Finlight

Finlight is a real-time financial news API that aggregates market-moving news, earnings reports, analyst upgrades, and corporate announcements for equities, currencies, and commodities. The platform delivers AI-driven sentiment analysis, entity extraction, and sub-second latency streaming for developers and enterprises building financial applications.

Finlight publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Articles API and Sources API. Tagged areas include Financial News, Sentiment Analysis, Market Data, Equities, and Currencies.

The Finlight catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Finlight’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, signup flow, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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42.0/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 44/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

2 APIs

Financial NewsSentiment AnalysisMarket DataEquitiesCurrenciesCommoditiesReal-TimeWebhooksWebSocket

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 42.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 15.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 44/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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

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APIs 2

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 5

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

x-npm

x-npm

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

x-discord

x-discord

Contact

Contact

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

About

About

x-twitter

x-twitter

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

x-pypi

x-pypi

Source (apis.yml)

name: Finlight
description: 'Finlight is a real-time financial news API that aggregates market-moving news, earnings reports, analyst upgrades,
  and corporate announcements for equities, currencies, and commodities. The platform delivers AI-driven sentiment analysis,
  entity extraction, and sub-second latency streaming for developers and enterprises building financial applications.

  '
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://finlight.me/favicon.ico
tags:
- Financial News
- Sentiment Analysis
- Market Data
- Equities
- Currencies
- Commodities
- Real-Time
- Webhooks
- WebSocket
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/finlight/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: finlight:finlight-articles-api
  name: Finlight Articles API
  description: Financial news articles with sentiment analysis and entity extraction
  humanURL: https://finlight.me
  baseURL: https://api.finlight.me
  tags:
  - Articles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/finlight-articles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.finlight.me/v2/
  - type: Signup
    url: https://app.finlight.me
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://finlight.me/pricing
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://docs.finlight.me/v2/
  - type: x-npm
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/finlight-client
  - type: x-pypi
    url: https://pypi.org/project/finlight-client/
- aid: finlight:finlight-sources-api
  name: Finlight Sources API
  description: Available news sources and their configuration
  humanURL: https://finlight.me
  baseURL: https://api.finlight.me
  tags:
  - Sources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/finlight-sources-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.finlight.me/v2/
  - type: Signup
    url: https://app.finlight.me
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://finlight.me/pricing
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://docs.finlight.me/v2/
  - type: x-npm
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/finlight-client
  - type: x-pypi
    url: https://pypi.org/project/finlight-client/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/finlight-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/finlight-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/finlight-authentication.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.finlight.me/v2/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://finlight.me/pricing
- type: Signup
  url: https://app.finlight.me
- type: About
  url: https://finlight.me/about
- type: x-twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/finlight_me
- type: x-discord
  url: https://discord.gg/XUs9JYZd24
- type: x-npm
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/finlight-client
- type: x-pypi
  url: https://pypi.org/project/finlight-client/
- type: Contact
  url: mailto:info@finlight.me
- url: https://finlight.me/blog/feed.xml
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
  email: kin@apievangelist.com