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S&P Global

S&P Global (NYSE SPGI) is the parent of S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones Indices, S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts), S&P Global Mobility, and S&P Global Sustainable1. Its public developer surface is anchored by Kensho Technologies (a wholly-owned S&P Global AI subsidiary) which ships REST APIs for the S&P Global LLM-ready API (kFinance), Extract, NERD, Scribe, and the Grounding Agent, plus the S&P Capital IQ Pro and Marketplace data products distributed through the S&P Global Marketplace.

S&P Global publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including LLM-Ready API (kFinance), Kensho Extract API, Kensho NERD API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Capital IQ, Commodity Insights, Credit Ratings, Document Extraction, and ESG.

The S&P Global catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 1 JSON-LD context, and 3 Spectral governance rulesets.

S&P Global’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, code examples, GitHub presence, engineering blog, changelog, and 38 more developer resources.

68.5/100 exemplar ▬ flat Agent 65/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumSelf serveFree trial⚡ Free to try
9 APIs 2 MCP Servers 10 Features 7 Use Cases
Capital IQCommodity InsightsCredit RatingsDocument ExtractionESGFinancial DataIndex DataLLMMCPMarket IntelligenceMobilityNamed Entity RecognitionSpeech to Text

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Composite quality — 68.5/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 18.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 8.7 / 12
Discoverability 8.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 65/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 12 / 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 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 9

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

S&P Global LLM-Ready API (kFinance)

REST API and Model Context Protocol server exposing S&P Capital IQ Financials, Market Data, Business Relationships, Earnings Call Transcripts, Company Intelligence, M&A Transact...

Kensho Extract API

Transforms unstructured PDF and image documents into machine-readable JSON, identifying titles, subtitles, paragraphs, tables, and footers in natural reading order. Optional OCR...

Kensho NERD API

Named-Entity Recognition and Disambiguation REST service linking text mentions to S&P Capital IQ company identifiers and to Wikimedia entities (people, places, events). Supports...

Kensho Scribe Batch API v2

Asynchronous audio and video transcription REST API. POST a media file to start a transcription job, then poll the transcription ID for completion. Optimised for finance and bus...

Kensho Scribe Real Time API

Real-time streaming transcription over a WebSocket at wss://scribe.kensho.com/ws. Clients send an Authenticate message with a Kensho OIDC access token, then StartTranscription w...

Kensho Scribe Batch API v1

Legacy v1 batch transcription endpoint (POST /api/v1/transcription). Superseded by the v2 batch API which decouples submission from result retrieval. Documented here for custome...

Kensho Grounding Agent (Alpha)

Data retrieval service that translates natural-language queries into structured retrieval tasks across S&P Global AI-ready datasets. Returns answers with source citations linkin...

S&P Capital IQ Pro

Flagship desktop and API platform for S&P Global Market Intelligence — company fundamentals, ownership, transactions, estimates, news, screening, charting, and Office plug-ins. ...

S&P Global Marketplace

Data and analytics catalog spanning S&P Global business units (Market Intelligence, Ratings, Commodity Insights/Platts, Mobility, Sustainable1, Indices, Dow Jones) plus third-pa...

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Postman Collections 39

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

LLM-ready API

POSTMAN

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Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Kensho Extract API

OPEN COLLECTION

LLM-ready API

OPEN COLLECTION

NERD Service API

OPEN COLLECTION

Scribe Batch API

OPEN COLLECTION

Scribe Batch API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 2

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Sp Global Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Features 10

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

5 public REST OpenAPI surfaces (LLM-ready, Extract, NERD, Scribe v1 batch, Scribe v2 batch)
71 documented REST endpoints across the 5 specs (60 LLM-ready, 5 Extract, 3 NERD, 1 Scribe v1, 2 Scribe v2)
MCP server for the LLM-ready API with stdio, SSE, and streamable-http transports
Claude Cowork plugin shipping tearsheets, funding digests, and earnings preview skills
kensho-kfinance Python SDK on PyPI with LangChain/OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini examples
OIDC authentication with keypair (production) or refresh token (development) flows
Distribution via Snowflake and Databricks marketplace shares in addition to direct REST
Capital IQ database back-end powering financial entity disambiguation across products
Real-time WebSocket transcription companion to the Scribe batch APIs
Grounding Agent (Alpha) for retrieval-with-citations over AI-ready datasets

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Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Kensho Scribe Real Time API

