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GDELT Cloud vs NewsAPI.ai
Multilingual Stories, typed Events and the context behind the news.
Reviewed 2026-09-26 · API examples + documentation.How we compared ↗
GDELT CLOUD VS NEWSAPI.AI
See the difference.
Connected datasets & more capabilities
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 |
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 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
1,000 cluster retrievals + 3 daily watchlists
Three saved Story queries · daily email delivery · 90 checks over 30 days
NewsAPI uses one cluster page per query per check; your app supplies scheduling and delivery. GDELT Cloud includes both.
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
SELECTED HEAD-TO-HEAD RESULTS
Same jobs. Concrete differences.
Follow a Thai energy investment
- GDELT Cloud
- PTTEP’s Bussabong decision as a typed development with actors, geography and evidence.
- NewsAPI.ai
- Reporting on the same decision, with article text and a linked cluster.
Use the development as an application record, then follow its reporting for detail.
Find a smaller company: Dinto Solar
- GDELT Cloud
- Resolved Dinto Solar to a local entity ID and retrieved its reporting as a Story.
- NewsAPI.ai
- Name search found two articles; typed mentions recovered party names. No matching concept or event cluster was found in these queries.
A company can be searchable before it has a Wikipedia identity. Keep its reporting even when no Event is coded.
Resolve a power station, not just its place name
- GDELT Cloud
- Facility search distinguishes candidate sites; the selected station opens its coordinates, units and ownership.
- NewsAPI.ai
- A Bang Pakong geographical concept supports news search. The tested responses did not supply the power station’s asset registry.
Move from a name in the news to a specific physical asset and its owner.
Task scope & interpretation
Reporting exercises used September 19–25, 2026. These are selected observed outputs, not product-wide accuracy or recall scores. Each service used native queries and refinements.
PTTEP reporting concerns the same development across services. NewsAPI event clusters correspond most closely to GDELT Cloud Stories; its separate Mentions API returns typed relationships and evidence sentences. Dinto’s five typed mentions were observed in the earlier same-week exercise; the final follow-up returned two articles and no cluster. GDELT Cloud’s Dinto identity is local, not a Wikipedia ID. For NVIDIA, NewsAPI’s canonical concept and five-language alias union returned the same first page; GDELT Cloud’s general entity filter includes contextual coverage, not only Events where that company is a direct actor. These tests do not establish an entity-search accuracy winner.
ILLUSTRATIVE API OUTPUT
A shared news task. Different outputs.
Illustrative data in verified response structures. Fictional names and values; selected fields.
Story · grouped reporting
Example Harbour labour talks
Source links, language breakdown and the coded development below.
Labor Event DE04
Example Harbour workers suspend strike
Example Harbour · Belgium
- Occurrence date
- 2026-09-24 · explicit
- Actors
- Workers → Example Harbour
- Geography
- Coordinates + precision
- Reporting
- Linked Story + sources
Read the coverage, filter the action and map its reported location.
