Pricing
Start with a 7-day evaluation, extendable once to 14 days, with REST API and MCP access included. Every paid plan keeps them; the Free plan continues in the web app with 50 QU a month. Choose by Query Units, Monitor capacity and cadence, Briefs, and seats. Explore Situation graphs and hand their structured evidence to your agent.
Eligible existing personal Free workspaces can claim a one-time 500 QU grant, valid 7 days from activation, including API + MCP and up to 3 daily Monitors. Existing Free accounts receive at least 48 hours of email notice before the access change; your account shows the confirmed deadline.
Use Query Units for on-demand work. Use Monitors for recurring checks.
A direct API integration that polls one query hourly uses roughly 750 QU a month. A plan Monitor runs the same Core API check on its schedule without consuming QU, leaving the QU pool for exploration and application traffic.
Ordinary data reads through REST or MCP use 1 QU each. Situation creation or expansion uses 5 QU for admitted analysis; reusing existing membership adds no creation charge.
Scheduled checks are included with the plan. Preview and Run now use 1 QU; setup and signed-webhook demonstrations use 0 QU. Capacity and hourly versus daily cadence depend on your plan.
Ordinary data tool calls made by the hosted research agent use 5 QU. Briefs use a separate allowance: the published counts are for standard-depth Briefs. Detailed depth, where enabled, uses more of that allowance.
Evaluate the API, then keep the web app
What's included
- Core Data
- Monitors
- Tone + Share of Voice
- Open Feeds
- Intel
- Bulk data download
Free for 7 days with 1,000 Query Units, the full UI, REST API and MCP access, and up to 3 daily email Monitors — no card. Bulk downloads remain paid-only. Tell us what you're evaluating and we'll extend it once, to 14 days. After that you keep 50 Query Units a month in the web app and API Arena. API keys, OAuth, the MCP server, scheduled Monitor execution, Monitor webhooks and bulk downloads require a paid plan, active evaluation, claimed access offer or an explicit matching override. Saved keys and Monitor settings are kept, and Monitor previews remain available in the UI. Eligible existing personal Free workspaces can claim a one-time 500 QU grant, valid 7 days from activation, including API + MCP and up to 3 daily Monitors. Existing Free accounts receive at least 48 hours of email notice before the access change; your account shows the confirmed deadline.
Build & prototype
What's included
- Core Data
- Monitors
- Tone + Share of Voice
- Open Feeds
- Intel
- Bulk data download
Automate a watchlist
What's included
- Core Data
- Monitors
- Tone + Share of Voice
- Open Feeds
- Intel
- Bulk data download
Cover a beat
What's included
- Core Data
- Monitors
- Tone + Share of Voice
- Open Feeds
- Intelpartial
- Bulk data download
Full surface & bulk delivery
Monthly Parquet & CSV downloads, in addition to the APIRun a team
What's included
- Core Data
- Monitors
- Tone + Share of Voice
- Open Feeds
- Intel
- Bulk data download
Research & report
What's included
- Core Data
- Monitors
- Tone + Share of Voice
- Open Feeds
- Intelpartial
- Bulk data download
Organised the way the API is.
These are the same 5 product groups the API is organised around — what we produce, the Monitors that run it, what we derive, and the open data we ingest and fuse.
The event database we produce, plus the physical-asset directory we fuse and resolve
- CAMEO+ coded events with actors, geography & Goldstein severity
- ACLED-style conflict events — Battles, Protests, Riots, Explosions/Remote violence, Violence against civilians and Strategic developments, with fatalities, actor pairs and geocoded location. Independently generated using ACLED's published methodology and taxonomy; not sourced from or affiliated with ACLED. Beta
- Clustered stories with article-level evidence and cross-language coverage
- Situations — explore connected Story and Event graphs, create from a seed with a paid plan or active evaluation, and give structured nodes, edges and evidence to your agent through API/MCP. Follow related reporting with plan Monitors
- Country context and a directory of every registered country — /api/v2/countries: publication activity, reporting counts, dated economic and resource fundamentals, facility and office inventories
- Publication activity journal — /api/v2/activity, the recorded-time feed a query Monitor can watch
- Wikipedia/SEC/GEM-resolved entities with a stable id spine
- The fused facilities directory — power, industry, ports and data centers on one keyed surface, 99% geocoded, with owners resolved to the entity spine where the source carries them
Source: GDELT Cloud (proprietary); facilities fused from Global Energy Monitor, NGA World Port Index, Epoch AI
Structured scheduled checks over the same Core API
- Entity, facility, place, geography, category, and topic targets with no query language to learn
- New-match triggers over Events, Stories, or both
- Query Monitors — keep an executed /api/v2/events, /api/v2/stories, /api/v2/entities, /api/v2/activity, /api/v2/situations/{story_id}/editions request as a checkpointed scheduled check (late arrivals included)
- Email delivery on every Monitor plan; signed webhooks on Watch and higher
- Scheduled checks never consume Query Units
Source: GDELT Cloud Core API
Derived media measurement — also produced by us, not resold
- Cross-language tone, filterable and comparable across 24 source languages
- Share of Voice vs a custom peer set (denominator-explicit)
- Sentiment & attention timelines per entity
Source: GDELT GEG + the GDELT Cloud tone pipeline (proprietary scoring)
Public datasets we ingest and clean — with the entity-resolved feeds fused to the same spine
- Government exposure — USAspending federal awards + FARA, keyed on UEI, fused to the spine
- Political offices and office-holders — published holding dates and source evidence for geopolitical actor context; not a PEP-screening control
- SEC filings — EDGAR + XBRL with AI-extracted supplier/subsidiary relations, fused to the spine
- AI & compute — Epoch AI models, hardware & data centers, fused to the spine
- Energy assets — Global Energy Monitor power, industry & fuel-transport trackers with capacity, status and owners
- Markets & macro — FRED/ALFRED with true point-in-time vintages (no look-ahead)
- Risk & screening — consolidated US restricted-party lists + DoD 1260H, as-of, with a daily change feed
- Ownership-chain exposure — who is exposed to a designated party, and by how much, with the path
- China development finance — AidData GCDF commitments (research release, through 2021)
- Maritime context — ports and chokepoints, with best-effort vessel activity when available
- Legal entities — the full GLEIF Global LEI Index, with corporate hierarchy as reported to the Global LEI System (accounting consolidation, not percentage ownership)
Source: USAspending, SEC EDGAR, Epoch AI, Global Energy Monitor, FRED/ALFRED, self-ingested publisher records, AidData, GLEIF and best-effort maritime context — cited context, not a compliance determination
Intelligence products built on top of the data
- Monitoring Briefs — what changed, why it matters, the evidence, what to watch
- The research agent, over the same API a developer calls
- Atlas indices — model-derived deviation vs a place’s own norm (GPR) and its structured condition on cross-country anchors (Posture), vintaged point-in-time. Intelligence tier
- Entity timeline (Dossier) — classified publisher records with source freshness, public offices, FARA links, awards, facilities and Events for one entity. API Arena or get_entity_dossier via MCP. Intelligence tier
Source: GDELT Cloud (proprietary)
Our data is updated hourly, not streamed — new events are typically queryable within about an hour of the underlying reporting (median ~40 minutes), and continue to reconcile as coverage accretes. GDELT Cloud events, stories and entities run continuously from March 2026; earlier history is being backfilled and is incomplete. Maritime AIS and screening lists accrue forward from June 2026. Rows marked Early access are fully usable but still expanding. See every source, licence, coverage window and known limitation →