Ground

Ground News is a news aggregation platform, built by Snapwise Inc. and backed by Techstars, that helps readers see every side of every story. It gathers coverage of each news event from across the political spectrum and pairs every story with media bias ratings, factuality assessments, and source-ownership transparency. Signature features include the Blindspot Feed that surfaces stories disproportionately covered by the left or right, a per-story bias-distribution bar, local news customization, daily briefing newsletters, browser extensions, and iOS/Android apps. Ground News does not currently publish a public developer API, developer portal, or API documentation, and its one live machine surface, api.ground.news, is the private backend of its own apps. The single integration point it does publish is an unauthenticated embeddable iframe story widget. This profile captures that widget, the company's public web and commercial surface, the contract-discovery probe record, and its domain-security posture.

Ground is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, News, Media, Media Bias, and News Aggregation.

Ground’s developer surface includes engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, support, FAQ, and 16 more developer resources.

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19.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Company News MediaMedia BiasNews Aggregation Journalism Media Monitoring Consumer App

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 19.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 17

Access Clarity 11.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 7.1 — up to +18.6 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points

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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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Browser Extension Stores (company-published Firefox add-ons; Chrome Web Store unreadable)	builds-on	17.2 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Ground API pricing

Prices published by Ground. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free	Free
Vantage	$8.33

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ground Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ground Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 1

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

Ground Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Components

Components

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

Support

HelpCenter

FAQ

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Website

About

Blog

BlogRSS

Careers

Newsletter

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

iOSApp

iOSApp

AndroidApp

AndroidApp

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ground
name: Ground
description: Ground News is a news aggregation platform, built by Snapwise Inc. and backed by Techstars, that helps readers
  see every side of every story. It gathers coverage of each news event from across the political spectrum and pairs every
  story with media bias ratings, factuality assessments, and source-ownership transparency. Signature features include the
  Blindspot Feed that surfaces stories disproportionately covered by the left or right, a per-story bias-distribution bar,
  local news customization, daily briefing newsletters, browser extensions, and iOS/Android apps. Ground News does not currently
  publish a public developer API, developer portal, or API documentation, and its one live machine surface, api.ground.news,
  is the private backend of its own apps. The single integration point it does publish is an unauthenticated embeddable iframe
  story widget. This profile captures that widget, the company's public web and commercial surface, the contract-discovery
  probe record, and its domain-security posture.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ground/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  probe_state: none
  source:
  - plans
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-13'
image: https://groundnews.b-cdn.net/assets/logo4/GN_Square.png
tags:
- Company
- News
- Media
- Media Bias
- News Aggregation
- Journalism
- Media Monitoring
- Consumer App
tags_raw:
- Company
- News
- Media
- Media Bias
- News Aggregation
- Journalism
- Media Monitoring
- Consumer Apps
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ground-rate-limits.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://ground.news/
- type: About
  url: https://ground.news/about
- type: Blog
  url: https://ground.news/blog
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://ground.news/blog/rss
- type: Careers
  url: https://ground.news/careers
- type: Pricing
  url: https://ground.news/subscribe
- type: SignUp
  url: https://ground.news/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://ground.news/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://ground.news/privacy-policy
- type: Support
  url: https://ground.news/contact-us
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://help.ground.news
- type: FAQ
  url: https://ground.news/frequently-asked-questions
- type: Newsletter
  url: https://ground.news/newsletters/daily-ground
- type: iOSApp
  url: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1324203419
- type: AndroidApp
  url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.checkitt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ground-domain-security.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/ground-components.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ground-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ground-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ground-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 6
  pass: local-v1
  note: 'Full STEP 0b contract discovery re-run across ground.news, api.ground.news, about.ground.news and help.ground.news.
    No published contract of any kind. NO WellKnown, SecurityTxt, RateLimits or SDKs pointer is emitted: every well-known
    path 404s, no rate-limit header exists on any callable surface, and no client library exists in any registry — those probe
    files are retained as evidence of absence, not advertised as served surfaces. One real find: Ground News publishes an
    embeddable iframe story widget at ground.news/widget/story, captured in components/.'
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: 'Ground News ships only a consumer news app: its single live machine surface, api.ground.news, is the private Express
    backend of that app and answers HTTP 418 "I''m a Teapot" to every path including the root, while developer., developers.,
    docs., status. and trust.ground.news do not resolve at all and every well-known, OpenAPI and agent-card path on the four
    hosts it does serve returns 404 — the only third-party integration point it publishes is a single unauthenticated iframe
    story widget.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.ground.news/openapi.json
    status: 418
  - url: https://api.ground.news/
    status: 418
  - url: https://ground.news/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://ground.news/graphql
    status: 404
  - url: https://ground.news/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://ground.news/.well-known/agent.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://ground.news/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://about.ground.news/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://help.ground.news/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/groundnews
    status: 404
  - url: https://ground.news/widget/story?offset=1
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-13'

Ground API — frequently asked questions

How much does the Ground API cost?

Ground publishes its prices; its Vantage plan is $8.33 as of 2026-08-13. APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Ground, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Ground API ready for AI agents?

Ground has a Kin Score of 19.9 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 2.5 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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