Real-time streaming transcription WebSocket API from Kensho Technologies (a wholly-owned S&P Global subsidiary). Companion to the Kensho Scribe v2 batch REST API. Streams uncomp...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Sp Global Context

20 classes · 67 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

S&P Global API Rules

7 rules · 1 errors 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

S&P Global API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

S&P Global API Rules

12 rules · 5 errors 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 9

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

Kensho Extract Extraction

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Kensho LLM-ready API Auditor

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Kensho LLM-ready API Company Info

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Kensho LLM-ready API Cusip

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Kensho LLM-ready API Earnings

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Kensho LLM-ready API Estimate

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Kensho NERD Annotation

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Kensho Scribe Transcription

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 9

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Kensho Extract Extraction Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Kensho Llmready Auditor Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Kensho Llmready Company Info Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Kensho Llmready Cusip Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Kensho Llmready Earnings Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Kensho Llmready Estimate Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Kensho Nerd Annotation Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Kensho Scribe Transcription Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 75

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 2

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

Sp Global Authentication

http/oauth2/openIdConnect · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Sp Global Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Sp Global Scopes

2 scopes · authorizationCode/refresh_token

2 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Sp Global Agentic Access

79 operations · 17 acting

79 operations · 17 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 7

What developers build with this provider.

AI Equity Research

Ground LLM-generated investment notes, tearsheets, and earnings previews in live S&P Capital IQ data via the LLM-ready API and the S&P Global Claude Cowork plugin.

M&A and Funding Intelligence

Pull merger, acquisition, advisor, and funding-round details for deal sourcing, target screening, and competitive intelligence.

Earnings and Estimates Workflows

Retrieve consensus, estimates, calendar dates, and transcripts for earnings preview generation and post-call analysis.

Document Intelligence

Convert PDF filings, decks, and research into structured JSON with Kensho Extract for downstream RAG and analytics pipelines.

Entity Linking for Financial Text

Use Kensho NERD to disambiguate company and security mentions in news, filings, and chat to canonical Capital IQ IDs.

Earnings Call Transcription

Transcribe finance and business audio with Kensho Scribe v2 batch and real-time APIs, including Human-in-the-Loop review for highest accuracy.

Grounded Conversational Analytics

Build chatbots and analyst assistants that return cited answers from S&P Global datasets via the Grounding Agent.

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Integrations 8

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Claude (Anthropic)

First-class Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code MCP integrations including the S&P Global Plugin.

ChatGPT (OpenAI)

MCP connector documented under llmreadyapi/mcp/third-party/chatgpt; code-generation and function-calling notebooks for OpenAI models.

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Documented MCP third-party integration path for enterprise Copilot deployments.

Amazon QuickSuite

Documented MCP integration for AWS-hosted GenAI workflows.

Databricks

MCP integration plus Databricks marketplace shares for AI-ready data distribution.

Mistral (Beta)

MCP integration in beta for Mistral-hosted agents.

LangChain

Function-calling notebooks under llm-ready-api-examples wrap kFinance tools as LangChain tools across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini providers.

Snowflake Marketplace

Distribution channel for S&P Global Marketplace datasets via Snowflake data sharing.

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Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

