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Every change to RealtimeAPI that agents, developers and providers will notice, newest first. Agents can read it as Markdown.

November 2026

Four AgentDataAPI feeds: grid, sensors, weather and news

  • New griddata (Commodities and energy): power prices for the Australian NEM, Great Britain and US balancing authorities, day-ahead and history, load, generation, cheapest windows, GB grid carbon and EIA weekly petroleum. 9 endpoints at /v1/griddata/....
  • New sensordata (IoT and sensors): USGS earthquakes, river gauges and history, NOAA CO-OPS tides and predictions, OpenAQ air quality by station or near a point. 8 endpoints at /v1/sensordata/....
  • New weatherdata (Weather): NWS alerts and the Australian BoM warnings, current conditions, hourly and daily GFS forecasts anywhere, nearest stations. 6 endpoints at /v1/weatherdata/....
  • New newssignals (News): GDELT entity sentiment and history, ticker news scores, trending entities, people and topics from Wikipedia and Google Trends, events and top stories as titles with source links. 9 endpoints at /v1/newssignals/....
  • Improved Every response from these feeds carries source, as_of, status and data_age_s, and the Commodities, IoT, Weather and News categories are live rather than coming soon.

Shopping and ecommerce category

  • New A Shopping and ecommerce category (coming soon) for product prices, availability, deals and recalls, with a provider page at /list-your-feed/shopping. Endpoints whose path has a shopping, ecommerce or retail segment are listed under it.

Honest speed figures

  • Fixed Speed figures (home page, Data Feeds rows, provider cards, feed pages, /discover, the MCP discover tool and status.json) count only API-key traffic. Paid x402 calls include settling the payment, about 2 seconds, and had made cached answers look slower than calling the provider directly.
  • Improved Combined latency figures leave out bulk downloads and exports, which measure a file transfer rather than API latency. Each of those endpoints still shows its own time, and a feed's response-time p50 is now the median over its endpoints.
  • Fixed A speed badge no longer says "0.1x faster": it only appears when the answer through RealtimeAPI is actually faster.

Fast answers wherever the provider's server is

  • New Answers agents ask for are copied to five regions (two in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Oceania) and kept fresh by a relay next to the provider, so an agent anywhere is answered from its own region. A copy is only served inside the provider's cache time; responses say X-RTAPI-Cache-Layer: region and X-RTAPI-Data-Age.
  • New Relays: where we measured it faster, a request that has to reach the provider leaves our network next to the provider's server instead of crossing an ocean on a fresh connection. Placement is automatic and re-measured every hour.
  • New Latency by region for agents: /discover, the MCP discover tool and status.json report each endpoint's measured latency from Western and Eastern North America, Western Europe, Asia-Pacific and Oceania.
  • New How it works has an "Under the hood" section on where each answer comes from and the headers that tell you.
  • New This changelog.

Typed OpenAPI, honest status and per-item MCP tools

  • New Every per-feed OpenAPI response now has a JSON Schema and a trimmed example.
  • New Status flags individual endpoints: under 95% uptime (24 hours or 30 days) or 3 failures in a row is degraded, listed on /status, each feed's status page and status.json.
  • New CORS for browser-based agents on public data calls, X-RTAPI-Source names the provider, and Cache-Control: max-age=N or no-cache sets your own freshness limit.
  • New x402 402 responses carry Bazaar metadata, so paid endpoints are listed in the Coinbase x402 Bazaar. The MCP server is in the official MCP registry as ai.realtimeapi/mcp.
  • Improved Per-feed MCP servers include single-item lookups (one market, one series) as tools, alongside the list endpoints.
  • Fixed Paid x402 calls to the Prediction markets feed failed at payment; they now settle.

Prediction markets feed

  • New New feed predictiondata from PredictionMarketDataAPI: implied probabilities, volume, movers, resolutions and price history, read from finalized blockchain data.
  • Improved Opening /mcp or /mcp/{feed} in a browser shows how to connect instead of a JSON-RPC error.

Platform passes, instant previews and category hubs

  • New Time passes cover every feed on one key: 1 hour $0.99, 1 day $3.99, 7 days $9.99, 30 days $29.99, bought with one x402 payment to POST /purchase/pass/{plan} or a USDC transfer.
  • New Try it shows a free trimmed preview instantly for every monitored endpoint.
  • New Category hubs with live speeds and a free way in for agents, and a page per category for providers who want to list a feed.
  • Improved New listings finish themselves: cache times from the provider's stated refresh cadence, logo and tagline, and latency measured within minutes of going live.
  • Improved Feeds appear under every category their endpoints cover, and status pages load daily uptime faster.
  • Improved The sitemap index is also served at /sitemap.xml.

