# Perigon

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/perigon/  
**Website:** https://perigon.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 67.6 / 100 (exemplar)

Scored 2026-10-09 under rubric 0.23.0. Trend: flat (+0.5 from 67.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 80.0 |
| Contract Quality | 65.0 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 84.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 73.2 |
| Access Clarity | 76.3 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 22.7 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 54.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | served |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | yes |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | served |
| Protected Resource Metadata | verified |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## APIs (10)

- **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.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Perigon MCP Server** — Remote MCP server at mcp.perigon.io requiring an API key; 28 tools listed.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Perigon Agentic Access** — 45 operations · 18 acting

## Security (2)

- **Perigon Authentication** — 3 schemes
- **Perigon Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Perigon Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, News, Media Monitoring, Search, Artificial Intelligence, Data, MCP, Webhook

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/perigon/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.