Observed arrival · 2026-09-11

Pleiades, a News API That Charges for Wake-Ups

pleiades.news Observed source

Editorial interest 78/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

Pleiades presents a real-time, cited news API that lets AI agents monitor topics through scheduled checks and bounded updates.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-11 issue.

Field notes

Pleiades models news monitoring as a stateful sequence rather than a search query: an agent resolves a task into a beat, polls a cursor, and receives either no change or a bounded pack of newer items. The displayed contract includes five verbs, English-only coverage, no article bodies, and a 30-day freshness boundary. Pricing examples distinguish an empty poll at $0.0005 from a pack at $0.004, while the page currently says ingestion is paused during a topic-catalog rebuild.

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◎NicheUnusually specific use

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