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Aligned News

Aligned News is an AI-native intelligence and news platform that synthesizes AI-powered briefings from 63 curated X lists tracking 100,000+ accounts in AI, tech, and science, and publishes Stories, Signals, Reports, and Bundles via web, REST API, and a downloadable MCP server for AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf.

Aligned News publishes 8 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Bundles API, Feed API, Reports API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, News, MCP, and Signals.

The Aligned News catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Aligned News’ developer surface includes authentication, getting-started guide, pricing, signup flow, engineering blog, and 18 more developer resources.

42.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
1 published contract 14 Features
Artificial IntelligenceNewsMCPSignals

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Media, Creator & Social
AE-170
BundlesNews FeedReportsSignalsStories
GET /news-feed GET /stories GET /reports GET /signals

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0
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Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.
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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
  • MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
  • Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
  • A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
  • Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
  • Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
  • Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):
Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.
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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified
measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Aligned News MCP Server

Reference Model Context Protocol server distributed as a single TypeScript file (mcp-server.ts) that proxies the Aligned News REST API to MCP-compatible AI tools like Claude Cod...

Aligned News Bundles API

Curated groupings of related stories around themes.

Aligned News Feed API

All current stories grouped by section.

Aligned News Reports API

Trend deep-dives and longer-form analysis.

Aligned News Search API

Full-text search across stories, signals, and reports.

Aligned News Sections API

Topical sections used to organize stories.

Aligned News Signals API

Early pattern detections with editorial badges.

Aligned News Stories API

AI news stories curated and synthesized from monitored accounts.

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Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Aligned News REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Aligned News API pricing

Prices published by Aligned News, read 2026-10-07 from alignednews.com/pricing.

PlanPrice
Free $0
Includes: Open desk: stories, signals, reports, headlines (no account required for reading); newsletter teaser
Pro $25/month
Includes: Full newsletter, Save for later, curated Saved list, API access; 30-day free trial (card required)
Enterprise Custom
Includes: Everything in Pro, API access, team access, priority support, custom analysis requests

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Aligned News's documentation. All 5 limits →

Billed by: subscription · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Aligned News Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 14

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

AI-powered intelligence from 63 curated X lists
Tracks 100,000+ accounts across AI, technology, and science
Stories surface breaking AI news with full body content
Signals provide early pattern detection with badges (bullish, caution, critical, signal, interview, vc, action)
Reports deliver trend deep-dives and summaries
Bundles group related stories around themes
Section-organized news feed across all topics
Full-text Search across stories, signals, and reports
REST API gated behind Pro tier with Bearer alnw_ API keys
Downloadable single-file MCP server for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf
Free tier exposes headlines, summaries, signal badges, and report summaries only
Pro tier unlocks full content + API access
Enterprise tier adds team access, priority support, and custom analysis
Built on Fly.io (edge), Supabase (data), Clerk (auth and billing), Stripe (payments)

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Aligned News Context

18 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Aligned News — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Bundle

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Report

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Section

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Signal

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Story

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 5

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Aligned News Bundle Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aligned News Report Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aligned News Section Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aligned News Signal Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aligned News Story Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 11

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Aligned News Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Aligned News Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Aligned News Agentic Access

