Bing News Search v7 compatible

The call, before and after

# Before
curl -G https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/news/search \
  -H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: $BING_KEY" \
  -d count=10 --data-urlencode "q=Nvidia earnings"

# After
curl -G https://api.specstream.ai/v7.0/news/search \
  -H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" \
  -d count=10 --data-urlencode "q=Nvidia earnings"

With Microsoft's Python client, azure-cognitiveservices-search-newssearch 2.0.0, the change is the endpoint and the key: client = NewsSearchClient(endpoint="https://api.specstream.ai", credentials=CognitiveServicesCredentials(SPECSTREAM_KEY)). client.news.search(query=...) then runs as before.

What the route reads, and what it refuses

Read and applied: q, count (1 to 100), offset, freshness (Day, Week, Month), sortBy, mkt, setLang, and category on /v7.0/news.

Refused: count above 100 gets 400, and a wrong key gets 401, both in Bing's ErrorResponse form. Every parameter was measured on production on Nov 10, 2026, and the full pass table lists each one and its result.

Every field that comes back

The reply has _type "News", queryContext.originalQuery, totalEstimatedMatches, sort[] with id, isSelected and url, and value[]. Each article carries name, url, description, datePublished and provider[] with _type and name.

The route does not return relatedTopics, nor an article's image, category, about, mentions, clusteredArticles, video or headline. One field is added, specstream, with the call's price_usd.

One price a news search

Every call of up to 10 articles costs $0.005, each started block of 10 more adds $0.006, and there is no plan to renew. A busy call gets 429 with Retry-After and charges nothing. Credit you buy never expires.

The most accurate web search API, in about one second

On SimpleQA Verified the SpecStream Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official questions, 978 of them correct. On WideSearch it scores 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official tasks. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. Every score and its method is on the benchmarks page.

Every drop-in route runs the fast search. Measured on production on November 9, 2026, its median was 0.82 s at 1 search a second and 1.07 s at 20 a second, the 95th percentile stayed between 1.09 and 1.73 s, and it answered 718 of 720. There is no limit per key and no daily limit.

You decide what is kept, on each key

Create the key with zero_retention and a search made with it keeps no request text and no answer after the reply. spend_cap_cents is the most the key can spend.

curl -X POST https://api.specstream.ai/v1/account/keys \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "production", "scopes": ["account:read", "finds:spend"], "spend_cap_cents": 500000, "zero_retention": true}'

News, search, pages and rows on one key

The same key answers Bing Web Search v7 at /v7.0/search, reads up to 20 pages or documents a call with the Extract API at $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and runs Deep Search, which returns every match for a request in plain words as structured rows, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, with a source URL on every value. The web search guide is on the Bing Web Search v7 migration page.

Grounding with Bing Search

Microsoft's named replacement, a tool for Azure AI Agents at $14 per 1,000 transactions. Microsoft says developers don't have access to the raw content it returns, so there is no article list to parse. SpecStream returns Bing's value[] at $5 per 1,000.

NewsAPI.org

A news API whose free Developer plan cannot be used in production. Business costs $449 a month for 250,000 requests. SpecStream answers NewsAPI's own /v2/everything call too, with no plan, at $0.005 a search.

GNews

A news API sold by daily cap: Essential is €49.99 a month for 1,000 requests per day. SpecStream has no daily cap, keeps Bing's request and reply, and there is no limit per key.