News search API for AI agents in 2026

Keep the news call your agent makes

SpecStream answers the news calls of NewsAPI, Firecrawl, Tavily, Bing News v7, GNews, Serper, SerpApi Google News, SearchApi, Kagi, Jina and Zenserp on https://api.specstream.ai, each in that API's own shape, with the key where that API takes it. Moving one is a change of base address and key: see the NewsAPI, GNews, Bing News and Firecrawl guides.

curl -G https://api.specstream.ai/v2/everything \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" \
  -d q=layoffs -d from=2026-11-05 -d language=en \
  -d sortBy=publishedAt -d pageSize=10

The article text at $0.80 per 1,000 pages

An agent needs the article text to reason over. Send the url of each story to the Extract API: up to 20 pages a call, read live, as Markdown or plain text, with the date each page says it was published. A page that refuses a plain read is tried as a browser would ask for it, then in a real browser, then from the site's own feed, then from its newest public archive capture.

curl -X POST https://api.specstream.ai/v1/extract \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"urls": ["<the article url>"], "format": "markdown"}'

Ten stories and their ten articles cost $0.009 in all.

The facts in the news, as rows

When the agent needs the facts in the stories, Deep Search takes the request in plain words, such as "News this week about companies cutting jobs, with the company, the number of jobs, the date and the article that reported it", and returns every match as a row at 5¢, 15¢ or $1. A saved request reruns hourly to yearly, and new matches arrive in Slack, email, a sheet, a CRM or a signed webhook.

One MCP server for news, pages and rows

Agents connect to https://api.specstream.ai/mcp with OAuth or an API key: search_web for one fact, read_pages for the text of known pages, and Deep Search for rows, all from one balance. Every charged call is kept in the account history, and price_usd on each reply says what it cost.

The most accurate web search API

The SpecStream Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct), and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. Scores and method are on benchmarks.

SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. News searches at $1 per 1,000 in the shape of the API your code calls, article text at $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and the facts in the news as rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1. New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

Tavily

Its search takes topic news for real time updates, on credits at $0.008 each on pay as you go. SpecStream answers Tavily's own news call at https://api.specstream.ai/tavily for $1 per 1,000 searches.

Firecrawl Alexandria

Licensed Benzinga newswire stories on a Firecrawl key, at 30 Firecrawl credits a news search call and 15 for press releases. SpecStream searches news across the live web at $0.001 a call.

NewsAPI.ai

A news index of 150,000+ publishers with an archive back to 2014, whose pricing Firecrawl's review calls opaque on the public site. SpecStream publishes every price on its pricing page: $1 per 1,000 news searches.