Hivewire vs GNews
GNews is a straightforward article search API with full content on paid plans and an archive reaching back to 2020. Hivewire returns clustered stories: one cited record per event with a summary and significance score.
The structural differences
GNews claims checked August 2026 against their published pricing.
| GNEWS | HIVEWIRE | |
|---|---|---|
| Unit of data | Article; full content on paid plans | Clustered story: summary, significance, and source attribution |
| Free tier | Non-commercial only, 12-hour delay, 100 requests/day, 10 articles/request | Real-time, non-commercial production use, 1,000 credits/month |
| Per-request caps | 25 / 50 / 100 articles per request by tier; a broad query becomes several billed calls | None; a story's sources come attached |
| Paid tiers | €49.99–€249.99/mo | $29–$99/mo |
| De-duplication, ranking, summaries | — | Built in on every tier |
When to choose GNews
Genuinely: if you want a simple "show recent headlines for keyword X" widget and nothing else, GNews does that with the least ceremony, and it's easy to integrate. If a plain reverse-chronological headline list is the whole feature, clustering is machinery you don't need.
When to choose us
Choose Hivewire when article overlap would consume an agent's context window, repeat stories to a reader, or force you to maintain de-duplication code. It also adds significance ranking, semantic search, and learning feeds. The free plan can run in production for non-commercial projects.