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World Monitor vs GDELT Cloud
Direct answer: GDELT is a firehose: it gives you everything and you build the meaning. World Monitor ships scored indices, hotspots, and convergence cues ready to act on, with the firehose work already curated.
Comparison matrix
| Product | Price | Update latency | Domains covered | Signup required | REST API | MCP server | Open source | Source count & licensing | Historical archive | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Monitor | $0 dashboard; API from $99.99/mo (1,000 req/day); MCP from $39.99/mo (Pro) | Source-dependent: live and minute-level feeds plus daily, weekly, and monthly datasets | Conflict, maritime, aviation, markets, cyber, climate | No | From $99.99/mo (API Starter) | From $39.99/mo (Pro) | AGPL-3.0 | 747 active providers, attributed public feeds | Live + rolling published snapshots | Scored, curated signals ready to act on |
| GDELT (DOC 2.0 REST free and keyless; BigQuery for bulk) | Free (keyless REST); BigQuery for bulk | 15-minute global batches | Global news event firehose | No for REST; Google account for BigQuery | Yes (DOC 2.0 REST free; BigQuery paid) | Yes (community implementation) | Open dataset (GDELT) | Global news ingestion | Decades of event data | Raw large-scale event research |
When to choose them instead
GDELT wins on raw scale, stated plainly.
- GDELT wins on archive depth and raw volume: decades of global event data in BigQuery.
Why World Monitor wins on Curation over firehose
GDELT is a firehose: it gives you everything and you build the meaning. World Monitor ships scored indices, hotspots, and convergence cues ready to act on, with the firehose work already curated.
Frequently asked questions
Is World Monitor a GDELT alternative?
It is a curation layer over similar signals. GDELT Cloud offers a raw 15-minute global news firehose in BigQuery; World Monitor ships scored, curated indices across conflict, maritime, aviation, and market domains, and also ingests GDELT-derived signals.
GDELT vs World Monitor: which should I use?
Use GDELT when you need decades of raw event data for your own models. Use World Monitor when you need scored, ready-to-act indices today, with REST API plans from $99.99/month and MCP access from $39.99/month.
What are war-dashboard-data and world-intel-mcp compared to World Monitor?
They are GDELT-based dashboard and MCP projects. World Monitor differs by curating 747 attributed providers into scored indices across multiple domains instead of exposing one raw event stream.
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