LexisNexis Nexis Data+
Licensed news plus legal and company records from RELX
Founded: 1970 | New York, USA; parent RELX in London | Team: 10,000+ (RELX group)
Full article textHistorical archiveLicensed publisher contentNLP enrichmentFinancial newsLLM/agent tooling
What is LexisNexis Nexis Data+?
LexisNexis, part of RELX, moved into news APIs when it acquired Moreover Technologies and its Metabase feed in 2014. Metabase delivers 3–5 million news articles and social posts a day in 90+ languages. The newer Nexis Data+ platform adds 23,000+ licensed publications cleared for generative-AI use, among them The Associated Press, Gannett and the South China Morning Post. Nexis Data+ also exposes dockets, patents, sanctions lists and company records under the same contract, which none of the news-only vendors here can match. Pricing is negotiated.
Typical uses: Risk & compliance, Financial services, Research & academia, AI & LLM apps. What sets it apart: Licensed news, legal filings, patents and sanctions data under one contract.
What does the LexisNexis Nexis Data+ API include?
REST APIJSONXMLS3/bulk delivery
| Capability |
|---|
| Full article text |
| Historical archive |
| Licensed publisher content |
| NLP enrichment |
| Financial news |
| LLM/agent tooling |
LexisNexis Nexis Data+ pricing
Short answer: the pricing model is enterprise subscription. There is no public entry price, so expect to request a quote.
| Access model | What it means |
|---|---|
| Enterprise contract | Negotiated licence covering volume, rights and SLA |
API prices and quotas change often. Check LexisNexis Nexis Data+'s own pricing page before you commit, and confirm that your use is covered by the licence.
LexisNexis Nexis Data+ pros and cons
| Advantages | Things to consider |
|---|---|
| +23,000+ licensed titles approved for generative-AI use, including AP and Gannett | -Product names (Metabase, Nexis DaaS, Nexis Data+) overlap and confuse buyers |
| +Metabase's daily volume of 3–5 million items covers web and social sources as well | -No self-serve access, and contracts and pricing are negotiated |
| +Legal and company records in the same API mean one fewer vendor for compliance teams | -Too heavy if all you need is current headlines |
| +Years of experience supplying news data to media-monitoring platforms |
LexisNexis Nexis Data+ vs alternatives
How LexisNexis Nexis Data+ compares to the other top News APIs.
| API | Best for | Key difference | Rating | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NewsCatcher | AI products and monitoring tools needing enriched, deduplicated... | Articles arrive already summarised, clustered and geotagged, so there is less post-processing on your side | 4.7 | Full comparison |
| Perigon | Startups wanting enriched news with transparent tiers. | Published plans from $25 with enrichment and saved-query monitors included | 4.5 | Full comparison |
| Webz.io | Data teams needing deep archives and broad source... | Largest claimed source count on this list and history going back to 2008 | 4.4 | Full comparison |
| Dow Jones Factiva | Enterprises needing licensed premium news for AI or... | Publisher-cleared rights to use paywalled premium content in generative-AI products | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| NewsData.io | Small teams wanting wide country coverage on a... | Daily free credits plus filters for 206 countries and 89 languages | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry) | Multilingual event tracking for analysts and research teams. | Merges articles about the same real-world event across languages into one event record | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| Opoint | Monitoring platforms and AML teams needing non-English coverage. | Built as a wholesale feed with heavy non-English and local coverage | 4.2 | Full comparison |
| GNews | Indie developers needing affordable commercial news access. | Two simple endpoints with commercial rights from €49.99 a month | 4.1 | Full comparison |
| GDELT Project | Researchers and data scientists with no budget. | Free global coverage with 15-minute updates and BigQuery access | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| Exa | RAG and agent builders needing semantic news retrieval. | Meaning-based search finds relevant pages even when the keywords differ | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| Tavily | Agent developers wanting news results in one tool... | Prompt-ready extracted content, with integrations for LangChain and LlamaIndex | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| NewsAPI.org | Developers who want the most documented, familiar news... | More tutorials and community libraries than any other news API, which shortens learning time | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| World News API | Small apps wanting sentiment and geo filters at... | Location-radius and sentiment filters from the $39 plan up | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| Quantexa News API (Aylien) | Existing Aylien users and Quantexa platform customers. | Mature entity, category and sentiment tagging inherited from Aylien's NLP work | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| Brave Search API | Teams wanting an independent, non-Google news search index. | Its own crawler and index, independent of Google and Bing | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| AP Media API | Publishers and platforms licensing AP journalism. | Primary-source wire content with publishing rights from AP itself | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| RavenPack (Bigdata.com) | Quant funds and financial AI products. | Two decades of entity-level news sentiment built for trading signals | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| SerpApi Google News | Developers who specifically want Google News rankings. | Mirrors Google News results and story groupings as JSON | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Reuters Connect | Media companies licensing Reuters wire content. | Reuters' own global reporting with publishing rights | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Mediastack | Hobby projects and low-volume apps on a tight... | Paid plans from $24.99 with commercial use and historical data | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Guardian Open Platform | Students, researchers and non-commercial apps. | Free full article text with editorial tags from a major publisher | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Diffbot | Teams building custom news collection from chosen sites. | Turns any article URL into clean structured data linked to a Knowledge Graph | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Benzinga | Brokerages and trading apps needing fast market headlines. | Original market newswire plus ratings and earnings events in one feed | 3.7 | Full comparison |
| Marketaux | Fintech side projects needing ticker-tagged news cheaply. | Per-entity sentiment scores on every article, even on the free plan | 3.7 | Full comparison |
| Finnhub | Developers who need market data and news from... | Company news bundled with quotes, fundamentals and estimates | 3.6 | Full comparison |
| TheNewsAPI | Personal projects that need a cheap general feed. | Possibly the cheapest paid tier among general news APIs, if third-party pricing is current | 3.6 | Full comparison |
| NYT Developer APIs | Historians and students researching Times coverage. | Searchable metadata for the full Times archive since 1851 | 3.5 | Full comparison |
| APITube | Developers willing to trial a newer, feature-rich API. | Entity and sentiment filters offered on lower tiers | 3.5 | Full comparison |
| Currents API | Students and hobbyists testing news features for free. | A free tier that developer roundups often single out as generous | 3.4 | Full comparison |
LexisNexis Nexis Data+ FAQ
What is LexisNexis Nexis Data+?
Licensed news plus legal and company records from RELX
How much does LexisNexis Nexis Data+ charge?
Pricing model: enterprise subscription. No public entry price is listed, so pricing comes through a quote. Free access: none listed.
Which formats and SDKs does LexisNexis Nexis Data+ support?
LexisNexis Nexis Data+ offers REST API, JSON, XML, S3/bulk delivery.
Is LexisNexis Nexis Data+ right for enterprise?
Yes, LexisNexis Nexis Data+ sells enterprise contracts. Main caveat: Product names (Metabase, Nexis DaaS, Nexis Data+) overlap and confuse buyers.
What are the best LexisNexis Nexis Data+ alternatives?
The best alternatives to LexisNexis Nexis Data+ depend on your use case. Top options are:
- NewsCatcher: articles arrive already summarised, clustered and geotagged, so there is less post-processing on your side
- Perigon: published plans from $25 with enrichment and saved-query monitors included
- Webz.io: largest claimed source count on this list and history going back to 2008
Compare LexisNexis Nexis Data+ with other News APIs
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