# Bloomberg

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bloomberg/  
**Website:** https://developer.bloomberg.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Bloomberg delivers business and markets news, data, analysis, and video to the world, featuring stories from Businessweek and Bloomberg News. Bloomberg provides a suite of developer APIs including BLPAPI, Server API, and the Hypermedia API for programmatic access to market data, analytics, and enterprise services.

## Kin Score — 64.5 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 64.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 83.3 |
| Contract Quality | 69.2 |
| Governance | 55.3 |
| Contract Governance | 55.3 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 70.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Securities & Market Data**: 78.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 37.4 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **Bloomberg Market Data API** — Provides real-time and historical market data, including stock prices, indices, commodities, and currencies.
- **Bloomberg Server API (SAPI)** — Delivers real-time market data, historical data, reference data, and calculation engine capabilities from the Bloomberg Terminal for server applications.
- **Bloomberg Data License API** — Provides programmatic access to Bloomberg Data License content including reference, pricing, regulatory, ESG, corporate actions, fundamentals, and alternative data.
- **Bloomberg EMSX API** — Enables programmatic management and automation of equities, futures, and options trading through the Bloomberg Execution Management System.
- **Bloomberg BLPAPI Core** — The Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI) Core — the foundational service-oriented, socket-based API used by the Desktop API, Server API (SAPI), B-PIPE, and Bloomberg Platform products. P...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Bloomberg MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Bloomberg Agentic Access** — 9 operations · 9 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Bloomberg Authentication** — session-identity/oauth2/openIdConnect · 3 schemes
- **Bloomberg Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Bloomberg Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Bloomberg Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (4)

- **Quantitative Research** — Build quantitative models using historical and real-time market data for alpha generation.
- **Risk Management** — Monitor portfolio risk exposure using real-time pricing and reference data feeds.
- **Algorithmic Trading** — Feed market data into trading algorithms via EMSX for automated order execution.
- **Regulatory Reporting** — Access regulatory and compliance data through Data License for reporting requirements.

## Tags

Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data License, Enterprise, Execution Management, Financial-Services, Market Data, News, Quantitative Analysis, Trading, Transaction Cost Analysis

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/bloomberg/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.