finlight.me
Real-time financial and geopolitical news API enhanced with AI-driven insights for smarter decision-making.
About finlight.me
finlight.me offers a robust and user-friendly News API that delivers real-time and historical financial and geopolitical news from trusted sources worldwide. It provides comprehensive full-text articles, sentiment analysis, and AI-powered intelligence to support trading, risk assessment, and market analytics. Designed for speed and accuracy, it enables users to filter out noise, focus on relevant updates, and make faster, informed decisions with structured news data delivered in milliseconds.
How to Use
finlight.me's News API is designed for seamless integration by developers via simple HTTP GET requests or WebSocket connections. Customize your news feed by applying filters such as keywords, boolean operators, date ranges, sorting preferences, source, and language. The API returns fast, structured JSON results suitable for real-time and historical financial news applications, enabling efficient data retrieval and analysis.
Features
- Global news coverage from trusted sources
- Advanced sentiment analysis capabilities
- Access to historical news data from 2007 onward (Pro plans)
- Supports REST and WebSocket protocols
- Full-text news article access
- Simple JSON format for easy integration
- Real-time updates on financial and geopolitical news
- Sophisticated query options including keywords, boolean logic, date filters, sorting, and source targeting
- AI-powered insights for market sentiment and impact analysis
Use Cases
- Financial risk assessment
- Real-time news alerts and event tracking
- Algorithmic trading strategies
- Market analytics and trend analysis
- Building comprehensive financial dashboards
- Developing sentiment analysis tools
- Creating news aggregators for finance
Best For
Pros
- Transparent, flexible pricing models with no hidden fees
- Powerful filtering and query customization options
- Multiple support channels including Discord, email, and dedicated managers
- Global coverage from reputable sources worldwide
- Scalable plans suitable for different needs
- Free tier available for testing and small projects
- AI-driven insights such as sentiment analysis and market impact predictions
- User-friendly integration with REST and WebSocket support and straightforward JSON responses
- Real-time and historical news data delivery
Cons
- The free 'Launchpad' plan has significant limitations, including a 12-hour delay, no full content, no sentiment analysis, no WebSocket streams, and no historical data
- Advanced features like unlimited requests, custom AI/NLP solutions, and on-premise deployment are exclusive to enterprise plans
Pricing Plans
Choose the perfect plan. All plans include 24/7 support.
Launchpad
Ideal for individuals and small teams, offering 5,000 requests per month, with delayed real-time access (12 hours), Discord support. Does not include full article content, sentiment analysis, WebSocket streams, or historical data.
Get StartedPro Light
Designed for startups and small teams, providing 10,000 requests monthly, real-time access, full article content, and email support. Does not include sentiment analysis, WebSocket streams, or historical data since 2007.
Get StartedPro Standard
Unlock full capabilities with 50,000 requests per month, real-time updates, full articles, sentiment analysis, one WebSocket stream, and historical data from 2007. Includes email and priority support.
Get StartedPro Scale
Ideal for growing businesses, offering 150,000 requests monthly, real-time news, full articles, sentiment insights, three WebSocket streams, and historical data since 2007. Features priority support and a dedicated account manager.
Get StartedCustom
Enterprise solutions tailored for large organizations requiring unlimited requests, multiple WebSocket streams, custom source onboarding, on-premise or private cloud deployment, personalized AI integrations, dedicated account management, SLAs, and custom contracts.
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