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Reviewed 2026-09-26 · Seerist: documentation review.How we compared ↗

GDELT CLOUD VS SEERIST

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GDELT Cloud capability and pricing comparison. Checkmarks mean available. Values link directly to their sources.
Compare the offeringGDELT CloudCONNECTED WORLD DATASeerist
Primary focusWorld news + connected intelligence — sourceOperational risk intelligence — source
Context beyond the newsFinancials · infrastructure · macro · maritime · AI · public records — sourceAnalyst assessments · country & asset risk — source
Structured developmentsCoded Events · actors · locations — sourceAI events + analyst-verified layer — source
Multilingual story clusteringAvailable: Multilingual clusters (Stories) — sourceExploreAI timelines — source
Read the source evidenceSource URLs + excerpts — sourceSource provenance — source
Resolve people, companies & placesAvailable: Linked identities + dataset bridges — sourceLocations + assets — source
News-source languages54 in direct-source catalog + GDELT — source50+ languages — source
Countries & territories230 · Aug 27–Sep 25, 2026 — source190+ · PulseAI — source
News-source catalogHundreds of thousands · GDELT upstream — source+430 direct-source catalog outlets35,000+ sources — source
Local news & geographic targetingRadius · bbox · regions — sourceAsset radii + verified locations — source
Measure reporting & sentimentSummary APIs · entity tone · share of voice — sourceSentiment + PulseAI — source
Analysis & verificationAutomated intelligence + source evidence — sourceAI + human analysts — source
API & AI integrationAvailable: REST + MCP — sourceAvailable: REST + SSE — source
Monitor & deliver updatesScheduled Monitors · email / webhooks — sourceAlerts + escalation — source
Look back through reportingNews from March 2026; dataset histories vary — source12+ years verified — source
Getting startedAvailable: Self-serve free account — sourceSales-led demo — source
Paid access · USD / month$59 / month — source1,500 QU included$6,250 / month — sourceAnnual equivalent · $75,000/year
AWS package · minimum 5 users
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FIVE-SEAT TEAM · ANNUAL COMMITMENT

Compare the monthly team budget.

GDELT Cloud · Analyst$332.5 / month equivalent

$3,990 billed annually · 5 seats

10,000 QU / month · connected datasets, APIs and Monitors.

GDELT Cloud pricing
Seerist · AWS Marketplace package$6,250 / month equivalent

$75,000 / 12-month contract · minimum 5 named users

Analyst content and X.com access. Other enterprise offers differ.

Seerist package

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.

Builder · $59/month3 daily Monitors90 scheduled checksper 30 days, at full capacity

Plus 1,500 QU for on-demand API jobs

Watch · $149/month10 daily Monitors300 scheduled checksper 30 days, at full capacity

Plus 3,000 QU for on-demand API jobs

Analyst · $399/month30 hourly Monitors21,600 scheduled checksper 30 days, at full capacity

Plus 10,000 QU for on-demand API jobs

Intelligence · $899/month75 hourly Monitors54,000 scheduled checksper 30 days, at full capacity

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 ↗

Annual budgets for different product bundles. Confirm Seerist API entitlement with sales. Prices checked 2026-09-26.

FROM REQUEST TO USEFUL RESULT

Here’s what you can build.

01

COUNTRY RESEARCH

A country brief starts with usable records.

Bring classified developments and energy infrastructure into your own analysis.

GDELT Cloud · events
Fiscal Policy Action

Thailand issues THB25 billion sustainability-linked sovereign bond ↗

Bangkok, Thailand

Typed record1 source articleDate inferred from publication
Read supporting source ↗
Energy infrastructure · same country

304 Industrial Park power station ↗

THA · operating · registry 2026-08-31

A.T. Biopower Rice Husk Power Project ↗

THA · operating · registry 2026-08-31

Advance Agro power station ↗

THA · operating · registry 2026-08-31

Reporting and infrastructure have independent dates; a country match does not establish impact.

Request, response & MCP prompt

Reporting and infrastructure have independent dates; a country match does not establish impact.

curl 'https://gdeltcloud.com/api/v2/events?date_start=2026-09-18&date_end=2026-09-24&limit=3&include_images=false&include_entity_images=false&sort=significance&country=THA&country_match=location' \
  -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": "cameoplus_8a010063ddd1d9f3",
  "title": "Thailand issues THB25 billion sustainability-linked sovereign bond",
  "event_date": "2026-09-18",
  "event_date_basis": "publication_day_inference",
  "subcategory_label": "Fiscal Policy Action",
  "category": "ECONOMIC",
  "geo": {
    "country": "Thailand",
    "region": "Southeast Asia",
    "continent": "Asia",
    "admin1": null,
    "location": "Bangkok",
    "latitude": 13.7563,
    "longitude": 100.5018,
    "geo_precision": 2,
    "geo_precision_label": "nearby_area"
  },
  "metrics": {
    "significance": 0.4446,
    "severity_tier": "low",
    "goldstein_scale": null,
    "magnitude": 4,
    "systemic_importance": 0.27,
    "propagation_potential": 0.36,
    "market_sensitivity": 0.8,
    "confidence": 0.9,
    "article_count": 1,
    "evidence_source_count": 1,
    "supporting_story_count": 1,
    "metric_inputs": {
      "magnitude": {
        "path": "economic",
        "value": 4,
        "why": "Thailand issued a THB25 billion, 15-year 8-month sovereign sustainability-linked bond, a significant but not systemic fiscal financing action."
      },
      "systemic": {
        "node": "Thailand sovereign debt market",
        "size": {
          "value": 0.35,
          "why": "The transaction is a sizable sovereign issuance but concerns Thailand's domestic funding market."
        },
        "interconnectedness": {
          "value": 0.3,
          "why": "The bond attracted domestic and international capital, but no broad financial-system dependence is reported."
        },
        "irreplaceability": {
          "value": 0.15,
          "why": "Thailand's sovereign bond is replaceable within broader regional and global debt markets."
        }
      },
      "propagation": {
        "channel": {
          "value": 0.35,
          "why": "The bond connects Thailand's sovereign financing to domestic and international investors and sustainability-linked capital."
        },
        "coupling": {
          "value": 0.25,
          "why": "The long-dated bond is a financing instrument with no reported immediate liquidity or settlement pressure."
        },
        "breach": {
          "value": 0.1,
          "why": "The article describes Thailand's second sustainability-linked bond, not a breach of a financial barrier."
        },
        "primed": {
          "value": 0.15,
          "why": "No active debt crisis, deadline, or stressed market condition is reported."
        },
        "containment": {
          "value": 0.05,
          "why": "No backstop or rescue mechanism is mentioned; the transaction itself was completed through normal funding channels."
        }
      },
      "market": {
        "claim_exposure": {
          "value": 1,
          "why": "The article names the specific sovereign bond SLB425A and reports its THB25 billion issuance and 15-year 8-month terms."
        },
        "economic_bite": {
          "value": 0.6,
          "why": "The sovereign bond was issued as a live funding instrument, creating an in-force debt claim with defined maturity and sustainability-linked KPIs."
        }
      }
    },
    "metric_version": "v2-2026-07-24"
  }
}

Use GDELT Cloud to find recent developments in Thailand and add independently dated energy infrastructure. Use a bounded date window. Include source links and report missing coverage.

02

DISRUPTION MONITORING

From a reported strike to a place on your map.

Filter by event type and location, then add nearby infrastructure.

GDELT Cloud · events
Transport Disruption

Skeyes strike cancels 46 flights at Charleroi airport ↗

Brussels South Charleroi Airport, Belgium

Typed record3 source articles
Read supporting source ↗
Infrastructure within 50 km

Amercoeur power station ↗

BEL · mixed · registry 2026-08-31

Amercoeur power station ↗

BEL · retired · registry 2026-08-31

Aperam Stainless Belgium Châtelet steel plant ↗

BEL · operating · registry 2026-08-31

Nearby facilities are context; proximity does not establish impact.

Request, response & MCP prompt

Nearby facilities are context; proximity does not establish impact.

curl 'https://gdeltcloud.com/api/v2/events?date_start=2026-09-18&date_end=2026-09-24&limit=3&include_images=false&include_entity_images=false&sort=significance&bbox=34%2C-25%2C72%2C45&search=strike&search_mode=lexical&category=Protests%2CINFRASTRUCTURE%2CECONOMIC%2CCORPORATE&confidence_min=0.5&significance_min=0.1' \
  -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": "cameoplus_01fcad65572e8b3d",
  "title": "Skeyes strike cancels 46 flights at Charleroi airport",
  "event_date": "2026-09-19",
  "event_date_basis": "explicit_date",
  "subcategory_label": "Transport Disruption",
  "category": "INFRASTRUCTURE",
  "geo": {
    "country": "Belgium",
    "region": "Europe",
    "continent": "Europe",
    "admin1": "Hainaut",
    "location": "Brussels South Charleroi Airport",
    "latitude": 50.4592,
    "longitude": 4.4538,
    "geo_precision": 1,
    "geo_precision_label": "exact_place"
  },
  "metrics": {
    "significance": 0.4185,
    "severity_tier": "low",
    "goldstein_scale": null,
    "magnitude": 3,
    "systemic_importance": 0.37,
    "propagation_potential": 0.55,
    "market_sensitivity": 0.38,
    "confidence": 0.97,
    "article_count": 3,
    "evidence_source_count": 1,
    "supporting_story_count": 1,
    "metric_inputs": {
      "magnitude": {
        "path": "economic",
        "value": 3,
        "why": "The Skeyes strike caused 46 flight cancellations at a major Belgian airport, a significant but localized transport disruption."
      },
      "systemic": {
        "node": "Brussels South Charleroi Airport",
        "size": {
          "value": 0.35,
          "why": "The airport is a significant regional passenger hub, but the article gives no evidence that it is a national or global chokepoint."
        },
        "interconnectedness": {
          "value": 0.45,
          "why": "Flight cancellations affect passengers, airlines, and connecting travel services."
        },
        "irreplaceability": {
          "value": 0.3,
          "why": "Flights can potentially be rerouted through other airports, although the article does not detail available alternatives."
        }
      },
      "propagation": {
        "channel": {
          "value": 0.65,
          "why": "Operational dependency connects air traffic control directly to airport departures and arrivals, with effects on airlines and passengers."
        },
        "coupling": {
          "value": 0.7,
          "why": "Air traffic control is required for scheduled operations, and the nighttime walkouts directly cancel flights during the affected period."
        },
        "breach": {
          "value": 0.35,
          "why": "The strike represents a service disruption at the airport, but no unprecedented or previously impassable threshold is reported."
        },
        "primed": {
          "value": 0.3,
          "why": "The article reports scheduled flights and passenger stranding risks but no broader aviation-system stress."
        },
        "containment": {
          "value": 0.25,
          "why": "Passengers retain rebooking, refunds, meals, and accommodation rights, but no operational restoration or alternative capacity is reported."
        }
      },
      "market": {
        "claim_exposure": {
          "value": 0.35,
          "why": "The article states a material change to air transport capacity at Brussels South Charleroi Airport, affecting dozens of flights, but does not identify a specific traded operator as the subject."
        },
        "economic_bite": {
          "value": 0.4,
          "why": "The disruption is in force but partial and time-bounded: 46 flights were canceled for Saturday amid nightly strike action."
        }
      }
    },
    "metric_version": "v2-2026-07-24"
  }
}

Use GDELT Cloud to find reported European transport strikes and inspect nearby infrastructure. 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.

Situation · connected reporting over time

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 Arena

Reporting 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
Read the evidenceMember Story IDs lead to source articles and linked Events.
Keep the contextSee the wider history or zoom into a selected reporting window.
Inspect the castEntity links identify reporting connections; actor roles come from Events.
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'

Situations API and membership semantics ↗

THE WORKFLOW FIT

Data for your analysts. Context for your decisions.

GDELT Cloud

Connected data for your application

Events + Storiesentity tone + SOVpolitical officesphysical assetssummary APIs

Combine developments and reference data in your own workflow.

Seerist

Assessments and operational alerts

verified eventsanalyst contentasset alertsescalation

Use analyst intelligence and alert routing in an operational platform.

WORKS WELL TOGETHER

GDELT Cloud complements Seerist.

Use both in the same workflow
GDELT Cloud

Situations, Events and connected physical assets

Seerist

Analyst assessments and operational escalation

Together

Give analysts connected data alongside verified intelligence

Explore the GDELT Cloud workflow

A GEOGRAPHIC API COMPARISON

Local news. Global reach.

6 city areas · 5 continents

GDELT Cloud returned local reporting in every city area we tested. Selected results from September 19–25, 2026:

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

Build geographic workflows with GDELT Cloud’s located Events and connected facilities. Seerist documents local reporting, asset-radius monitoring and an analyst-geolocated Verified Events layer.

Try a geographic query
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=50

Durban: 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=50

Recife: 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=50

Surabaya: 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=50

Pune: 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=50

Winnipeg: 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=50

MORE ANSWERS FROM THE SAME SUBSCRIPTION

From news coverage to useful context.

Actual NVIDIA results · September 19–25, 2026

LANGUAGE COVERAGE16 languages

See where the reporting travels.

EnglishChineseGreekPortugueseArabicSpanish

Source languages represented in this entity’s scored news evidence.

ENTITY TONE63 scored Stories

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.

SHARE OF VOICE2.72%

Put attention in perspective.

14of514Stories

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=20

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/summary
1,076Stories/stories/summary
Open this request in API Arena

Thailand 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 plans
BuilderMONTHLY 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
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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.