NewsAPI.org compatible

The call, before and after

# Before
curl -G https://newsapi.org/v2/everything \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $NEWSAPI_KEY" \
  -d pageSize=10 --data-urlencode "q=Nvidia earnings"

# After
curl -G https://api.specstream.ai/v2/everything \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" \
  -d pageSize=10 --data-urlencode "q=Nvidia earnings"

The Python client newsapi-python 0.2.7 keeps its addresses in its const module, so the change is one line before you build NewsApiClient: for name in ("TOP_HEADLINES_URL", "EVERYTHING_URL"): setattr(newsapi.const, name, getattr(newsapi.const, name).replace("https://newsapi.org", "https://api.specstream.ai")). get_everything and get_top_headlines then run as before.

What the route reads, and what it refuses

Read and applied on /v2/everything: q, qInTitle, domains, excludeDomains, from, to, language, sortBy=publishedAt, pageSize and page. On /v2/top-headlines: country, category, q, pageSize and page.

Refused: a call with no key gets 401 in NewsAPI's error 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 status "ok", totalResults and articles[]. Each article carries source with the publisher's name, title, description, url and publishedAt in UTC.

source.id, author, urlToImage and content are present and null, as NewsAPI prints them when a source gives none, so a parser that reads them does not break. /v2/sources, NewsAPI's index of publishers, is not served. One field is added, specstream, with the call's price_usd.

One price a call, no plan

On NewsAPI.org production use starts at $449 a month. On SpecStream 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 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.

GNews

A news API sold by daily cap: Essential is €49.99 a month for 1,000 requests per day, and the free plan has 100 requests per day. SpecStream has no daily cap and answers the NewsAPI call your code already sends.

Bing News Search v7

Microsoft retired the Bing Search APIs on August 11, 2025, and its named replacement, Grounding with Bing Search, costs $14 per 1,000 transactions with no raw results for developers. SpecStream answers Bing's /v7.0/news/search on the same key, at $0.005 a search.