Sonar – Web Audio search for AI Agents (podcasts, news, earnings calls) via API
Sonar is launching an early access program for its audio search API, allowing users to query various audio content types. Developers can sign up for API keys and enjoy a generous free tier of 500 queries per month without needing a credit card. Early users will also have direct communication with the team via a private Slack channel to help shape the product's development.
- ▪Sonar offers an API for searching audio content like news, podcasts, and earnings calls.
- ▪Developers can access a free tier that includes 500 queries per month.
- ▪Early users will have direct access to the team through a private Slack channel.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 2,613 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Sonarapi |
| Canonical URL | https://sonarapi.com/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 21 May 2026 16:12:54 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-21T16:16:31.006Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-21T16:16:31.006Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | Pd6vTmL6rqY3 |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Early access Build on audio the web forgot to index. Query news, podcasts, radio, earnings calls, social media, and archives through one API. We're onboarding a limited number of developers and teams — get API keys, generous free tier usage, and direct access to the team. Instant API keys on approval Most requests reviewed within 24 hours. Start building immediately. Free tier included 500 queries/month free. No credit card required to get started. Direct Slack channel with the team Early users get a private Slack with the founders. Shape the roadmap.
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Sonarapi.
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