Macroeconomics feed

  • New New feed macrodata from MacroDataAPI: CPI, payrolls, GDP, policy rates, yields and release calendars, with series history and vintages.

Latency as you see it

  • Improved Feed latency includes your own network round trip to our edge, timed in your browser, with one colour rule for fast and slow everywhere.
  • Improved Weekly provider reports credit failures fixed during the week, skip file downloads and give accurate caching advice.
  • Security Dependency update for a published advisory.

October 2026

Data in two MCP calls, no key

  • New Free samples: the MCP get_sample tool (and GET /sample/{feed}/{endpoint}) returns a trimmed copy of real data with no key, so discover then get_sample reaches data in two calls.
  • Improved The MCP server is stateless streamable HTTP and every tool result ends with a usage line.
  • Improved X-RTAPI-Quota-Source says whether quota headers are exact, X-RTAPI-Cached-At joins X-RTAPI-Data-Age, and idle keys answer cache hits without waiting.
  • Improved Endpoints with a stated refresh cadence under 5 minutes get a short cache at half that cadence.
  • Improved One health state everywhere: the status page, status.json and the MCP list_feeds tool agree.

Faster cache misses and a tab per client

  • Improved A cache miss no longer waits on a cold global read, and edge copies about to expire are refreshed behind the response.
  • Improved API keys are recognised faster after a quiet spell.
  • New The home page has a copy-paste tab for each client: MCP, Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Hermes, OpenClaw, Python, TypeScript and curl.

Gateway speed work and a new Data Feeds page

  • New Server-Timing on every response breaks the request into phases, and X-RTAPI-Gateway-Ms is our own share of the time.
  • Improved Catalogs are served from memory, cache hits are answered before the quota check, and x402 and MCP paths were trimmed.
  • New Data Feeds: tiles with live median latency and sparklines, sort by fastest, most popular or highest quality, five more categories and a free preview.
  • Improved Providers page redesigned.
  • Fixed StockMarketAPI endpoints are listed on the site again: the privacy scanner no longer reads headlines such as "24/7 Wall St." as street addresses.
  • Fixed Monitoring no longer misreads file downloads.

Dashboard and provider portal redesign

  • Improved New dashboard and provider portal; provider sign-ins land on the portal.
  • Fixed Icons on the pricing page showed as text.

USDC from any wallet

  • New Pay credit, plans and passes with a plain USDC transfer on Base, Ethereum or Solana from any wallet, with QR codes and wallet buttons.
  • New A new pricing page with every way to pay.

Plans, 7-day passes and security hardening

  • New Builder and Scale plans payable monthly by card or in USDC, and 7-day passes.
  • Improved Data Feeds shows how much faster each endpoint is through our edge cache.
  • Security Provider credentials are bound to their feed, origins can verify that a request came from RealtimeAPI, and payment checks run locally first.
  • Improved Endpoints are only listed after their first privacy scan.

Provider portal and a security review

  • New Provider portal: feed operations, bulk pricing, team invites, analytics and earnings.
  • Security A full security review: stricter request headers to providers, credential scrubbing, rate limits before authentication, a Content-Security-Policy on every page, and safer account, billing and provider rules.
  • Fixed A shorter pass bought on top of a longer one carries the period's usage over.

Edge cache, credits, invoices and free keys

  • New Edge cache fed by our quality probes: cacheable answers come back from the nearest edge, with X-RTAPI-Cache, X-RTAPI-Cache-Layer and X-RTAPI-Data-Age on every response.
  • New 1-hour passes and prepaid USDC credit on a key, debited per call and refunded on failed calls.
  • New Numbered invoices for every payment, direct USDC transfers, and one free key per mailbox.
  • New Get a free key from any page (for humans or AI agents), an AI quickstart at /quickstart and a live Call it now on feed pages.
  • New List your feed: providers apply from the site, and every provider gets a weekly quality report.
  • Improved New site design; one page per provider and feed.

Site redesign

  • Improved New header, footer and pages, and a Providers page with real provider logos.

RealtimeAPI is live

  • New One gateway for real-time data feeds: pay per call in USDC on Base with x402 (no account), or use an API key with free calls, passes or plans.
  • New Plain-language discovery (/discover), an MCP server for any MCP client, per-feed OpenAPI, llms.txt, live quality monitoring and a public status page.
  • New First feeds: cryptodata from CryptoDataAPI and stockmarket from StockMarketAPI.
  • New How it works, the Data Feeds marketplace and the RealtimeAPI brand.

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