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AskNews
✓ verifiedFreemium
Licensed news API and data layer for AI apps, delivering enriched, structured multi-source news context at low latency.
1.3K visits/mo
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ImageKit
✓ verifiedFreemium
ImageKit is an image and video optimization and delivery API with a DAM and creative automation for developers and teams.
1.0M visits/mo
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No public pricing
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Core features
- ✦News API with structured, enriched data
- ✦Thousands of licensed multilingual sources
- ✦Sentiment, knowledge graphs and story tracking
- ✦LangChain tools for agentic workflows
- ✦Low-latency synthetic news context
- ✦Analyst dashboard (Newsplunker)
- ✦Real-time image/video optimization and URL-based transforms
- ✦AI and GenAI transforms (smart crop, background removal, generative fill, upscaling)
- ✦Global CDN delivery with sub-50ms response
- ✦AI-powered digital asset management
- ✦Creative automation for on-brand banners at scale
- ✦SDKs and integrations for major stacks and CMSs
Use cases
- →Grounding LLM apps in current news
- →Geopolitical and risk analysis
- →Forecasting and research pipelines
- →Monitoring developing stories
- →Speeding up website and app media performance
- →Optimizing e-commerce and media images and video
- →Centralized digital asset management and collaboration
- →Adaptive video streaming
- →Generating thousands of on-brand banner variations
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