A Feedly API alternative that does not need an Enterprise contract
Feedly lists API access in Enterprise. AyeWatch, NewsBlur and a plain RSS poller give developers three routes without a sales call.
By ClaudeGPT Si Newsroom, Editorial team
4 min read
If you went looking for a Feedly API alternative, you probably found the same wall many developers hit: Feedly lists API access in its Enterprise plan, which has no public price and starts with a sales conversation. For a side project, a team dashboard or a script that posts news to a channel, that is a lot of process. This piece looks at what you can use instead, depending on whether you need raw feed items or filtered events.
What Feedly offers developers
Feedly's pricing page, checked in October 2026, splits its plans like this:
- Free: 100 feeds in three folders.
- Pro, $6.99 a month billed annually: 1,000 feeds, search, and sharing to IFTTT, Zapier, Buffer and LinkedIn.
- Pro+, $12.37 a month billed annually: 2,500 feeds, AI Feeds, mute filters, newsletters and RSS Builder.
- Enterprise, price on request: 7,500 feeds, team feeds, Slack and Microsoft Teams, SSO, and API access.
So on Pro you can push articles out through Zapier or IFTTT, but direct API access needs Enterprise.
Three routes that do not need a sales call
| Route | What you get | Price to start | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|
| AyeWatch | REST API, signed webhooks, MCP server, with AI-filtered events | From $9/mo | Acting on specific events |
| NewsBlur | Open source reader (MIT), MCP server and CLI on Premium Archive | $99/yr for Premium Archive | Reading and scripting a feed archive |
| Plain RSS | Parse feeds yourself | Free | Full control, all filtering is yours |
AyeWatch: events instead of items
AyeWatch is the option we recommend when the goal is "tell my code when X happens". It is an AI monitor rather than a reader. You define a topic in plain English, for example "new major versions or breaking changes in the frameworks our app depends on", and it checks news, blogs, forums, social platforms and any pages you add. Items that match the meaning of the sentence become alerts with a short AI summary and their sources.
On every paid plan you get:
- A REST API to create, list, update and delete topics, so monitors can live in code or config.
- Webhooks signed with HMAC-SHA256 that deliver topic.update events, summary included.
- An MCP server at
https://ayewatch.ai/api/mcp, so a coding assistant can set up or pause monitors with your API key. - Slack, Discord and email delivery, chosen per topic.
A developer setup might look like this: a webpage monitor on each dependency's changelog, a topic monitor for security advisories mentioning your stack, and one webhook endpoint that verifies the signature and opens an issue or posts a message.
Paid plans start at $9 a month. The free preview gives three runs, which is enough to test the alerts but not the API, since the API is a paid-plan feature.
Why it is the better developer pick overall, beyond the API itself:
- Rules you can read. A monitor is a plain-English sentence, so a teammate can review it in a pull request without learning a filter syntax.
- Judgment before delivery. AI decides whether a new item matters to that rule, so your webhook handler is not stuck sorting noise.
- Payloads with a summary. Each event carries a short AI summary and the source links, ready to post or log.
- Pages and topics together. One account covers a single changelog URL and a broad topic across the web.
- Apps for the humans too. Web, iOS and Android apps show the same alerts your code receives.
NewsBlur: an open reader with agent access
If you want the feed items themselves, NewsBlur is open source under the MIT license, so you can run your own copy. Its hosted Premium Archive plan, at $99 a year, adds an MCP server and CLI for AI agents, a full archive and web feeds for sites without RSS.
Plain RSS: the zero-cost route
Most sites that Feedly reads publish RSS or Atom. A small script with a feed parser can poll them, store new items and apply your own filters. You get everything, for free, and you write and maintain every rule and every edge case. That includes feeds that change format, sites that drop RSS without notice, duplicate stories across outlets and pages that never had a feed in the first place.
Which route fits
- You want filtered events and a webhook: AyeWatch.
- You want the full stream of items and an open codebase: NewsBlur.
- You want total control and do not mind the upkeep: your own RSS poller.
The case for keeping Feedly: if your team already reads in Feedly and only needs articles sent onward, Pro's Zapier and IFTTT sharing may cover it without any new tool. When you need code to react to a specific change on the web, set up a first AyeWatch monitor and add the webhook once you are on a paid plan.