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=fast), answers 99.3% against 58.3% for the strongest news index. On this task a general engine is the more accurate choice.
Web search APIs for company news · Most accurate · Fastest · Cheapest · Full company news board · Web search API benchmark
News index APIs for company news, all metrics
4 endpoints, ranked by $ / 1k correct on 300 questions.
| Rank | Vendor | Endpoint & configuration | $ / 1k correct | Accuracy | AR@1 | AR@5 | Latency | Snippet tokens | Total $ | Official docs | Cost per 1,000 queries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seltznews index | POST /v1/searchscope=news | $8.57 | 58.3% | 44.3% | 60.0% | 403ms | 2,919 | $1.50 | Official docs | $5 / 1k |
| 2 | Autoboundcompany news events | POST /v1/companies/enrichdomain · signal_types=news · signal_subtypes · limit=10 | $120.76 | 30.0% | 21.0% | 25.0% | 146ms | 879 | $10.87 | Official docs | $9.5 / 1k creditsStarter $19 / 2,000 · 2 credits/signal |
| 3 | PredictLeadscompany news events | GET /api/v3/companies/{domain}/news_eventsLLM category pick · categories[] · limit=10 | $193.52 | 20.7% | 14.0% | 20.0% | 398ms | 484 | $12.00 | Official docs | $40 / 1k$0.04 / credit · 1 credit/request |
| 4 | Datahyenacompany news events | GET /v1/companies/timelinedomain · include=funding|acquisitions|exec_moves | $716.07 | 5.3% | 5.3% | 6.7% | 187ms | 22 | $11.45 | Official docs | $50 / 1k credits$25 / 500 credits · 1 credit/record |
$ / 1k correct is $ / 1k queries divided by extracted-answer accuracy. Ranked by $ / 1k correct. Cost per 1,000 queries is the published PAYG list price, linked to the vendor pricing page. Not promotional packs or volume discounts. TinyFish Search is free with a 30 requests/min cap — $0 is not unlimited throughput.
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 | $ / 1k correct | Accuracy | AR@1 | AR@5 | Latency | Snippet tokens | Total $ | Official docs | Cost per 1,000 queries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TinyFishweb search | GET api.search.tinyfish.aifree · 30 req/min cap | Free30 req/min cap | 92.0% | 74.3% | 90.7% | 2.62s | 441 | Free | Official docs | $0free · 30 req/min, 500/hour |
| 2 | Parallelweb search | POST /v1/searchmode=fast | $1.16 | 86.0% | 44.3% | 79.0% | 942ms | 1,839 | $0.30 | Official docs | $1 / 1kmode=fast · 10 results |
| 3 | Parallelweb search | POST /v1/searchmode=turbo | $1.40 | 71.3% | 45.3% | 66.0% | 348ms | 1,853 | $0.30 | Official docs | $1 / 1kmode=turbo · 10 results |
| 4 | Nimbleweb search | POST /v2/searchsearch_depth=lite · full_content=false · focus=general | $1.46 | 75.3% | 64.0% | 75.3% | 3.15s | 413 | $0.33 | Official docs | $1.1 / 1ksearch_depth=lite · full_content=false |
| 5 | SERPgoogle search | GET google-search74.p.rapidapi.comlimit=10 | $3.13 | 96.0% | 78.0% | 95.0% | 751ms | 497 | $0.90 | Official docs | $3 / 1kPro overage $0.003/request |
| 6 | Perplexityweb search | POST /searchsearch_context_size=low | $5.14 | 97.3% | 91.7% | 98.3% | 1.38s | 476 | $1.50 | Official docs | $5 / 1kSearch API · POST /search |
| 7 | Linkupweb search | POST /v1/searchdepth=fast · outputType=searchResults | $5.17 | 96.7% | 79.0% | 94.7% | 1.57s | 3,022 | $1.50 | Official docs | $5 / 1kdepth=fast · searchResults |
| 8 | Firecrawlweb search | POST /v2/search | $5.24 | 95.3% | 77.7% | 96.7% | 510ms | 678 | $1.50 | Official docs | $5 / 1k2 credits / 10 results |
| 9 | Brave Searchweb search | POST /res/v1/llm/contextcount=10 | $5.32 | 94.0% | 81.0% | 94.7% | 601ms | 2,064 | $1.50 | Official docs | $5 / 1kSearch plan · LLM Context |
| 10 | Parallelweb search | POST /v1/searchmode=basic | $5.36 | 93.3% | 55.0% | 92.0% | 1.68s | 2,330 | $1.50 | Official docs | $5 / 1kmode=basic · 10 results |
| 11 | Brave Searchweb search | GET /res/v1/web/searchcount=10 · result_filter=web | $5.36 | 93.3% | 79.3% | 91.7% | 630ms | 817 | $1.50 | Official docs | $5 / 1k |
| 12 | Nimbleweb search | POST /v2/searchsearch_depth=standard · full_content=false · focus=general | $5.38 | 93.0% | 86.3% | 94.3% | 861ms | 2,730 | $1.50 | Official docs | $5 / 1ksearch_depth=standard · full_content=false |
| 13 | Linkupweb search | POST /v1/searchdepth=standard · outputType=searchResults | $5.43 | 92.0% | 67.3% | 90.3% | 2.55s | 2,983 | $1.50 | Official docs | $5 / 1kdepth=standard · searchResults |
| 14 | Youweb search | POST /v1/searchextraction_mode=highlights · knowledge=core | $5.43 | 92.0% | 67.3% | 89.7% | 889ms | 2,862 | $1.50 | Official docs | $5 / 1khighlights · knowledge=core · same Web Search price assumption |
| 15 | Youweb search | POST /v1/searchextraction_mode=highlights | $5.51 | 90.7% | 72.0% | 89.7% | 628ms | 2,837 | $1.50 | Official docs | $5 / 1khighlights included in Web Search |
| 16 | Exaweb search | POST /searchtype=fast | $7.05 | 99.3% | 95.0% | 99.3% | 652ms | 1,987 | $2.10 | Official docs | $7 / 1ktype=fast · up to 10 results |
| 17 | Exaweb search | POST /searchtype=instant | $7.17 | 97.7% | 80.0% | 97.3% | 398ms | 2,128 | $2.10 | Official docs | $7 / 1ktype=instant · up to 10 results |
| 18 | Tavilyweb search | POST /searchsearch_depth=basic | $9.13 | 87.7% | 82.0% | 87.7% | 1.88s | 1,639 | $2.40 | Official docs | $8 / 1k1 credit · $0.008 PAYG |
| 19 | Tavilyweb search | POST /searchsearch_depth=advanced | $17.20 | 93.0% | 65.0% | 92.7% | 4.29s | 2,210 | $4.80 | Official docs | $16 / 1k2 credits · $0.008 PAYG |
$ / 1k correct is $ / 1k queries divided by extracted-answer accuracy. Ranked by $ / 1k correct. Cost per 1,000 queries is the published PAYG list price, linked to the vendor pricing page. Not promotional packs or volume discounts. TinyFish Search is free with a 30 requests/min cap — $0 is not unlimited throughput.
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 58.3% of the questions correctly, while Exa (type=fast) reaches 99.3% 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.