Feedly and Scoopkit both watch the news, and that is roughly where the similarity ends. Feedly is a reading and market intelligence product built for a person sitting in front of it: you follow sources, an AI assistant filters them, and you read the results in a feed or a dashboard. Scoopkit is an API with no interface at all, built to be consumed by code. If you are trying to decide between them you are probably solving one of two different problems, and the honest framing is adjacent products rather than head-to-head competitors.
Feedly's API access policy was checked directly against its own developer documentation at developers.feedly.com on 2026-09-08. No Feedly price is quoted on this page: its pricing site is a JavaScript application that did not render for automated checking, and quoting figures from third-party summaries as though they had been verified would break the standard every other comparison here is held to.
The difference in one table
| Feedly | Scoopkit | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Not independently verifiable (pricing page is JavaScript-rendered and did not load) | $0 free, $49/mo Pro, both published |
| Primary product | Reader and intelligence dashboards | REST API |
| Built for | People reading | Software consuming |
| Input model | Sources you choose to follow | Curated pipeline, fixed source set |
| Output | A feed, boards, reports | Typed JSON events |
| Deduplication | Similar-story grouping in the reader | Merged into one event with article_count |
| Scope | Anything you follow | AI industry only |
| API access | Self-service tokens restricted to Enterprise accounts, admin rights required | Public, self-serve, free tier |
| API quota | 100,000 requests/month on the Feedly plan | 100/day free, 10,000/day Pro |
| Signup | Self-serve for reading tiers | Self-serve |
The API question, which is the one that matters
Feedly does have an API. Its developer documentation says to "generate your API Access Token from the self service page in your Feedly account," and then adds: "If you do not have access to this page, contact sales@feedly.com to gain access."
That second sentence is the whole story, and the docs are specific about what sits behind it: self-service API tokens are restricted to Enterprise accounts, generating one requires admin rights on the account, and the token is displayed exactly once. The quota on that plan is 100,000 requests a month, which is generous. Getting to the point where you can use it is the gate, not the volume. For a developer evaluating options on a Tuesday afternoon, "contact sales to find out if you can use the API" and "here is a key in 30 seconds" are different products regardless of what the feature lists say.
Scoopkit has no reading interface to attach an API to. The API is the product, the free tier is public, and the quickstart issues a key by email with no sales conversation.
Choose Feedly if
Feedly wins outright in several real situations, and pretending otherwise would be silly.
If a human needs to read and triage industry coverage daily, Feedly is built for exactly that and Scoopkit offers nothing comparable. There is no Scoopkit inbox, no boards, no annotation, no sharing with a team.
If you want to follow arbitrary sources of your own choosing, Feedly lets you point it at any feed you like. Scoopkit's source set is curated and fixed at 35 configured sources, chosen for AI industry coverage, and you cannot add your own. That is a deliberate tradeoff for consistency, and it is a real limitation if your interest sits outside the AI industry.
If your subject is anything other than AI, Scoopkit is simply the wrong tool. It covers one vertical on purpose.
Choose Scoopkit if
Scoopkit is the better answer when the consumer is software rather than a person: an agent, a webhook receiver, a dashboard you are building, an internal alerting system, anything where the output needs to be structured data with stable IDs rather than something rendered for reading.
It is also the better answer when you need one row per story. Scoopkit merges duplicate coverage into a single event, at 1.32 articles per event across an archive of 2,671 events checked on 2026-09-08, with 17.0% of events merging two or more. A reader groups similar stories visually so a person can skim past them, which solves the reading problem rather than the counting problem.
The same goes for typed events: 10 categories and 57 subcategories specific to the AI industry, so open weights releases, version updates, and deprecations are distinct filters rather than three things you notice while reading.
FAQ
Can I use Feedly's API instead of a news API?
Sometimes, if your account has access. The larger question is what you get back: Feedly's API serves the reader's model of the world, which is streams of entries from sources you follow. If you want events with a fixed taxonomy and merged duplicates, that is a different data model, not a different endpoint.
Does Feedly cover AI industry news?
Yes, as well as you configure it to. That is the appeal and the work: you assemble the sources. Scoopkit ships an opinionated set for one vertical, including a scraper for Anthropic, which publishes no RSS feed at all and so cannot be followed in a reader by conventional means.
Could I use both?
Reasonably, yes, and they do not conflict. Feedly for a person keeping up, Scoopkit for the systems that need machine-readable AI industry events. They are not substitutes.
Why no pricing table on this page?
Because it could not be verified directly on 2026-09-08. Every other comparison here quotes prices checked against the vendor's own page on a stated date, and publishing a number sourced from a third-party summary under the same heading would misrepresent how it was obtained.