Illustrative Story fields · JSON
{
"id": "example-story",
"title": "Example Harbour labour talks",
"story_date": "2026-09-24",
"metrics": {
"article_count": 3,
"linked_event_count": 1
},
"linked_events": [
{
"id": "cameoplus_example",
"title": "Example Harbour workers suspend strike"
}
],
"top_articles": [
{
"url": "https://example.com/harbour-strike",
"title": "Example Harbour workers suspend strike",
"domain": "example.com",
"rank": 1
}
],
"language_breakdown": [
{
"language": "en",
"count": 2
},
{
"language": "fr",
"count": 1
}
]
}Illustrative Event fields · JSON
{
"data": [
{
"id": "cameoplus_example",
"title": "Example Harbour workers suspend strike",
"event_date": "2026-09-24",
"event_date_basis": "explicit_date",
"event_date_evidence": "Workers suspended the strike on September 24.",
"category": "DEMOGRAPHIC",
"subcategory": "DE04",
"subcategory_label": "Labor Event",
"geo": {
"country": "Belgium",
"location": "Example Harbour",
"latitude": 51.2,
"longitude": 4.4,
"geo_precision": 2,
"geo_precision_label": "nearby_area"
},
"actors": [
{
"name": "Example Harbour workers",
"country": "Belgium",
"role": "source",
"primary": true
},
{
"name": "Example Harbour",
"country": "Belgium",
"role": "target",
"primary": true
}
],
"entity_refs": [
{
"id": "llm:example-harbour",
"id_space": "llm",
"name": "Example Harbour",
"type": "organization",
"spine_id": null,
"wikipedia_url": null
}
],
"story_refs": [
{
"id": "example-story",
"title": "Example Harbour labour talks",
"story_date": "2026-09-24"
}
]
}
]
}workers-strike · typed mention
Example Harbour workers suspend strike
Workers at Example Harbour suspended their strike after talks. The union and operator agreed to resume negotiations.
- Extraction
- Event type + participant slots
- Evidence
- Supporting sentence · fact label
- Article
- Body, concepts + available cluster link
Retrieve articles and clusters, then extract typed mentions. Inspect the sentence for the action and participant relationships.
Illustrative typed mention · JSON
{
"mentions": {
"results": [
{
"uri": "illustrative-article-001-0",
"lang": "eng",
"date": "2026-09-24",
"time": "08:30:00",
"dateTime": "2026-09-24T08:30:00Z",
"articleUri": "example-article",
"articleUrl": "https://example.com/harbour-strike",
"articleTitle": "Example Harbour workers suspend strike",
"sentence": "Workers at Example Harbour suspended their strike after talks. The union and operator agreed to resume negotiations.",
"sentenceResolved": "Workers at Example Harbour suspended their strike after talks. The union and operator agreed to resume negotiations.",
"sentenceIndex": 0,
"eventType": {
"uri": "et/business/labor-issues/workers-strike",
"label": "et/business/labor-issues/workers-strike"
},
"articleSentiment": null,
"sentenceSentiment": null,
"eventTypeSentiment": null,
"isDuplicate": false,
"factLevel": "fact",
"location": {
"type": "place",
"label": {
"eng": "Example Harbour"
},
"country": {
"type": "country",
"label": {
"eng": "Belgium"
}
}
},
"frameworks": {
"sdg": null,
"sasb": null,
"esg": {
"uri": "esg/social",
"label": "social"
}
},
"source": {
"uri": "example.com",
"title": "Example News"
},
"slots": [
{
"uri": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_action",
"label": "Strike action",
"text": "strike",
"type": "wiki",
"core": true
},
{
"uri": "",
"label": "",
"text": "Example Harbour",
"type": "org"
}
],
"validSlots": true
}
]
}
}Illustrative article fields · JSON
{
"articles": {
"results": [
{
"uri": "example-article",
"lang": "eng",
"isDuplicate": false,
"dateTimePub": "2026-09-24T08:30:00Z",
"url": "https://example.com/harbour-strike",
"title": "Example Harbour workers suspend strike",
"body": "Workers at Example Harbour suspended their strike after talks. The union and operator agreed to resume negotiations.",
"source": {
"uri": "example.com",
"dataType": "news",
"title": "Example News"
},
"concepts": [
{
"uri": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_action",
"type": "wiki",
"score": 5,
"label": {
"eng": "Strike action"
}
}
],
"eventUri": "example-cluster"
}
]
}
}GDELT Cloud · connect the context
Separate API calls connect reporting to trends, companies and physical assets.
/events/summary · /stories/summaryTone & share of voiceEntity coverage, tone and attention over time/entity-tone · /share-of-voiceFacility contextAsset records, units and available ownership/facilities/{facility_id}/unitsCompany financialsSEC filings and financial facts/filings/{cik}/factsPolitical officesPublished roles and holding dates for linked people/entities/{entity_id}/officesSituationsMaintained collections of Stories and Events/situations/{story_id}FROM REQUEST TO USEFUL RESULT
Here’s what you can build.
