpoint & configuration | Accuracy | AR@1 | AR@5 | Latency | Snippet tokens | Total $ | Official docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exaweb search | POST /searchtype=deep | 99.2% | 98.5% | 100.0% | 3.00s | 1,330 | $1.65 | Official docs |
| 2 | Exaweb search | POST /searchtype=instant | 97.7% | 83.7% | 97.7% | 447ms | 2,051 | $1.05 | Official docs |
| 3 | Parallelweb search | POST /v1/searchmode=advanced | 96.9% | 62.0% | 96.9% | 3.28s | 2,127 | $0.80 | Official docs |
| 4 | Linkupweb search | POST /v1/searchdepth=standard · outputType=searchResults | 96.1% | 80.6% | 93.0% | 2.34s | 2,926 | $0.83 | Official docs |
| 5 | Parallelweb search | POST /v1/searchmode=basic | 95.3% | 65.1% | 91.5% | 1.41s | 2,409 | $0.82 | Official docs |
| 6 | Linkupweb search | POST /v1/searchdepth=fast · outputType=searchResults | 94.6% | 88.4% | 95.3% | 1.82s | 2,838 | $0.82 | Official docs |
| 7 | Tavilyweb search | POST /searchsearch_depth=advanced · chunks_per_source=3 | 93.8% | 79.8% | 94.6% | 4.40s | 3,041 | $2.25 | Official docs |
| 8 | Brave Searchweb search | GET /res/v1/web/searchcount=10 · result_filter=web | 93.8% | 83.7% | 93.8% | 693ms | 723 | $0.73 | Official docs |
| 9 | SERPgoogle search | GET google-search74.p.rapidapi.comlimit=10 | 93.0% | 73.6% | 93.0% | 2.04s | 469 | $0.46 | Official docs |
| 10 | Firecrawlweb search | POST /v2/search | 92.3% | 74.4% | 92.3% | 1.42s | 672 | $0.73 | Official docs |
News index APIs for company news
What is a news index API?
An API that searches a curated index of press releases, newswires and company newsrooms rather than the open web. The pitch is that a purpose-built index beats general search on news questions; this board measures whether it does.
Are dedicated news APIs better than web search for company news?
Not on this run. The strongest news index answers 69.0% of the questions correctly, while Exa (type=deep) reaches 99.2% on the identical set. Both are measured with the same query, the same result cap and the same judge.
Why measure news indexes on the same board as web search APIs?
Because they are bought for the same job. Ranking them in one list would imply they are substitutes, so they are banded separately and ranked within their band — but they are kept on one board so the mechanisms can be compared rather than argued about.