Unzoi vs Newsdata.io

Credits are not requests, and the difference compounds

Billing is in credits, and how many articles a credit buys changes with the tier — ten on free, fifty on paid. This means cost per query depends on how much comes back, which is exactly the variable you control least. A query on a quiet day and the same query during a major event consume different amounts of budget, and the second is when you most need it to work. Forecasting requires you to model result volume rather than request volume, and most teams discover this after the first busy month rather than before it.

Capability is tiered, which distorts evaluation

Sentiment, the archive endpoint and the count endpoint unlock at different price points. The practical effect is that the version you evaluate is not the version you deploy, so evaluation tells you about the API's shape but not about whether it solves your problem. Teams routinely build against the free tier, move to Basic, then find the feature they designed around sits at Professional. That is a pricing decision rather than a technical limitation, but it costs you a rewrite either way.

Country filtering is their strongest axis

They expose country as a first-class filter across a very wide list, and they have built the content footprint to match — nearly four thousand programmatic pages covering country and category combinations. If your product is organised around "news from this country in this category", that is a real advantage, and today we cannot match it.

When should I choose Newsdata.io over Unzoi?

Where Newsdata.io is the better choice:

• Wide country and category coverage, and they expose it as first-class filters
• A long historical archive on the top tier
• Sentiment and tagging included rather than sold separately

Where an agent-first buyer hits friction

• Capability is tiered: sentiment, archive and count endpoints unlock at different prices, so evaluation does not tell you what production will behave like
• Credits rather than requests means cost per query depends on how many articles come back
• No MCP surface

Does Newsdata.io have an MCP server?

Not as of 2026-07-29. Newsdata.io publishes a REST API and no first-party MCP server, so connecting it to an agent means writing a tool wrapper and keeping it in step with their API as it changes.

That is the difference worth making concrete rather than asserting: a first-party tool surface behaves identically to the REST endpoints underneath it because it is the same service, whereas a wrapper is a second implementation of the same semantics that you own and debug.

What we measured ourselves

Our own observations of their public surface on 2026-07-29, as distinct from the claims above, which are theirs.

What does Newsdata.io cost?

From their pricing page, 2026-07-29. Prices move — theirs is authoritative.

The bottom line

What they advertise

Their published claims, not our measurements — taken from newsdata.io so they can be checked against the source rather than taken on ours.

• Sentiment analysis and AI tags on higher tiers
• Historical archive up to 10 years