GNews compatible

The call, before and after

# Before
curl -G https://gnews.io/api/v4/search \
  -d apikey=$GNEWS_API_KEY -d max=10 --data-urlencode "q=Nvidia earnings"

# After
curl -G https://api.specstream.ai/api/v4/search \
  -d apikey=$SPECSTREAM_API_KEY -d max=10 --data-urlencode "q=Nvidia earnings"

With GNews's Python client, gnews-io-python 1.0.0, the change is the address and the key in one line: client = GNews(api_key=SPECSTREAM_KEY, base_url="https://api.specstream.ai/api/v4").

What the route reads, and what it refuses

Read and applied on /api/v4/search: q, lang, max (up to 100), page, from, to and sortby=publishedAt. On /api/v4/top-headlines: category, q and lang.

Refused: a key that is not one gets 401 in GNews's errors 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 totalArticles and articles[]. Each article carries title, description, url, publishedAt in UTC and source.name, the publisher.

content and image are present and null, as GNews prints them with nullable, so a parser that reads them does not break. id, lang, source.id, source.url and source.country are not returned. One field is added, specstream, with the call's price_usd.

One price a call, no daily cap

On GNews the plan sets how many requests you send a day and how many articles each returns. On SpecStream every call of up to 10 articles costs $0.005, each started block of 10 more adds $0.006, and max=100 costs $0.059. There is no quota to reset at 00:00 UTC, and credit you buy never expires. A busy call gets 429 with Retry-After and charges nothing.

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. One account can send up to 26,666 searches a minute.

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}'

Search, pages and rows on one key

The same key reads the full article behind each url with the Extract API, up to 20 pages a call at $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and a page with no text is not charged. Deep Search 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 most a run can cost is approved before it starts.

SerpApi

Google News and Google results on monthly plans: Starter is $25 for 1,000 searches with 200 an hour, Developer $75 for 5,000. SpecStream charges $0.005 a news search with no plan, and answers SerpApi's Google News call at /serpapi-news.

Serper

Google results in credit packs from $1.00 per 1,000 for 50,000 credits, valid for 6 months, with 2,500 free queries. SpecStream credit never expires, and the same key answers Serper's /news call at /serper/news.