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mediastack alternative: news data that's already scored and classified
mediastack is a solid choice if you want the widest raw feed at the lowest price — 12,000+ sources across ~50 countries for $24.99/mo. If what you actually need is enriched news — every article scored for urgency, tagged by political lean, topic and country, and clustered by event — that's where NewsAgent Data is built differently.
mediastack vs NewsAgent Data
| mediastack | NewsAgent Data | |
|---|---|---|
| Source breadth | 12,000+ sources, ~50 countries | ~3,900 active, RU+EN focused + 190+ countries tagged |
| Languages | 13 (shallow) | Deep RU + EN (scored), 10+ more for coverage |
| Urgency scoring (0–10) | ✗ | ✓ 300+ patterns |
| Political-lean classification | ✗ | ✓ 9-category |
| Topic / audience tags | ✗ | ✓ 27 topics, 6 audiences |
| Event clustering | ✗ | ✓ |
| Telegram channels | No — RSS/web only | ✓ thousands |
| What you get per article | raw article text, no scoring or classification | title, content, urgency, lean, topic, country, audience, cluster, timestamp |
| Entry price | $24.99/mo entry | Free tier · paid from $29/mo |
Which should you pick?
Stay with mediastack if you want the broadest possible raw feed and you'll run your own NLP (scoring, classification, dedup) on top.
Choose NewsAgent Data if you'd rather skip building that pipeline — you want articles that arrive pre-scored and pre-classified, with Telegram coverage that web-only APIs miss, and genuine depth in Russian + English. Filter by urgency, lean, topic and country in a single call.
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://api.newsagentdata.com/v1/feed?min_score=7&topic=sanctions&country=ru"
# → already scored, classified, de-duplicated
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