# RealtimeAPI changelog What changed for agents, developers and providers, newest first. Web version: https://realtimeapi.ai/changelog ## 2026-11-11: 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. ## 2026-11-09: 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. ## 2026-11-09: 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. ## 2026-11-09: 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. ## 2026-11-09: 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. ## 2026-11-07: 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. ## 2026-11-04: 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`. ## 2026-11-03: Macroeconomics feed - New: New feed `macrodata` from MacroDataAPI: CPI, payrolls, GDP, policy rates, yields and release calendars, with series history and vintages. ## 2026-11-02: 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. ## 2026-10-31: 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. ## 2026-10-30: 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. ## 2026-10-28: 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. ## 2026-10-26: 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. ## 2026-10-25: 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. ## 2026-10-24: 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. ## 2026-10-23: 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. ## 2026-10-21: 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. ## 2026-10-11: Site redesign - Improved: New header, footer and pages, and a Providers page with real provider logos. ## 2026-10-09: 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.