NEWS PRODUCTS
A Story for readers. An Event for your application.
Follow grouped reporting to the classified development and its sources.
Zelensky says US is preparing new investments in Ukraine's defense and energy ↗
Kyiv, Ukraine
Zelensky says US is preparing investments in Ukraine ↗
Make Public Statement · 2026-09-24
Request, response & MCP prompt
Story grouping is automated; article counts describe this recorded example.
curl 'https://gdeltcloud.com/api/v2/stories?date_start=2026-09-18&date_end=2026-09-24&limit=3&include_images=false&include_entity_images=false&sort=recent&country=USA&has_events=true&search=energy&search_mode=lexical' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'Original request · captured 2026-09-25. The current-data link refreshes the discovery dates.
Selected fields from the recorded response
{
"id": "bdc960277019",
"title": "Zelensky says US is preparing new investments in Ukraine's defense and energy",
"story_date": "2026-09-24",
"category": "Economic",
"geo": {
"country": "Ukraine",
"region": "Eastern Europe",
"continent": "Europe",
"admin1": null,
"location": "Kyiv",
"latitude": 50.4501,
"longitude": 30.5234,
"geo_precision": null,
"geo_precision_label": null
},
"metrics": {
"significance": 0.1505,
"article_count": 3,
"linked_event_count": 1,
"max_linked_event_significance": 0.1667,
"civilian_targeting_event_count": 0
}
}Use GDELT Cloud to find recent energy Stories involving the United States and inspect their linked Events. Use a bounded date window. Include source links and report missing coverage.
COMPANY RESEARCH
One company. Connected evidence.
Reuse a company identity across reported developments and SEC filings.
Aolani partners with NVIDIA to expand Southeast Asian AI infrastructure ↗
Singapore, Singapore
Announced September 21; planned deployments are forward-looking.
Read supporting source ↗NVIDIA CORP
CIK 1045810 · NVDA
8-K ↗
2026-09-03
N-PX ↗
2026-08-31
Request, response & MCP prompt
Filing relationships are dated disclosures, not a live supplier network.
curl 'https://gdeltcloud.com/api/v2/events?date_start=2026-09-19&date_end=2026-09-25&limit=20&include_images=false&include_entity_images=false&entity=e_2af946de69c91484&sort=significance' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'Original request · captured 2026-09-26. The current-data link refreshes the discovery dates.
Selected fields from the recorded response
{
"id": "cameoplus_283919d2e20f0a8a",
"title": "Aolani partners with NVIDIA to expand Southeast Asian AI infrastructure",
"event_date": "2026-09-21",
"event_date_basis": "explicit_date",
"subcategory_label": "Critical Tech Infrastructure",
"category": "TECHNOLOGY",
"geo": {
"country": "Singapore",
"region": "Southeast Asia",
"continent": "Asia",
"admin1": null,
"location": "Singapore",
"latitude": 1.3521,
"longitude": 103.8198,
"geo_precision": 2,
"geo_precision_label": "nearby_area"
},
"metrics": {
"significance": 0.4152,
"severity_tier": "low",
"goldstein_scale": null,
"magnitude": 4,
"systemic_importance": 0.28,
"propagation_potential": 0.43,
"market_sensitivity": 0.5,
"confidence": 0.86,
"article_count": 2,
"evidence_source_count": 1,
"supporting_story_count": 1,
"metric_inputs": {
"magnitude": {
"path": "economic",
"value": 4,
"why": "The collaboration expands Aolani's AI factory capacity to more than 100 MW and supports deployment of over 48,000 GPUs, but the additional 22,000 GPUs are expected only in early 2027."
},
"systemic": {
"node": "Aolani AI factory infrastructure",
"size": {
"value": 0.3,
"why": "The infrastructure is regionally significant but is not reported as globally dominant capacity."
