Gnist Context
Gnist Context is a real-time data API that gives your AI agent access to 126+ public data sources through a single MCP endpoint. Finance, science, government, healthcare, transport, weather — all queryable, all structured, all ready to use.
No ETL pipelines. No scraping infrastructure. No juggling dozens of API keys. Connect once and let your agent pull the real-world context it needs, when it needs it.
Every data source is public, legally clean, and agent-safe — no PII, no consent frameworks, no irreversible side effects. Available via both MCP and REST, so it works with any stack.

Gnist Context covers the data sources that agents actually need in production:
- Finance — Federal Reserve (FRED), SEC EDGAR, IMF, ECB, stock data, crypto, currency conversion
- Science & Research — arXiv, PubMed, Crossref, OpenAlex, clinical trials, PubChem
- Government & Legal — US Congress, EU regulations, sanctions lists, patents, company registries
- Healthcare — OpenFDA, drug databases, hospital directories, nutrition data
- Geography & Environment — Weather, air quality, earthquakes, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap
- Nordic Specialty — Norwegian company registry, parliament, courts, public records, electricity prices, transit
New servers are added regularly. Each one passes strict quality gates for reliability, agent safety, and data provenance.

Get your API key instantly with self-service signup. The free tier gives you 100 calls per day — enough to build and test without reaching for a credit card.
From there, everything is designed to get you productive fast:
- MCP Playground — Test any server interactively in your browser
- Quickstart Page — Copy-paste snippets for curl, Python, and TypeScript, pre-filled with your key
- Python SDK —
pip install gnistai-contextand start querying - OpenAPI Spec — Full REST bridge with auto-generated documentation
- Toolbelt Composer — Bundle servers into curated toolbelts for specific workflows

Gnist Context is designed to be the data layer you trust in production, not just a prototype toy:
- Health Monitoring — Automated shallow and deep canary probes catch upstream failures before your agent does
- Smart Caching — Response caching with freshness tiers tuned per data source, from real-time to archival
- Usage Dashboards — Real-time visibility into your API consumption
- Uptime Tracking — Per-server uptime history and SLA monitoring
- Composite Tools — Multi-source queries in a single call for lower latency
- Entity Resolution — Resolve names to canonical identifiers across all relevant servers

Sign up for a free API key and start querying 126+ data sources in minutes. No commitment, no complex contracts — just the data your agent needs.
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