Quantexa News API (Aylien)

The former Aylien news API, now inside Quantexa with an unclear standalone future

Founded: 2012 | Dublin, Ireland (Aylien); London, UK (Quantexa) | Team: Part of Quantexa

3.4 / 5

Full article textHistorical archiveNLP enrichmentStory/event clustering

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What is Quantexa News API (Aylien)?

Aylien, founded in Dublin in 2012, built a well-regarded NLP news API that tagged multilingual articles from about 80,000 sources with entities, categories and sentiment, and shipped Python and Node SDKs. Quantexa, the London decision-intelligence company, bought it in February 2023 for an undisclosed sum, and the product is now called Quantexa News Intelligence or Quantexa News API. Quantexa's community forum still advertises a 14-day trial, but a competitor reports that new sign-ups are directed to a customer notice, and there is no public roadmap for the standalone API. It makes most sense for existing users and Quantexa customers, and a new build is safer elsewhere.

Typical uses: Financial services, Risk & compliance, Media monitoring. What sets it apart: Aylien's fine-grained entity and category tagging.

What does the Quantexa News API (Aylien) API include?

REST APIJSONPython SDKNode.js SDK

Capability
Full article text
Historical archive
NLP enrichment
Story/event clustering

Quantexa News API (Aylien) pricing

Short answer: the pricing model is enterprise subscription; trial available. There is no public entry price, so expect to request a quote.

Access model	What it means
Free trial	Time- or credit-limited trial before a paid plan
Enterprise contract	Negotiated licence covering volume, rights and SLA

API prices and quotas change often. Check Quantexa News API (Aylien)'s own pricing page before you commit, and confirm that your use is covered by the licence.

Quantexa News API (Aylien) pros and cons

Advantages	Things to consider
+Detailed taxonomy and entity tagging	-Standalone API direction unclear since the 2023 acquisition
+Fits teams already on the Quantexa platform	-Docs and SDKs are split across old and new names
+A 14-day trial is still listed	-No public pricing

Quantexa News API (Aylien) vs alternatives

How Quantexa News API (Aylien) 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
Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment	Hobby quants wanting news sentiment beside price data.	Ticker and topic sentiment scores from the same key as market data	3.8	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
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

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Quantexa News API (Aylien) FAQ

What is Quantexa News API (Aylien)?

The former Aylien news API, now inside Quantexa with an unclear standalone future

How much does Quantexa News API (Aylien) charge?

Pricing model: enterprise subscription; trial available. No public entry price is listed, so pricing comes through a quote. Free access: yes, with limits.

Which formats and SDKs does Quantexa News API (Aylien) support?

Quantexa News API (Aylien) offers REST API, JSON, Python SDK, Node.js SDK.

Is Quantexa News API (Aylien) right for enterprise?

Yes, Quantexa News API (Aylien) sells enterprise contracts. Main caveat: Standalone API direction unclear since the 2023 acquisition.

What are the best Quantexa News API (Aylien) alternatives?

The best alternatives to Quantexa News API (Aylien) 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

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