},
"interconnectedness": {
"value": 0.4,
"why": "The planned cloud services would serve AI companies, enterprises, startups, developers and institutions across Southeast Asia."
},
"irreplaceability": {
"value": 0.15,
"why": "Alternative cloud and accelerated-computing providers exist."
}
},
"propagation": {
"channel": {
"value": 0.5,
"why": "The collaboration creates operational and financing channels connecting NVIDIA technology, Aolani cloud services and regional AI customers."
},
"coupling": {
"value": 0.25,
"why": "Deployment is planned for early 2027 and the revenue-sharing model provides flexibility rather than indicating tight coupling."
},
"breach": {
"value": 0.2,
"why": "The article describes a major regional collaboration but does not establish a first-of-kind technical threshold being crossed."
},
"primed": {
"value": 0.3,
"why": "The announcement occurs amid regional efforts to expand access to AI compute, but no acute crisis or deadline is reported."
},
"containment": {
"value": 0.1,
"why": "No meaningful dampers or constraints are reported."
}
},
"market": {
"claim_exposure": {
"value": 0.8,
"why": "Aolani and NVIDIA are specifically named parties to the compute infrastructure collaboration."
},
"economic_bite": {
"value": 0.2,
"why": "The current event is a signed collaboration and announced financing/deployment plan; the expanded GPU capacity is not yet operational."
}
}
},
"metric_version": "v2-2026-07-24"
}
}Use GDELT Cloud to find recent NVIDIA developments and connect its entity identity to SEC EDGAR filings. Use a bounded date window. Include source links and report missing coverage.
GDELT CLOUD · OBSERVED API OUTPUT
Follow the developing situation.
Situations connect source-linked Stories, coded Events and entities into an evolving view of the news.
Trump sends envoys to Moscow and Kyiv with proposal to end Ukraine war
Selected reporting: Sep 19–25, 2026 · saved Sep 26
- Stories
- 272
- Coded Events
- 106
- Article mentions
- 3,275
Summed across member Stories.
Inspect this Situation in API ArenaReporting through the week
Member Stories by reporting date
- Sep 19
- 64
- Sep 20
- 55
- Sep 21
- 51
- Sep 22
- 58
- Sep 23
- 17
- Sep 24
- 18
- Sep 25
- 9
Saved Situation fields & request
Selected native fields and 2 of 20 returned Story rows. Counts describe the selected reporting window; the response is bounded. The saved summary is narrative: null; no generated brief is shown. Member and entity views are bounded; page their dedicated endpoints for more. Article mentions sum member Story counts, not globally unique articles. Collection counts are not independently verified incident counts.
curl 'https://gdeltcloud.com/api/v2/situations/sit_d844b85bdfa24a189182?date_start=2026-09-19&date_end=2026-09-25&limit=20' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'
WORKS WELL TOGETHER
GDELT Cloud complements NewsAPI.ai.
Events, summaries and ongoing Situation context
Full-text articles and media analysis
Connect article detail to actors, assets and developments
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:
Lyon
FranceRue des Archers, Lyon
20minutes.fr ↗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.
Both returned local reporting. GDELT Cloud connects Stories to coded, located Events; NewsAPI.ai offers article and cluster location filters plus publisher-location search.
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 | NewsAPI.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Lyon | Found | Found |
| Durban | Found | Found |
| Recife | Found | Not located |
| Surabaya | Found | Not located |
| Pune | Found | Found |
| Winnipeg | Found | 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=50MORE ANSWERS FROM THE SAME SUBSCRIPTION
From news coverage to useful context.
Actual NVIDIA results · September 19–25, 2026
See where the reporting travels.
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.
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=20AGGREGATES, 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.
/events/summary/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
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 plans1,500 Query Units included
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. NewsAPI.ai / Event Registry is a different service from NewsAPI.org.