Perigon
Perigon is a real-time global news data and intelligence platform. It provides structured, enriched news data from 200,000+ sources worldwide through REST APIs — articles, clustered stories, AI search summaries, semantic vector search, sources, companies, people, journalists, topics and Wikipedia — plus Signals, an AI-driven monitoring product with monitors, watchlists, contact points and signed webhooks. Perigon publishes an OpenAPI description, a hosted remote MCP server, official TypeScript, Python and Go SDKs, Agent Skills, and an API versioning and deprecation policy.
Perigon publishes 10 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including AI & Advanced Search API, Contact Points API, Monitors API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Company, News, Media Monitoring, Search, and Artificial Intelligence.
The Perigon catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.
Perigon’s developer surface includes changelog, authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, FAQ, and 32 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
What people ask Perigon 9
The questions people put to an LLM, and the jobs they hand an agent, that Perigon's APIs answer — each one linked to the operation that does it. Generated by API Evangelist
Kin Score
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| News and Media | undeclared | - | 1 | - |
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.
APIs 10
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Perigon MCP Server
Hosted remote Model Context Protocol server (Streamable HTTP, with an SSE variant) exposing Perigon news search, analytics and monitor tools to AI clients. Authenticates with a ...
Perigon AI & Advanced Search API
These endpoints enable semantic search beyond traditional keyword matching, content summarization, and advanced information retrieval across articles
Perigon Contact Points API
Manage contact points used to deliver monitor notifications. Contact points define where and how monitor events are delivered (e.g. webhooks). Only WEBHOOK contact points can be...
Perigon Monitors API
Manage AI Monitors — configurable monitors that continuously scan news content for topics, entities, and events of interest. Monitors run asynchronously and emit structured even...
Perigon News & Stories API
Endpoints for accessing news articles and stories
Perigon Source Groups API
Manage custom source groups for organizing and filtering news sources. Source groups allow grouping domains together for use in search queries and monitors.
Perigon Supplemental Endpoints API
Additional endpoints for metadata and related information
Perigon Utilities API
The Utilities API from Perigon — 1 operation(s) for utilities.
Perigon Watchlists API
Manage watchlists of people and companies for use with monitors. Watchlists can contain up to 100 combined entities and are used to track mentions across news content.
Perigon Wikipedia API
Endpoints for searching ingested Wikipedia content. Provides keyword and filtered search capabilities along with vector-based semantic search across Wikipedia pages.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Perigon MCP Server
Remote MCP server at mcp.perigon.io requiring an API key; 28 tools listed.
MCP SERVERAgent Skills 5
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
perigon-build-watchlist-and-source-group
AGENT SKILLperigon-check-usage-and-keys
AGENT SKILLperigon-create-monitor-with-webhook
AGENT SKILLperigon-search-news-and-stories
AGENT SKILLperigon-semantic-search-and-summarize
AGENT SKILLPricing Plans 2
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Perigon Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Perigon Finops
FINOPSEvent Specifications 1
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Perigon Webhooks
ASYNCAPIOpenAPI Overlays 10
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Perigon Monitors Api Phrasing Overlay
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GENERATEDPerigon Utilities Api Phrasing Overlay
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Perigon API — frequently asked questions
Does Perigon have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 10 APIs from Perigon, including Perigon MCP Server, Perigon AI & Advanced Search API and Perigon Contact Points API, and 7 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Perigon API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 9 OpenAPI specifications for Perigon, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Perigon API?
Perigon documents its authentication (3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Perigon Authentication.
How much does the Perigon API cost?
APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Perigon, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing Plans on this page.
Does Perigon have an MCP server?
Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Perigon: Remote MCP server at mcp.perigon.io requiring an API key; 28 tools listed.
Is the Perigon API ready for AI agents?
Perigon has a Kin Score of 67.7 out of 100 (exemplar) and an Agent Readiness score of 53.8 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.
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