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Build 12

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: sp-global
name: S&P Global
description: S&P Global (NYSE SPGI) is the parent of S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones Indices,
  S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts), S&P Global Mobility, and S&P Global Sustainable1. Its public developer surface is
  anchored by Kensho Technologies (a wholly-owned S&P Global AI subsidiary) which ships REST APIs for the S&P Global LLM-ready
  API (kFinance), Extract, NERD, Scribe, and the Grounding Agent, plus the S&P Capital IQ Pro and Marketplace data products
  distributed through the S&P Global Marketplace.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.spglobal.com/spglobal-corporate-identity/spglobal-logo.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sp-global/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
humanURL: https://www.spglobal.com
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-07-22'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
kind: contract
access: 3rd-Party
position: Consuming
apis:
- aid: sp-global:kensho-llm-ready-api
  name: S&P Global LLM-Ready API (kFinance)
  description: REST API and Model Context Protocol server exposing S&P Capital IQ Financials, Market Data, Business Relationships,
    Earnings Call Transcripts, Company Intelligence, M&A Transactions, and Global Securities information to LLMs and agentic
    AI applications. Distributed via the kensho-kfinance Python library and an MCP server compatible with Claude, ChatGPT,
    Microsoft Copilot Studio, Amazon QuickSuite, Databricks, and Mistral. 60 documented REST endpoints across companies, securities,
    statements, estimates, transcripts, mergers, funding rounds, and identifier crosswalks.
  humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi
  baseURL: https://kfinance.kensho.com
  tags:
  - Financial Data
  - Capital IQ
  - LLM
  - MCP
  - Agents
  - Market Intelligence
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-auditors-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-ciqpro-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-company-groups-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-competitors-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-cusip-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-earnings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-estimates-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-fundinground-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-fundingrounds-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-id-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-ids-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-info-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-isin-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-latest-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-line-item-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-market-cap-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-merger-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-mergers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-price-chart-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-pricing-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-relationship-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-securities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-segments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-statements-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-ticker-groups-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-trading-item-groups-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-trading-items-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-transcript-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/kensho-llmready-openapi.yml
    title: Harvested original (superseded by the per-tag refined specs above)
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/sp-global-llmready-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi/api
  - type: Overview
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi/overview
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://pypi.org/project/kensho-kfinance/
    title: kensho-kfinance Python library
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/kfinance
    title: kFinance source on GitHub
  - type: Sandbox
    url: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/llm-ready-api-examples
    title: LLM-ready API example notebooks (basic usage, function calling, code generation, LangChain)
  - type: MCPServer
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi/mcp
    title: kFinance MCP server (stdio, SSE, streamable-http transports)
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/spglobal-agent-skills
    title: S&P Global Plugin for Claude Cowork (tearsheets, funding digests, earnings previews)
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/authentication
    title: OIDC / OAuth 2.0 with public-private keypairs or refresh tokens
  - type: Signup
    url: https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com/en/solutions/kensho-llm-ready-api-%28a156fe9f-5564-4f60-a624-95d8645dc98f%29
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/sp-global-context.jsonld
- aid: sp-global:kensho-extract-api
  name: Kensho Extract API
  description: Transforms unstructured PDF and image documents into machine-readable JSON, identifying titles, subtitles,
    paragraphs, tables, and footers in natural reading order. Optional OCR and Figure Extraction (FigEx). REST API at extract.kensho.com
    with asynchronous extractions and presigned upload/download URLs.
  humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/extract
  baseURL: https://extract.kensho.com
  tags:
  - Document Extraction
  - OCR
  - PDF
  - Tables
  - Unstructured Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-extractions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/kensho-extract-openapi.yml
    title: Harvested original (superseded by the per-tag refined specs above)
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/sp-global-extract-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/extract
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/extract/api
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/extract/quickstart
