Perigon
Editor's pick #1Context-rich news API with public tiers and built-in monitors
Founded: 2022 | Austin, Texas, USA | Team: 11–50
Full article textHistorical archiveNLP enrichmentStory/event clusteringStreaming/webhooksLLM/agent tooling
What is Perigon?
Perigon was founded in 2022 by Joshua Dziabiak and Josh Rickel, is based in Austin, Texas, and closed a $5 million seed round led by LiveOak Ventures in February 2024. The API collects from more than 230,000 sources (per company website; independently unverifiable) and returns articles with entities, topics, summaries and story clusters, plus Monitors that run saved queries on a schedule. All three plans are public: Individual at $25 a month for personal use, Startup at $250 with limited commercial rights, and Commercial at $1,250 with real-time data, an SLA and SSO. Below the Commercial tier, data carries a one-hour delay unless you buy the real-time add-on.
Typical uses: AI & LLM apps, Media monitoring, Risk & compliance, Marketing & PR. What sets it apart: Published plans from $25 with enrichment and saved-query monitors included.
What does the Perigon API include?
REST APIJSONPython SDKNode.js SDKWebhooks
| Capability |
|---|
| Full article text |
| Historical archive |
| NLP enrichment |
| Story/event clustering |
| Streaming/webhooks |
| LLM/agent tooling |
Perigon pricing
Short answer: the pricing model is monthly plans; add-ons for real-time and volume. Entry price: $25/mo.
| Access model | What it means |
|---|---|
| Free trial | Time- or credit-limited trial before a paid plan |
| Monthly plans | Self-serve subscription with published quotas |
| Enterprise contract | Negotiated licence covering volume, rights and SLA |
API prices and quotas change often. Check Perigon's own pricing page before you commit, and confirm that your use is covered by the licence.
Perigon pros and cons
| Advantages | Things to consider |
|---|---|
| +Even the $25 tier returns entity and topic data instead of bare headlines | -Real-time data costs extra below the $1,250 Commercial plan; otherwise expect a one-hour delay |
| +Monitors turn a saved query into a recurring alert without extra code | -Request quotas are tight for the price, with 10,000 a month on Startup |
| +The Commercial tier bundles a 10+ year archive, an SLA and SSO in one price | -The license does not cover republishing full article text |
| +License terms spell out that you are buying the structured data, which helps legal review |
Perigon vs alternatives
How Perigon compares to the other top News APIs.
| API | Best for | Key difference | Rating | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NewsCatcher | AI products and monitoring tools needing enriched, deduplicated... | Articles arrive already summarised, clustered and geotagged, so there is less post-processing on your side | 4.7 | Full comparison |
| Webz.io | Data teams needing deep archives and broad source... | Largest claimed source count on this list and history going back to 2008 | 4.4 | Full comparison |
| Dow Jones Factiva | Enterprises needing licensed premium news for AI or... | Publisher-cleared rights to use paywalled premium content in generative-AI products | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| NewsData.io | Small teams wanting wide country coverage on a... | Daily free credits plus filters for 206 countries and 89 languages | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry) | Multilingual event tracking for analysts and research teams. | Merges articles about the same real-world event across languages into one event record | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| LexisNexis Nexis Data+ | Legal, compliance and research teams needing licensed news... | Licensed news, legal filings, patents and sanctions data under one contract | 4.2 | Full comparison |
| Opoint | Monitoring platforms and AML teams needing non-English coverage. | Built as a wholesale feed with heavy non-English and local coverage | 4.2 | Full comparison |
| GNews | Indie developers needing affordable commercial news access. | Two simple endpoints with commercial rights from €49.99 a month | 4.1 | Full comparison |
| GDELT Project | Researchers and data scientists with no budget. | Free global coverage with 15-minute updates and BigQuery access | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| Exa | RAG and agent builders needing semantic news retrieval. | Meaning-based search finds relevant pages even when the keywords differ | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| Tavily | Agent developers wanting news results in one tool... | Prompt-ready extracted content, with integrations for LangChain and LlamaIndex | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| NewsAPI.org | Developers who want the most documented, familiar news... | More tutorials and community libraries than any other news API, which shortens learning time | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| World News API | Small apps wanting sentiment and geo filters at... | Location-radius and sentiment filters from the $39 plan up | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| Quantexa News API (Aylien) | Existing Aylien users and Quantexa platform customers. | Mature entity, category and sentiment tagging inherited from Aylien's NLP work | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| Brave Search API | Teams wanting an independent, non-Google news search index. | Its own crawler and index, independent of Google and Bing | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| AP Media API | Publishers and platforms licensing AP journalism. | Primary-source wire content with publishing rights from AP itself | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| RavenPack (Bigdata.com) | Quant funds and financial AI products. | Two decades of entity-level news sentiment built for trading signals | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| SerpApi Google News | Developers who specifically want Google News rankings. | Mirrors Google News results and story groupings as JSON | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Reuters Connect | Media companies licensing Reuters wire content. | Reuters' own global reporting with publishing rights | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Mediastack | Hobby projects and low-volume apps on a tight... | Paid plans from $24.99 with commercial use and historical data | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Guardian Open Platform | Students, researchers and non-commercial apps. | Free full article text with editorial tags from a major publisher | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Diffbot | Teams building custom news collection from chosen sites. | Turns any article URL into clean structured data linked to a Knowledge Graph | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Benzinga | Brokerages and trading apps needing fast market headlines. | Original market newswire plus ratings and earnings events in one feed | 3.7 | Full comparison |
| Marketaux | Fintech side projects needing ticker-tagged news cheaply. | Per-entity sentiment scores on every article, even on the free plan | 3.7 | Full comparison |
| Finnhub | Developers who need market data and news from... | Company news bundled with quotes, fundamentals and estimates | 3.6 | Full comparison |
| TheNewsAPI | Personal projects that need a cheap general feed. | Possibly the cheapest paid tier among general news APIs, if third-party pricing is current | 3.6 | Full comparison |
| NYT Developer APIs | Historians and students researching Times coverage. | Searchable metadata for the full Times archive since 1851 | 3.5 | Full comparison |
| APITube | Developers willing to trial a newer, feature-rich API. | Entity and sentiment filters offered on lower tiers | 3.5 | Full comparison |
| Currents API | Students and hobbyists testing news features for free. | A free tier that developer roundups often single out as generous | 3.4 | Full comparison |
Perigon FAQ
What is Perigon?
Context-rich news API with public tiers and built-in monitors
How much does Perigon charge?
Pricing model: monthly plans; add-ons for real-time and volume. The cheapest paid access listed is $25/mo. Free access: yes, with limits.
Which formats and SDKs does Perigon support?
Perigon offers REST API, JSON, Python SDK, Node.js SDK, Webhooks.
Is Perigon right for enterprise?
Yes, Perigon sells enterprise contracts. Main caveat: Real-time data costs extra below the $1,250 Commercial plan; otherwise expect a one-hour delay.
What are the best Perigon alternatives?
The best alternatives to Perigon depend on your use case. Top options are:
- NewsCatcher: articles arrive already summarised, clustered and geotagged, so there is less post-processing on your side
- Webz.io: largest claimed source count on this list and history going back to 2008
- Dow Jones Factiva: publisher-cleared rights to use paywalled premium content in generative-ai products
Compare Perigon with other News APIs
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Verify all details directly with Perigon before making a decision.