Bloomberg Data

Bloomberg's enterprise market-data API surface. The Data License / Hypermedia (HAPI) REST API on api.bloomberg.com delivers reference, pricing, regulatory, ESG, fundamentals, estimates and historical content — 100B+ data points a day across 70M+ instruments, 40k+ fields and 8k+ datasets — request/response and by subscription, alongside SFTP and native cloud delivery. B-PIPE delivers real-time streaming quotes, trades and market depth, consumed not over HTTP but through the BLPAPI SDK over a TCP session against a customer-provisioned appliance. Both are contracted enterprise products: there is no self-service signup, no published pricing, and no public machine-readable contract, though Bloomberg does publish OAuth protected-resource and authorization-server metadata.

Bloomberg Data is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Analytics, Financial Services, Market Data, News, and Real-Time Data.

Bloomberg Data’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, support, authentication, API reference, and 21 more developer resources.

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28.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 17/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessEnterprise

2 APIs

Analytics Financial Services Market Data News Real-Time Data Trading

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 28.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 8.5 / 17

Access Clarity 4.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.5 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 6.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 17/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Securities & Market Data regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 27.6 — up to +14.5 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 13.2 — up to +11.3 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Bloomberg Data License API

Provides access to Bloomberg's extensive financial data including real-time quotes, historical data, reference data, and analytics.

Bloomberg B-PIPE API

Real-time streaming market data API delivering quotes, trades, and market depth.

Bloomberg Data API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Bloomberg Data Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Bloomberg Data Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Bloomberg Data Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Bloomberg Data Authentication

3 schemes

SECURITY

Bloomberg Data Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Bloomberg Data Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Bloomberg Data Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Conventions

Conventions

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

SecurityTxt

Security

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

FinOps

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

ParentCompany

ParentCompany

Source (apis.yml)

aid: bloomberg-data
name: Bloomberg Data
description: 'Bloomberg''s enterprise market-data API surface. The Data License / Hypermedia (HAPI) REST API on api.bloomberg.com
  delivers reference, pricing, regulatory, ESG, fundamentals, estimates and historical content — 100B+ data points a day across
  70M+ instruments, 40k+ fields and 8k+ datasets — request/response and by subscription, alongside SFTP and native cloud delivery.
  B-PIPE delivers real-time streaming quotes, trades and market depth, consumed not over HTTP but through the BLPAPI SDK over
  a TCP session against a customer-provisioned appliance. Both are contracted enterprise products: there is no self-service
  signup, no published pricing, and no public machine-readable contract, though Bloomberg does publish OAuth protected-resource
  and authorization-server metadata.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: sales
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise Contract
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - https://professional.bloomberg.com/products/data/data-license/
  generated: '2026-08-27'
  method: searched
  note: Corrected 2026-08-27. The prior 'freemium' value was derived from a 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep plans scaffold that invented
    Free/Professional/Enterprise tiers. Bloomberg publishes no plans and no prices for this surface; access begins with a
    sales conversation.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bloomberg-data.png
x-docs-platform: redoc
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-20
tags:
- Analytics
- Financial Services
- Market Data
- News
- Real-Time Data
- Trading
tags_raw:
- Analytics
- Financial Services
- Market Data
- News
- Real-Time Data
- Trading
- Financial-Services
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bloomberg-data/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: bloomberg-data:bloomberg-data-license-api
  name: Bloomberg Data License API
  description: Provides access to Bloomberg's extensive financial data including real-time quotes, historical data, reference
    data, and analytics.
  humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
  baseURL: https://api.bloomberg.com/eap
  tags:
  - Analytics
  - Financial Data
  - Historical Data
  - Market Data
  - Real-Time
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
- aid: bloomberg-data:bloomberg-b-pipe-api
  name: Bloomberg B-PIPE API
  description: Real-time streaming market data API delivering quotes, trades, and market depth.
  humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/data/enterprise-catalog/real-time-data-feed/
  tags:
  - Market Data
  - Quotes
  - Real-Time
  - Streaming
  - Trade
  tags_raw:
  - Market Data
  - Quotes
  - Real-Time
  - Streaming
  - Trades
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/data/enterprise-catalog/real-time-data-feed/
common:
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/bloomberg-data-finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://bloomberg.com
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/bloomberg/
  name: Bloomberg
  x-relationship: product
  x-generated-by: bloomberg-family:2026-08-27
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/bloomberg-data-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bloomberg-data-domain-security.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://developer.bloomberg.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/notices/tos/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/privacy/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/bloomberg-data-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/bloomberg-data-security.txt
- type: Security
  url: security/bloomberg-data-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/bloomberg-data-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/bloomberg-data-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/bloomberg-data-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/bloomberg-data-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/bloomberg-data-conventions.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/bloomberg-data-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/bloomberg-data-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/bloomberg-data-llms.txt
- type: Plans
  url: plans/bloomberg-data-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/bloomberg-data-rate-limits.yml
- type: APIReference
  url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/bloomberg
- type: Login
  url: https://console.blpprofessional.com/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-27'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 15
  pass: local-v1
x-parent: bloomberg
x-relationship: product

Bloomberg Data API — frequently asked questions

Does Bloomberg Data have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Bloomberg Data, including Bloomberg Data License API and Bloomberg B-PIPE API.

How do I authenticate with the Bloomberg Data API?

Bloomberg Data documents its authentication (3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Bloomberg Data Authentication.

Is the Bloomberg Data API ready for AI agents?

Bloomberg Data has a Kin Score of 28.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 16.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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