hyperfeedvs. alternatives
Comparison · updated monthly

You already have an LLM classifier.
You don't have typed events.

Most teams hack together three or four tools: a news wire, a filings parser, a scraper, a LLM classifier. It kinda works — until it doesn't. Hyperfeed replaces the stack with one normalized event stream, source-cited and schema-versioned.

Roll-your-own LLM

A hallucinating pipeline you now own forever.

  • ×Scrapers break every time a source redesigns — you’re paying engineers to fix them
  • ×LLM classifier hallucinates event types 4–12% of the time, silently
  • ×No ground-truth audit — when the model is wrong you don’t know until someone complains
  • ×Costs scale linearly with volume — your Anthropic bill now outpaces the ROI
  • ×No canonical entity graph — you still have to resolve "Meta" vs "META"
  • ×Schema drift whenever someone changes the prompt, breaking every downstream consumer
Hyperfeed

Typed events. Sourced. Dedup'd. Replayable.

  • We own the scrapers. We fix them within hours of breakage — it’s our SLA
  • Human-in-loop audit on every critical event — published precision 96–99%, per family
  • Weekly audit report with precision/recall by family and source
  • Flat tier pricing — stop paying LLM costs that scale with market activity
  • Canonical entity graph — ticker · LEI · parent · subsidiary · aliases
  • Versioned schema (schema_version) — deprecations announced 90 days in advance
Feature by feature

Where the gap shows up.

Every row below is a question your platform team will ask. Our answer in blue; the alternative in gray. No fine print.

QuestionHyperfeedRoll-your-own LLM
Precision on confirmed eventshow often is the classification correct96–99% (audited weekly, published)Whatever your model is this week — you measure
Recall on official actionshow many real events make it into the feed98.2% measured against SEC ground truthUnknown — you’d need to build the ground truth
Who fixes the scrapers when sites change?you or your vendorWe do. 4h response SLA on broken ingestorsYour on-call engineer, forever
Cost at 10,000 events/dayLLM + infra + engineer timeFlat $299/mo (Pro)$4,000–$18,000/mo and climbing
How is a hallucination caught?before it hits your trading systemMulti-source cross-check + human audit on criticalWhen a user reports it
What’s your schema governance?deprecations, additions, breaking changesVersioned schemas, 90-day deprecationPrompt_v3.py — whoever merged last
How do you handle ambiguity?contradicting sourcesassertion_type reflects the state; events merge on confirmationModel picks one; you don’t know which
Latency from source to emitall-in, source to your code108s p50Whatever your stack is — usually 4–20min
Same story. Two responses.

The same FDA rejection. Theirs vs ours.

Monday, 4:47pm ET. ALDX receives a Complete Response Letter for reproxalap. Here's what hits your systems from each API.

Roll-your-own LLM6m 42s · precision unknown
GET/api/v2/news?symbol=ALDX
{
  "id": "scrape_17450_aldx_20260413",
  "classification": "regulatory_action",     // too broad
  "confidence": 0.73,                        // model's best guess
  "entity_guess": "Aldeyra",                 // not resolved to ticker
  "summary": "The FDA declined to approve Aldeyra's drug for dry eye disease...",
  "embedding": [0.038, -0.21, 0.77, /* 1,534 more floats */],
  "source_url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare...",
  "scrape_version": "v14 (last broken 2026-03-28)"

  // no drug id, no submission type, no cycle number
  // no lifecycle, no audit, no ground truth
  // your on-call engineer is now paged
}
Hyperfeed→ emitted at +68s, typed
GET/v1/events?ticker=ALDX
{
  "event_id": "evt_20260413_aldx_fda_crl",
  "event_type": "fda_approval_declined",
  "assertion_type": "fact",
  "audited": true,
  "schema_version": "2026-04-20",
  "entity": {
    "ticker": "ALDX",
    "name": "Aldeyra Therapeutics",
    "lei": "529900W0O7QKGDLPGW09"
  },
  "payload": {
    "regulator": "FDA",
    "product_id": "reproxalap",
    "submission_type": "NDA",
    "cycle_number": 3
  },
  "confidence": {
    "overall": 0.99,
    "human_reviewed": true,
    "audit_id": "aud_20260413_2847"
  },
  "family_precision_30d": 0.984
}
Why teams switch

Three reasons, in their own words.

01 · dedup

We stopped burning engineers on duplicates.

News APIs emit the same story from six outlets as six separate records. Every consumer team writes their own dedup logic. Hyperfeed merges on entity + event_type + effective_at and attaches all sources as evidence. One event, many sources.

Before:4 engineers, a Redis dedup cache, a weekly "why did we alert three times" postmortem.

After: event_id is the only key we need.
02 · assertion_type

Allegations aren't the same as facts.

News wires flatten "WSJ reports" and "company confirms" into one severity level. That's fine for humans. It's a disaster for auto-execution. Hyperfeed tags every event with assertion_type allegation, trusted_report, fact.

Our risk team filters allegation to human review, auto-routes factto systems. We couldn't do that with a news wire.
03 · lifecycle

Stories change. Your database should too.

An FDA rejection reported at 4:47pm becomes "official_announced" at 5:03 when the company files its 8-K. Hyperfeed represents this as one event with status transitions. A news wire represents it as two unrelated stories with different URLs.

Every event has a lifecycle object: detected_at, announced_at, effective_at, confirmed_at, refuted_at. You can replay any event from any point in time.
Heard from a head of data
“We were paying six vendors for the same data at six different latencies. We replaced five of them with Hyperfeed.”
Head of Market Data, L/S equity fund · $4B AUM
Migration · 3 steps

Swap in. Dual-run. Cut over.

We don't ask you to rip out your existing pipeline on day one. Most teams dual-run for two weeks, then cut traffic when they've validated the schema against their own backtests.

STEP 01 · week 1

Subscribe to the family you need.

Pick a single event family — usually regulatory or leadership. Point a webhook at your queue. Done.

POST /v1/subscriptions
{ "family": "regulatory",
  "webhook_url": "https://you.co/hook",
  "assertion_types": ["fact","trusted_report"] }
STEP 02 · week 2

Dual-run and diff.

We ship a difftool that runs against your existing pipeline's output and highlights where hyperfeed caught events sooner, merged duplicates, or classified differently.

hf diff \
  --their-export their_feed.jsonl \
  --date-range 2026-03-01:2026-03-31
> 142 events - hyperfeed earlier
> 38 duplicates collapsed
> 7 class conflicts
STEP 03 · week 3+

Cut over. Keep the old feed as backup.

Flip your primary. Most teams keep the legacy feed on standby for 30 days. After that, the vendor contract lapses. Most teams find Hyperfeed replaces 2–3 existing tools at a fraction of the combined cost.

hf subscribe \
  --families all \
  --deliver kafka://your-cluster/events \
  --replay-from 2026-01-01
> 14,207 historical events backfilled
See the difference yourself

Stop parsing headlines. Start reading events.

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