API
API appears in 146 analyzed articles across the measured technology press. Recent coverage is steady, counting every mention over recent months. This page shows the public snapshot: movement, coverage mix, recent sources, and what drove the latest change.
Compass measures press coverage, not API's product quality, business performance, or market value.
Counting every mention, coverage of API is steady — it appears in 146 analyzed articles across the technology press.
What API coverage is made of over time: story type, claim stage as reported, and press framing. This measures the coverage, not the product.
Across 78 classified coverage items, one item is 1.3 percentage points — read the shares below as the shape of a small sample, not as figures precise to the point.
Story type and claim stage are shares of the 78 classified coverage items in this window.
How to read this
The stream below stacks each month's coverage by the lens you choose: Tone (how the press frames the story — promotional, skeptical, critical, or neutral), Story type (launches, funding, lawsuits, partnerships…), or Stage — how far the reported claim has gone: speculation → announcement → launch → results.
Taller bands mean more coverage that month; the dots beneath mark notable non‑neutral events. Every signal is sourced and dated.
How this is counted — why the article numbers differ
146 articles mention API across the corpus. The coverage make-up above is measured on the 66 of them that were read into dated, classified coverage items — and one article can produce more than one item, because story type, claim stage and framing are read separately.
- report OpenAI logged a September 29 service incident that affected ChatGPT, Codex, and the API for five hours and 22 minutes.
13 posts on company and project channels mention API across the full 15-month record. They come from any company or project channel Compass reads, not only API's own. They are counted separately from the 146 press articles.
Where they were published:OpenAI · 4AWS News Blog · 2Google DeepMind Blog · 2Redis Blog · 2Cloud Blog · 1
- Sep 10, 2026GPT‑Live‑1 was introduced for the API as a natural, full-duplex voice conversation model.OpenAI
Press coverage and company and project posts are two separate counts. Every press figure on this page, including the monthly line and the rising or falling call, comes from the independent press only. Before October 2026, Compass counted these posts as press coverage. How this is measured.
As of 8 Oct 2026 · corpus coverage 94% · 358,204 articles. Correlational & coverage-limited.
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