Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment
Market-data API whose news endpoint scores sentiment by ticker and topic
Founded: 2017 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA | Team: Not publicly disclosed
Headlines & metadataNLP enrichmentFinancial news
What is Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment?
Alpha Vantage was founded in Boston in 2017 by Olivier Porte and Steve Zheng and went through Y Combinator's Summer 2018 batch. Its NEWS_SENTIMENT function returns market news with an overall sentiment score plus per-ticker and per-topic scores, from the same key that serves prices, fundamentals and technical indicators. Many hobby trading projects start here because the free key arrives instantly. Third-party guides describe the free allowance as 25 requests a day at five a minute, and premium plans as starting at $49.99 a month for 75 requests a minute with no daily cap. Commercial use is a separate question, and one source reports commercial licences in the $499 to $2,499 a month range. Responses carry summaries and links; full articles live on the publishers' sites.
Typical uses: Financial services, Research & academia. What sets it apart: Ticker and topic sentiment scores from the same key as market data.
What does the Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment API include?
REST APIJSONCSVMCP server
| Capability |
|---|
| Headlines & metadata |
| NLP enrichment |
| Financial news |
Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment pricing
Short answer: the pricing model is free key; premium plans by rate limit. Entry price: $49.99/mo.
| Access model | What it means |
|---|---|
| Free tier | Permanent free allowance, usually with request, history or commercial-use limits |
| Monthly plans | Self-serve subscription with published quotas |
| Enterprise contract | Negotiated licence covering volume, rights and SLA |
API prices and quotas change often. Check Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment's own pricing page before you commit, and confirm that your use is covered by the licence.
Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment pros and cons
| Advantages | Things to consider |
|---|---|
| +Free key with no approval wait | -25 free requests a day runs out quickly |
| +Sentiment per ticker and per topic in each response | -Commercial use may need a separate, much pricier licence |
| +Prices and fundamentals on the same account | -Summaries and links only, no article text |
| +Premium tiers are sold by rate limit, which makes scaling simple to price |
Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment vs alternatives
How Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment compares to the other top News APIs.
| API | Best for | Key difference | Rating | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NewsCatcher | Developers who want clean, deduplicated news without writing... | Summaries, story clusters, entities and geotags arrive in the response, so the processing code you would otherwise write is already done | 4.7 | Full comparison |
| NewsData.io | Developers who want a working news call within... | A free allowance that refills daily, with country and language filters on every plan | 4.6 | Full comparison |
| Perigon | Indie developers and startups wanting enriched data at... | Entity, topic and cluster data from the $25 plan up, with all tiers priced publicly | 4.5 | Full comparison |
| NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry) | Developers building multilingual event or research tools. | Event records that join coverage of one story across languages | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| GNews | Small commercial apps needing a cheap, simple news... | Commercial rights and full article content for under €50 a month | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| Webz.io | Data engineers backfilling years of news for datasets. | History back to 2008 and the widest claimed source count here | 4.2 | Full comparison |
| Exa | RAG and agent developers needing semantic news retrieval. | Search by meaning with page text returned in the same request | 4.2 | Full comparison |
| Tavily | Agent builders adding a news tool in a... | Built-in LangChain and LlamaIndex integrations that return prompt-ready text | 4.1 | Full comparison |
| World News API | Location-aware apps on a small budget. | Latitude, longitude and radius filters from the $39 plan, plus a URL text extractor | 4.1 | Full comparison |
| NewsAPI.org | Learning projects and prototypes that follow existing tutorials. | The largest pile of tutorials, wrappers and answered questions of any news API | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| SerpApi Google News | Developers who need exactly what Google News ranks. | Google News rankings and story groupings as structured JSON | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| GDELT Project | Zero-budget data projects and research prototypes. | No key, no fee and global coverage refreshed every 15 minutes | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| Brave Search API | Developers replacing Bing News Search with an independent... | Results from its own crawler, independent of Google and Bing | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| Serper Google News | Agent prototypes needing cheap Google News lookups. | About $1 per 1,000 Google queries on the entry pack, by third-party figures | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| Marketaux | Fintech developers needing ticker-tagged news cheaply. | Entity-level sentiment on every article, free plan included | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| Massive (ex-Polygon.io) News | Trading-app developers already using Polygon or Massive data. | Per-ticker sentiment with a written reason, included in stock data plans | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Mediastack | Low-traffic sites needing a cheap commercial headline feed. | Commercial use and historical news from $24.99 a month | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Guardian Open Platform | Students and researchers needing free full-text articles. | Free full article bodies from a major newspaper, with editorial tags | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Diffbot | Developers collecting news from a fixed list of... | Parser-free extraction from any article URL, linked to a Knowledge Graph | 3.7 | Full comparison |
| Finnhub | Personal fintech projects needing news and prices from... | A 60-calls-a-minute free key covering company news and market data | 3.7 | Full comparison |
| DataForSEO Google News | High-volume Google News rank tracking on a budget. | About $0.60 per 1,000 Google News result pages in the Standard queue | 3.7 | Full comparison |
| TheNewsAPI | Personal dashboards needing a cheap general feed. | Possibly the lowest paid entry price here, if third-party pricing is current | 3.6 | Full comparison |
| NYT Developer APIs | Students and historians working with Times metadata. | Searchable headlines and abstracts for every Times issue since 1851 | 3.5 | Full comparison |
| Benzinga | Trading platforms needing a licensed market newswire. | Original market headlines with ratings and earnings events in one feed | 3.5 | Full comparison |
| Quantexa News API (Aylien) | Teams maintaining an existing Aylien integration. | Aylien's fine-grained entity and category tagging | 3.4 | Full comparison |
| APITube | Developers comparing coverage in a side-by-side trial. | Sentiment and entity filters offered on lower tiers | 3.4 | Full comparison |
| Currents API | Coursework and hackathons needing a free feed. | A free tier that tutorials and roundups often recommend | 3.3 | Full comparison |
Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment FAQ
What is Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment?
Market-data API whose news endpoint scores sentiment by ticker and topic
How much does Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment charge?
Pricing model: free key; premium plans by rate limit. The cheapest paid access listed is $49.99/mo. Free access: yes, with limits.
Which formats and SDKs does Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment support?
Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment offers REST API, JSON, CSV, MCP server.
Is Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment right for enterprise?
Yes, Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment sells enterprise contracts. Main caveat: 25 free requests a day runs out quickly.
What are the best Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment alternatives?
The best alternatives to Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment depend on your use case. Top options are:
- NewsCatcher: summaries, story clusters, entities and geotags arrive in the response, so the processing code you would otherwise write is already done
- NewsData.io: a free allowance that refills daily, with country and language filters on every plan
- Perigon: entity, topic and cluster data from the $25 plan up, with all tiers priced publicly
Compare Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment with other News APIs
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