  - type: Tutorials
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/extract/toolkit
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/authentication
  - type: Signup
    url: https://kensho.com/extract
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/sp-global-context.jsonld
- aid: sp-global:kensho-nerd-api
  name: Kensho NERD API
  description: Named-Entity Recognition and Disambiguation REST service linking text mentions to S&P Capital IQ company identifiers
    and to Wikimedia entities (people, places, events). Supports asynchronous batch annotation with optional person tagging
    and originating-entity context for financial documents.
  humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/nerd
  baseURL: https://nerd.kensho.com
  tags:
  - NER
  - Entity Linking
  - NLP
  - Capital IQ
  - Wikimedia
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-annotations-async-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-upload-url-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-user-info-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/kensho-nerd-openapi.yml
    title: Harvested original (superseded by the per-tag refined specs above)
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/sp-global-nerd-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/nerd
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/nerd/api
  - type: Overview
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/nerd/overview
  - type: Tutorials
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/nerd/text-annotation
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/authentication
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/sp-global-context.jsonld
- aid: sp-global:kensho-scribe-batch-v2-api
  name: Kensho Scribe Batch API v2
  description: Asynchronous audio and video transcription REST API. POST a media file to start a transcription job, then poll
    the transcription ID for completion. Optimised for finance and business audio (earnings calls, conferences). Companion
    real-time WebSocket API and Human-in-the-Loop batch option are documented alongside.
  humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/developer-guide
  baseURL: https://scribe.kensho.com
  tags:
  - Speech to Text
  - Transcription
  - Audio
  - Video
  - Batch
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-transcription-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/kensho-scribe-batch-v2-openapi.yml
    title: Harvested original (superseded by the per-tag refined specs above)
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/sp-global-scribe-batch-v2-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/developer-guide
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/batch-api-specification
  - type: Tutorials
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/batch-development
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/authentication
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/sp-global-context.jsonld
- aid: sp-global:kensho-scribe-realtime-api
  name: Kensho Scribe Real Time API
  description: Real-time streaming transcription over a WebSocket at wss://scribe.kensho.com/ws. Clients send an Authenticate
    message with a Kensho OIDC access token, then StartTranscription with an audio_format (RAW pcm_s16le, 16 kHz, mono), followed
    by base64-encoded AddData chunks of at most 15 seconds each carrying monotonically increasing sequence_numbers, and finally
    EndOfStream. The server streams TranscriptionStarted, DataAdded, AddTranscript, EndOfTranscript, and Error messages back
    over the same socket. This is the only public WebSocket surface S&P Global exposes — Capital IQ Pro, Marketplace, and
    other market-data feeds are delivered via REST, file/SFTP, Snowflake share, and Databricks share.
  humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/developer-guide
  baseURL: wss://scribe.kensho.com/ws
  tags:
  - Speech to Text
  - Transcription
  - WebSocket
  - Streaming
  - Real Time
  - AsyncAPI
  properties:
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/kensho-scribe-realtime-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/developer-guide
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/real-time-api-specification
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/authentication
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/sp-global-context.jsonld
- aid: sp-global:kensho-scribe-batch-v1-api
  name: Kensho Scribe Batch API v1
  description: Legacy v1 batch transcription endpoint (POST /api/v1/transcription). Superseded by the v2 batch API which decouples
    submission from result retrieval. Documented here for customers on the v1 contract.
  humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v1/overview
  baseURL: https://scribe.kensho.com
  tags:
  - Speech to Text
  - Transcription
  - Audio
  - Legacy
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sp-global-transcription-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/kensho-scribe-batch-v1-openapi.yml
    title: Harvested original (superseded by the per-tag refined specs above)
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/sp-global-scribe-batch-v1-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v1/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v1/batch-api-specification
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/authentication
- aid: sp-global:kensho-grounding-agent
  name: Kensho Grounding Agent (Alpha)
  description: Data retrieval service that translates natural-language queries into structured retrieval tasks across S&P
    Global AI-ready datasets. Returns answers with source citations linking back to the underlying S&P Global data. Currently
    Alpha — access by request to commercial@kensho.com. No public OpenAPI yet.
  humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/grounding/overview
  tags:
  - Grounding
  - Agents
  - Retrieval
  - Citations
  - Alpha
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/grounding/overview
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/grounding/api-guide
  - type: Signup
    url: https://kensho.com/grounding
- aid: sp-global:sp-capital-iq-pro
  name: S&P Capital IQ Pro
  description: Flagship desktop and API platform for S&P Global Market Intelligence — company fundamentals, ownership, transactions,