11 operations

11 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 10

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: aligned-news
name: Aligned News
description: Aligned News is an AI-native intelligence and news platform that synthesizes AI-powered briefings from 63 curated
  X lists tracking 100,000+ accounts in AI, tech, and science, and publishes Stories, Signals, Reports, and Bundles via web,
  REST API, and a downloadable MCP server for AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/aligned-news.png
created: '2026-05-06'
modified: '2026-09-16'
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specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- News
- MCP
- Signals
tags_raw:
- AI
- News
- MCP
- Signals
url-source: https://alignednews.com/
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  name: Aligned News MCP Server
  description: Reference Model Context Protocol server distributed as a single TypeScript file (mcp-server.ts) that proxies
    the Aligned News REST API to MCP-compatible AI tools like Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf. Exposes search_news,
    get_stories, get_story, get_signals, get_signal, get_reports, get_report, and get_sections tools, plus an aligned://news-feed
    resource. Authenticates with a user-provided ALIGNED_API_KEY (Bearer alnw_...).
  humanURL: https://alignednews.com/developers
  baseURL: https://alignednews.com/v1
  tags:
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  - MCP
  - Agents
  - Tooling
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  - MCP
  - Agents
  - Tooling
  properties:
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    url: https://alignednews.com/developers
  - type: Source Code
    url: https://alignednews.com/mcp-server.ts
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://alignednews.com/account
- aid: aligned-news:aligned-news-bundles-api
  name: Aligned News Bundles API
  description: Curated groupings of related stories around themes.
  humanURL: https://alignednews.com/
  baseURL: https://alignednews.com/v1
  tags:
  - Bundles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aligned-news-bundles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://alignednews.com/developers
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://alignednews.com/account
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://alignednews.com/pricing
  - type: Plans
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  - type: RateLimits
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  - type: FinOps
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- aid: aligned-news:aligned-news-news-feed-api
  name: Aligned News Feed API
  description: All current stories grouped by section.
  humanURL: https://alignednews.com/
  baseURL: https://alignednews.com/v1
  tags:
  - News Feed
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aligned-news-news-feed-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://alignednews.com/developers
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://alignednews.com/account
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://alignednews.com/pricing
  - type: Plans
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  - type: RateLimits
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  - type: FinOps
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- aid: aligned-news:aligned-news-reports-api
  name: Aligned News Reports API
  description: Trend deep-dives and longer-form analysis.
  humanURL: https://alignednews.com/
  baseURL: https://alignednews.com/v1
  tags:
  - Reports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aligned-news-reports-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://alignednews.com/developers
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://alignednews.com/account
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://alignednews.com/pricing
  - type: Plans
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  - type: RateLimits
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  - type: FinOps
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- aid: aligned-news:aligned-news-search-api
  name: Aligned News Search API
  description: Full-text search across stories, signals, and reports.
  humanURL: https://alignednews.com/
  baseURL: https://alignednews.com/v1
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aligned-news-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://alignednews.com/developers
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://alignednews.com/account
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://alignednews.com/pricing
  - type: Plans
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  - type: RateLimits
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  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aligned-news/refs/heads/main/finops/aligned-news-finops.yml
- aid: aligned-news:aligned-news-sections-api
  name: Aligned News Sections API
  description: Topical sections used to organize stories.
  humanURL: https://alignednews.com/
  baseURL: https://alignednews.com/v1
  tags:
  - Sections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aligned-news-sections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://alignednews.com/developers
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://alignednews.com/account
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://alignednews.com/pricing
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aligned-news/refs/heads/main/plans/aligned-news-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aligned-news/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/aligned-news-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aligned-news/refs/heads/main/finops/aligned-news-finops.yml
- aid: aligned-news:aligned-news-signals-api
  name: Aligned News Signals API
  description: Early pattern detections with editorial badges.
  humanURL: https://alignednews.com/
  baseURL: https://alignednews.com/v1
  tags:
  - Signals
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aligned-news-signals-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://alignednews.com/developers
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://alignednews.com/account
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://alignednews.com/pricing
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aligned-news/refs/heads/main/plans/aligned-news-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
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  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aligned-news/refs/heads/main/finops/aligned-news-finops.yml
- aid: aligned-news:aligned-news-stories-api
  name: Aligned News Stories API
  description: AI news stories curated and synthesized from monitored accounts.
  humanURL: https://alignednews.com/
  baseURL: https://alignednews.com/v1
  tags:
  - Stories
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aligned-news-stories-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://alignednews.com/developers
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://alignednews.com/account
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://alignednews.com/pricing
  - type: Plans
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  - type: RateLimits
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  - type: FinOps
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: Aligned News
  url: https://alignednews.com/
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/aligned-news-capability-edges.yml
  name: Aligned News Business Capability Map
- type: Plans
  url: plans/aligned-news-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/aligned-news-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/aligned-news-finops.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/aligned-news-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/aligned-news-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/aligned-news-authentication.yml
- url: https://alignednews.com/
  type: Website
- url: https://alignednews.com/how-it-works
  type: How It Works
- url: https://alignednews.com/getting-started
  type: GettingStarted
- url: https://alignednews.com/pricing
  type: Pricing
- url: https://alignednews.com/developers
  type: Developers
- url: https://alignednews.com/account
  type: Signup
- url: https://alignednews.com/sitemap.xml
  type: Sitemap
- url: https://alignednews.com/robots.txt
  type: Robots TXT
- url: https://alignednews.com/research
  type: Research
- url: https://alignednews.com/signals
  type: Signals
- url: https://alignednews.com/reports
  type: Reports
- url: https://alignednews.com/bundles
  type: Bundles
- url: https://alignednews.com/ai
  type: AI
- url: https://alignednews.com/mcp-server.ts
  type: MCP Server
- url: https://github.com/Aligned-news
  type: GitHubOrg
- type: Features
  data:
  - AI-powered intelligence from 63 curated X lists
  - Tracks 100,000+ accounts across AI, technology, and science
  - Stories surface breaking AI news with full body content
  - Signals provide early pattern detection with badges (bullish, caution, critical, signal, interview, vc, action)
  - Reports deliver trend deep-dives and summaries
  - Bundles group related stories around themes
  - Section-organized news feed across all topics
  - Full-text Search across stories, signals, and reports
  - REST API gated behind Pro tier with Bearer alnw_ API keys
  - Downloadable single-file MCP server for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf
  - Free tier exposes headlines, summaries, signal badges, and report summaries only
  - Pro tier unlocks full content + API access
  - Enterprise tier adds team access, priority support, and custom analysis
  - Built on Fly.io (edge), Supabase (data), Clerk (auth and billing), Stripe (payments)
  sources:
  - https://alignednews.com/
  - https://alignednews.com/developers
  - https://alignednews.com/pricing
  - https://alignednews.com/mcp-server.ts
  updated: '2026-05-06'
- url: https://alignednews.com/feed
  type: Blog
x-tags-removed:
- Intelligence

Aligned News API — frequently asked questions

Does Aligned News have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from Aligned News, including Aligned News MCP Server, Aligned News Bundles API and Aligned News Feed API, and 5 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Aligned News API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 7 OpenAPI specifications for Aligned News, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Aligned News API?

Aligned News uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Aligned News Authentication.

How much does the Aligned News API cost?

Aligned News publishes its prices; its Free plan is $0 as of 2026-10-07. APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Aligned News, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Aligned News API ready for AI agents?

Aligned News has a Kin Score of 42.9 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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