Clustered Stories, not raw articles
Most news APIs hand you a stream of raw articles to dedupe and structure yourself. GDELT Cloud's Stories API clusters articles from many sources into a single deduplicated Story — with a generated summary, an article count, ranked top sources, linked structured Events, and Wikipedia-resolved entities — over a REST API and MCP.
Each Story is a cross-source cluster of articles with a generated summary and article count.
Ranked top sources per Story (URL, title, domain) — plus the structured Events it links to.
Wikipedia-resolved entities and plain-English geography attached to every Story.
Query /api/v2/stories over REST or MCP; filter by geography, category, and significance.
How our Stories API differs
| GDELT Cloud Stories API | Typical news APIs | |
|---|---|---|
| Core object | Story = cross-source cluster of articles | Individual articles |
| Per result | Summary, article count, ranked top sources | Per-article metadata |
| Deduplication | Clustered into one Story across sources | Per-article; you dedupe (some cluster) |
| Linked structure | Linked structured Events on each Story | |
| Entities | Wikipedia-resolved, attached to the Story | NER / keyword tags (varies) |
| Geography & ranking | Geocoded + significance ranking | Source country / recency (varies) |
| Access | REST /api/v2/stories + MCP | REST (varies) |
| Pricing model | Free tier → self-serve plans | Per-request tiers; NLP/event tiers contact-sales |
GDELT Cloud at scale
Every day, GDELT Cloud clusters a continuous, multi-source raw-article stream into tens of thousands of Stories, codes structured CAMEO+/ACLED Events, and resolves Wikipedia-linked Entities — refreshed hourly, around the clock. These Events, Stories, and Entities are data we produce, not redistribute.
And it's more than events: the API, MCP server, and Briefs also draw on a growing set of data sources — financial markets, macroeconomic indicators, prediction markets, web research, and Global Energy Monitor energy-infrastructure data.
Price & fit
Capable news APIs run from a few hundred to several thousand dollars a month, and the richest event/NLP tiers are gated behind sales. GDELT Cloud is self-serve — a free tier, with paid plans from $49 to $1,499/mo.
Developers, analysts, and small media-monitoring or research teams who want structured, deduplicated Stories — not a raw article stream — without an enterprise contract.
Use GDELT Cloud as an affordable structured-events layer alongside a raw news feed — clustered Stories and coded Events at a fraction of a premium news-intelligence contract.