Lyon
FranceRue des Archers, Lyon
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Compare event intelligence APIs.
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GDELT CloudCONNECTED WORLD DATA
EventsWhat happened
EntitiesWho is involved
ContextFilings · energy · macro
Your application REST + MCP
Reporting you can build on
Stories, Events and Situations. Evidence included.
Context already connected
Entities, tone, offices, infrastructure and economic data.
A clear starting price
All data families included. One published starting price.
SIDE BY SIDE
Find the right building blocks.
Reviewed 2026-09-26 · API examples + documentation.How we compared ↗
Connected datasets & more capabilities
A GEOGRAPHIC API COMPARISON
Local news. Global reach.
GDELT Cloud returned local reporting in every city area we tested. Selected results from September 19–25, 2026:
Jewelry-store burglary on Rue des Archers
Durban
South AfricaPrincess Magogo Stadium, KwaMashu, Durban
jacarandafm.com ↗Recife
BrazilRecife
g1.globo.com ↗Surabaya
IndonesiaSurabaya
beritajatim.com ↗Pune
IndiaPune
thehindu.com ↗Winnipeg
CanadaWinnipeg
winnipegfreepress.com ↗INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
One local development. Three source languages.
The Lyon burglary appears in French, Arabic and Greek reporting retrieved by GDELT Cloud.
01 Choose a place or radius02 Retrieve Stories & Events03 Connect sources, actors & facilities
Bigdata and NewsAPI.ai also returned local reporting. The difference is how you retrieve it and what you can build with the result.
Try a geographic queryWhich services returned these selected developments?
These six examples were selected from GDELT Cloud results. “Found” means the same development was located in the tested queries; “Related report” describes another action in the same dispute. “Not located” does not establish absence from a provider’s corpus. All three APIs returned other local reporting.
| Example | GDELT Cloud | Bigdata.com | NewsAPI.ai |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyon | Found | Found | Found |
| Durban | Found | Found | Found |
| Recife | Found | Not located | Not located |
| Surabaya | Found | Not located | Not located |
| Pune | Found | Found | Found |
| Winnipeg | Found | Related report | Found |
Geographic methods, native records & sources
We chose Lyon, Durban, Recife, Surabaya, Pune and Winnipeg before retrieval. GDELT Cloud used 50-km Event queries, surrounding Story bounding boxes and city-name Story searches. All seven requested dates had complete serving evidence. These selected examples demonstrate local reporting; they do not measure worldwide recall or street-level coordinate accuracy. A city centroid can represent a broader reported location.
Bigdata used resolved place entities and targeted news searches. NewsAPI.ai used occurrence-location filters, with a separate place-concept refinement where needed; publisher location is a different filter. Document publication dates, cluster dates and Event action dates differ, as do native geographic boundaries. Returned documents, articles, clusters and coded Events are different units. Seerist was reviewed through public documentation only.
The international example uses three separate native Story records for the same reported development, not a single merged cluster. Source language does not establish publisher country or independent corroboration. Display headlines are concise editorial labels; the native fields below retain the returned wording.
GDELT Cloud geographic parameters ↗ · Bigdata place filters ↗ · NewsAPI.ai location filters ↗ · Seerist Asset Profiles ↗
Lyon: native GDELT Cloud fields
/api/v2/events?date_start=2026-09-19&date_end=2026-09-25&limit=20&include_images=false&include_entity_images=false&sort=recent&near=45.764%2C4.8357&radius_km=50Durban: native GDELT Cloud fields
/api/v2/events?date_start=2026-09-19&date_end=2026-09-25&limit=20&include_images=false&include_entity_images=false&sort=recent&near=-29.8587%2C31.0218&radius_km=50Recife: native GDELT Cloud fields
/api/v2/events?date_start=2026-09-19&date_end=2026-09-25&limit=20&include_images=false&include_entity_images=false&sort=recent&near=-8.0476%2C-34.877&radius_km=50Surabaya: native GDELT Cloud fields
/api/v2/events?date_start=2026-09-19&date_end=2026-09-25&limit=20&include_images=false&include_entity_images=false&sort=recent&near=-7.2575%2C112.7521&radius_km=50Pune: native GDELT Cloud fields
/api/v2/events?date_start=2026-09-19&date_end=2026-09-25&limit=20&include_images=false&include_entity_images=false&sort=recent&near=18.5204%2C73.8567&radius_km=50Winnipeg: native GDELT Cloud fields
/api/v2/events?date_start=2026-09-19&date_end=2026-09-25&limit=20&include_images=false&include_entity_images=false&sort=recent&near=49.8951%2C-97.1384&radius_km=50THE WHOLE GDELT CLOUD TOOLKIT
More context. Fewer integrations.
