Currents vs MarketAux

Currents API returns real-time and historical global news as JSON, with search filterable by language, keyword, country, category, and date range. A free account includes 1,000 requests/day — enough for prototyping — before paid plans raise the ceiling for production traffic. Authentication is a single API key passed on every request.

Marketaux focuses on financial and stock-market news, tagging articles with entities, tickers, and a -1 to +1 sentiment score across over 200,000 entities and 5,000+ sources in 30+ languages. The free plan allows 100 requests/day returning up to 3 articles each; paid Basic through Pro 50K tiers raise both the daily request cap and articles-per-request limit, plus unlock the entity-level Market Stats endpoint. Access is JSON over a single API-key parameter.