How Insighthread's News API Differs From MT Newswires

Insighthread's News API and MT Newswires solve the same problem — turning company events into news investors can act on — from opposite starting points.

MT Newswires has run a global newsroom of financial journalists and economists since 1999, filing wire stories around the clock.

Insighthread's News API skips the newsroom entirely: it parses SEC filings the moment they hit EDGAR and turns each one into a structured, source-linked news event, with no writer in the loop.

MT Newswires: Journalist-Written Wire Coverage at Scale

MT Newswires' flagship Live Briefs feed produces roughly 1,500 original stories a day — more than 28,000 a month — across about 170 categories, covering 45,000+ securities across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

That breadth goes well beyond US SEC filers: it picks up non-US issuers, macro releases, and market commentary a filings-only pipeline structurally can't reach.

Stories are delivered via API, FTP, or RSS with ticker and category tagging built in, and the feed is already distributed through major trading terminals and data platforms, including Nasdaq Data Link and ICE.

Where MT Newswires Coverage Beats a Filings-Only Feed

Because MT Newswires is staffed by human journalists rather than triggered by filings, it can cover events that never generate an SEC document at all — macro data, geopolitics, market-wide moves — and add context a filing parser won't produce on its own.

For teams whose mandate extends past US-listed filers, that's a real advantage over a filings-native product like Insighthread's News API, which is scoped to US public companies by design.

Where MT Newswires Falls Short on Speed and Source Verification

MT Newswires markets itself as real-time but publishes no latency benchmark, and no story links back to the filing or document it's based on — a reader has to go find that separately.

Insighthread's News API guarantees under 90 seconds from filing timestamp to API availability, and every event links directly to the SEC filing it came from.

MT Newswires: Delayed, Human-Covered News vs Insighthread's AI Coverage

Because every MT Newswires story is written by a person, coverage depends on a journalist being available, awake, and assigned to that name — during a busy filing week, overnight, or for a company outside a reporter's usual beat, a story can run late or simply never get written at all.

Insighthread's News API doesn't have that failure mode: it's AI-driven rather than headcount-driven, so it processes every qualifying SEC filing the moment it's available on EDGAR.

No document gets missed, and nothing waits in a reporter's queue.

Why Insighthread's News API Has No Rumors and MT Newswires Can

A newsroom can only file as many stories as it has journalists to write, so MT Newswires' throughput is bounded by staffing, not by how many filings actually came in on a given day.

And because it isn't filing-native, it can't structurally guarantee filed-fact-only, zero-rumor content the way a pipeline that only ever reads filed documents can.

Insighthread's no-rumor claim isn't an editorial policy — it's a consequence of what the system is allowed to ingest in the first place.

MT Newswires Pricing vs Insighthread's News API

MT Newswires doesn't publish pricing publicly.

In a direct quote to Insighthread, MT Newswires priced access at $4,000/month with a mandatory 2-year commitment.

Beyond direct deals, access is also sold through resellers like Nasdaq Data Link and ICE, scoped to product, coverage, and use case, so actual cost varies by deal.

See the Insighthread News API page for current plans.