01
Reporting & developments
Articles · Stories · Events · SituationsFollow the evidence from a source to a continuing situation.
02
Companies & relationships
SEC filings · XBRL facts · GLEIFConnect company reporting to disclosures and legal identities.
03
Physical infrastructure
Energy · industry · ownersFind facilities, capacity, status and ownership context.
04
Countries & economies
Macro series · structural indicators · officesPut a current development in its economic and political setting.
05
Maritime activity
AIS · ports · transits · dwellAdd observed vessel activity to narrative reporting.
06
AI & compute
Models · hardware · chip sales · data centersConnect technology reporting to dated industry reference data.
07
Public records
Awards · public lists · China financeInspect original authorities and financing records.
08
Analytics & monitoring
Summaries · tone · share of voice · MonitorsBuild trends, compare reporting and watch for new matches.
Every data endpoint is included on paid plans. Joins, source dates and coverage remain explicit in the responses.
MORE ANSWERS FROM THE SAME SUBSCRIPTION
From news coverage to useful context.
Actual NVIDIA results · September 19–25, 2026
See where the reporting travels.
EnglishChineseGreekPortugueseArabicSpanish
Source languages represented in this entity’s scored news evidence.
Measure tone toward the entity.
- English
- +4.0
- Chinese
- +10.6
- Greek
- +2.5
News tone by language · −100 to +100. 63 of 106 candidate Stories scored.
Put attention in perspective.
NVIDIA’s share of TECHNOLOGY Stories on September 22.
Add the context your question needsPolitical offices & holdersCompany filingsInfrastructure & ownershipExplore the endpoints
Native JSON, requests & measurement basis
Selected fields from saved GDELT Cloud API responses. Tone is entity-conditioned, not whole-article sentiment. The news tone result contains 63 scored Stories from 106 candidates; language scores describe evidence within that scored subset, not all reporting in each language. A Story can carry evidence in several languages. Unknown language is excluded from the displayed language count. Share of voice uses a separate TECHNOLOGY-filtered canonical Story denominator for September 22.
Political offices and other context are separate documented endpoints, not fields demonstrated by this NVIDIA tone response. Paid plans include these data families; additional reads use the shared QU allowance.
/api/v2/entity-tone
/api/v2/entity-tone?entity_id=e_2af946de69c91484&date_start=2026-09-19&date_end=2026-09-25&include_evidence=true&evidence_limit=20&limit=20/api/v2/share-of-voice
/api/v2/share-of-voice?entities=e_2af946de69c91484&start_date=2026-09-19&end_date=2026-09-25&category=TECHNOLOGY&limit=20START WITH YOUR WORKFLOW
Three comparisons. Practical answers.
01GDELT Cloud
GDELT Cloud
GDELT Cloud
Financial research
GDELT Cloud
vs Bigdata.com
Global news, typed developments and connected company data in one subscription.
CompanyEventFilings
See the comparison 02News intelligence · Event Registry
GDELT Cloud
vs NewsAPI.ai
Multilingual Stories, typed Events and the context behind the news.
StoryEventContext
See the comparison 03Risk intelligence
GDELT Cloud
vs Seerist
Build your own intelligence workflow with connected data and self-serve pricing.
LocationEventAssets
See the comparison AGGREGATES, ALREADY COMPUTED
The chart is an API response.
Build a country activity panel.
Get grouped counts from summary endpoints. Use list and detail endpoints when a reader wants to investigate.
304Event records
/events/summary1,076Stories
/stories/summaryThailand involvement · September 19–25, 2026
Largest categories · Event records · Saved Sep 26, 2026- Political
- 122
- Crime
- 58
- Environment
- 56
- Infrastructure
- 24
- Corporate
- 16
- Economic
- 12
Group by day, category or location. Explore dedicated Tone and Share of Voice endpoints, too.
Requests, returned JSON & counting basis
curl 'https://gdeltcloud.com/api/v2/events/summary?date_start=2026-09-19&date_end=2026-09-25&country=THA&group_by=category&limit=20' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'
Event dates and Story reporting dates have different meanings. Country filter includes location or actor origin. Actual saved GDELT Cloud results. Both requests served all seven dates. Counts describe each endpoint’s own records; they are not a count of independently verified incidents. Selected response fields below.
/api/v2/events/summary
/api/v2/stories/summary
THE SAME TASK · A MONTHLY BUDGET
1,000 retrieval jobs, priced in dollars.
GDELT Cloud’s effective rate allocates its plan price across included QU. Compare the required monthly budgets below each rate, too.
Recent news · prepared filters · up to 20 results per request · before tax.
| What your app retrieves | GDELT Cloud | NewsAPI.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Multilingual story clusters + source links | Included-capacity rate$0.0393 / job Required monthly budget$59 / monthBuilder1,000 of 1,500 included QU used | Budget ÷ 1,000 jobs$0.090 / job Required monthly budget$90 / month5K plan5,000 tokens · 5K plan |
| News trend by day | Included-capacity rate$0.0393 / job Required monthly budget$59 / monthBuilder1,000 of 1,500 included QU used | Budget ÷ 1,000 jobs$0.090 / job Required monthly budget$90 / month5K plan5,000 tokens · 5K plan |
| Find a cluster + fetch its source members | Included-capacity rate$0.0993 / job Required monthly budget$149 / monthWatch2,000 of 3,000 included QU used | Budget ÷ 1,000 jobs$0.105 / job Required monthly budget$105 / month5K plan + overage6,000 tokens · overage enabled$150 on 10K plan without overage |
500 QU left for more contextAfter 1,000 one-QU jobs: use the same Builder subscription for tone, share of voice, offices, filings and infrastructure.
GDELT Cloud Stories and NewsAPI Events are multilingual clusters. Trend counts use Stories versus articles. Coverage and cluster membership differ; NewsAPI also returns article bodies.
AUTOMATIC MONITORING IS INCLUDED
Keep your QU for the next question.
Scheduled Monitors watch saved questions for new matches. Their checks consume 0 QU; your on-demand allowance stays available for research and context.
Plus 1,500 QU for on-demand API jobs
Plus 3,000 QU for on-demand API jobs
Plus 10,000 QU for on-demand API jobs
Plus 25,000 QU for on-demand API jobs
Preview and Run now cost 1 QU each. Counts show scheduled capacity, not guaranteed new results. How Monitors work ↗
No opening credits, extra pages or generated reports. Prices checked 2026-09-26: GDELT Cloud · NewsAPI.ai
A PRACTICAL STARTING POINT
Start small.
Build something useful.
One API for reporting, events and connected datasets. Start with an evaluation, then choose the capacity your application needs.
Compare GDELT Cloud plansBuilderMONTHLY BILLING
$59/ month
1,500 Query Units included
Example application10 country refreshes / day
30 days × 3 QU per refresh900 QU / month
Each refresh: Event summary + Story summary + one facilities page. Three standard calls; no pagination or generated report.
- REST API + MCP access
- All data families included
- 3 daily Monitors included
How we compared · sources & evaluation scope
Selected workflows, real retrieval.
We publish this comparison as GDELT Cloud. We selected workflows relevant to builders, including our strengths, competitor-native jobs and possible complementary uses. Product-fit takeaways are our editorial conclusions.
Bigdata.com and NewsAPI.ai were evaluated through their APIs. The shared task period was September 19–25, 2026. Query clocks, geographical filters and returned units differ. We tested native search, document and cluster retrieval, typed annotations and mentions, financial data, connected reference data and summary analytics. Seerist was reviewed through public documentation only. We make no product-wide accuracy, recall or latency ranking.
Visual GDELT Cloud examples are selected records from separately saved API captures, with each exhibit’s own dates displayed. Reporting dates were fully admitted by the serving layer. That confirms retrieval coverage, not the factual accuracy of every source. Publication-inferred dates are identified on the record.
Prices and documentation were checked on 2026-09-26; GDELT Cloud plan values use the current public catalog. Query Units, document tokens and NewsAPI tokens are different billing units. Company filings and infrastructure have independent dates; proximity and a shared company or country do not prove financial or operational impact.
Fictional output illustrations use inspected native response structures; they are separate from the measured findings and saved GDELT Cloud examples. Table values link directly to supporting documentation. API examples link their reporting evidence.