    estimates, news, screening, charting, and Office plug-ins. The Capital IQ Pro API is delivered as part of an enterprise
    subscription rather than as a self-serve developer signup; the LLM-ready API exposes a substantial subset of the same
    dataset.
  humanURL: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/solutions/products/sp-capital-iq-pro
  tags:
  - Capital IQ
  - Market Intelligence
  - Financial Data
  - Enterprise
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/solutions/products/sp-capital-iq-pro
  - type: Signup
    url: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/contact-us
- aid: sp-global:sp-marketplace
  name: S&P Global Marketplace
  description: Data and analytics catalog spanning S&P Global business units (Market Intelligence, Ratings, Commodity Insights/Platts,
    Mobility, Sustainable1, Indices, Dow Jones) plus third-party vendors. Distribution mechanisms include Snowflake shares,
    Databricks shares, file/SFTP delivery, API access, and packaged datasets. The Marketplace is the front door for discovering
    S&P Global APIs that are sold through enterprise channels.
  humanURL: https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com
  tags:
  - Marketplace
  - Data Catalog
  - Distribution
  - Snowflake Share
  - Databricks
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com
  - type: Signup
    url: https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com/en/sign-up
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/sp-global/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/sp-global-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sp-global-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/sp-global-authentication.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://developer.spglobal.com
  title: S&P Global Developer Portal (root)
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.kensho.com
  title: Kensho Documentation (canonical S&P Global API docs)
- type: Marketplace
  url: https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com
  title: S&P Global Marketplace
- type: Authentication
  url: https://docs.kensho.com/authentication
  title: OIDC / OAuth 2.0 with keypair or refresh-token grants
- type: SDKs
  url: https://pypi.org/project/kensho-kfinance/
  title: kensho-kfinance Python library
- type: SDKs
  url: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/kfinance
  title: kFinance Python library source
- type: SDKs
  url: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/spglobal-agent-skills
  title: S&P Global Plugin (Claude Cowork skills)
- type: CodeExamples
  url: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/llm-ready-api-examples
  title: LLM-ready API example notebooks
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/kensho-technologies
  title: Kensho Technologies GitHub organization (S&P Global AI subsidiary)
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/SP-Global
  title: SP-Global GitHub organization (currently no public repos)
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.spglobal.com/en/research-insights
  title: S&P Global Research & Insights
- type: Blog
  url: https://kensho.com/blog
  title: Kensho Blog
- type: Plans
  url: plans/sp-global-plans-pricing.yml
  title: S&P Global / Kensho API Plans (API Commons Plans 0.1)
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/sp-global-rate-limits.yml
  title: S&P Global / Kensho API Rate Limits (API Commons Rate Limits 0.1)
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/sp-global-finops.yml
  title: S&P Global / Kensho API FinOps mapping (FOCUS aligned)
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/sp-global-context.jsonld
  title: S&P Global JSON-LD context
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/kensho-llmready-company-info-schema.json
  title: LLM-ready API Company Info JSON Schema
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/kensho-extract-extraction-schema.json
  title: Kensho Extract Extraction JSON Schema
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/kensho-nerd-annotation-schema.json
  title: Kensho NERD Annotation JSON Schema
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/sp-global-vocabulary.yml
  title: S&P Global vocabulary
- type: Features
  data:
  - 5 public REST OpenAPI surfaces (LLM-ready, Extract, NERD, Scribe v1 batch, Scribe v2 batch)
  - 71 documented REST endpoints across the 5 specs (60 LLM-ready, 5 Extract, 3 NERD, 1 Scribe v1, 2 Scribe v2)
  - MCP server for the LLM-ready API with stdio, SSE, and streamable-http transports
  - Claude Cowork plugin shipping tearsheets, funding digests, and earnings preview skills
  - kensho-kfinance Python SDK on PyPI with LangChain/OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini examples
  - OIDC authentication with keypair (production) or refresh token (development) flows
  - Distribution via Snowflake and Databricks marketplace shares in addition to direct REST
  - Capital IQ database back-end powering financial entity disambiguation across products
  - Real-time WebSocket transcription companion to the Scribe batch APIs
  - Grounding Agent (Alpha) for retrieval-with-citations over AI-ready datasets
  sources:
  - https://docs.kensho.com
  - https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi/api
  - https://github.com/kensho-technologies/kfinance
  - https://github.com/kensho-technologies/spglobal-agent-skills
  updated: '2026-05-23'
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: AI Equity Research
    description: Ground LLM-generated investment notes, tearsheets, and earnings previews in live S&P Capital IQ data via
      the LLM-ready API and the S&P Global Claude Cowork plugin.
  - name: M&A and Funding Intelligence
    description: Pull merger, acquisition, advisor, and funding-round details for deal sourcing, target screening, and competitive
      intelligence.
  - name: Earnings and Estimates Workflows
    description: Retrieve consensus, estimates, calendar dates, and transcripts for earnings preview generation and post-call
      analysis.
  - name: Document Intelligence
    description: Convert PDF filings, decks, and research into structured JSON with Kensho Extract for downstream RAG and
      analytics pipelines.
  - name: Entity Linking for Financial Text
    description: Use Kensho NERD to disambiguate company and security mentions in news, filings, and chat to canonical Capital
      IQ IDs.
  - name: Earnings Call Transcription
    description: Transcribe finance and business audio with Kensho Scribe v2 batch and real-time APIs, including Human-in-the-Loop
      review for highest accuracy.
  - name: Grounded Conversational Analytics
    description: Build chatbots and analyst assistants that return cited answers from S&P Global datasets via the Grounding
      Agent.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Claude (Anthropic)
    description: First-class Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code MCP integrations including the S&P Global Plugin.
  - name: ChatGPT (OpenAI)
    description: MCP connector documented under llmreadyapi/mcp/third-party/chatgpt; code-generation and function-calling
      notebooks for OpenAI models.
  - name: Microsoft Copilot Studio
    description: Documented MCP third-party integration path for enterprise Copilot deployments.
  - name: Amazon QuickSuite
    description: Documented MCP integration for AWS-hosted GenAI workflows.
  - name: Databricks
    description: MCP integration plus Databricks marketplace shares for AI-ready data distribution.
  - name: Mistral (Beta)
    description: MCP integration in beta for Mistral-hosted agents.
  - name: LangChain
    description: Function-calling notebooks under llm-ready-api-examples wrap kFinance tools as LangChain tools across OpenAI,
      Anthropic, and Google Gemini providers.
  - name: Snowflake Marketplace
    description: Distribution channel for S&P Global Marketplace datasets via Snowflake data sharing.
- type: Subsidiaries
  data:
  - name: Kensho Technologies
    description: S&P Global AI subsidiary that owns the public developer API surface (LLM-ready API, Extract, NERD, Scribe,
      Grounding) and the kensho-kfinance SDK.
    url: https://kensho.com
  - name: S&P Global Market Intelligence
    description: Capital IQ Pro, Marketplace, Compustat, RatingsXpress, Panjiva, 451 Research, and other data-intelligence
      brands.
    url: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence
  - name: S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts)
    description: Commodity benchmarks, market reports, and price assessment data services.
    url: https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights
  - name: S&P Global Ratings
    description: Credit ratings and ratings research.
    url: https://www.spglobal.com/ratings
  - name: S&P Dow Jones Indices
    description: Equity, fixed-income, and commodity index data including the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average.
    url: https://www.spglobal.com/spdji
  - name: S&P Global Sustainable1
    description: ESG scores, climate, and biodiversity datasets.
    url: https://www.spglobal.com/esg
  - name: S&P Global Mobility
    description: Automotive intelligence (formerly IHS Markit automotive) covering production, sales, and connected-vehicle
      data.
    url: https://www.spglobal.com/mobility
- type: Packages
  url: packages/sp-global-packages.yml
  title: First-party packages (kensho-kfinance on PyPI)
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/sp-global-well-known.yml
  title: Well-known probe index (RFC 8414 + RFC 9728 metadata on kfinance.kensho.com)
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/sp-global-mcp.yml
  title: Hosted kFinance MCP server manifest (https://kfinance.kensho.com/integrations/mcp)
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/sp-global-llms.txt
  title: Generated llms.txt for the S&P Global / Kensho API surface
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/sp-global-scopes.yml
  title: OAuth scopes (from live RFC 8414 metadata)
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/sp-global-conformance.yml
  title: Standards conformance (OAuth2/OIDC/PKCE/MCP/RFC 8414/9728)
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/sp-global-problem-types.yml
  title: Error catalog derived from OpenAPI 4xx/5xx responses
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/sp-global-lifecycle.yml
  title: Versioning, supersession, and status-page lifecycle profile
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.kensho.com
  title: Kensho status page (Atlassian Statuspage)
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/sp-global-changelog.yml
  title: kensho-kfinance changelog (semver, current 7.0.2)
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/sp-global-conventions.yml
  title: Cross-cutting API conventions (auth, batching, async jobs, errors)
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/sp-global-data-model.yml
  title: Capital IQ identification-triple entity graph
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
  title: S&P Global Plugin Agent Skills (provider-published, saved verbatim)
- type: PostmanCollection
  url: collections/kensho-llmready.postman_collection.json
  title: Postman collection for the LLM-Ready API (repo artifact)
- type: Examples
  url: examples/kensho-llmready-get-company-information-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/kensho-llmready-get-financial-statement-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/kensho-extract-post-v3-extractions-example.json
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com/en/sign-up
  title: S&P Global Marketplace sign-up
- type: Support
  url: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/contact-us
  title: S&P Global Market Intelligence contact
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.spglobal.com/en/privacy/privacy-policy-english
  title: S&P Global Corporate Privacy Policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.spglobal.com/en/terms-of-use
  title: S&P Global Terms of Use
tags:
- Capital IQ
- Commodity Insights
- Credit Ratings
- Document Extraction
- ESG
- Financial Data
- Index Data
- LLM
- MCP
- Market Intelligence
- Mobility
- Named Entity Recognition
- Speech to Text
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- name: Kensho Technologies (S&P Global)
  email: commercial@kensho.com
  url: https://kensho.com
- name: S&P Global Market Intelligence
  email: market.intelligence@spglobal.com
  url: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence