Athena News API
Athena News API returns current and historical news from more than 50,000 sources as enriched JSON for analysis. Analysts and data teams can use its article content, sentiment, entities, topics, relationships, and embeddings in monitoring, intelligence, and machine-learning workflows.
Who it's for
- Media monitoring teams that need news coverage across regions, languages, and more than 50,000 sources.
- Risk and financial intelligence analysts who use news context to assess risk or support financial models.
- Data and machine-learning teams that need structured, enriched current or historical news as model or search input.
Not the right fit if…
- Teams that require full text from articles behind a login or paywall: Athena says full article content is returned only when it is not behind those access restrictions.
How it fits your workflow
Create an account, then send HTTP POST requests to the REST API for current or historical news. Results are returned as JSON, and filters can be used to customize queries.
Use article content and available enrichment—including sentiment, entity links and relationships, topics, and embeddings—in analytics, monitoring, financial intelligence, or machine-learning applications. Each successful request can return 25 articles.
Pricing
Free: A free account is available for development, and the page says no credit card is required to start. Other plan prices and details are not stated.
Free development account
Free; no credit card required to start.
- · Free account for development
Prices checked on Nov 2, 2026 from the vendor's site. They can change; confirm before you buy.
Key features
- Global news coverage
- Aggregates and indexes news from more than 50,000 sources worldwide, with coverage across regions, industries, and topics.
- Historical news archive
- Provides historical articles dating back to 2007, supporting long-term trend analysis and backtesting.
- Sentiment analysis
- Adds sentiment analysis to help users assess changing market trends and customer preferences.
- Entity extraction and linking
- Uses language models to identify entities in articles and link them to real-world knowledge bases.
- Entity relationships
- Maps connections between entities to provide additional context for analysis.
- Topic analysis
- Identifies the main themes in articles automatically.
Limitations to know
- Each successful request can retrieve 25 news articles.
- The page does not state plan prices beyond offering a free development account.
Alternatives to consider
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AskNews
Choose it if you need news infrastructure described as including paywalled sources and model-ready context for LLMs, agents, and forecasting systems.
Getting started
- Create a free account; no credit card is required to start.
- Send HTTP POST requests to the REST API to retrieve news as JSON.
- Customize results with the available filters.
Frequently asked questions
How many websites does Athena index?
Athena aggregates and indexes news from more than 50,000 sources worldwide.
How far back does the news archive go?
The archive extends back to 2007 and contains more than 15 years of historical data.
Does Athena return the full article content?
It returns the full article content when the article is not behind a login or paywall.
What counts as a request?
A request is a successful query that returns HTTP 200, whether made through the Athena web app or News API. Each request can retrieve 25 news articles.
How often are new articles added?
Athena monitors sites at intervals ranging from every 2 minutes to once an hour, adapting to each site's publication frequency.