Credit Benchmark

Credit Benchmark is a financial data company that aggregates internal credit risk assessments contributed by more than 40 leading global financial institutions into anonymized, consensus Credit Consensus Ratings and analytics covering roughly 120,000 public and private entities — over 90% of which are unrated by the traditional credit rating agencies. Its REST API delivers consensus ratings, rating distributions, aggregate credit trends, entity rating changes, and portfolio analytics, along with entity-name-to-CBID resolution (matching) and contributor-data analytics. Delivery is also available via a web app, an Excel Add-In, and file/SFTP feeds. Access is enterprise/sales-gated; the JWT-authenticated API base is https://api.creditbenchmark.com.

Credit Benchmark publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Credit Risk, Financial Data, Credit Ratings, and Analytics.

Credit Benchmark’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 17 more developer resources.

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40.1/100 thin Agent 65/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers 0 Features
CompanyCredit RiskFinancial DataCredit RatingsAnalyticsRisk ManagementEntity ResolutionConsensus Data

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scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4
Composite quality — 40.1/100 · thin
Contract Quality 9.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 8.4 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 65/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs

Credit Benchmark API

Authentication, entity matching, consensus credit analytics, and metadata endpoints — rating distribution, aggregate trend, entity rating change, and portfolio data/summary, plu...

MCP Servers

creditbenchmark-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 Login
Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer
MCPServer
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conformance
Conformance
 DataModel
DataModel

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog
Blog
 Website
Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: creditbenchmark
name: Credit Benchmark
description: Credit Benchmark is a financial data company that aggregates internal credit risk assessments contributed by
  more than 40 leading global financial institutions into anonymized, consensus Credit Consensus Ratings and analytics covering
  roughly 120,000 public and private entities — over 90% of which are unrated by the traditional credit rating agencies. Its
  REST API delivers consensus ratings, rating distributions, aggregate credit trends, entity rating changes, and portfolio
  analytics, along with entity-name-to-CBID resolution (matching) and contributor-data analytics. Delivery is also available
  via a web app, an Excel Add-In, and file/SFTP feeds. Access is enterprise/sales-gated; the JWT-authenticated API base is
  https://api.creditbenchmark.com.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/creditbenchmark/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- balderton-capital
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: has-openapi
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Credit Risk
- Financial Data
- Credit Ratings
- Analytics
- Risk Management
- Entity Resolution
- Consensus Data
apis:
- name: Credit Benchmark API
  description: Authentication, entity matching, consensus credit analytics, and metadata endpoints — rating distribution,
    aggregate trend, entity rating change, and portfolio data/summary, plus contributor-data equivalents.
  humanURL: https://docs.creditbenchmark.com/api-reference/intro
  baseURL: https://api.creditbenchmark.com
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/creditbenchmark-openapi-original.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.creditbenchmark.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.creditbenchmark.com/api-reference/intro
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.creditbenchmark.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.creditbenchmark.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.creditbenchmark.com/api-reference/intro
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.creditbenchmark.com/delivery-channels/getting-access
- type: Support
  url: https://www.creditbenchmark.com/contact/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.creditbenchmark.com/insights/
- type: Login
  url: https://analytics.creditbenchmark.com/cri/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.creditbenchmark.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.creditbenchmark.com/privacy-policy/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/creditbenchmark-trust-center.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/creditbenchmark-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/creditbenchmark-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/creditbenchmark-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/creditbenchmark-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/creditbenchmark-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/creditbenchmark-data-model.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/creditbenchmark-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/creditbenchmark-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/creditbenchmark-llms.txt
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/creditbenchmark-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/creditbenchmark-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: http://www.creditbenchmark.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence