Financial news API for AI agents
A stock news API your agent can ask in plain English. Get back the news events that answer it, each with its source.
Get set up in minutes. Free tier, no card required.
Request
POST /v1/search
{
"query": "What's moving semiconductor stocks this week?",
"types": ["brief"],
"limit": 1
}Response
{
"type": "brief",
"title": "Samsung Overlaps SK Hynix in Q3 HBM Revenue as AI Memory Surges",
"published_at": "2026-10-26T07:39:26Z",
"publishers": ["cryptobriefing.com", "koreaherald.com", "fool.com"],
"summary": "Surging demand for artificial intelligence memory chips is reshaping the global semiconductor rankings. According to Bernstein estimates, Samsung Electronics generated about $8.7 billion in high-bandwidth memory revenue in the third quarter of 2026, surpassing SK Hynix at roughly $7.6 billion…",
"url": "https://finks.ai/briefs/2utQaZrwEXBF"
}Real response, test key, 26 Oct 2026. Trimmed.
How news APIs search today
Most filter by ticker or keyword. Finks takes a plain-English query.
- 01
Pick the filters
Most news APIs take tickers, topics, keywords or Boolean queries.
- 02
Sort the results
With many news APIs, the same story arrives from several outlets, and your code decides which to keep.
- 03
Fit the context
Headlines and summaries come back; the question your agent asked is still yours to answer.
With Finks, your agent sends the question and gets back the events that answer it, each with its source.
What a Finks news result contains
Each result is a deduplicated event with its source attached.
- type
- What kind of result it is
- title
- The event's headline
- published_at
- When it was published
- publishers
- The outlets it was built from
- summary
- Finks' summary of the event
- url
- The full brief on finks.ai
Financial news APIs compared
| API | How you query | What comes back | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finks | A plain-English query | Deduplicated events, each with its source | Agents that search in plain English and need a source to verify |
| Benzinga | Tickers, channels, date range, and keyword topics matched in title, tags and body | Title, teaser, full body, URL, image, channels | Full articles from Benzinga's own newsroom, history from 2010 |
| NewsAPI.ai | Keywords, people, organizations, topics, sources, sentiment | Title, full article body, URL, entities, sentiment; articles clustered into events | Full-text news across many outlets, history since 2014 |
| Finnhub | Ticker and date range (North American companies) | Headline, summary, source, URL, related tickers | Company news next to Finnhub's market data |
| Marketaux | Tickers plus Boolean search over title and body | Title, description, snippet, URL, entities with sentiment | Entity-tagged news with sentiment on a free tier |
| Alpha Vantage | Tickers, topics, time range | Title, summary, URL, source, topics, sentiment per ticker | Ticker-level sentiment scores (premium endpoint) |
| StockNewsAPI | Tickers, topics, keywords with AND/OR | News items with sentiment, by ticker and type | Ticker news feeds with sentiment, from 2019 |
Every competitor fact comes from that company's own site, checked 15 Oct 2026. Pricing is left out because it changes; see each vendor's pricing page.
Connect it in minutes
terminal
curl -X POST https://data.finks.ai/v1/search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer fk_test_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "query": "What'\''s moving semiconductor stocks this week?" }'mcp.json
// Copy your MCP URL from the Finks API console
// Cursor: ~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"finks-api": {
"url": "<your MCP URL from the console>",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer fk_test_..." }
}
}
}Who builds with it
- 01
Trading agents
Know what moved a stock, with the story behind it.
- 02
Research agents
Track a company or theme across outlets without duplicates.
- 03
Writing agents
Cite the original report in every story.
Related pages
Questions about financial news APIs
Is there a free financial news API?
Finnhub, Marketaux and NewsAPI.ai list free plans on their pricing pages. Alpha Vantage has a free key, but its news endpoint is premium. Finks: Get set up in minutes. Free tier, no card required.
Does Finks return full article text?
Finks returns two kinds of news results: briefs, which are Finks-written summaries of one event built from several outlets, and full-text articles written by Finks. GET /v1/content/{id} returns the whole record behind any result.
Which news sources does Finks cover?
Finks briefs are built from several news outlets and name the outlets behind each brief. Finks articles are written by Finks.
Can I use it with Claude or Cursor?
Yes. Add the Finks MCP server to any MCP-compatible client with your API key.
How do I get an API key?
Sign up for the Finks API console with your email and create a test key; no card needed. For production access, join the waitlist from the console.
Sources
- Each company's own site: benzinga.com/apis, Benzinga MCP announcement, newsapi.ai, newsapi.ai/plans, finnhub.io/docs/api/company-news, marketaux.com/documentation, alphavantage.co/documentation and stocknewsapi.com/documentation, checked 15 Oct 2026.